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Scott Adsit
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Posted: 26 April 2025 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
JB, when Sue effects an invisible limb only, do you picture a cross section of the bones and muscle showing?

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That’s one of the great puzzlers. Usually artists—including me!—kinda cheat around that one and suggest the point of “amputation” fades without hard edges. But it might just as likely look like an anatomical cross section.

(When my bud Gary Cody was working as an illustrator for the anatomy department of the University of London, Ontario, he showed me some of the cool display pieces they had. One was an arm, fingertips to shoulder, that had been cut into one inch cross sections. Between the pieces the muscle and bone looked very much like what you’re imagining.)

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Posted: 26 April 2025 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Glomming on: what do you see as the exact nature of her invisibility powers? Is she bending light? Somehow negating light? Shifting into a different part of the spectrum?  Etc.
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Posted: 26 April 2025 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Amazing thing to have around the house!

And of course, there's the sliced human being at the great Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry. Thin cross section slices of the full torso and head of a man, mounted in order and sealed within plexiglass.

 

It's different now, but when I was a kid, they had around 8 slices hanging on the wall in a framework that you could leaf through. Like a poster rack at Hot Topic. Really sparked the imagination of a 9 year old me.

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Posted: 26 April 2025 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
One day I stopped in at Gary’s office, and he had half a human head on his drawingboard, the right half. Skinned. In a plastic case.
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Posted: 26 April 2025 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Sounds like Wonka's office.

Did you take some reference pics, I hope?

Speaking of heads, the late actor, director and improv deity, Del Close, bequeathed his skull to Chicago's Goodman Theatre to be used in productions of Hamlet. As long as he was credited as playing Yorick in the program.
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Posted: 26 April 2025 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Great Del Close story Scott ! Very cool.
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"AS long as he was credited as playing Yorick in the
program."

That's...awesome! What a character!
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The skull buried in “Shakespeare’s” grave in Stratford was long ago stolen and has been reputedly touring the country as Yorick’s skull for centuries.
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Posted: 27 April 2025 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
…a story at least as true as the claim that he wrote Hamlet.
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