I’m not on Tumblr anymore but I’m just reblogging this to illustrate WHY I’m not on Tumblr anymore. Basically, I took this picture at London’s Wellcome Collection back in February this year and posted it to Flickr clearly stating where it’s from and my interest to know more about the background of it as the exhibition displays were just being changed and I didn’t have any info to it:

“Beautiful book that used to be on display at Wellcome Collection, London, but seems to have been taken off the permanent Medicine Man displays. If anyone has more information on this, PLEASE let me know. Thank you!”

At some point, someone on Tumblr decided it’s cool to just share it without even the little information about the Wellcome Collection attached to it. It’s not a good picture and I don’t fucking care it’s mine - what I do care about, however, and what we should all care about when we share things online is: 

1) The source (Wellcome Collection, London)

2) The context (Medicine Man exhibition about the life and work of Henry Wellcome.) 

To remove this little information makes the picture completely and utterly worthless in both a historical and artistic context because it just becomes another piece of visual ephemera floating around the interweb and by uploading it to imgfave.com instead of linking to my post about it, even people who DO care about sourcing, will never find it unless they can be bothered to use reverse image search engines. 

So do fucking list your sources and don’t think your Tumblr is somewhat cooler and totally dada if you just have a constant flow of contextless images. That’s TV for you. The interweb offers you so much more. Use it wisely or fuck off. 

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The Astronomy of the Subway (detail) by Jitish Kallat, resin, steel, 2009 - on show at Haunch of Venison’s East Galleries, London, until March 27

Fetal skeleton assemblage photographed by Joanna Ebenstein at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

defrag:

via flickr.com/seriykotik

Love, bones, pearls, lace and anamorphosis. It doesn’t get any better than that.

gumbit:

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Paul Engle’s daughter

thousandflowerettes:

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OH HAI!

Anyone seen my femur?!

Illustration by John Bell (1763-1820): Engravings of the bones, muscles, and joints, illustrating the first volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body. 2d ed.; London, 1804. Etching. National Library of Medicine.

(via the glorious Joanna of Morbid Anatomy - it was so good to bump into you at the Jan Bondeson lecture at the Last Tuesday Society! Such a pleasant surprise!)

Death as a cutthroat by Alfred Rethel, 1851 (via Who Killed Bambi)

nomoreheroes:

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these lady were someone for fucksake,does anybody else see anything more except the skull and dwo crazy ladies at the battlefield or is it just me that cares?

anyway,this is perfect outfit of the day,for wurzeltod’s section,of course;]

Yes, this is a cropped version of the original photograph (posted here, source lost, could be Shorpy though) where the two ladies are clearly identified as “Die Kronprinzessin und Prinzessin Viktoria Luise in Uniform”

.. and here is a photograph of Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen wearing the same hat style with his military uniform:

Which suggests that the ladies weren’t playing fantasy dress-up as some sites reported, but that these were genuine uniforms during the time of the Kaisers. The skull and bone emblems might look terribly SS to us now, but it was part of the Kaisers’ insignia (just like the iron cross), after all and a sign of honour.

Maybe this was just the fluffy winter version?

crappytaxidermy:

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Home, skeletal home.