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Nick Gentry creates these beautiful and imaginative portraits using now-obsolete floppy disks instead of canvas. See more of Nick’s work here. posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:22am EDT

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      I don’t like their eyes. They’re staring into my soul.

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      They’re alright, but it doesn’t seem like they did too much more than use floppy disks as canvasses. I would have thought they’d make something out of them or something.

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