Skull Appreciation Day

Yep, that's today. Isn't it lovely?

In honor I am going to list some of my favorite anatomy sites, artists, and some photos as well. This will serve as a compilation of sites I have mentioned in the past, convenient to have them in one place.

Skull-A-Day: Everything skulls, skulls, and more skulls.
Street Anatomy: Anything anatomical from fashion to street arts. Definitely one of my favorite sites ever.
Morbid Anatomy: This is a blog I follow which I have unfortunately haven't been able to put a whole lot of time into looking at. But of the little I've seen it's quite incredible.
Think Anatomy: This site has listings of pretty much every anatomy related site ever. It's quite intense.
Sylvia Ji: Sylvia is an amazing artist, often incorporating the female form, culture, other small living organisms, and Day of the Dead. Her art makes me want to cry and jizz my pants at the same time. I end up drooling instead. It may look familiar to you long time Alchemy readers because I've blogged a bit about her as well as I had various works of hers displayed on my blog.
The Art of Brian M. Viveros: I actually don't remember how I came across this man's work, but I bookmarked it in my delicious account. He's got some morbid art, quite nice.
The Bone Room: I've mentioned this site before, I can't even look at it right now because I want to buy everything. Literally.
Forensics Anthropology and Human Osteology Resources: Ahhh, all the good stuff!
eSkeletons: One of the coolest and helpful osteology study/tutorial sites. I used this a whole lot to study for my osteology class.
Kris Kuksi: An amazingly talented mix media artist. Here's one of my favorites.
Alex Grey: My favorite artist, whose work always takes my breath away. Here's one that I wrote a paper on.
Paul Alexander Thornton: A seemingly effortless but insanely great anatomical artist.
Anatomy and Art: A blog that kind of started the whole thing for me on a digital level.
Mark Weaver: An artist who's work can be seen in Trent Reznor's little project How to Destroy Angels.

That should do it. Now, time for photos.

This is the top of my bookshelf. My little skull collection thus far. The two on the outsides are cheap ones from Michael's made of a thick paper mache, I will soon paint them. The second from the left is a gift from my mother, a ceramic skull that I believe once lit up. The middle was a really sweet and spontaneous gift from a friend, one of my favorites since I tend to cradle it in my arms like a baby. The fourth one is the budget skull I ordered months ago. And not to mention the skeleton print in the background. I got that at my last visit to First Friday.

This here is a skull I bought for my friend that gave me the silver skull that's picture above this. I had to take photos of it because I thought it was so awesome. Eventually I'll have to get myself one.

I love this because this is the symbol for Pluto.

Venus.

Mars.

   

Jupiter and Saturn.

 

And now, some others.

Ghastly Green Skull Ring on Etsy.

Anatomy Rings on Etsy.

Vintage Anatomy Ring on Etsy.

Red Glass Eye Ring on Etsy. Ahhhh.

Steampunk Eye Ring on Etsy.

Anatomy shirts on Etsy.

Zombie stompers at Iron Fist Clothing. My friend bought these at one of our trips to Fascinations.

Hand arterial scarf at the Supermarket.

Ribcage ring at Blind Spot Jewelry.

Skull ring at This Charming Man.

Anatomical dresses at Rachel Wright's Dream Anatomy collection.

Skull rings and other awesome jewelry at Lazybonez.

Amazing custom rings made by Nicholas Potash.

Ahhh, I'm drooled out for now.