There are tons of different sorts of advent calendars out there. I grew up with a felt one my mom made where each day you would put an ornament on the tree. My brother and I both loved this one (in fact we now do it over Skype since neither of us live at home anymore) and oddly enough I don’t think either of us ever missed the chocolate ones.
This year however, in addition to my fabric tree (I’ve since made one for myself), I have a tea advent calendar!
Sure beats a tiny chocolate.
HAPPY MOOVEMBER!
There are only 2 days left in NovemberMovember so remember to donate to your favorite moutachioed man or cat!
AMI = Association of Medical Illustrators
I’m very excited about this since I’ve been doing scientific/medical illustrations for a while and for various clients and friends and now I’m a member of an organization that’s dedicated to the integrity of the art and the science.
The funny thing is that my grade 11 science teacher had me pegged to do medical illustration. I suppose now she can say that she was right all along.
Finally a non-medically related doodle! Just something quick and silly. It’s for Mike’s twitter account, which we thought would be amusing to call “mao-ziu” (pronounced mao-jeeoo).
Though one could argue that bananas are chock full of potassium…
I’m working on my own Christmas cards for this year and Mike suggested that it somehow include our two demons cats, Moo and Brenda. As a starting point, I whipped up these illustrations of the two of them in Illustrator.
Brenda does in fact, look that much like Hello Kitty
As you can see, it’s quite accurate:
Moo (Susumu)
Brenda
Both of our cats are named after scientists. In this case, Susumu Tonegawa and Brenda Milner. Points if you know who either of these (should-be-famous) scientists and what they did.
Last year my Christmas cards were brain-themed, this year I’m branching out into the physical sciences. I’m currently taking orders for the cards (they’re 4 1/4 x 5 1/2″) printed on white card stock, and are blank on the inside.
I realize that I’ve been ignoring this poor blog and focusing a lot more on sketchy medicine, but I haven’t forgotten! And just to sort of prove I haven’t forgotten, I’ve rejigged the layout. I realize that I am now using the new semi-default WordPress theme, but hey, it’s darn pretty and I’ve been really appreciating all the new-ish functionality that comes with WordPress 3.2 vs the old one. I’ve made this one my own too. Sort of (in that I changed some colours and fonts).
I’ll try to update this one a little more often, come December I will be done a busy bit of life/school and will be moving on to greener pastures (figuratively as it will then be quite snowy and dark, I do happen to live in Canada).
I have been attempting some more design work plus the old apartment is looking good. Not to mention I always try to squeeze in some holiday crafts.
until later, enjoy this photo of a banana chocolate chip muffin
I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but I’ve finally gone ahead and created a separate website exclusively for my scientific and medicine-related illustrations/doodles.
I’m hoping that it will be a useful resource not only for me to look back on when it comes time to study, but for other people too.
GO THERE!
Each spinal nerve root has a bunch of muscles it innervates, but the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) decided that these particular groups are the ones to test. There’s technically special positioning for the patient, the patient may or may not look like this.
I’ve been meaning to upload some sciencey study doodles for a while. Hopefully I can be reasonably diligent. Maybe.
The first one is internuclear opthalmopelegia, this is a specific type of gaze palsy that results from a lesion to the medial longitidinal fasciculus (MLF). It is seen in some patients with MS (though it can also happen as a result of a small stroke). In a left INO, your gaze to the left is fine, but when you try to look to the right, your right eye looks, but your left eye can’t go past the midline. You can still cross your eyes though (that’s a different pathway).
