Make: Online : Blood Scarf

Posted by: blubrick on November 29, 2006 at 6:29 PM

Hey Kids! Can't decide if you want to suicide by exsanguination or by asphyxia? Well now you can
have it both ways! Just make sure you wrap your scarf *tight*.

Seriously though, of all the weird and sometimes wonderful projects featured on Make: (many of which should reasonably tagged with "do_NOT_try_this_at_home"), this is possibly the most bizarre thing I have seen.

Utter genius or sheer madness? You decide - I can't!

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Posted by: p2media on November 29, 2006 at 6:36 PM

Pretty silly. Even if you didn't die from blood loss (i.e. injected extra to fill the void) there's no way it'll keep you warm - what do you think is a better thermal insulator; your skin, or clear vinyl tubing?

If anything, it should be marked as a blood chiller.

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Posted by: Bre on November 29, 2006 at 6:57 PM

Good point p2media... instead of using your own blood make up a batch of your own fake blood to put in the scarf!

http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/blood/blood.html

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Posted by: RonGiuntini on November 29, 2006 at 8:10 PM

This is disgusting.

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Posted by: RonGiuntini on November 29, 2006 at 8:11 PM

Hey kids! This is disgusting. Why is this even here?

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Posted by: fpena on November 29, 2006 at 9:13 PM

ART!

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Posted by: !sam! on November 29, 2006 at 9:14 PM

creepy..

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Posted by: fungus_amungus on November 29, 2006 at 9:24 PM

Oh my god, this is fucking hilarious.

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Posted by: mrChew on November 29, 2006 at 9:39 PM

CREEPY!!

i thought van Gough was weird when he cut off his own ear! sheesh, if he could see this!

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Posted by: Schnerf on November 29, 2006 at 9:46 PM

Egads.
When I read this, I didn't even blink, and kept reading.
Until I saw the Lego NXT thing, and realized I was on MAKE:, not on We Make Money Not Art in my RSS reader.
Make: is fun and all, but this is far more WMMNA's range, not Make:'s

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Posted by: afaust on November 29, 2006 at 9:59 PM

it doesn't look very comfortable, does it.

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Posted by: Bre on November 29, 2006 at 10:08 PM

ok, point taken...

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Posted by: JennaSys on November 30, 2006 at 12:16 AM

Interesting (like a train wreck), but decidedly disturbing - it Make:s MY skin crawl...

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Posted by: Fub on November 30, 2006 at 1:31 AM

Wait... is the clear tubing kept at a vacuum? If not, where does the air escape to if you stick the needle in your arm/hand and supposedly the blood streams into the scarf? Also, if it's not at vacuum, doesn't that mean you have to keep your hand above your head to let your blood stream into the scarf?

This looks like a hoax to me. I like the concept (though I wouldn't want to wear one, thanks), but it would never work in the way it is pictured here.

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Posted by: Oracle1729 on November 30, 2006 at 1:42 AM

Fub, it's not a hoax, it's "modern art".

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Posted by: -soapy- on November 30, 2006 at 5:28 AM

Well, it's certainly something. Sadly, something that suspected terrorists (i.e. anyone someone points the finger at, whether reasonable or not) or an enemy of the state whatever that means these days) would get to wear before being dumped in a forest as a suicide.

(See http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=david+kelly+death for where I am coming from)

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Posted by: lmgreco on November 30, 2006 at 5:30 AM

technically it is post-modern, or contemporary art.

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Posted by: Reynolds on November 30, 2006 at 7:22 AM

This could be the most ill-advised entry since the "How to weld razor blades into throwing stars" post a few months back.

Dunno what you were aiming for with this one, guys, but damn! It's creepy enough reading about putting stuff into your body (i.e. RFID tags), but draining your blood into some freaky scarf is taking "weird" to a whole other level.

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Posted by: fluentinsilence on November 30, 2006 at 7:32 AM

Haha, that's a little disturbing.

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Posted by: Bre on November 30, 2006 at 11:43 AM

Ok folks, this is conceptual art, not a howto. I'm making mental note to keep things more practical! Thanks!

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Posted by: Reynolds on November 30, 2006 at 12:20 PM

MAKE: me nauseous.

Haha, sorry, couldn't resist that one!

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Posted by: philliptorrone on November 30, 2006 at 1:59 PM

gang, it's an art project posted on a *blog* it will be off the site in a day and in the archives - it's not a big deal.

if i posted it 30 days ago with a fake blood recipe no one would have even noticed.

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Posted by: vonSlatt on November 30, 2006 at 3:06 PM

Doesn't knitting belong on Craft:Blog ?

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Posted by: judyofthewoods on November 30, 2006 at 3:56 PM

I believe its a fake. The blood would have to come out at some pressure to fill the many yards of undulating tube, going up and down countless times, and so quickly, that the blood at the air pushing end does not have time to coagulate, where it comes into contact with the air. It is probably red tubing. The dangling end in the original photo on her site, is red to the very end. If it was filled with blood, and the end was subsequently sealed to prevent the blood from leaking, then the end would probably be clear.

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Posted by: judyofthewoods on November 30, 2006 at 3:58 PM

I believe its a fake. The blood would have to come out at some pressure to fill the many yards of undulating tube, going up and down countless times, and so quickly, that the blood at the air pushing end does not have time to coagulate, where it comes into contact with the air. It is probably red tubing. The dangling end in the original photo on her site, is red to the very end. If it was filled with blood, and the end was subsequently sealed to prevent the blood from leaking, then the end would probably be clear.

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Posted by: bludwulf on November 30, 2006 at 5:20 PM

wait I assumed the hidden hand would have an 'iv' too thats only way it would stay warm is if it circulated. of course not sure its really high quality blood after circling round my neck a coupla dozen times