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The Pharmacy

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Dec 21 2009

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The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia.

sketchysantas.com

In honor of the holiday season, please enjoy a blog devoted to creepy Claus encounters. You can even customize and send your own sketchy Santa greeting card.

ArtBabble Video: The Mummification Process

The ancient Egyptians developed a sophisticated method to preserve a dead body for the afterlife: mummification. Follow the steps of the mummification process in this short animation about the Getty Museum’s Romano-Egyptian mummy Herakleides.

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The Pharmacy

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Oct 12 2009

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The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia.

www.eatmedaily.com

Blog: Eat Me Daily

Eat Me Daily is a blog about food with a critical (and sometimes cynical) take on the culture at large, including media, books, cookbooks, art, design, celebrity, fashion, robots, and cookery.

ArtBabble Video: Director’s Journal: Virgin of Guadalupe

Learn about current IMA events with Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO Maxwell Anderson. This episode features a conversation with senior curator Ronda Kasl and conservator Christina O’Connell about the painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, for the IMA’s exhibition Sacred Spain, running through January 2010. Listen in as they discuss the painting, its history, and how it was restored in the IMA’s conservation lab.

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Stick it

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Apr 09 2009

It’s awful quiet around the Nugget Factory today. ‘The Dans’ (Dan, Danny, and Daniel) are in Spain shooting footage for the upcoming Sacred Spain exhibit.

So here I am: kinda lonely, still nursing an ArtBabble hangover, and jamming to the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, when Phil stops by with a huge stack of robin’s egg blue ArtBabble stickers. What’s a girl to do?

Why, take pictures of said stickers! Of course!