Images of Galvanism: Beautiful Electrical

Not so sure about the "beautiful" but, yes, quite electrical. Fascinating macabre victorian images relating to galvanism, named after Luigi Galvani.

In 1771, Galvani discovered how to make a dead frog's legs twitch. Science and magic!


Galvanism - noun
1. electricity produced by chemical action
2. the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)


Galvanize \Gal"va*nize\galvaniser - verb
1. To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
2. To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.
3. To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani

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From the ever-engaging often raunchy (thank god) VICE Magazine:

http://www.vbs.tv/

Spike Jonez is creative director.

Guilty secret: sometimes when I'm getting dressed, I self-consciously picture myself as a Vice "Don't," but resist the urge to change clothes.

I like drawing. And Ian Stevenson.

Ian Stevenson's childlike quirky drawings never cease to delight me.

http://www.ilikedrawing.co.uk/html/work.html

It is time to be drunk. So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue, as you wish.--Charles Baudelaire

How about pomegranate vodka, dear boy? My new favorite. Buy stock. Van Gogh's Pomegranate Vodka.

(I'll not become a commercial tool, but damn, this tastes so good.)

What the world needs . . .

. . . is not another blog.

But here is mine anyway. Do I have anything interesting to say? Not tonight. But tomorrow I might. Or the next day. I'm sure I'll think of something by Tuesday.

I've not yet clearly decided my intent. Maybe to shorten the distance between us without the usual awkwardness:

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke would've LOVED the internet.