Artist Makes A Sculpture Of David Bowie's Original Teeth
Many people miss Bowie’s crooked and extravagant teeth from his earliest albums. And now they’re back, in acrylic.
Some people prefer David Bowie’s original teeth, and which he had until the 1980s ––those crooked and iconic teeth that only added to his eccentricity. And now German artist Jessine Hein has decided to honor them by recreating one by one in acrylic, plaster, and paint.
According to this bizarre video on the history of Bowie’s teeth, the musician had his teeth remodeled at the beginning of the 1980s before launching his album Let’s Dance, which had a more polished tone, in line with his new denture. Some of the work he had done was whitening, straightening and cleaning of the gums. Hein hit the nail on the head. Since she published images of her creation on Facebook, thousands of fans have erupted in nostalgic and enthusiastic reminiscences of his old teeth that so characterized The Thin White Duke.
As Tara McGinley wrote in an article, “once he got his teeth fixed, he started showing up on shows like Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee.”
Many of us preferred the crooked teeth of his epic past, but like his hairstyle or hair color, all of the cosmic aristocrat’s phases fall in their right place.
Related Articles
When ancient rituals became religion
The emergence of religions irreversibly changed the history of humanity. It’s therefore essential to ask when and how did ancient peoples’ rituals become organized systems of thought, each with their
Seven ancient maps of the Americas
A map is not the territory. —Alfred Korzybski Maps are never merely maps. They’re human projections, metaphors in which we find both the geographical and the imaginary. The cases of ghost islands
An artist crochets a perfect skeleton and internal organs
Shanell Papp is a skilled textile and crochet artist. She spent four long months crocheting a life-size skeleton in wool. She then filled it in with the organs of the human body in an act as patient
A musical tribute to maps
A sequence of sounds, rhythms, melodies and silences: music is a most primitive art, the most essential, and the most powerful of all languages. Its capacity is not limited to the (hardly trivial)
The enchantment of 17th-century optics
The sense of sight is perhaps one the imagination’s most prolific masters. That is why humankind has been fascinated and bewitched by optics and their possibilities for centuries. Like the heart, the
Would you found your own micro-nation? These eccentric examples show how easy it can be
Founding a country is, in some ways, a simple task. It is enough to manifest its existence and the motives for creating a new political entity. At least that is what has been demonstrated by the
Wondrous crossings: the galaxy caves of New Zealand
Often, the most extraordinary phenomena are “jealous of themselves” ––and they happen where the human eye cannot enjoy them. However, they can be discovered, and when we do find them we experience a
Think you have strange reading habits? Wait until you've seen how Mcluhan reads
We often forget or neglect to think about the infinite circumstances that are condensed in the acts that we consider habitual. Using a fork to eat, for example, or walking down the street and being
The sky is calling us, a love letter to the cosmos (video)
We once dreamt of open sails and Open seas We once dreamt of new frontiers and New lands Are we still a brave people? We must not forget that the very stars we see nowadays are the same stars and
The sister you always wanted (but made into a crystal chandelier)
Lucas Maassen always wanted to have a sister. And after 36 years he finally procured one, except, as strange as it may sound, in the shape of a chandelier. Maassen, a Dutch designer, asked the