Press BIG GORILLA PUPPET at the center of the third and last piece, "Gormanzee." As expected, the gorilla was awesome. Puppet designer Erin Smith deserves major props (pun intended) for this monstrosity. And a quick shout out to puppet master Amy Micallef's Etsy page - organbank.etsy.com - irreverence and cuteness make quite a team with her collection of plush human organs. Anyway, "Gormanzee" is a fun, sketch of a show involving the slaying and dissecting of a gorilla, a human, and (presumably) a chimpanzee, all for the sake of a really great punch-line.
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For someone facing surgery, there is Amy’s Organbank, a collection of comforting fleece reproductions of most of the human organs. You will find Hans and Franz the Heart, with the tag that says, “We’re here to pump you up.” And Erin and Airyana, The Lovely Lung Twins. Then there is Charles De Gall-Bladder. These are the brainchild of Amy Micallef of Peachtree City, GA.
“In 2007 my dad went in for a simple surgery, but something went terribly wrong and he lost his colon, spleen and appendix,” Micallef says. “ I thought, ‘Well, what do you get a man who has everything except a colon, spleen and appendix?’ So I made him new ones, and it was amazing how he seemed to respond to them.” Since then requests have been pouring in for other organs. McNeil had to call Micallef recently to have her air freight some more colons up to Artistry.
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