science ::future body design

Corpus 2.0 by Designer Marcia Nolte foresees  how our bodies may evolve in the future . Her study is a set of  seven portraits illustrating how the human body would adapt itself to different products. And why not? Our history of evolution shows how our bodies changed according to needs for survival so it's understandable that these changes could manifest to accomodate all todays "necessities" too. Her portraits include body adaptations like a hole in the lips for smokers, and a highheel foot for the shoe-aholic.Sure - we all need these. The lovely nose ridge modification shown above, will keep out eyeglasses in place and the extended shoulder we may grow someday will easily accomodate all our handbags and mobile electronic gear.

It's an interesting proposal but sans the shoulder holder and highheel foot, the others will never happen because soon we will all have super vision and who the heck will be smoking?

Her ideas are JUST COOL though!

via dezeen

weird :: body modification = three arms + elf ears

What's wrong with this picture?

I guess I am way off topic here but I've been haunted by this (shall I say disgusting) body modification topic for a week now after "stumbling" upon these two twins who

1. cut off one's arm to add to the other's body, hense one had three arms and the other had one
2. cut off one's finger to add to the other's finger giving him a 5 jointed finger and his brother a four fingered hand. (are you confused yet hehe)

I was totally disturbed by it and actually lost sleep over it. Dreadful visions danced in my head of my pierced and tattoo loving daughter (that I haven't seen in months) in some seedy dive, laying on a table having her wrists (or whatever) being cut off and transplanted with Akita dog paws. I called her daily to make sure it wasn't so. Most of the time she didn't answer. Now finally after a week, I'm over it and not "traumatized" by such thoughts or that disgusting website. I realize my mind was over-reacting.

Then, as fate would have it...this morning I stumbled upon another eery subject over at Palmer Cash's Blog . Elf ears...


"... Yes, elf ears. This is a procedure that is for those rare types who feel dressing up in flowing robes and speaking in a completely fake but completely developed Elvin language for “Lord of the Rings” marathons is not enough..."

You can have someone slice the top of the cartilage on your ear and then sew it back together into a sweet pointy, efish tip and become a forever elf.

Sorry people, but all of this body modification garbage is just that - GARBAGE. Can't we be content with what nature gave us?

I guess there's no getting away from it though - there are crazy people out there who enjoy maming their bodies. But still, to me it is not JUST COOL.

BTW, the story of the twins turned out to be an April Fools Joke - very well done though!
You can read the story here >>>>

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