Self-portrait made with cables by Kasey McMahon

Connected // Global Brain Series // Self Portrait // 2010
Steel, CAT5 and other data cables
by Kasey McMahon

I'm a contributing editor here at Boing Boing. I also have a blog (TokyoMango), a book (Urawaza), and I freelance for Wired, Make, the NY Times Magazine, PRI's Studio360, etc. I'm @tokyomango on Twitter.

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Anonymous

She can socket to ME any time!
PFlint

I’m getting mixed signals. Anyways, a girl like that, what’s to _gain_?
robulus

That is a really successful work of art. Love it.
Anonymous

She’s going to be speaking at Mindshare LA in Los Angeles tomorrow night — should be a great night!

http://www.mindshare.la
Anonymous

I’ve never been so attracted to cables. That says something about the male mind… or mine in particular. It’s an appealing shape. Am I normal?
IWood

{Cable Pun}
Der

If there’s one thing I can’t stand from a potential mate, it’s crosstalk, dammit.
Anonymous

Great job Kasey!
I walk by your window every day and see that and it’s fabulous!
fnc

I told myself years ago I’d never get tangled up with a girl like that again.
stosh machek

wire you guys goin on about her like that?
i’m sure she’d be cable to reach an acCord
Anonymous

This makes me never want to go wireless…
MadRat

I bet she got the idea for this in her yoga class.
Brainspore

Finally WIRED magazine is featuring centerfolds.
SpacelordMother

This looks like a CAT5astrophe!
Gelfin

I hooked up with a girl like that once, but we didn’t ever really connect. Shame, really. I wish we’d been able to patch things up.
Anonymous

That’s some kinky bondage gear. What?
Der

Is it just me, or does this lady seem a little too wrapped up in herself? She looks high-strung, like she needs a good guy (wire that is) to bring her back down to earth. At the same time you can sense she doesn’t want to be tied down.

Sure, she’s probably got a line of suitors waiting.

Thing is, I bet she just keeps stringing them along.
- Gloria
  
  “Sure, she’s probably got a line of suitors waiting. Thing is, I bet she just keeps stringing them along.”
  
  No doubt — with a body like that, she’s bound to be roping them in. A guy would be loopy to ignore her.
  - Der
    
    “A guy would be loopy to ignore her.”
    
    Could be a rather knotty relationship.
    
    Wonder if she’ll ever get hitched.
    - hoffmanbike
      
      I’d have the Farmer Hitch us, then we could go Bowline together.
- highlyverbal
  
  “She looks high-strung, like she needs a good guy”
  
  Nah, that would make her recoil, she just needs to unwind a little.
  
  Anyone else find the pose to be a little on the kinky side?
k88dad

There’s got to be a cable snaking joke in there somewhere.
Anonymous

How is this a self portrait?