This would be a clear acrylic model of a newborn baby in fetal position with a smaller clear acrylic model of a newborn baby in fetal position inside it's head, and a smaller one in that ones head etc. -- to show how the brain is shaped similarly to the whole body and to show the reflexive nature of life and to gross you out. See picture.-- JesusHChrist, Aug 17 2005 BabyHead Doll http://homepage.mac...1/pats/Events5.htmlplease excuse the laptop mouse drawing [JesusHChrist, Aug 17 2005] Normal Baby Reflexes http://www.lpch.org...ewborn/behrefx.htmlincluding "tonic neck reflex" [csea, Aug 18 2005] this is funny. Only theres something weird with the picture in the link. The second baby's brain [which is the third baby] actually goes all the way down to the lungs of the second baby--- which is abit .... emm.... unnatural? other than that, humorous-- chocolateraindrops, Aug 17 2005 I don't really have an excuse for that 3rd baby head, other than my lap top mouse. But I think it was more that when I got to that 3rd baby head I was sort of concentrating on how I was going to fit it in and draw all the curves for the features of the face and the fingers and all and I just made it too big. Maybe this has an analog in the way a real baby is grown?-- JesusHChrist, Aug 17 2005 JHC, you're a very strange man. [+]-- etherman, Aug 17 2005 Nobody told you how babies are made? This is gonna take a little while to explain, but you see, when a man and a woman...-- normzone, Aug 17 2005 Wierd...-- DesertFox, Aug 17 2005 haha [desertfox] you spelt weird wrong! (sorry, its just that i've just noticed that people in hb don't like spelling errors)-- chocolateraindrops, Aug 17 2005 Maybe it would be cool if each baby head was attached to the next by springs so that the whole doll stored energy like a gyroscope.-- JesusHChrist, Aug 17 2005 [JHC] Do you mean reflexive or recursive? I expected some reference to the reflexes present in most babies - see [link]-- csea, Aug 18 2005 [csea] Reflexive in the general sense of "directed back on itself". I don't know what the right word is here. I used to call the quality of something reflecting on itself "Seinfeldian" because that sitcom was a "show about nothing" or about itself, until I learned that that was what post modernism was all about - being about itself. Maybe recursive is right. Interesting link on baby reflexes. Its almost like their plants until they get to be a certain age.-- JesusHChrist, Aug 18 2005 If you look closely you can see the prenataluitary gland branching from the Matryoshkaoblongota.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 18 2005 Looking closer, we note the part of the brain where later in life is nothing to be found.
BTW: the artpiece rocks!-- reensure, Aug 18 2005 random, halfbakery