Not Mr. Wizard's World

Remember how Mr. Wizard would explain scientific theory through fun experiments? Well, I do. And more than just watching a grown man and a child work a Bunsen burner, Mr. Wizard's World was a cacophony of audible stimulation, which for a seven year old is as arousing as humping a giant stuffed animal. And I will admit dear reader (big ups to nobody i for being my only consistent audience), to this day nothing titillates me more than hearing someone cut construction paper on TV.

That said, things have changed since Mr. Wizard's World, and science, as I know it, has become much more complex. And when you mix science and art together you get something far greater than a dry ice experiment. In fact, what you do get is a "grown a replica of an ear with living human skin cells, miniature wings with the flesh of a pig and mouse cells in the shape of a tiny leather jacket". Or so, that's what you get when you're a bioartist, forging the boundaries of ethics and fashion.

Ionat Zurr, of SymbioticA, a bioart laboratory in Australia explained that the bioart process works by choosing cells from an animal, "painting" them onto a three-dimensional scaffolding made of degradable polymer (a type of plastic), and then allowing the cells to grow over whatever shape the scaffolding takes, turning it into a living sculpture of skin. One of SymbioticA's latest projects was a steak made up of frog tissue, that the artists later fried up and ate.

This idea is both horrific and intriguing, which is why I love it. And if anyone had any sense they would make an entire collection of clothing from skin cells from the cast of The Hills. And then people can dawn on the outfits, LC and Whitney masks included, and bring those interminable silences to life.