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April 5th, 2011 3 Comments

12:31

12:31 is the time that Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed. He was convicted of murder in 1981 and his sentence was carried out on 5 August 1993. Before his death he donated his body to medical science and subsequently his body was sectioned and photographed as part of the Visible Human Project.

The video above is a remarkable journey through the 1,871 slices of his body from head to toe.

Amazing as this animation is, this is not where the story ended. Artists Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott used the animation to create light paintings by photographing it (on a computer screen) with long exposures. The results are eerie, yet beautiful recreations of Jernigan’s cadaver ‘floating’ in space.

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3 Comments on “12:31”

  1. patrick smith said at 9:09 pm on April 5th, 2011:

    Amazing animation and light painting of a cross-sectioned body: http://www.adaptcreative.co.uk/2011/04/1231/

  2. Rola Abu Darwish said at 11:54 am on April 6th, 2011:

    12:31 http://bit.ly/htMytT

  3. Ahmad Abdul-Al said at 10:36 pm on April 17th, 2011:

    RT @patwitted: 12:31 http://bit.ly/htMytT

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