Time spent alone

There was a silly facebook quiz circulating the last 2 days amongst my friends : what is your deepest darkest fear?
All my friends answers where : Being alone
mine was : Being trapped.
You can look at those 2 as being some kind of opposites ( not in the exact meaning of the word) .

This brings me to ... landscapes!
Let's talk landscapes shall we ,
I love big , endless, empty , desolate landscapes , they hypnotize me.












Plains with a dry, solid surface
and an occasional rock formation that seems a bit lost in the wide space.
Places that make you feel as lost and as tiny as an atom.
Places where, if you look up to the sky, you always see dramatic clouds with every shade of gray.
I could wander eternally in places like this, feeling forever lost.
But lost in a serene way.


On the internet there is a site that perfectly captures my facination for desolate places like this :
TIME SPENT ALONE

I found this piece of art by accident, there was a little article about it in the newspaper.
My favorite parts are " I wonder if the world outside is unraveling" and "places where I want to go".
I just love the whole atmosphere,
it's like the perfect visualisation of an ambient song.
I love to stare at the screen whatching "I wonder if the world outside is unravelling" with a Fripp&Eno song on the background.
Ofcourse I already added some places I want to go myself, but I'll dedicade another blog to that once.
All I can say is : this site is truly mesmerizing ... go see it !

more anatomy appreciation

Today , we had our very first anatomy practical.
The instructor was a surgeon/pathologist, with a morbid sense of humor,
wickedly funny with many stories about creepy diseases and horror operations/autopsies .
Like for example, once he had to conduct an autopsy, and when he got the brains out he felt that the brain was still warm ,
so the person had only died a few hours ago while they thought he had been dead for several days ... thats creepy.

He handled the organs WITHOUT GLOVES (ickie ) and rubbed his nose several times while poking in intestines and livers
(another ickie, organ juice hands rubbing a nose aren't pleasant to look at ).
We had the chance to look at lung cancer , a liver with Cirrhosis ,several hearts with bypass and other pleasant dysfunctional organs.
Most of these came from elderly people so actually they were all a bit damaged.

Really this has been the most awesome thing that we did this year, and it has made a great impression on me.
Seeing all these tiny organs ( they are way smaller than you think) was very educational ,it's so hard to find certain artery's on real organs ,
especially when the instructor holds a stinky hart under your nose and wants you to find the A. coronaria dextra or something like that.
it's such a messy brown blubber (although the color was changed from preserving the organs)
My respect for surgeons got even bigger after today ^^

Anatomy Appreciation post

Today I finally started studying for the exams , they start in about 2 weeks.
Our first one will be Anatomy II , about the organs, (the previous one was about bones).
I just love anatomy , I really do. I love to know every little fiber , cell and vein in a body.
I love those old anatomy drawings( which aren't really accurate but so pretty).


Like this Davinci sketch















I loved Körperwelten, the anatomy exposition of dr. Gunter Von Hagens, I loved it so much I went twice.
For total noobs amongst us: he uses the plasticination technique to preserve human bodies.
His pieces are always presented very esthetically ,
like the man on the horse , the most famous one.

I love any TV show about surgeons,Nip /tuk for example,
It's great because it always shows special things AND is medically correct (or at least I assume it is,
I do google the procedures afterwards :p).
God I even watch reality programs about it, you know those lame make-over things...
Although I zap away as soon as the operations are finished.

I could go on hours and hours rambling about Anatomy and surgery , but I guess you got the point by now.
My dream, my main goal in life, is to become a surgeon.
But so far I didn't succeed in studying medicine yet , unfortunately , the entrance exam is so damn hard, I'll try again this summer. I have to pass, I really have to,
I don't really have a plan B ....

My little babyplant is growing up ^^

it has caught his first insect :

Remakes

I just read this somewhere (don't know if its true , by god I hope not)

planned horror remakes for 2009/2010:
The Birds
Rocky Horror Picture show
Plan 9 from outer space
...

This made me so sad, and furious.
Did they loose their last bit of sense in hollywood ?
Come on what are they thinking, remaking classics is ALWAYS a very bad idea ( see what happened to the omen).
As you may have noticed, I hate remakes, I hate them with passion, they are always depressingly bad. It's even worse then shitty sequels.
I never understand why a director even want's to do something like that, why remake a brilliant hitchcock , they should know they never can top the original. They just create a soulless monster.
*stops and breaths*
Ok we're calm again.

To end with a sprinkle of hope, good remakes : they exist !

The fly
David Croonenberg shot this freaky masterpiece in the 80's ,but few people know that the original one was made in the 50's .









But really ,
I swear to god if someone ever gets the absurd idea of remaking a Kubrick, I'll cut his balls with a rusty razor.