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Skin is a soft outer covering of an animal, in particular a vertebrate. Skin(s) or The Skin(s) may also refer to: Outer covering * Peel (fruit), or outer covering of any vegetable * Skin (aeronautics), the outer covering of an aircraft or its wing * Skinning, removing the outer layer of something's flesh * Milk skin, a thin layer over the top of heated milk * Hide (skin), an animal skin processed by humans * Mobile phone skin, a protective and/or decorative covering for a mobile phone Arts and entertainment Film * ''The Skin'' (film), a 1981 Italian film by Liliana Cavani based on the novel by Curzio Malaparte * ''Skin'' (1995 film), a British short film directed by Vincent O'Connell * ''Skins'' (2002 film), an American drama film * ''Skin'' (2008 film), a British-South African biographical film about Sandra Laing * ''Skin'' (2008), an award-winning Dutch film directed by Hanro Smitsman * ''Skins'' (2017 film), a Spanish drama film * ''Skin'' (2018 feature film), an Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation. Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have different developmental origin, structure and chemical composition. The adjective cutaneous means "of the skin" (from Latin ''cutis'' 'skin'). In mammals, the skin is an organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of ectodermal tissue and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments, and internal organs. Skin of a different nature exists in amphibians, reptiles, and birds. Skin (including cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues) plays crucial roles in formation, structure, and function of extraskeletal apparatus such as horns of bovids (e.g., cattle) and rhinos, cervids' antlers, giraffids' ossicones, armadillos' osteoderm, and os penis/ os clitoris. All mammals have some hair on their skin, even marine mammals like whales, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skin (Andrew Novel)
Kerry Andrew (born 5 April 1978) is an English composer, performer and author. They have won four British Composer Awards. They have published three novels and twice been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. They perform alt-folk music as You Are Wolf and have been a long-standing member of Juice Vocal Ensemble. Life From age 3 to age 6, Andrew lived in Canada with their family. The family subsequently returned to the UK and settled in the Buckinghamshire area. Andrew earned a BA in Music, MA and PhD in Composition, all from the University of York. Career Music Andrew was Composer in Residence at Handel House Museum during 2010-12, and was Visiting Professor of Music at Leeds College of Music in 2015-16 and 2017-18. They won their first British Composer Award in the Making Music Category in 2010 for their choral work ''Fall'', and won two awards in 2014, in the Stage Works category for their wild swimming chamber opera ''Dart's Love'' and in the Communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skin (Japanese Band)
Skin (stylized as S.K.I.N.) is a United States–based Japanese visual kei rock supergroup founded by Japanese musicians Yoshiki, Gackt, Sugizo and Miyavi in 2007. The group's debut performance was on June 29, 2007, at Long Beach Arena, California. Although they had announced more activities, including a live tour and releasing an album, no new activities have occurred. History Conception and announcement The origin of the band dates back to when Yoshiki invited Gackt to his Los Angeles mansion in 2002, where they decided to produce some music together. The band was publicly announced in July 2006 at an Otakon conference where Yoshiki as a guest said, he would be starting a band with Gackt. He announced how the band would be composed of five members, and they are going to produce a recording with a live tour in 2007. In December of the same year, it was announced that Sugizo would be the third member and the first guitarist of the group. And then at the first "JRock Revolutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
