OK, I call BS on this: I don’t think pumpkins really have skulls. I think infamous skull charlatan Noah Scalin really just carved a skull on a white pumpkin and stuck it inside a transected, you know, regular pumpkin. I didn’t just fall off the cucurbit cart, you know.
This amazing origami model, which appears to be a skull when resting on a mirror, was designed in the late 90s by renowned paper-folding artist Herman Van Goubergen, who seems to have no web presence of his own. The upper model was made and photographed by Flickr user M_V_origami. Instructions for folding the model are included in OrigamiUSA’s 1999 annual collection, which is available for sale here.
Fabio Viale makes incredible marble sculptures that appear to be made of foam.
Skulls! Who doesn’t love ’em? Well, me, for one, and probably a bunch of other folks who don’t care to be constantly reminded of mortality. We seem to be in the minority, however, with most deriving some kind of weird existential thrill, or deep Buddhist-y zen calm, from staring deep into the empty, black sockets […]
