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The Last Supper - made from 20,736 spools of thread

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The Last Supper - made from 20,736 spools of thread looks amazing - "...a life sized rendering of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper constructed from 20,736 spools of thread strung onto aluminum ball chain. When seen with the aid of optical devices, the spools of thread coalesce into realistic images of Christ and his disciples... When seen with the naked eye, the spools of thread appear as an abstract arrangement of multi-colored blocks/3D pixels, further abstracted by the fact that The Last Supper imagery is upside down and backwards." [via] - Link.

More:
Thread Spool Works, 1999-present - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Jun 29, 2006 08:46 PM
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This is what I call art.

Posted by: RTourn on June 29, 2006 at 11:01 PM

What's with the picture upside down???

But for the art, anything pixelated from anything (like a wooden mirror, blinkenlights, raindrops etc.) is art art art....

- Unomi -

Posted by: Unomi on June 30, 2006 at 1:17 AM

Unomi, You actually have to follow the link and scroll down to understand why.

Posted by: tms10000 on June 30, 2006 at 10:33 AM

i thought this was anti-christian social commentary for a minute, until i noticed the lense.

Posted by: ctrl-alt-delete on July 2, 2006 at 9:55 PM

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