Fun with Scanners

My friend Sven said once about scanners, "Yes it will scan body parts."





At the time we each had these little hand held scanners that only scanned in black and white. It scanned a path about 4 inches wide.



It was not really all that useful but I managed to have a lot of fun with it and jazzed up my undergraduate papers with scanned in images from a wide variety of sources.


I really liked William Blake's art at the time and found this really great book with "colour plates" (yes, it was a British edition). I even resorted to shooting pictures of the plates in the book with my Nikon. Some of those pictures would make good bookmarks.

The sun came out this afternoon when I was sitting at my computer trying to work on work stuff and I was reminded about how last year I was still recovering from a bad wrist break. I noticed my scar was mostly faded and looks quite good.

I wish I had a good story about how I got the scar and how I broke the wrist. I have made up a few and each time I try to top myself. Truthfully, I was playing tennis with my family and I slipped in a rain puddle , reached out to break my fall and broke the wrist instead. It was a bad break requiring surgery, etc. The X-rays are from the time during the surgery, just after they got the plate all screwed in. Wish I could have watched the surgery.

Anyway, here are some cool pictures. See if you can spot the scar.

And yes, my new scanner will scan body parts, you just have to figure out how to get them in the flatbed.