Human-sized human candles
Artists Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz cast life-sized candles of themselves in beeswax, then watched their waxy doppelgangers melt.
Artists Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz cast life-sized candles of themselves in beeswax, then watched their waxy doppelgangers melt.
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I think this is neat. I'm 99% satisfied with this well crafted work of art. I'm withholding 1% of my satisfaction due to the lack of a time-lapse video of the project on display. I guess that's what the internet has done to me... diminished my ability to appreciate still photos.
That lady candle is stacked!
waxy doppelgangers=today's new band name
Nice idea, nicely executed. Bravo.
I also concur with the need for some time lapse video though
How long does a human candle burn? What if you burn it from both ends?
There are way too many people with too much time on their hands these days. May this recession end soon.
Made in 1996
Did boing post this before?
They are like apocalyptic versions of George Segal sculptures. Quite a meditation on death, decay. The artists should make about 50 of them and burn them at burning man. In 50 different positions, of course.
I'd like to have one of these made in my likeness. As long as the candle is burning, I'll never age, a la' The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Sounds like a pretty short story*. You'd probably do better without it.
*That's a "pretty-short story", rather than a "pretty short-story" :)
isn't there a wax museum horror film?
@ #11 posted by arkizzle
I'm self-loathing, so it doesn't matter in the long run.
headless with a flame still burning in my chest.
this is beautiful in so many ways.
@stosh:
amazingly, "waxy doppelganger" is so far from a googlehack it's scary. ***369** people have been described as a waxy doppelganger, includeing Michael Phelps, Zac Efron, and Amy Winehouse.
As long as it's done better than this classic sequence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYzyRfNFn0
The glasses just vanishing always bugged me, I mean.. was it MEANT to look shitty ?
That's their job, Nanuq.
Face melting dude might be funny now, but in 1981 he was the most shocking thing I had ever seen in a movie theatre. I was seven or eight.
This candle thing is awesome analog uncanny valley. I want to try it. It would make an awesome special effect for a science fiction film with a little tweaking in post production.
You could make even freakier candles if you cast a red core around a white skeleton made of harder wax, and only then used your human mold to cast the skin layer. Put hair and clothes on them and make them like the ones at Madam Tussauds. Then light the wick and film the results.
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This is brilliant melty goodness. Is it voodoo?
Methinks there's a Doctor Who story in this somewhere...
What, no Wicked Witch of the West?
"I'm MELLLLTINGGGG. . . What a world, what a world. . . . "
That's a waxy, sexy doppelganger. [/zappbrannigan]
@jack
perhaps some wax-shopping was done?
http://tinyurl.com/cj3f74
....would like to see them on the same street as this group:
http://www.heraldst.com/exhibitions/exweber/exhibweber.html