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“Project 12:31″ – Sliced Light Paintings of a Dead Killers Body

Croix Gagnon und Frank Schott haben für ihr Projekt 12:31 aus den Bilddaten eines hingerichteten Mörders, der konserviert und eingefroren in 1871 Scheiben geschnitten wurde, eine Video generiert welches mittels Langzeitbelichtung den kompletten Körper des Mörders wieder komplett in die Nachtluft zeichnet. Creepy! 

An executed murderer whose body was famously sectioned for the Visible Human Project has been resurrected in ghostlike form in a new series of layered photographs.

Project 12:31 reassembles the corpse of Texas killer Joseph Paul Jernigan, who was put to death by lethal injection in 1993. Jernigan’s body was documented using computed tomography and magnetic resonance imagery after his execution, then sliced into 1,871 axial cross-sections, each about 1 millimeter in thickness. The images from the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project were then distributed via discs and eventually, the internet. […]

To produce Project 12:31’s spooky images, a video of a longitudinal descent down Jernigan’s body was played on a laptop screen. Moving the computer in practiced patterns in front of an open camera shutter, photographer Frank Schott captured the ghoulish-looking smears in a studio. After about 150 takes, he and Gagnon settled on seven patterns to overlay on dark, barren scenes from around the San Francisco Bay Area.

This animation represents the entire data set (1,871 slices) of the male cadaver from the Visible Human Project. The animation was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment. The resulting images are long-exposure “light paintings” of the entire cadaver. Variations in the movement of the computer during each exposure created differences in the shape of the body throughout the series.

Mit dem Video oben könnt ihr das theoretisch selber probieren. Wired hat hierüber noch einen interessanten Artikel veröffentlicht. Killer’s Corpse Lives Again in Ghostly Time-Lapse Photos via nerdcore