A bit of the world, seen through x-ray specs
October 6, 2010 1:13 PM Subscribe
X-Ray art is the use of
radiography to take a different look at
flowers,
foliage and
faux landscapes,
sea shells and
sea life (one of
a number of flash galleries), and
a weird look at
the world. But these folks are all
millennia behind some
artists from
Australia,
Siberia, and elsewhere.
Some of the above-linked sites were
covered back in 2003, as was
Nick Veasey in 2008, who
had a TED talk earlier this year.
If you checked out the
Wikipedia page on radiography and thought "an X-ray from the Vietnam war shows an unexploded grenade embedded in a patient's skull - what's the story behind that?" - well, there's not much more known.
The picture is from Flickr, part of the collection posted by
the staff of the
Otis Historical Archives, a collection in the US
National Museum of Health and Medicine.
And for good measure,
here is a
bit of
noise from
X-Ray Spex.
Related awesomeness.
posted by phunniemee at 1:16 PM on October 6, 2010