And we're the ones called gun NUTS... (Skin pistol -- merged thread)

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Looks like a frosted graham cracker or something.

If my kid brought home an art project from elementary school that looked like that, it wouldn't go on the refrigerator. That just looks horrible.
 
The things that pass for art these days...

I went #2 this morning. I wonder if I can say it's art and sell it and retire. I'll call it "What I think of antis."
 
I wrote my name in the snow this winter.

If I was thinking, I could have written "Guns Kill" (or if I was drinking beer, wrote "Guns are really bad and no one should own them, it's for the children, support sensible gun laws") and took a picture of it.

Then I could get some of the National Endowment for the Arts money sent to me!

How wasteful of me.
 
Take comfort in the fact that if her child takes it to school, our zero-tolerance laws will kick in and the child will be expelled.
 
"If everyone made a pistol from their own skin, I think they would think twice about using a gun. I think there would be less violence in the world," she said.
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If more of the right people had had guns, maybe the Nazis wouldn't have tried making Jew-skin lampshades.


"But it's not that easy. Violence will always exist."

In the television age too many people were distanced from its stark reality, she said.
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Unlike in the Middle Ages, when lots of people experienced bloody violence on a much more intimate level.
 
Not only is that a fairly poorly done bit of 'art,' she's also about five years too late.

Movie director David Cronenberg beat her to the punch in his 1999 released movie 'eXistenZ.' At one point the protagonist makes use of a gun built out of organic material in order to bypass security. Instead of bullets, the pistol shot teeth.
 
Skin Pistols!? Try to ban this!

This cracked me up. Perhaps she should have made a "Frontal Lobe" pistol. It's obvious she doesn't have a frontal lobe, though.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch artist has used a flap of her own skin to make a replica pistol to be shown at an Amsterdam art show next month, she said Friday.

"I made a pistol to express my concern about violence in society and to show the connection between what a pistol does and the human body," said Joanneke Meester said of the replica, which is about the size of a matchbox.

Meester said she made the tiny replica pistol with a piece of skin -- 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and four centimeters (1.6 inches) high -- surgically removed from her abdomen. The puckered skin was stretched and sewn over a plastic and fiber pistol mold.

Meester said she had the flap of skin removed under local anaesthetic to allow her to make the pistol. The surgery left her with 16 stitches. She froze the skin, then defrosted it to make a replica weapon preserved in formaldehyde.

Meester, whose piece will be on display in a glass case at Amsterdam's Kunstvlaai exhibition organized in a former gas works in the Dutch capital from May 8-16, has used skin as a theme in her other work too.

The 38-year-old artist has made "cuddly toys" with pig skins she obtained from a butchers and produced video installations in which actors are mummified by skin-tight costumes, rendering their faces anonymous.

But the pistol is the first time she has used human skin in her work. "It felt like something between chicken skin and pig skin," she said.

"It took me about an hour to make (the pistol) and at a certain point the edge started drying up and you could see a little blood on the skin, congealed," she said.

"If everyone made a pistol from their own skin, I think they would think twice about using a gun. I think there would be less violence in the world," she said. "But it's not that easy. Violence will always exist."

In the television age too many people were distanced from its stark reality, she said.

"It's actually not an unambiguous work of art," she said. "I can understand that it can come across as shocking."

The art world is no stranger to controversy. A transvestite potter beat the creators of a pair of bronze sex dolls to land Britain's Turner art prize in 2003. A pickled sheep and a Virgin Mary figure made of elephant dung have also won the prize.
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Skin pistol

Yuk - how could she do this to herself!

When will people learn that guns do not go shooting people by themselves?!
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If everyone made a pistol from their own skin, I think they would think twice about using a gun. I think there would be less violence in the world," she said. "But it's not that easy. Violence will always exist.
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I'll stick with my H&K thank you very much. But the bad guys are more than welcome to bring their skin pistols.

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I guess I'm just a dumb Missouri Hillbilly. Would somebody explain to me the purpose to what she did and what it proved and how it provided anything about gun violence?????? :confused:
 
Come on...who here hasn't made at least one pistol out of their own skin?

I know that every time I am about to go on a homicidal rampage (as owning guns is known to make one prone to), I just pull out my skin pistol and the violent rage just melts away! :)



Seriously though...she should've spent a little more time on it. It's a pretty crappy looking pistol. No trigger, no hammer. I mean, if you're going to carve out a section of your own belly skin to make a gun, you might as well make it look good! What a waste of perfectly good belly skin. :banghead:
 
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