My other hobby
I forgot to talk about one of my other hobbies yesterday, or rather, I neglected to talk about my other hobby/volunteer work. I do moulage, otherwise known as casualty simulation. In short, I make people look injured for emergency disaster training.
This isn’t a hobby I can share casually, because, actually, I did a pretty good job. The pictures creep people out.
My favorite story on the realism of my work is going into work after our big disaster training weekend (I’m a professor) and getting the rumor that one of my “victims” was sent to the hospital for a simulation, and they started hooking up an IV on him. He had to stop them from doing so. I mentioned this to another class, and his girlfriend corroborated it.
None of this is real
Moulage requires a certain amount of art and science. The science comes in studying injuries — knowing how they’re inflicted, what they look like on the body, how they change over time. The art comes from recreating them in grease paint, fake blood, wax, and latex.
Examples (warning: do not go below this point if you are upset by these pictures)
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The tent where moulage crew works 
A burn (fourth degree) 
Broken sliver of kneecap 
Extensive burns (third degree) 
Lacerations and road rash 
Scarring
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