Artist Josef Kristofoletti painted a life-sized mural of the seven-ton particle accelerator at the Large Hadron Collider.
How exactly do you capture the seven-ton glory of the largest particle accelerator ever created? Josef Kristofoletti is the lucky artist who was picked to paint a large scale mural of ATLAS, one of six collider experiments at the Large Hadron Collider found at CERN, the European Organization of Nuclear Research. And he did it on the exterior of the building where the accelerator is actually housed.
I started going through the most high secure checkpoint I have ever seen. The workers go through a complex biometric security system that includes a retinal scan. They all wear a dosimeter that measures radiation levels and there are plenty of safety warning labels on everything. We took the elevator down, then stepped out to look at the beast. There were a few men inside the detector doing some last minute work, but they were reduced to ants by huge size of its metal parts. It was sublime.
via HuffPo Arts