Man and Machine in X-Ray Art

We've featured the x-ray art of Nick Veasey before. Now he has a collection called "Man and Machine." The x-rays combine people with the machines we've created.

In the image above of passengers sitting on a bus, it’s interesting, if slightly morbid, to learn that everyone on the bus is actually the same person – and that person is a dead body, moved around and posed by a willing undertaker.

Still, it’s a captivating image that highlights the inner beauty and details often overlooked during mundane daily activities. The image proved so mesmerizing, in fact, that it had to be removed from roadways, where it was used as part of an advertising campaign, because it proved too distracting for drivers.

Not all the images involve dead people -some are just everyday skeletons. See more at Tech Graffiti. Link


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Most of the pictures look about the same to me as if someone removed books or cameras from people's hands. But maybe that isn't what was intended, as people think very differently of a book and a smart phone. A family reading together would also be disconnected, but people would probably pick more positive descriptions for such an image.
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Agreed. Remove any other external stimuli from the photo and you have a similar image. My daughter has her nose buried in her Kindle, would we think twice if it was an actual book?
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Good points, PlasmaGryphon and ursusblue. You too, THAT Alan. They were actually looking at porn but I was embarrassed to admit it, so I made up that story about the artsy stuff.
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As further evidence in favor of the going theory that they could be looking at anything, today's article on Neatorama entitled: "Cool Vintage Photos of People Reading".

Remove the books and such and it's exactly the same as this article's images, only from a different age when our tech didn't exist. You can clearly see that the behavior of gathering in groups and ignoring each other to read stuff is exactly the same as it was back then.

People complain about these things without realizing that the same things have happened before with less tech and no serious detriment to the human race then, either.
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