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Usually, after a few thousand years in the elements, all that’s left of a culture are the things built to be immortal. The temples and monuments of a peoples gods and hero’s still stand, but the rest is withered away.

It gives us a warped perspective of ancient cultures. We see the strange Ibis and Jackle headed gods of Egypt, but not the fast food stands or the post offices, and we make certain assumptions.

Truth be told people stay the same, while the face of God changes so much as to be nearly unrecogizable. No place reveals this quite so well as Pompeii. When the Volcano Vesuvious erupted it covered everything and everyone in a layer of ash like concrete or plaster, and everything was preserved, and behold, two thousand years later we find the fast food stands, the post offices, even the gynecologist, and we can see, people really haven’t changed much.
Compare this two thousand year old four prong speculum (above) with a modern three prong speculum (below). This isn’t your open and take a peek model most of us are familiar with, but a model that can hold open while the gynecologist operates, and the design hasn’t changed since ancient times.

And the autopsy instruments of the ancient Greeks were likewise similar to our modern instruments, compare this ancient rib cutter (above) with it’s modern conterpart (below).

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If the smog rolls back in Los Angeles, and you squint just right in the clear air, you might just see my arm flying over head on route to New York, for a Law and Order episode.

This has been a big thrill for me, for once I can sincerley say I love the show I’m doing props for. I’m sad Jerry Orbach, AKA Lennie Briscoe won’t be there to personally fondle it. What can you say about such a giant of a man? Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, even if those thousand words are just WTF over and over again, so here’s a picture I did to express what Orbacca meant to me.

I did this a few years back, when Briscoe was alive and well. It was for an anthology show organized by Brandon Bird called Law and Order: Artistic Intent and was the birthplace of the now famous Law and Order Coloring Book

I’m sure Jerry is grabbing a dog in Heaven

If the smog rolls back in Los Angeles, and you squint just right in the clear air, you might just see my arm flying over head on route to New York, for a Law and Order episode.

This has been a big thrill for me, for once I can sincerley say I love the show I’m doing props for. I’m sad Jerry Orbach, AKA Lennie Briscoe won’t be there to personally fondle it. What can you say about such a giant of a man? Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, even if those thousand words are just WTF over and over again, so here’s a picture I did to express what Orbacca meant to me.

I did this a few years back, when Briscoe was alive and well. It was for an anthology show organized by Brandon Bird called Law and Order: Artistic Intent and was the birthplace of the now famous Law and Order Coloring Book

I’m sure Jerry is grabbing a dog in Heaven

My snapshots are now online! For all your Zombie Burlesque needs visit my flicker scrapbook to see our latest Art of Bleeding performance. That’s me and Eileen in full body casts, and my blood oozing down all those hot hot people. A few of my other snapshot galleries are up so if you enjoy hair mayonaise, abandoned insane asylums, or cats fighting skeletons check them out. Also check out Eileen’s photos for the behind the scenes documentary, The Making of the Full Body Casts.

If you can find hotter people drenched in blood, you’d better introduce me.
BJ

You know you want it. I don’t know how I could stand living before I got a Haunted Toaster

Roy Orbison wrapped ME and Eileen in Cling Film