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Chan790

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3. I don't like it.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 02:51 PM

Jun 2014

I've tried to think on it, come back to it...but at the end of it, I just don't like it. It reminds me of the white-plaster memento mori castings and death masks they'd make in the High Middle-Ages and Renaissance of dead important people--often placed in the coffins, saved as articles of state, kept by family, or displayed as part of the burial marker.

A secondary-casting in plaster from the wax-casting death mask of Oliver Cromwell.

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Obama Gets First 3D-Printed Presidential Portrait [View all] Playinghardball Jun 2014 OP

He's white! frazzled Jun 2014 #1

What did you expect? Bronze?? immoderate Jun 2014 #2

You know nothing Jon Snow. Kablooie Jun 2014 #4

What the blazes are you talking about? frazzled Jun 2014 #6

Just a reference from "Game of Thrones" Kablooie Jun 2014 #7

Oh, I don't get HBO frazzled Jun 2014 #8

I thought your comment was cool. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2014 #14

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! CatWoman Jun 2014 #16

I don't like it. Chan790 Jun 2014 #3

I saw that when I was in London in 2011...it freaked me out a bit... CTyankee Jun 2014 #10

Never go to the Fenimore House in Cooperstown whistler162 Jun 2014 #15

thanks for giving me the heads up (no pun intended)! CTyankee Jun 2014 #19

It does look like a death mask doesn't it? surrealAmerican Jun 2014 #13

The Smithsonian is making 3D scans of many of their objects. Kablooie Jun 2014 #5

I think it is creepy...it chills me... CTyankee Jun 2014 #9

Holy Crap Obama looks just like Jimmy Carter. dilby Jun 2014 #11

He doesn't in real life BainsBane Jun 2014 #21

Great now anybody can just print one at home NightWatcher Jun 2014 #12

Dang, soon they will replicate us all!! Generic Other Jun 2014 #17

Creepy eyes. They look like they're shining. LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #18

Not a very good likeness BainsBane Jun 2014 #20