I Thought These People Were Weird. Then A Closer Look Left Me Absolutely Speechless.

f someone were to tell me that the people in these pictures weren’t real, I’d laugh in their face. The truth of it is, though, they’re not. They are creations of a London artist named Ron Mueck, who specializes in sculptures. He used to be a model maker and puppeteer for television and films (for example, he created Ludo the gentle giant in Labyrinth). Now, he focuses on making hyper-realistic sculptures of humans that have museum visitors staring for hours…

How does he do it?

And to think, his process begins by him sculpting clay.

It ends with hyper-realistic art like this. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think this is just a picture of a couple together.

The most interesting thing about Ron’s work is that no matter how nonsensical or strange the dimensions or placement of the people are, they still look REAL.

Some of his art is very heartwarming.

But he doesn’t limit himself to that.

He will also create pieces that will shock people.

He isn’t known for doing interviews or making statements.

He just lets his art speak for itself.

The level of detail on the finished sculptures is hard to wrap one’s mind around.

He even created a likeness of himself as an oversized mask.

This is Mueck at work.

He was behind Ludo the ‘Gentle Giant’ on the 1986 film Labyrinth.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

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20 Most Shocking Photographs That Will Leave You Speechless

Last member of the parade

Just for context, I don't remember the whole story, but he's a Russian soldier who went through WWII. He goes to this military parade every year to meet up with his old friends that he served with. Every year they always came and it was rare one didn't show up. Most of the time, they had died and already prepared for it, gone to funerals, etc. This particular year, he was alone. No warning, no nothing. The trip was a few hundred miles for him and after all that, he just sat down, alone.

Hubble Deep Field [u/evantide]

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Sunset on Mars [u/makesureimjewish]

Source : NASA

A soldier making the long walk to defuse a car bomb in Northern Ireland [u/petite-fleur]

Neil Armstrong after his Moonwalk [u/brethil]

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Regina Walters, moments before being murdered [u/Pastor__of__Muppets]

Robert Ben Rhoades was a truck driver/serial killer that liked to pick up hitchhikers and torture them for a while in his truck before killing them. One of his victims was a 14 year old runaway from Texas named Regina Walters. Walters' remains were found in an abandoned barn in Illinois. However, her disappearance wasn't connected to Rhoades until after Rhoades was arrested for abducting another woman. When police searched Rhoades' home they found the above photo.

Homelessness in Milwaukee [u/RockefSteady]

Nuremberg Nazi rally 1937 [u/smashitup]

The astronaut who took this photo is the only human, alive or dead that isn't in the frame of this picture [u/Tom_Bombadilll]

Source : NASA

This man accidentally hit an eight year old. [u/fourpercent]

Turkish official teasing starved Armenian children by showing bread during the Armenian Genocide, 1915 [u/gobigred1869]

Filipino politician taking family photo moments before being assassinated [u/AintNoSunshyne]

Two windmill engineers moments before dying [u/wheatley113]

Chinese monk praying for a dead elderly man in a train station [u/ChoadFarmer]

Girl devastated after the tsunami hit in Japan. [u/ERICAAAW]

The orange Sossusvlei sand dunes in Namibia [u/weggooinaam2]

Source : National Geographic

A boy tries to wake up his alcoholic father [u/ForToday]

The Last Jew in Vinnitsa [u/computerword]

Suicide hotline on the Golden Gate Bridge [u/tacodoctor226]

Undulating clouds [u/_Twist_Ending_]

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Autistic boy,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity

A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics.

Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.

The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours.

And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet - his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity'.

His mother, not sure if her child was talking nonsense or genius, sent a video of his theory to the renowned Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University.

According to the Indiana Star, Institute astrophysics professor Scott Tremaine  -himself a world renowned expert - confirmed the authenticity of Jake's theory.

In an email to the family, Tremaine wrote: 'I'm impressed by his interest in physics and the amount that he has learned so far.

'The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics.

'Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize.'

But for his mother Kristine Barnett, 36, and the rest of the family, maths remains a tricky subject.

Speaking to the paper, Mrs Barnett said: 'I flunked math. I know this did not come from me.'

And it hasn't gone un-noticed by Jake, who added: 'Whenever I try talking about math with anyone in my family they just stare blankly.'

Jake was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome, a mild form of autism, from an early age.

His parents were worried when he didn't talk until the age of two, suspecting he was educationally abnormal.

It was only as he began to grow up that they realised just how special his gift was.

He would fill up note pads of paper with drawings of complex geometrical shapes and calculations, before picking up felt tip pens and writing equations on windows.

By the age of three he was solving 5,000-piece puzzles and he even studied a state road map, reciting every highway and license plate prefix from memory.

By the age of eight he had left high school and was attending Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis advanced astrophysics classes.

His classroom presence is quite unnerving for many of the 18-plus year old students at his IPIU lectures.

Speaking to the Indy Star, Wanda Anderson, a biochemistry major said: 'When I first walked in and saw him, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to school with Doogie Howser.'

She added: 'A lot of people come to him for help when they don't understand a physics problem.

'People come up to him all the time and say, 'Hey Jake, can you help me'.

'A lot of people think a genius is hard to talk to, but Jake explains things that would still be over their head.'

And his Professor John Ross said his performance in lectures had been 'outstanding'.

'When he asks a question, he is always two steps ahead of the lecture.

'Everyone in the class gets quiet. Poor kid. . . . He sits right in the front row, and they all just look at him.

'He will come to see me during office hours and ask even more detailed questions. And you can tell he's been thinking these things through.

'Kids his age would normally have problems adding fractions, and he is helping out some of his fellow students.'

According to his parents Jake has trouble sleeping at night as he constantly sees numbers in his head.

But far from complaining, Jake has turned the sleepless nights to his advantage - debunking the big bang theory.

The next step, according to professor Ross, is for Jake to leave class altogether and take up a paid research role.

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