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Crashed car sculpted from painted people

David Pescovitz at 12:15 pm Mon, Oct 29, 2012

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Look closely. Those are seventeen people that artist Emma Hack painted and contorted into the shape of a smashed car. See how she did it below. (thanks, Sean Ness!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog

“Watch it! That’s not the lighter socket!”
http://twitter.com/selfish selfish

wool South Australia!
http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

I’m always slightly weirded out by the people who volunteer to be painted and draped near random human posteriors for this sort of thing.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850700441 James ‘Jimbob’ Carter

So basically, it’s Soylent Green…
http://twitter.com/samthepea Sam Pourasghar

That looks like the car from the smash up level on Street Fighter 2.