Joanneke Meester's Skin Gun.
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In 2004, Dutch artist Joanneke Meester had an 8-inch-long piece of her skin surgically removed so she can use it to cover a gun-shaped plastic and fiber mold. Voilà – a skin gun. Link: Joanneke’s website |
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In 2004, Dutch artist Joanneke Meester had an 8-inch-long piece of her skin surgically removed so she can use it to cover a gun-shaped plastic and fiber mold. Voilà – a skin gun. Link: Joanneke’s website |
jen
eesh. And here I thought, when I first saw the image without reading about it, "ooh a pizza gun"
yuck. but um, yay art and all that.
aar0n
That may very well be the grossest thing I have ever seen. Great link!
offline geek
That's not cool. strange but true. The skin will rot soon after a few hours unless he knows how to preserve it. I still doubt that he could do that!
Aleki
ummmm.... why?
erueti
How Cronenberg. Anyone else thinking eXistenZ?
beajerry
Ahhh, the sacrifice crazy artists make in the name of crazy art...
...and the message is sunk in the crazy waters.
anon
eugh
taurulom
JV
That's just so weird! Keeping a dead skin tissue just to be a gun? Eeek. At first, I thought it was a pizza-baked gun, but then, it turns out to be someone's skin... hmm... odd!
badjuk
Tak, od razu na myś przyszedł mi film eXistenZ !
Mr. Dom
you know that would definitely scare away more criminals than perhaps a real gun
ALe
I wonder from wich part of the body was the skin taken...
matt c
i wont be impressed untill i see a foreskin gun.
stupid artists
rob
looks tasty..
Dani
I was lyk...PIZZAAAA then i read "skin" and i'm lyk -_- ew.
Rhen
Look on the bright side. If the artist would have been a Jew, that would have been a Foreskin Gun.
NRA(NotReallyArt)
Where's the trigger?
John
I think the woman had a midlife crisis and said to herself, "Hey, I'm going to make a gun, out of my skin!!! YAY!!! I'M SO SMART!!!" And then she looks at herself in the mirror for places where she can remove her skin and say, "Joanneke, you are a genius!!!" And off she went to the doctors and the doctor probably told her, "WOW! THAT'S THE SMARTEST THING ANYONE EVER SAID ABOUT ANYTHING!"
Allie
ummmm... O.K. now lets make a gun out of teeth... or bone.
Eric
its reminds me of buffalo bill, now he has a skin gun
James
I've seen a gun made of bone. A man had his wife's femur shaved to form the grip of a pistol (crazy old German man)
CircumsizedCatholic
Rhen, your a freaking idiot...not only jews get circumsized, its considered the sanitary thing to do nowadays...you elephant trunk warrior
Steven
i want one.
Christopher Fossedal
What does it shoot? Fingernails?
goddamn
man ive seen some crazy sh-t on the internet but a SKIN GUN??!?! What the hell was she thinking?>
Tom
Ha! And does it shoot teeth?????
jaspers friend
now this is just plain sick, i have news for the artist okay, y not do som finger painting, its clean an fun and involves absolutly no body mutilation or convulsion at all, exept maybe if they r somone elses severed fingers
Dennis
If you squeez it, it shoots spunk.
ya
Wow..WTF...
Timothy
Congrats, your on ebaums links
LeWiE
W.T.F.
achmed
......... ok
Nathan
I've heard of a skin flute before, but come on, this is just too much!
Yo
That looks like food.
yeah
where do you people keep seeing pizza i think ur all nuts
poh
you have officially ruined pizza for me.
Justin
This is very Joel-Peter Witkin. He is the 'artist' who uses real cadavers to create still life. Very still ife that is!!!! Go ahead check out his stuff here:
ben
GAY... flippin sick
Danny
eerraa....errraa....eeerraaa.....uh.....hmmmmm....that looks like......why would ne1....uhh....ppl goin....why, why, why would u cut out 8inc of ur skin to do that.....OMFG...WHY!!!!!!!!i c no point
gm0n3y
We could set up a factory somewhere in the 3rd world and start mass producing these things! I bet people would pay like $500 for one of these. It would help solve unemployment and overpopulation.
Weirdalec
Looks like we're having stuffed shells tonight!
Blz
mmmm. I'd like to cook that up and eat it. Oh wait thats not a pizza pocket! You guys lied to me!!! You said we were going to vagas.
makc
YAY!! i wanna go to vagas and eat pizza gun pockets!! Wouldn't mind some of that skin either.
ross
Disgusting
Aidsman
Whose skin is that?
Nikki
Vegas Kitty
''It puts the lotion on it's skin, or it gets the hose again...''
Jason Z
What the !@#$. My book is complete ..I've seen it all now. Proof god made morons
mike
thats just gross.
me duh
wow it looks like pizza i was eating pizza when i saw that and i was like hey kool then i was like eeww and then i couldnt eat my pizza n e more thanks a lot haha
me duh
by the way it has hair on it !!!!!
Heywood Jablome
Freaking weird europeans
Mike D
Please tell me that she is not wasting publicly funded dollars on this garbage. My taxes pay for crap like this? I like my art free, and my artists starving...If you had real talent, you be painting something.
Randy
What in the hell was on her mind?? Yea smart idea probably some fat ugly single women...
keltron3030
Human skin + moron = moron with skin gun.
What do the two have in common?
gmfreak356
I think that I am going to be sick.
B
Does it shoot blood? now that would be cool otherwise it's just some sorry ass attempt for someone with no talent to play at being an artist. Come on all you modern art folks are a bit heavy with the pretense and yeah you have some secret deep meaningful reason for making that but it's just gross and useless arts and crafts crap. I'm all about joel peter whitkins but that's due to his skill at setting a mood and creating things that shock our baseline of reality. This on the other hand isn't art...It doesn't even look well made. Imo art =beauty, skill, mood or emotional content this lacks all of those. Go back to needlepoint.
SP ArtMaster 9frkin000
This is almost like colleges buying PVC pipe for $25,000 and calling it art.
Ping
The saddest part is - while an artist making great sacrifices for good art can be powerfuly moving and life changing for the people who get it, this really isn't even good art.
What is she saying? Guns are bad because... uh... there's nothing clever here at all to work with.
She is getting attention though. Maybe that's the point.
Timberschnock
I have my own skin gun, and I fire it on a daily basis.
boredashell
i did this in 2002...wtf??
Jim P.
Blech. just...blech.
Jay
I dont understand what it's supposed to symbolise. Maybe something to do with guns being evil or something i dont know.
Weird Though!
I wish someone made an eyeball gun that would be sick!
bert
okay... how is this art?
will ullyatt
dont do drugs.
Allen maskmaker
circumsizedcatholic! you are in idiot! Jewish people don't get circumsized you moron, that was the joke! I am very much annoyed with your ignorance on the situation when you have the audacity to call someone else an idiot!
furf
what --- is the problem with these people.
joe
lick it
Firestorm
People are idiots these days...and that's not art by any means.
myside
furf: no doubt, what possesses someone to do such a thing? If it is to gain your attention with dis-belief, I understand completely - since it is going into my collection of all things not right.
Steven B.
I would pay someone loads of cash to eat it. 
patrico
2 me itz the true grossness of a gun - a grossness ordinarily reserved 4 the receiver of the gunz fury
Dave
WTF??? Thats just wrong
idiot
What can i say?
IDIOT MORON!
jessica
grosss....that is demented
megan
...i thought it was a cookie or something tasty....i click the link and find out it's skin =P
i'm impressed. as a young artist to be, it's very inspirational.
BLOODWOLF
WOW I LOVE IT KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK LOVE YOUR STYLE
Someone not importent enough to leave her name.
OMG,
This is so NASTY,
When i first saw it i thought it was a cracker or something and then i found out it was skin thats SICK!
EW
i can't even imagine
jon
hmm.... gun runners need a cut of this piece of business
MATT G
battle without justice, war without victory
Brandon
I'm not easily repulsed, but that is just sick.
kris
i fort, yumm a pizza in the shape of a gun, that ill go n buy..ppl do sum sik things
halston
the artist made some statement..............not.
but it is kind of impressive. hahaha EW
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