Brain in a jar!

[andygates]

After finding a perfect brain jar in Ikea ("I am Jack's Ikea brain jar" perhaps?) I couldn't resist:

Jar, brain and fluorescein.  The brain is, of all things, a LARP throwing brain.  Someone makes LARP throwing brains, professionally.  I'm in the wrong job.



Fluorescein under black light gives the most wonderful swirls; the brain however was a touch buoyant and needed surgery to make it sink right.  A few pennies pushed into the brainstem weighted it nicely and gives the finished dish a nice coppery tang:



Et voila!  Ladies and gentlement, meet Bob:



Wires, a bubbler, and preposterous accessories may well follow... Full-size images if you so desire at my Flickr stream.

Comments

[arabis.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, you've been watching City of Lost Children again haven't you? Clearly the brain in a jar should be called Irvin!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.