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These macabre illustrations add a bit of winking humor to anatomical art. Never shy, the subjects of these images perform a grim striptease, peeling off their skin instead of their clothes.

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Photographer Michelle Sank’s series In My Skin looks at young adults and teens (under the age of 25) in the UK who are challenging their bodies with various surgeries and enhancements. Sank captures her sitters relaxing in their bedrooms, which lends further intimacy to the portraits — but the outside does not reflect the inside. They’re uncomfortable in their own skin and searching for the ideal. In some cases, the alterations are cosmetic and would be considered completely unnecessary by many. However, Sank also photographed people as young as 16 who have undergone gender reassignment surgery.

“Intertwined with this I am also documenting body dysmorphia as young people try and conform to this social expectation resulting in eating disorders and body transformation. Lastly I am documenting transgenderism and the struggle young people have to live within a body they were born into but have no affiliation with,” Sank elaborates on her website. The images, first spotted on Design Taxi, reflect our society’s preoccupation with physical beauty (in a non-judgmental way) and raise further questions about how this affects younger generations.

“Nicola — recovering from anorexia and Rachel — Breast augmentation — Twins 20 years old”

Photo: Gemma Fleming

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Advertisement for Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug. Papua, New Guinea during WWII.

Françoise Hardy and Sylvie Vartan


Françoise Hardy


The Beach Boys


The Beach Boys


Serge Gainsbourg


Françoise Hardy


Marianne Faithfull


The Kinks


Marianne Faithfull


Serge Gainsbourg


The Beatles


Françoise Hardy


The Rolling Stones


Françoise Hardy


Serge Gainsbourg


Jacques Dutronc


The Beatles


Keith Richards


Serge Gainsbourg


Mick Jagger


The Beatles


Roger Daltrey


Van Morrison


The Who


Roger Daltrey

Model Jean Early poses on the staircase at a 1934 summer fashion show while completely decked out in an elegant suit with a fur cape and hat.

Model Mardee Hoff, selected for having the most perfect figure in America at the time, poses in short shorts in 1935.

There was no Victoria's Secret yet, but that didn't stop models from showing up half-naked at a Brassiere Fashion Show in 1933.

Apparently plunging necklines were always a staple in fashion! This model showcases an elegant evening dress with a Victoria Nyanza cape in 1938.

No skimpy two-pieces here! Models in 1939 show off the swimsuit style of the day (l.), while three models each display different looks in 1938 (r.).

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Photo: KEENAphoto (San Francisco, CA/ Boston, MA)

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If music is patterned sound, then it kind of makes sense that algorithms whose task is to relentlessly forge order out of chaos might generate interesting music.

This could be an alternate soundtrack to The Shining, it could be where dubstep hasn’t taken us yet. It could be Kraftwerk. For me, the black/white/red color scheme clinches it. In any case, it’s utterly mesmerizing.

More info on the video. Not surprisingly, there’s been a lot of work done on the “audibilization” of sorting algorithms. Here’s a different one.

Here’s a breakdown of the “movements,” for want of a better term:

Selection sort 0:00
Insertion sort 0:10
Quick sort 0:39
Merge sort 1:06
Heap sort 1:29
Radix sort (LSD) 1:55
Radix sort (MSD) 2:11
std::sort (intro sort) 2:33  
std::stable_sort (adaptive merge sort) 3:05
Shell sort 3:37
Bubble sort 4:00  
Cocktail shaker sort 4:18
Gnome sort 4:34
Bitonic sort 4:53
Bogo sort (first 30 seconds) 5:17

Ending with “Bogo sort” is a wonderful little joke, somewhat like the Beatles sticking “Revolution 9” at the end of side 4. A bogo sort is a phenomenally inefficient sort that amounts to not sorting at all. As Wikipedia explains,

In computer science, bogosort (also stupid sort or slowsort) is a particularly ineffective sorting algorithm based on the generate and test paradigm. It is not useful for sorting…. If bogosort were used to sort a deck of cards, it would consist of checking if the deck were in order, and if it were not, throwing the deck into the air, picking the cards up at random, and repeating the process until the deck is sorted. Its name comes from the word bogus.

Oh, and the YouTube comments are silly and nerdy, too.
 

 
via Dinosaur Party

Mural by Natalii Rak: Homepage/Facebook at Folk on the Street in Białystok, Poland.

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Thus, Always, with Tyrannosaurs.

So of course within a few hours of me posting this someone corrects my horrific grammar errors. I spent about half an hour with the google latin translator, thinking I was being thorough, but evidently it is even more in beta than I had thought. 

Though it probably won’t happen any time soon, I will of course be correcting the errors. Niche humor is my love and It’s important to me that that shit is all good by the time this thing makes it to print. So, you don’t need to reblog your corrections with the tags “ignore meee” and “I’m hideous”. It can be frustrating, but I really do appreciate that kind of thing. However, if you start pointing out my errors in perspective (which are myriad) I will come after you with a fucking vengeance.