tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66026879236837308552024-02-06T22:35:18.656-08:00BOSCI's blogContinuing thoughts by Bosci, man beast from the woods;
for a quick overview look at the 'other pages' here.Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-1458388963695733542019-10-21T09:53:00.002-07:002019-10-21T09:53:41.063-07:00Things from the past<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Local artist and friend Brian McKenzie was recently responsible for a display involving ancestors of mine as part of the 2019 Nunhead Art Trail. McKenzie curated a collection of artefacts relating to the long forgotten story of 'the Beast of Brockley'. This beast was in fact a great great uncle of mine and the tale is one of woe. His peaceful existence in the wooded vales in and around Hatcham (now Brockley and Nunhead) was brought to a sudden end in 1872 by an enraged and vicious crowd after a supposed attack on a young woman out walking near One Tree Hill. I'm showing here some images of the wonderful and remarkably still intact victorian diorama that was made to mark the event. This along with a delicate drawing by John Ruskin formed the key elements of the display at Aquarius Golf course clubhouse. Do check Biran's blog for more on this.</span><br />
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-30845884035086443042017-12-12T06:42:00.000-08:002017-12-12T06:44:53.031-08:00Anatomy lesson<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here's a fascinating image kindly sent to me by curator of the Dittrick Medical History Museum, Mr. Gustav Schmitt who is a regular blog visitor and recently travelled all the way from Cleveland Ohio to see me for a chat in the Holborn Library exhibition just a few weeks ago. We had a very interesting talk and he mentioned at the time this rare lithograph from the Libraire Alain Brieux in his collection which seems to depict students studying the anatomy of a Bosci like character. I wonder whether this is my great Uncle Rosci who travelled extensively over Europe and died under mysterious circumstances. It's such a beautiful delicate print and a fine example of the lithographers art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Secondly here is a smashing old polaroid for my 'Lookalikes' page, found on Pinterest and sent by Walter from Skjolden in Norway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-45385183843828327562016-08-23T01:59:00.001-07:002016-08-23T02:01:50.508-07:00Objects from the Cuming Museum, London<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I must post a big thankyou to someone who has sent me a gift. Apparently Mr. Roland Pangborn from Nichols Canyon Rd. California is a regular follower of my blog and he has kindly sent me a postcard he came across in a yard sale recently. Mr. Pangborn is a postcard collector but managed to relinquish this one and send it to me. I have a section here on my blog (one of the 'other pages') of look-alikes. Several of these are images followers have found and passed on to me. This one will be joining them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This postcard shows two interesting archeological artifacts called 'Billy and Charley's'. One seems to be a representation of me although these lead sculptures were from a long time back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My investigation has revealed that William (Billy) Smith and Charles (Charley) Eaton were two nineteenth century forgers who made fake 'mediaeval' leaden figures and medallions that they then 'found' in the Thames. These two are in the collection of the Cuming Museum in South London.</span></div>
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-90698388160734188512016-03-13T11:57:00.001-07:002016-03-13T12:12:15.646-07:00Guatemalan Flying Frog...a chance to see my specimens<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Heres news of an imminent opportunity to meet me and more importantly see 'in the flesh' the amazing collection of interesting animal and ghost specimens that have come into my possession and which I have been restoring.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the weekend of March 19 and 20, 2016 I shall be making available for viewing these remarkable items as part of the Telegraph Hill Open Studios in South London UK. I currently live in the house of artist Brian McKenzie and he is taking part in this annually occuring event. Here is a link with info about the event including map and address....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my last post I mentioned the frog specimen. Here is the jar as it was when I took possession; incredibly murky but definitely containing an intriguing looking something!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I decided to research and then tackle the restoration of the specimen. I carefully removed the wax sealing material and forced off the long-sealed glass stopper lid. Inside was old preserving alchohol which smelt ghastly and tasted foul. I poured this away to reveal the remarkable critter within. It was quite robust and I was able to handle and gently clean it without causing any major damage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I refilled the original jar with pure preserving achohol and gently replaced the little being into the jar as quickly as possible to avoid any untoward dissintergation. Here it is now viewable in its full nature. Please come to visit next weekend and see this and the other extraordinary specimens I will make available for display.</span></div>
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<br />Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-47151133869419662012016-01-03T04:28:00.002-08:002016-01-03T08:45:49.148-08:00Antique specimens <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A blog reader recently contacted me offering a fantastic gift/donation which I gratefully accepted. Tyrone from Basingstoke, Hampshire was clearing the attic of his great Grandfathers house and came across a collection of old Victorian anatomical specimens. Tyrone knew of my interest in such things and I have just taken possesion of some twenty five of them. I am currently cataloguing and cleaning them as several are in a very poor state. I wanted to show some of them on my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Most jars are numbered and labelled, stating the contents. These images here are of some particuallarly fascinating ones desribed as 'specimen ghosts' of varying sorts. They do indeed seem to be solid manifest entities with solid (white) flesh, if thats the right term, and some even seem to have an internal anatomical structure visible within. The ghosts are generally of small animals or insects. and seem relatively well preserved in their alchohol solutions.</span><br />
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-89640492996578014612015-04-26T02:43:00.001-07:002015-04-26T09:33:34.014-07:00Tony from Masterchef<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over the weekend I met up with and old friend and had a fabulous time. Some of my blog followers who live abroad will not know about Tony but for most people living in the United Kingdom at the moment, he is instantly recognizable as one of the (very recent) finalists in this years BBC Mastechef television programme.</span><br />
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<br />Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-41138781037776524472015-03-22T10:37:00.003-07:002016-09-02T01:16:36.293-07:00The results of a personal parasitic infestation.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've been working intensively since the last article on a fascinating series of discoveries. I'm ready to present this on my blog for your enjoyment. Back in late February I was plagued by an attack of itchyness. In case you dont know much about me or haven't looked at my 'more about Bosci' page in the top sidebar area, do so and it'll be evident that I am significantly hairy. All over. All beings suffer with parasitic infestation from time to time and I speculate that factors such as the clement weather and the confined nature of my box abode may have proved to provide favourable conditions for increased parasitic manifestations to occur, on me! After enduring for a while I decided it was soon enough time to examine myself by which I mean to examine my fur, to discover what might be causing all the annoying itching. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A simple close inspection revealed a plethora of little creatures. Should one be disgusted by this? I'll leave that for you to decide. What I really want to blog about though is what was to follow on from this initial discovery. With a small jewelers loupe, I took a close look at the tiny critters plucked from my surface and even under such minor 10 fold magnification I was entranced by the complex nature of the beasts which were feasting on (I presume) my blood. There were definitely three distinct animal shapes all between 0.5 to 1.2 mm in length.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spurred on to see in more detail I constructed a simple compact electron microscope. I will describe this endeavour another time in a separate blog post. I was very happy with some of the results. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was immediately apparent that there were in fact five different species of creature. This one is a crab-like beast with large pincer/jaws used to cling firmly onto hair strands. These were exclusively in my armpit area and very difficult to remove.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This image shows two other species together in the same shot. These creatures were remarkable tough and when plucked off and crushed between fingers with all my mite, the longer scorpion like beasts still wriggled away in search of a safe haven seemingly totally unharmed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here is a shot of a much rarer creature. This image was made before refining some of the microscopes settings, hence its lacking colour. These mites were eating skin </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">flakes </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and other fleshy surface debris I believe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then there are these remarkable little things which seem fully hairy rather like myself. During one closer inspection I discovered that these creatures did themselves bear their own even tinier parasites. You can just make one out on the right hand most critter. I was able to tweak the gamma condensing lens and add secondary scanning coils to increase magnification to around 750x and lo and behold in amongst the hairs of the creature (I have named ichius pilosus) were many of its own six legged parasites scampering around at great speed, shown here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have presented my findings to a local naturalist at the Horniman Museum and he assures me that all six type of animal are seemingly new to science having never before been recorded. Its possible I may get to officially name all six species but in the meantime I have temporarily given them the names;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> scabius maximus (located mostly around the genital area)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> morsus prolixus (this one causes the most pain of all)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ichius pilosus (the little hairy two armed beast, living mostly in and around my ears)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> phlangy (the miniscual parasite living on ichius maximus)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> plob (with enormous pincers and tentacles, found in the armpit area)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was so thrilled with my discoveries that I decided to use these newly discovered critters as the subject for another batch of Bosci based rubber model products. My earlier development of a flying Bosci toy is documented in an older post on this blog (below). Using the same I approach I crafted moulds which enable the mass production of highly accurate rubber representations of the parasites. Having noticed that these minute monsters were able to endure shockingly violent force i.e. squishing, pinching and crushing and still survive remarkably well, I was particularly keen to mimic this property in the toy versions. I have exaggerated the colouration of some of the bug toys to add variety and intrigue for the potential purchaser. The bugs are sold in packs of four.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This looks like a Polaroid image. Its not me, but I can see why Marcel Dzama has sent it to inquire whether it is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(by the way you can contact me by clicking on 'more about Bosci' button in the side-bar to view my e-mail address at the bottom of this section). Derek took this picture during my appearance in 2012 in the Nunhead Open Art Exhbition. I spent two days in a deep meditative trance whilst visitors entered my darkened cell where they could examine an earlier manifestation of my cupboard-possessions-museum. This has now transmuted into my current chamber where I sit, sleep, work and contemplate and which also houses my growing collection of important objects and living essentials. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-59432154283653477542015-02-12T02:08:00.000-08:002017-11-04T09:22:00.658-07:00Monstrosities<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a fascinating word 'monster' is. Some people have described me as a monster. I'm simply different. I came across a reference to a monstrosity in one of my found Illustrated London News compilations (more about these in my 'prevention of stuffiness' post below, 2nd Jan 2015). I found a picture of a plant monstrosity from Kew Gardens and some amazing pictures of some Michelangelo sculptures that were forgotten and encrusted with coverings of earth and debris. I've also included another clipping that I liked with some invaluable advise. </span><br />
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-52378117468645451402015-02-08T03:29:00.001-08:002015-02-08T03:32:40.927-08:00Some of my drawings<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are some drawings from my current log of ideas for equipment for myself. These are all things I hope to make myself or commission professionals to construct. The road car is a long term goal. Spectacles, I dont need yet but anticipate one day I may require and realise that conventional spectacles wont easily stay on my head. I'm hoping to enhance my megare diet with more fish based food, hence the diving apparatus. </span><br />
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-8907967768569896392015-01-31T04:57:00.002-08:002015-01-31T04:57:54.875-08:00Gertrudes a winner!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last Tuesday I was thrilled to see this blog clock up exactly 100 page views. This is so exciting. To celebrate this event I decided I should award a prize to my magnificent 100th viewer. I managed to track down a Ms Gertrude Leadbeater from Bagshot in the UK and offered her one of my Flying Rubber Bosci toys. Well done Gertrude.</span><div>
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-64257180393363310562015-01-18T15:53:00.000-08:002015-01-20T07:24:14.192-08:00Flying Bosci toy<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A while back, someone sent me two pictures they had taken in the Viaduct Basin area of Aukland, New Zealand. Two young artists were completing a massive mural and one of the characters looks remarkably like me. Me wearing a cape like a super-hero. This reminded me of how in my youth I had loved and collected rubber monster and super hero toys. </span><br />
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-27643299417421773582015-01-09T10:45:00.000-08:002015-01-10T03:59:18.654-08:00Caught in the headlights<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst travelling late at the night last week I captured some images of something strange going on, which I want to share. We were driving quite slowly along a small dark road by the River Wensum near Ryburgh in Norfolk, not far from the B1146, when over a 2 km stretch of road we kept seeing and hearing some odd activity in the fields and undergrowth. I grabbed my old Pentax Me super SLR which was in the glove box (with black and white film) and started clicking away. We didnt want to stop. I have now had the film developed and printed and here are some of the pictures. I really dont know what was going on. We went back again the following night and all was calm and quiet.</span><br />
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Boscihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858474725483505580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602687923683730855.post-16177887388113532352015-01-02T09:26:00.003-08:002015-01-02T09:52:06.757-08:00Prevention of stuffiness<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently I came across several old compilations of the Illustrated London News left outside on the pavement. Thank you to the generous person who was discarding these! They offer a fascinating insight into the past. These three large and very heavy tomes dated from 1908, 1907 and 1906. I'm sure they will be a source of continuing interest for me in my endeavour to know more about everything. One item and image from September 1907 struck an immediate chord with me and I wanted to post the picture here for viewers to see. The experimental cabinet depicted reminded me so much of my own current cupboard abode. The box in the experiment is a little larger than mine but my cupboard has to hold only myself. The experimental box obviously contains humans rather than my type but I'm sure the truths alluded to still hold. I've placed the clipping with my collection of other interesting snippets inside my cupboard as a reminder of the phenomenon mentioned. In the past I have </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wondered about installing a fan or air vent of some description in my cupboard. It might be especially beneficial when I'm using candle-light to work or read by, which is quite often. </span><br />
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