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Old 05-15-2010, 11:49 PM   #1
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May 16, 2010: Dem Bones II

Unlike Dem Bones I, Dem Bones II aren't animal bones.
Francois Robert used human bones to make these pieces.



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"Bones have always fascinated me," says Robert. His portfolio has always included images of animal skulls, recovered from the desert. He once spent five weeks photographing skulls in the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History. By 2007, the recession was taking its toll. "I had so much extra time. What was I going to do with it?" He turned to the skeleton in his locker.
Robert realized that his skeleton was limited: it was wired together for display. He decided he wanted a skeleton he could take apart. Online, he found a source for disarticulated human skeletons, and he traded his in, and took delivery of a box containing 206 separate bones, each the real thing, not plaster or resin.
He arranged them into a picture, photographed it, then tore it apart to make the next piece. Better than becoming a serial killer, or grave robber, I suppose.

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Old 05-16-2010, 01:28 AM   #2
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Is this supposed to be humerus?
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Old 05-16-2010, 05:36 AM   #3
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Old 05-16-2010, 07:51 AM   #4
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Is this supposed to be humerus?
Whatsamatter? You can't take a ribbing?
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Old 05-16-2010, 10:58 AM   #5
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ick. cool, but ick.
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Old 05-16-2010, 11:40 AM   #6
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Old 05-16-2010, 12:31 PM   #7
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Old 05-16-2010, 12:56 PM   #8
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I had no idea you could order human skeletons on the internet. This is just what I need for the next Halloween party.
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Old 05-16-2010, 01:23 PM   #9
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Alas poor Yorick, always shooting off his month again.
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Old 05-16-2010, 05:21 PM   #10
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Ok where do you get man bones without getting a police rap
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Old 05-16-2010, 09:33 PM   #11
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Ok where do you get man bones...
Y, MCA
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Old 05-17-2010, 05:51 AM   #12
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I won't make the obvious reference to a boner.
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Old 05-17-2010, 10:35 AM   #13
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Ok where do you get man bones without getting a police rap
Hobos.
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Old 05-17-2010, 01:38 PM   #14
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but I use those for soup
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Old 05-18-2010, 09:11 PM   #15
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Bah! He's got nothing on this

http://www.kostnice.cz/ <-- official site

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary

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The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, many of whom have had their bones artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
The guy who designed it signed his name in foot tall letters in human bones.
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