1988.
Tara Street, Dublin 1.
Meanwhile…
Very intetesting. Seems to have been known as the National Mass Radiography Association or Mass Radiography Board, based at 37-39 Tara St. I came across this in a newspaper some years ago, which must be the type of screening that they undertook nationwide:https://t.co/XDs7R6mXaD
— James Dillon (@noonofday) May 23, 2021
Via Dave Jazay
An unsettling, surreal, award-winning 2019 short by Hungarian Royal College Of Art graduate Luca Toth. She sez of it:
I wanted to make a surrealistic movie about how someone falls in love
In 1950s Russia, where vinyl was scarce, music fans salvaged discarded radiographs from hospital waste bins, using a special device to press the grooves of forbidden jazz and rock ‘n’ roll bootlegs into the surface of the thick plastic.
The radiograph ‘records’ were cut into a rough disc shape with manicure scissors and a hole was burned with a cigarette. According to author Anya von Bremzen, “you’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.”
Dutch physicist and artist Arie Van’t Riet shoots monochrome x-rays of plants and animals, digitises them and adds colour in Photoshop to create these slightly morbid, strangely pleasing images.
No animals were harmed by radiation, as most were already dead to begin with.
Images from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out exhibition
More at the 40+ image Flickr set.
Taken within the last 20 minutes.
Gavin Cooney writes:
One of those creepy X-Ray machines that takes ‘naked pictures’ of you. Interesting to note that in the US, the TSA allow you to politely opt out and go for a pat down. In the UK if you get selected for it, you must go through or not travel. I wonder if Leo and co will go for the UK option?
The incredible x-ray style of UK graffiti artist SHOK-1
