X-rays of toys

Stuart sez, "This Flickr gallery shows highlights from Scan Toys, an exhibit currently at Buenos Aires Centro Cultural Recoleta. The artists used X-rays to produce these and the resulting images are beautiful, with a hint of social commentary."

Scan Toys 1ºEdición (Thanks, Stuart!)

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schmod

I knew a guy (a doctor) who had an anatomically-correct model of a baby (complete with skeleton), which he’d occasionally carry onto planes, just to see the look on the security guard’s face when it passed through the X-Ray machine.
thekinginyellow

i think i might be thinking of “curse of the cobras” which for some reason my parents gave me for a birthday over 20 years ago! i wish i still had it; scared the crap out of me.
dAvE

It kind of looks like creepy robot cells under a microscope…
kmoser

Hmmm, kind of like these CT scans of motorcycles and cars.
Tim McCormack

@kmoser: Hmmm, kind of like the link you posted before:

http://boingboing.net/2008/03/20/tsa-xray-of-macbook.html#comment-148472
libelle

Sheila Pinkel was doing X-rays of Kachina Dolls back in the 80s, which I didn’t appreciate at the time.

She did a lot of interesting stuff with “alternate” light: camera-less photography using UV, X-Rays, IR, and so on.
thekinginyellow

what is that mummy sarcophagus thing? was that a game where you stuck pins through it in strategic ways? what was that called? or am i just imagining that something like that existed?