I can’t decide if this gif from I created sneltopia video of a snail eating lettuce is cool or gross. Either way, it’s fascinating. To process food before it enters the esophagus, snails use a radula to crush it. This is a ribbon of flesh with very fine teeth which grinds the food like a very fine cheese grater.
Jessica Harrison takes old ceramic statues of fancily-dressed women and disembowels them. These found porcelain figures, that are typically seen occupying a special place your grandmother’s credenza, are reimagined in the most gory of ways. The juxtaposition of the prim statuettes displaying their decapitated heads and freshly opened throats without changing their demure expressions is striking. Despite having appeared to have been subjected to an awful violence (perhaps their own), the Georgian and Victorian-era figures remain decorous figures. The results are gory and macabre while also being kitsch and playful.
There is a great interview with Harrison about the meaning behind her work on The Skinny. Many of these images can be purchased as signed and numbered prints on Harrison’s website.
…
The other day I posted this on my twitter account:
And then, today I randomly ran across this and this (obviously not for the squeamish). And on a semi related note – a photo I took back on September 2007 (a lot easier to stomach).
The other night I was fixing up some fajitas for dinner. Yum. While cutting up a red bell pepper for my meal, what to my wondrous eyes did appear? A red pepper teratoma! A capsicum styled fetus in fetu, if you will. A pepper within a pepper. According to this (fairly well referenced) Wikipedia article explains what fetus in fetu is:
Fetus in fetu (or fœtus in fœtu) is a developmental abnormality: a mass of tissue inside the body that more or less resembles a fetus. There are two theories of origin concerning fetus in fetu. One theory is that the mass begins as a normal fetus but becomes enveloped inside its twin. The other theory is that the mass is a highly developed teratoma. Fetus in fetu is estimated to occur in 1 in 500,000 live births.
It’s not quite as exciting as the foot found in the boys brain down in Colorado Springs (warning: very graphic photo [photo credit to the Denver Post]. DO NOT click if you are at all squeamish). But I was still pretty thrilled with my little discovery. My mature, and fully ripened, red pepper was carrying it’s own underdeveloped green pepper twin inside it. Of course I took pictures.
And here is a picture of the with the fetus extracted.
Alas, teratoma peppers are not all that uncommon.
[ad name=”Extra Long Post Footer Ad w/ Large Font”]
Tired of the same old cheese and pepperoni ‘za? This website will generate a random pizza for you. Mine was a thin crust with red sauce and blue cheese, roasted garlic, squash, and smoked salmon as toppings. Yuck!
At first I thought, “OMG! Delicious”. Then I almost immediately thought, “OMG! I’m gonna be sick”. I think bacon is all about the fat but this is just ridiculous.
The Stinkymeat Project is what happened in the summer of 2000 when this dude took 3 kinds of meat, 19 days, and 1,000,000 maggots, and stuck them in the yard of his unwitting neighbor. Do not read this immediately after lunch.
