Hand-Foot

Romanian scultpor Bogdan Rata’s brand of hybrid realism engenders bizarre combinations of human anatomy based on a “forgotten future,” producing “replications of reality” reminiscent of the virtual world of Blade Runner. Through his sculptural recombination and multiplication of genetic traits, Rata creates entirely new and unfunctional life forms, like the failed, grotesque results of secret human experiments, where sexual organs are rendered functionless on deformed torsos, and faces are wiped clean of their identifying and sensory features…

http://bit.ly/2187yiK

Annular skates

A ver que les parece este invento, que está a medio camino entre ser una patineta sin tabla y unos patines sin zapato. 99 dolaritos en Hammacher Schlemmer…

When a product shows up on the pages of the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog, you know it’s bound to be entertaining. The Post Modern Skateboard certainly fits that description. You might notice the almost complete lack of resemblance to a skateboard as we know it. This product consists of two 10-inch round wheels with foot platforms inside.A better description would be “annular skates.” “Annular” just means ring-shaped. “Skates” is self-explanatory.

Forward movement is created by leaning side to side, a process that looks like it would take some practice. An extendable rod is included to connect the two skates together for easier learning…

http://cnet.co/18LxjiA

Feet surgery

Esto me recordó esa milenaria tradición japonesa de “deformar” el pié de la mujer solo por estética, Llamada pié de loto (y en torno a la cual existe todo un trasfondo de control machista). Parece bastante bizarro pero visto así, no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol…

For years now, plastic surgery to alter women’s feet to look better and fit better in shoes has been on the rise. (Doctors can even make your shoes feel better, thanks to strategic Botox injections on the balls of your feet.) Now, as The New York Times reported yesterday, these operations are apparently more popular than ever, so if you thought women’s vanity was limited to our faces, chests, and love handles, well, you’re wrong. Plastic surgery is now a lucrative head, shoulders, knees, and toes game — emphasis on the toes.

To prove their point, the Times highlights one Beverly Hills doctor, Dr. Ali Sadrie, who says these elective cosmetic foot surgeries are so popular that he coined cute little names for them all, so patients can conveniently order them like they’re choosing the Mai Tai at Dry Bar (except scarier). These procedure names range from the Perfect 10 (toe shortening) to the Model T (toe lengthening) to the Cinderella, where Dr. Sadrie simply alters your foot to the shape of a shoe you want to wear, but can’t…

http://bit.ly/1k7nLhP

Severed Hand

Una mano cosida a un tobillo. Parece obra de algún artista gore. Pero no, fué solo haciendo esto que se logró que la mano llegara “viva” a un hospital en China, 7 horas después de que el paciente (Xiao Wei) la perdió en un accidente de trabajo. Maravillosmente disgusting…

When Xiao Wei’s right hand was severed in an industrial accident, doctors at a hospital in Changde, China, grafted it to his ankle. The blood supply from his ankle kept the hand alive and viable on the seven-hour journey to a larger hospital with better facilities, where it was removed a month later from his ankle and reattached to his wrist. It’s not clear whether he’ll regain the use of his hand, but doctors are hopeful…

http://bit.ly/18UWitL

Severed Hand