{"id":7331,"date":"2010-07-12T07:59:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2010-07-06T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T15:32:30","slug":"artsy-animal-specimens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7331","title":{"rendered":"Artsy Animal Specimens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/fishskeleton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Skeleton\" title=\"Fish Skeleton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Holy moley, look at this gorgeous thing.  Alert reader Chas sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/07\/cleared_and_stained_animal_specimen.html\">this link<\/a> to a short article on MAKE about cleared and stained animal specimens.  These are more like artwork than laboratory specimens.<\/p>\n<p>The article points to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobiidae.com\/methods\/method_clear_and_stain.htm\">instructions<\/a> for the procedure, although I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really something you could DIY over a weekend.  (At the very least, it would probably take numerous tries to achieve good results.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not up to preparing your own specimens, it&#8217;s possible to find similar items (although not so luridly colored) at science and biological supply houses.  You can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesciencefair.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&#038;Category_Code=SKLTNS\">replica skeletons<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a3bs.com\/biology-supplies\/embedded-specimens,pg_194_398_0_0.html?ItemsPerPage=41\">plastinated animals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilesbio.com\/subcat212.html\">preserved invertebrates<\/a>, and quite a lot more.  Some are fairly expensive, but many are surprisingly reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also love to see a series of high-resolution prints of some of the stained specimens.  They&#8217;d look fantastic massed on a wall.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks, Chas!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moley, look at this gorgeous thing. Alert reader Chas sent me this link to a short article on MAKE about cleared and stained animal specimens. These are more like artwork than laboratory specimens. The article points to instructions for the procedure, although I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really something you could DIY over a weekend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7339,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}