Sep 24 2008Yikes!: A Creepy Pinhole Camera Skull
This pinhole camera was made out of a skull by artist Wayne Martin Belger, mwho may or may not dress entirely in black and scrawl pentagrams on the floor of his apartment in virgin's blood.
This work entitled Third Eye, a study of "the beauty of decay," uses precious metals like titanium and silver to expose the memory of time onto film, sheering the 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl.
Wow, it doesn't get much creepier than that. Well, unless the skull still had a jawbone and said "Say cheese!" Jesus, I just gave myself goosebumps.
Hit the jump to see a scary picture taken with the thing.
Third Eye pinhole camera exposes the dead, mocks the living [engadget]
Thanks to Julian, who once made a pinhole camera out of a Quaker Oats can.
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Reader Comments
1. Roger - September 24, 2008 1:17 PM
first!
2. Firsty - September 24, 2008 1:17 PM
Frist!
3. Thumperchica - September 24, 2008 1:18 PM
This is awesome - and piques my morbid sense of humor to the upright position.
4. Douchie Mc Bagman - September 24, 2008 1:19 PM
Same old story, 13 year old Girl Gives head to Photographer - Pictures ensue....
5. Roger - September 24, 2008 1:19 PM
@2... who is fRist?
6. Mr. Man - September 24, 2008 1:20 PM
wait, where's the carb?
7. guate6 - September 24, 2008 1:27 PM
People do this with regular cameras...taping a black paper with a pin hole and taking pictures...I'm interested in doing this with my regular Camera (read: SLR).
8. Farva's Twin - September 24, 2008 1:28 PM
Ha! This isn't the first time I gazed into a 13 year old's 3rd eye. I think it was brown. But its the first time I did it art work and didn't get in trouble.
9. commentzor - September 24, 2008 1:29 PM
Which is worse, good ol' "Fristy" here, or the refusal of the Never Back Down joke to die?
Discuss!
10. Failed horribly - September 24, 2008 1:30 PM
First
11. otterpop78 - September 24, 2008 1:35 PM
fsirt
12. DigitalT - September 24, 2008 1:38 PM
Pretty Cool.
13. Icon - September 24, 2008 1:42 PM
tirfs!
14. Madgame - September 24, 2008 1:52 PM
MMMMMM virgin's blood...I'm only allowed that at Christmas
15. Tizer - September 24, 2008 2:01 PM
@7 i have a SLR too and pin hole pics with it sound fun.
16. ahha - September 24, 2008 2:10 PM
So, if I call myself an artist, I can do whatever the hell I want with dead people's parts?
I am off to morgue to make a little art with someone that's still warm.
17. Miles - September 24, 2008 2:11 PM
Macabre and intriguing all at once. But the picture without the camera could be just another 'puter art piece.
18. Ash - September 24, 2008 2:16 PM
Hey wasn't this camera used to film part of never back down?
19. Starchasm - September 24, 2008 2:25 PM
@17, that's why the cameras are part of his art installations. It's an interesting concept, where the camera and the process are all a part of the overall work of art. Each camera is built individually for a certain theme of pictures. They're really incredible all on their own. Here are more:
http://www.boyofblue.com/cameras.html
20. Matthew - September 24, 2008 2:26 PM
***F!R$T***
21. Momboelitist - September 24, 2008 2:46 PM
Sweet Home Alabama
Dun Dun Doo Doo, Da dun dun doo doo, Doo da doo da doo.
22. thanks for asking - September 24, 2008 3:01 PM
jesus H....
that's bitchen
23. Daisy - September 24, 2008 3:16 PM
Fake!
That's a complete photoshop job. I tihnk the 3rd eye is really Janet Jacksons nipple jewelry from the infamous super bowl. The remainder is cut from RoboCop.
24. GW's Future Ex Wife - September 24, 2008 3:18 PM
So this is what he was doing all the time. What a loser.
25. nic bacon - September 24, 2008 3:31 PM
what a waste of f***ing time, I mean for f***s sake, sort your f***ing life out mate. taking pictures of WHAT???? you should be in a f***ing institution matey, do that in England and the local thugs would cut your F***ING BOLLOCKS OFF, and rightly f***ing so. JESUS F***ING CHRIST
26. Mr.Mitchell - September 24, 2008 3:32 PM
Wow! Wayne Martin Belger you have got the coolest cameras in the world!
Thank you Starchasm
27. nic bacon - September 24, 2008 3:34 PM
Digging up graves of 13 year old girls, YOUR F***ING SICK MATE,
F*** YOU
28. Mr.Mitchell - September 24, 2008 3:35 PM
and an awsome photographer to boot!
29. Mr.Mitchell - September 24, 2008 3:35 PM
he didn't dig anything up you wank
30. nic bacon - September 24, 2008 3:38 PM
so where did he get it then EH MITCHELL? the sick F***ER probably borrowed it of gary glitter after he finixhed using it a F***ING GLORY HOLE
I've just sicked up my F***ING lunch now
F***
31. nic bacon - September 24, 2008 3:39 PM
I'm so angry I can't F***ING spell anymore
32. Mr.Mitchell - September 24, 2008 3:40 PM
Why don't you go to his website and figure it out...
33. nic bacon - September 24, 2008 3:44 PM
oh yeah, never tohught of that, nice one
34. Mr.Mitchell - September 24, 2008 3:49 PM
He is really talented.... My favorite is the under water one.
35. Mr.Mitchell - September 24, 2008 3:49 PM
and agreed skulls are not good art
36. nic bacon - September 24, 2008 4:00 PM
Im not religeous or anything but if you ask me its asking for trouble, its probalby the skull of that girl from that jap film whenre she crawls out the f***ing well
37. Mr.Mitchell - September 24, 2008 4:04 PM
ROFL
38. me - September 24, 2008 4:09 PM
last
39. you know who - September 24, 2008 4:27 PM
where do you have sex with it?
40. NICK BACON - September 24, 2008 4:50 PM
@39 ER................ THE HOLES? FILL IT UP WITH WARM PORRIDGE AND GIT GOIING
41. Second - September 24, 2008 5:24 PM
second
42. Miles - September 24, 2008 7:03 PM
Last- it's all been said I think.
43. noob - September 24, 2008 7:35 PM
Anyone else see the fractal brushes towards the top of the image. It has photoshop written all over it
44. Ginormagantuan - September 25, 2008 1:45 AM
Look at all the tards that thought they were first!
45. Farva's Twin - September 25, 2008 10:03 AM
First!!!!!!!
46. LSDiesel - September 25, 2008 12:08 PM
"Okay everyone, just stand next to Mickey Rooney and say cheese,"
"Wait dad, is that a skull....?"
"Son, what did I tell you about asking questions?"
47. Megalomanic - September 26, 2008 10:20 AM
So much for donating my expired body to science when I die; Donating my cranium to art is so much cooler.
48. Cheatachu22 - September 28, 2008 7:03 PM
@44: It's yo milkshake bringin all the tards to the yard.
@ nic bacon: You're the one who's f***ing retarded. He made an artful camera out of it, he didn't hang it on his wall or have sex with it. It's morbid and beautiful at the same time. And are you THAT f***ing stupid that you think that he just got up in the middle of the night and dug up a random grave?
Wow.
49. Cyberwulf - October 3, 2008 4:01 AM
I must have this thing...
50. ian - January 13, 2009 2:06 AM
i want one
51. firelord699 - February 10, 2009 2:20 PM
OMG! THEY USE THIS IN WARHAMMER 40,000! THE SPACE MARINES USE THEM! And on dawn of war, you make em on them... strategic... posts.. thingys.. you'll know what i mean if you play dawn of war ._.