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Lincøln
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Reduction to the Body by Lincøln

January 16th, 2008 10:23 PM / Location: 34.251161,-118.3570

INSTRUCTIONS: Study your own body for at least 30 minutes straight and discover something you didn't know about before.

I spent about eight hours over three days studying my body. I really went to town. I'm pretty familiar with my body, as I've been living in it for awhile now. And I know quite a bit about it. What I found in my self exploration was that all I really knew about my body was what I could see. You see, I don't own any mirrors. And not because I'm a vampire or anything. It's just that I don't really like looking at myself. For some reason. So because I can only see certain aspects of myself, there were other aspects of myself that I have never seen or at least hadn't explored. So I used my camera as my remote view apparatus. 

And I thought I would take the term reduction out of the title seriously.

Now, I should warn you, this proof is going to get real personal. I spared you some real personal shit. Like there will be no pictures of my asshole, but I do get pretty in-depth into the places I've never explored and mostly the pictures are super close up so as to take the context away, but if you get offended by anything in here, then you're an idiot, because you should have hit the back button just now. This task is for the rest of you. I also found that I am not embarrassed by any of this. I guess I lost the part of me that feels embarrassment a long time ago. So I invite you to come along on my journey to explore the hidden parts of my body.

- smaller

Head to toe

Head to toe

I'm going to observe and take notes on every part of me that I didn't notice before.


Top of foot

Top of foot

Because I'm Lincoln and I never wear shoes, we'll start with the most interesting item, my feet. So when you get bored halfway through, at least you got to see my feet. Notice all of the red scars? I have found that wounds on my feet don't heal up perfectly. They always leave little red reminders.


Cuticle wear

Cuticle wear

I am not nice to my cuticles.


Splinter

Splinter

This is my second toe. I wonder how long that splinter has been in there.


Old Injury

Old Injury

I cut off the tip of my toe when I was a child. I lost a few inches and a pretty sizable piece of bone when I was running through some ivy and I kicked a brick that was lying in wait for some shoeless kid to come running by and claim more blood. It has all grown back rather nicely I think.


Evolution

Evolution

That little crack there is a little shelf that grows there for the winter. It's there to help me get a better grip on roofs when I'm hanging Christmas lights. It grows in after about a week of roof work. It's barbed and helps me grip. But only in one direction.


Cut on my toe

Cut on my toe

I found this pretty big cut on my little toe.


Baby toe cut

Baby toe cut

It's a pretty serious cut and by the amount of healing that has gone on, it looks like I have had it for awhile.


Those same barbs

Those same barbs

I have grown those same barbs on the balls of my feet as well. Better for gripping.


Heel crack

Heel crack

I get cracks like that on the back of my heel often. I can't feel them at all from the inside. I think they happen when it gets really cold. I think they allow more flexibility when the skin gets too cold.


More heel cracks

More heel cracks

The callus is so thick that I can't feel when these cracks appear. hey look painful, but the only sensation I get from them is when I run my fingers over them. Feels pretty cool. Like bark on a tree.


I wide view

I wide view

This is a little wider to see where the cracking occurs. From this wide angle I have just realized that perhaps the cracks appear when new layers of callus have formed. I'm not sure.


Another view

Another view

This view shows how the cracks don't touch the ground when I walk. It also shows that they spread up a few inches up the back of the heel, to a lesser degree.


The inside of the heel

The inside of the heel

The inside or instep doesn't have the same cracking as the outside does. Perhaps I expose the outsides to more wear?


Those little balls

Those little balls

I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who gets these little pressure balls on the side of my heel when I stand or put pressure on it. What are they? Where do they come from? What do they want?


Side of my foot

Side of my foot

Notice the red scar and the cracks and the callus on the side where it hits the ground when I sit indian style, which I do a lot.


Knee scar

Knee scar

Two years ago almost to the day I was in the hospital where I spent a month. I had a staph infection of my blood. Which is very very serious apparently. I was very close to being dead. Organ failure and everything. The way I got the staph infection was likely from this wound on my knee which I got playing baseball on a bad field three months earlier, I had a pebble lodged in there and it got seriously infected. My knee was twice it's size and there was a huge hole I could put my finger in two knuckles deep. It was an awful pussy mess. And I went to the hospital and it was treated and it went away. But then a few months later I got the staph. This scar is the only reminder I have of that experience.


Birth mark

Birth mark

I have never really seen this. It's on the back of my thigh right below my butt. It's very muted and tan and not bad looking at all. I like it.


Ass valley

Ass valley

I have never seen my ass valley before. It's much smoother and has far less hair than I would have guessed.


Ass crack

Ass crack

A couple of freckles. A little bit of hair. Interesting. Not bad. I see now why the ladies dig it so much.


Double black head

Double black head

That right there is a double sided black head. It's like a little tunnel running from one side to the next. Seriously. It's connected on both sides. So weird. By the way, this is on the shaft of my penis in case you couldn't tell.


Taste buds?

Taste buds?

I had never noticed all of these giant nobules on the side of the head of my penis. They're sensitive, but not real sensitive. Not as sensitive as the area underneath or above. They're kinda like calluses. Whatever they are, they look cool.


Giant mole

Giant mole

There's a giant mole buried under my pubic hair. It's really easny to feel, but very difficult to spot. It is camouflaged very well.


Where leg meets pelvis

Where leg meets pelvis

That there is the tendon on the inside of my leg where it connects to my pelvis. It is without question my favorite part of a woman's body, yet I have never really explored my own. It's not nearly as fascinating as a woman's but, it's still kinda cool. It's great when it moves when I flex or move my leg.


Mole

Mole

There's a mole down under my leg and ass in that place where the hair stops growing. I can feel it but have never seen it before. It's not as impressive as I thought it was going to be.


Another mole

Another mole

This mole is on my side. The interesting thing about it is that it's almost transparent. I can almost see right through it.


Belly button

Belly button

It collects lint all of the time, I thought I'd get a picture of the deep inside, but the truth is it doesn't go as deep as I'd hoped and it's pretty dark in there.


Happy trail

Happy trail

All of the hair on my chest and stomach all points in one direction. As if to tell anybody who sees it where the main attraction is.


Armpit

Armpit

I have never seen my own armpit. I thought it would be more hideous than it is. The hair in there is fine and nice. Armpits get a bad rap.


Scar

Scar

There's a pretty good scar there between those two valleys. I took a picture of those valleys there, because I didn't know they did that when I flexed my fingers. But look, they do. I didn't photograph the scar specifically because I was already very familiar with it.


Wrist hole

Wrist hole

I can make that hole appear just by making a fist. Very strange.


Strange

Strange

Speaking of strange, that is how far my thumb goes back all by itself. If I were to push on it, it would go back even further, well acute of 90°.


Doorhenge scar

Doorhenge scar

Doorhenge gave me that scar. And because of that fact, I rather like this scar. It's on the left side of my left hand.


Mystery wound

Mystery wound

I think I got this wound from a rose bush, because that looks like a piece of a rose thorn still stuck in there.


Dirty work

Dirty work

This is what my hands look like after coming home from a typical day of work. I like dirt fingerprints.


Dirty knuckles

Dirty knuckles

I like how the dirt looks like it was printed on with a dot matrix printer from close up.


This is on my back.

This is on my back.

I knew that mole was there, although I had never seen it, but I had no idea it was growing the longest hair in the world like some kind of prize pure bred pet that it might take to some show and win first prize. Some day I'm going to come home and wonder why there's a blue ribbon on my back.


Back of neck

Back of neck

I like this because it looks like the surface of some planet that we have not yet discovered.


Another

Another

There's another mole on my back by my neck. This one has one of thickest hairs ever growing out of it, like it's going in the Brundle-fly museum someday.


Top of my head

Top of my head

Notice how many pores have more than one hair growing out of them? I wonder how that's possible.


Top again

Top again

this time after a shave. I like all of the little pockets of broken skin like lunar craters.


Fresh(ish) wound

Fresh(ish) wound

I don't know when I sustained this wound, but I have been feeling it for a few days. It looks pretty much all healed up. Us bald guys experience all kinds of mysterious head wounds. We rarely feel them, and almost never feel pain from them. But they look impressive, huh?


Side of forehead

Side of forehead

This is a permanent giant blackhead on the side of my head. It won't pop or go away ever. I'm stuck with it forever I suppose.


Side of my head

Side of my head

This is the place where my hair starts growing on my head. The difference in pore size varies so greatly from spot to spot here, I thought all pores were the same size. Guess I was wrong. Also I can make out lots of little crevices which look like scarring. Maybe from picked off chicken pox?


In the ear

In the ear

The thing I like here is all of those little hairs growing on the inside there. I didn't know I had any hairs in there. Especially not those fine peach fuzz type hairs. Interesting. The better to hear you with?


Inside the ear

Inside the ear

This was so much cleaner than I thought it would be. Looking at it this close up it could be anything. Let your imagination run wild and see what you can see. Imagine you're lying naked in Central Park with Perry and you're cloud busting. What do you see?


The outskirts

The outskirts

This looks more like a wax sculpture than my ear. But there it is. I like the strong turn it takes. It's not perfectly round. I dig it.


Beard

Beard

A close up of my beard hair. I'm going to shave tomorrow, so I wanted a good close up of the beard hair to document it, plus it's interesting to see that much hair all in one place.


Soul patch

Soul patch

The hair below my lip has gotten very very long. and blond.


Closer

Closer

I like the way it grows right out of my lip. I thought there would be a little buffer zone between them, but there's not. It's growing right on out of there.


Hole in my tooth

Hole in my tooth

I chipped my tooth years ago, and have had this hole in my tooth ever since. I have to always carry toothpicks with me so I can clean it out after every meal, but I have never seen it. Now I have. There it is. It's kinda isolated. I don't know how it got chipped way back there protected by all the other teeth. But the orks got into Helms Deep, so I guess anything's possible.


Bottom teeth

Bottom teeth

I like the lines running up these teeth here. They're not quite straight, are they? Pretty close, but lots of imperfections. See how jagged they are on the top? Too many years of opening bottles with my teeth I suppose.


Top teeth

Top teeth

Check out the fourth one back. Doesn't that look an awfully lot like a fang? I swear I'm not a vampire or warewolf.


Up the nose

Up the nose

Not much light up there. I was hoping to se way up into there, but there's really no good way to get light up in there. So we can't see if there were any boogies present. So now I can claim a really clean nose. Finally something that isn't potentially embarrassing.


The nose valley

The nose valley

See all of those black heads down there in the valley? I should really do something about that some day.


Unibrow

Unibrow

I have a unibrow. And two really really long hairs right there in the middle.


Unibrow close

Unibrow close

Some of the longest hairs on my body grow right out of the middle of my unibrow. I wonder why that is? Most people don't have such hairs and I not only have them, but I have extremely long ones. What gives?


Right eye

Right eye

It looks kinda blue. Maybe green. they change color all of the time. I have had somebody tell me they were purple once. I can't really tell what color this is. Grey maybe?


Closer

Closer

I have never been this close to my eye before. I have never seen those waves of white in there. Also all of those lines all flowing into the pupil are really cool. None are of equal size. It's so irregular. I really like it. The more I stare at this the more I feel like I'm falling into the Sarlacc Pit.


Done

Done

Now that I have explored my body from bottom to top I decided to see what my body could do. I started pushing and exploring. A lot of the things I did, I didn't get on film, but I got these few.


The handstand

The handstand


The back stretch

The back stretch


The back bend

The back bend


Baby pose

Baby pose

Relaxing.


Vitruvian Man

Vitruvian Man

And well explored.



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posted by The Vixen on January 16th, 2008 10:33 PM

This is great! I love your attention to great detail. Makes me want to do this task now...

But I don't know. I refused to strip naked with everyone in the hot tub; do I have what it takes to do it online? Hmm....

Wait, were you still at the party when we all migrated to the hot tub? I'd remember more clearly if I hadn't drank 6 shots of Ben's Haitian moonshine...

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posted by Lincøln on April 26th, 2009 7:43 PM

Almost a year late, but yes, I was still in the jacuzzi when we all got naked. And Dax still has that picture. We're still waiting to see what he does with it.

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on January 16th, 2008 10:41 PM

Hearing is exactly what them little ear hairs are for. They help you see the millions of adorable little fat people all the better.

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posted by Lincøln on January 16th, 2008 11:13 PM

Yes, Vixen, I was there for the hot tub debauchery. I was even one of the few that did 20 jumping jacks in the middle of Oak Street without benefit of clothing. And yes, Ben's Haitian moonshine should have been treated a bit more cautiously. Especially by you.

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posted by susy derkins on January 16th, 2008 11:30 PM

I love that bodies carry so many stories: the hole in which you could stick you finger two knuckles deep. And you let me wondering about the mysterious little balls and nobules.

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posted by Burn Unit on January 17th, 2008 4:26 AM

lincoln's heel but I swear that looks like my ownI know you keep insisting your feet are like no one else's, and I believe you of course. I would like to point out that I have scaly barbs and deep callouses too, and your heel cracks looked so familiar because I've seen cracks like that, just this morning, just now looking at my own feet. It must be the double thickness that sets yours apart--the overall callous/toughness. Because that heel crack photo feels like I'm looking in a mirror. I don't feel the cracks when I get them, there's dirt and stuff in them and so on. I'm pretty sure they happen to me when it gets really dry which also happens to correspond to winter when the air here is absurdly dry. The key difference--perhaps you do have this but I bet the toughness of your feet prevents it--sometimes the cracks get away from me and go real deep, to the point they bleed and hurt really bad. THat's my least favorite thing. The tooth hole looks familiar as well.

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posted by The Vixen on January 17th, 2008 8:06 AM

Especially by me, huh?

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posted by Burn Unit on January 17th, 2008 3:25 PM

Hey, by your own account Vixen you didn't handle it very well. Plus you look like... I mean, you must weigh... less than one of my legs. Any amount of Haitian moonshine probably needs careful scrutiny before being consumed by you!

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posted by mkII Robot on January 17th, 2008 6:46 PM

YOU ARE MADE OF MEAT.

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posted by miss understanding on January 17th, 2008 7:23 PM

Armpits do get a bad rep. It's a shame.

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posted by rongo rongo on January 17th, 2008 8:19 PM

Actually, quite a lot of people have one or two really long eyebrow hairs. I have occasionally pointed these out to friends who are always surprised. Often, they then become rather fond of their one mutant eyebrow hair. Once you start looking, you'll find them on people.

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posted by Lincøln on January 17th, 2008 8:28 PM

Yeah, I really like mine. I have two sisters who are always wanting to pin me down and pluck my eyebrows to make two. But I like my one with it's mutant hairs in it.

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posted by Adam on January 18th, 2008 10:04 AM

This task is exactlly why Im a vegetarian.

You can look at an animal like this.

And it's the same, they are all different, some have cracked heels, some don't.

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posted by The Vixen on January 18th, 2008 10:22 AM

I doubt I weigh less than both your legs. (Burn Unit)

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posted by mkII Robot on January 18th, 2008 10:59 AM

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOU WEIGH LESS THAN ONE OF MKII ROBOT'S LEGS.

That thumb thing
posted by GYØ Daryl on January 18th, 2008 2:12 PM

I can do that too (for some reason), I'm not in a position at the moment to easily photo it, but various GYØ members can back me up.

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posted by Tøm on January 18th, 2008 2:13 PM

It freaks me out. The thumb photo also does.

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posted by Lincøln on January 18th, 2008 2:18 PM

Wow Daryl, I have never heard of anybody else that can bend their thumb back like I can. Nice, it means that you've got a genius intellect and are better than average in the sack. Unfortunately it also means that you'd rather collect comic books, write odd stories and watch movies and play games than go out and pick up the ladies with your devilishly good looks.

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posted by The Vixen on January 18th, 2008 2:27 PM

2nd gen. Robot rocks my socks.

Found my camera (yay, i need it for tommrow)
posted by GYØ Daryl on January 18th, 2008 2:39 PM

After extensive searching, I found it, so this is the first thing I did before I forgot.

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posted by Lincøln on January 18th, 2008 2:40 PM

Awesome.
Is that George Bush Sr. in the background behind your computer there?

Err, I think
posted by GYØ Daryl on January 18th, 2008 2:43 PM

It's newsnight, it was on after QI and I couldn't be bothered to turn off the TV

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posted by GYØ Ben on January 18th, 2008 3:19 PM

That's a damn sharp eye you've got there, Lincoln (all the better to see you with!).

However, Daryl's description up there - pretty much correct, methinks.

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posted by Lincøln on January 18th, 2008 4:51 PM

Is it not possible that former president of the U.S. George Bush Sr. could be on the news today?

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on January 19th, 2008 11:48 PM

Who wants to get recursive?
Let's get recursive!
(I just noticed this today.)

Wow: recursive and recessive
posted by susy derkins on January 20th, 2008 12:00 AM

And that also means that your moms and dads can do that too.
[edit] Geez, what I said was like stomping-over on Mendel´s laws, completely wrong!
Your parents, they might or might not be able to do it. But if they both do, all your siblings can too.

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posted by Lincøln on January 20th, 2008 12:06 AM

Awesome.

Who else can do it?

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posted by Levitating Potato on January 20th, 2008 8:51 AM

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I can too. My brother can't.

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posted by Lincøln on January 20th, 2008 9:05 AM

Comment votes.

Comment Vote!
posted by Jellybean of Thark on January 20th, 2008 10:30 AM

Yes, awesome! More please.

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posted by teucer on January 21st, 2008 8:14 PM

No one comment really stands out here, but can I thread vote?

(I'd contribute but I can't do the thumb trick. (Hm. Maybe if I cheat with a thumb tip...)

Does this win the Nakedest Nakedness Award?
posted by Bex. on January 29th, 2008 2:57 AM

In parts of India they put henna on the bottom of thier feet to protect them from ouchy cracks in the dry season, what with all the walking barefoot and besandaled in the dust...


I can't believe everyone has been mature enough to not say penis yet. Heh. Heh. Weenie. Heh. Dong. Tee.

(Sorry guys, this is why I'm not supposed to leave comments late at night under the influence of jd or sleeping pills)...

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on January 29th, 2008 8:04 AM

Who's JD?

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posted by The Vixen on January 29th, 2008 8:21 AM

Jack.... :)