Comments on: Artist 3D prints replica of his own skull http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 02:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: andygates http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1585443 andygates Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1585443 That's wonderfully creepy - especially at the end of the video where he's examining his own skeleton that's (kinda) been pulled out of his body using the Power Ov Science.  I love a good squick and that's a great squick. Looks like the tech is in place for Byron's skull cup, from your own skull.  Memento mori.  That’s wonderfully creepy – especially at the end of the video where he’s examining his own skeleton that’s (kinda) been pulled out of his body using the Power Ov Science.  I love a good squick and that’s a great squick.

Looks like the tech is in place for Byron’s skull cup, from your own skull.  Memento mori. 

]]> By: Jerril http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1584715 Jerril Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1584715  Very much different. I'm especially interested in the way the anthropologist remounted the jaw further forward on the head than the artist has in life. You can get orthomaxilar (sp) surgery to do the same thing if you are unhappy with a receding chin. The hazards of having a loose bone to work with.  Very much different.

I’m especially interested in the way the anthropologist remounted the jaw further forward on the head than the artist has in life. You can get orthomaxilar (sp) surgery to do the same thing if you are unhappy with a receding chin.

The hazards of having a loose bone to work with.

]]> By: donovan acree http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1584420 donovan acree Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1584420 Sorry, I just I don't see the resemblance. Sorry, I just I don’t see the resemblance.

]]> By: Dickie W http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1584318 Dickie W Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1584318 @ Noah Django: Seems to me this idea, a facial reconstruction by a forensic anthropologist built atop a recreation of the artist's skull, is not the same idea as a cast of the artist's head made from his own frozen blood. @ Noah Django: Seems to me this idea, a facial reconstruction by a forensic anthropologist built atop a recreation of the artist’s skull, is not the same idea as a cast of the artist’s head made from his own frozen blood.

]]> By: noah django http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1584297 noah django Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1584297 style biter.  this idea has been done before, and better. Mark Quinn, 'Self,' 1991 style biter.  this idea has been done before, and better.
Mark Quinn, ‘Self,’ 1991

]]> By: Toby http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1584022 Toby Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1584022 I have an artist friend who arranged to have someone else describe his looks to a police composite artist, and then he displayed the composite artist's drawings as a self-portrait.  It seems similar, but not as hard-core as this, though. I have an artist friend who arranged to have someone else describe his looks to a police composite artist, and then he displayed the composite artist’s drawings as a self-portrait. 

It seems similar, but not as hard-core as this, though.

]]> By: dustbuster7000 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583936 dustbuster7000 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583936 So which is it? Perhaps you are more familiar with what an MRI machine looks like versus a CT machine, so you can tell, but I can't. But since CT involves ionising raditation and an MRI does not, your point hinges very much on which this is. As to MRI time being expensive, I would agree, but also say that people I know who have access to MRI machines have said that they have, on occasion, used the machines for things which aren't, strictly, medically necessary. On say, "things" which don't have medical concerns, as such. So for a consideration, I would imagine an artist could make a case for a non-ionising, non-medical MRI scan. So which is it? Perhaps you are more familiar with what an MRI machine looks like versus a CT machine, so you can tell, but I can’t. But since CT involves ionising raditation and an MRI does not, your point hinges very much on which this is. As to MRI time being expensive, I would agree, but also say that people I know who have access to MRI machines have said that they have, on occasion, used the machines for things which aren’t, strictly, medically necessary. On say, “things” which don’t have medical concerns, as such. So for a consideration, I would imagine an artist could make a case for a non-ionising, non-medical MRI scan.

]]> By: Boundegar http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583753 Boundegar Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583753 Yea, right.  That's the dude from Hellraiser. Yea, right.  That’s the dude from Hellraiser.

]]> By: AttackHamster http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583729 AttackHamster Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583729 MRI time is expensive, I suppose. Full body CT scan - he'd have got a hefty radiation dose from that, and without medical need, wonder how he got time on a scanner? Would be difficult in the UK due to ionising radiation regulations, and surely at least as difficult in the Netherlands? MRI time is expensive, I suppose. Full body CT scan – he’d have got a hefty radiation dose from that, and without medical need, wonder how he got time on a scanner? Would be difficult in the UK due to ionising radiation regulations, and surely at least as difficult in the Netherlands?

]]> By: Katie Lacy http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583714 Katie Lacy Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583714 Much of the work on his website falls right into the "uncanny valley." Much of the work on his website falls right into the “uncanny valley.”

]]> By: franko http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583703 franko Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583703 nothing unsettling about this at all, nooo. nothing unsettling about this at all, nooo.

]]> By: Chentzilla http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583701 Chentzilla Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583701 So, what do you think, close enough? So, what do you think, close enough?

]]> By: big ryan http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583678 big ryan Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583678 ah thanks, i clicked through and couldn't find anything other than some of his other self portraits ah thanks, i clicked through and couldn’t find anything other than some of his other self portraits

]]> By: Chentzilla http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583677 Chentzilla Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583677 And here's the real guy for comparison for those too lazy to click through the site:  http://youtu.be/8eBQSG5qZCo And here’s the real guy for comparison for those too lazy to click through the site:  http://youtu.be/8eBQSG5qZCo

]]> By: big ryan http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/artist-3d-prints-replica-of-hi.html#comment-1583674 big ryan Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194356#comment-1583674 is there any chance of seeing the guys actual face so we can see how close they compare? is there any chance of seeing the guys actual face so we can see how close they compare?

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