Pallimed: Arts and Humanities

>   > “We love stories and we want the world to know what inspires > us.” - Brandon Oldenburg, co-director, Moonbot Studios >  Clinicians working with patients and fami...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2013/01/the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris.html

I am a 42 year old woman who has made it to level 37 in Smurfs Village on the IPad.  Don’t smurf me.  I started playing the game when my husband and I first bought our IPad as a shared anniv...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/11/dreamy-smurfs-bucket-list.html

Since late June, something a little unusual has been up on the wall of a local bar called Alibi in San Diego. Photo by Holly Yang, Sept. 21, 2012 ~7:45 am It something called the Before I D...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/09/before-i-die.html

Textile art is not something I see a lot of, so had to share this. Jacqui Parkinson , also known as Jacqui Frost, is a textile artist who lives in Devon, England. In 2007 she lost her first hu...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/06/jacqui-parkinson.html

I was recently emailed a story.  Friends and family know that I'm involved in hospice and palliative medicine and send things along at times.  When I first read it, I thought it sounds like a...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/06/cab-ride.html

This is a unique one, and something I stumbled upon listening to an old podcast from Radiolab produced by NPR. There is a town in France, situated in the suburbs of Paris called Garches . The ...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/05/salle-des-departs.html

Annie Tempest is a British cartoonist by trade, the author of  Tottering-by-Gently , a strip that runs in the UK magazine Country Life .  Most recently, however, she's moved into sculpting ...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/05/annie-tempest.html

I read a lot of obituaries.  Some are long.  Some are short.  Some are flowery.  Some are just the facts.  When this obituary was published in the Denver Post it became known on the in...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/04/greatest-obituary-of-all-time.html

The Alzheimer's Project is an HBO documentary series that debuted in 2009. It consists of 4 documentaries that look at the science of the disease and those affected by the disease, the people ...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/04/alzheimers-project.html

When composer Nigel Westlake 's 21 year old son was suddenly and tragically killed in 2008, he didn't think he'd be able to write music again.  An entire year went by before Westlake realized h...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/04/missa-solis-requiem-for-eli.html

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook is an art teacher and one of Thailand's' foremost female artists.  She had her first solo show in New York last month with a video exhibition showing historic art histo...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/03/araya-rasdjarmrearnsook.html

In 2005, artist Christina Symanski fractured her neck diving into a swimming pool. She was pulled out by her boyfriend but has been a quadriplegic since that time. Symanski continued her art, u...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/03/christina-symanski.html

Christian Wiman , editor of  Poetry  magazine since 2003, was recently interviewed by Bill Moyers about his journey with cancer, falling in love and finding faith in the midst of death. Wiman ...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/03/christian-wiman.html

I don't really mean to be on a skeleton kick... but was exploring this very old work done by Hans Holbein the Younger in the 1500's, and thought I'd share it. Holbein, a German artist, was re...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/02/dance-of-death-1538.html

by Elliot Bennett A couple  months back a friend of mine posted a link on her Facebook page while she was caring for an aging furry friend. The photos and the movie about the photographe...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/02/elderly-animals.html

Art collector Richard Harris, while visiting an art fair in 2001 in the Netherlands about the inevitability of death, had an epiphany of sorts. Why not start collecting art that deals with death...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/01/richard-harris-collection.html

Thanks to Drew Rosielle who sent me a link to this video game. I am not big on playing video games. I figure one person in our household (my husband) being obsessed with them is enough. There's ...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/01/to-moon.html

I am often drawn to artists who have experienced death and then use their work to process the loss.  Julie Williams is just such a person.  She is an Australian photo-artist, who in 2004 lost...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2012/01/julie-williams.html

The finale of the reality television show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist aired last week. This show is like a lot of reality shows. The artists are each week given a topic or project to mak...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2011/12/reality-television-showcases-end-of.html

I am a huge fan of Radiolab , and happened to hear their story of the Resusci Anne, or CPR Annie, recently. I thought Pallimed Arts readers would enjoy this as it fits well into our field. Mos...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2011/12/linconnue-de-la-seine.html

We have done posts that featured unusual cemeteries in the past. I've heard people make comments about where they would want to be buried or the cemetery or plot they picked out. As Amy pointed...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2011/12/memorial-golf-park.html

I recently came across an educational computer game called "The End".  The game was developed by UK broadcaster Channel 4, specifically their C4 education branch.   Channel 4 commissioned the ...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2011/11/end.html

Buried in the middle of Pink Floyd's album, The Dark Side of the Moon , I never really paid a lot of attention to this song, The Great Gig in the Sky. I actually always thought it was a bit stra...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2011/11/great-gig-in-sky.html

Happy Halloween everyone!  Traditionally here at Pallimed Arts we've used the Halloween holiday to focus on skeleton art.  In years past we've looked at the incredible drawings of Laurie Lip...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2011/10/pumpkin-skeleton-art.html

No, it's not an virtual autopsy. When I first heard the name of this internet company, that was my first guess. Written on the main page of their website is the message "Build your Immortality ...

http://arts.pallimed.org/2011/10/i-postmortem.html