The Seven Deadly Sins… now with Stormtroopers!

The Seven Deadly Sins. The Car­di­nal Vices.

Just list­ing them is very evoca­tive, they drip with poetry and dread and have since they were slowly cod­i­fied dur­ing the early his­tory of the Catholic Church:

• pride
• avarice
• envy
• wrath
• lust
• glut­tony
• sloth

The nature of these sins are both replant and attrac­tive. This dual­ity inher­ent in the human psy­che has inspired artists for cen­turies. We’ve seen the seven deadly sins depicted in many dif­fer­ent ways; from the bizarre and fan­tas­tic can­vases of Hierony­mus Bosch to the cel­lu­loid ter­rors of David Fincher. Now we have a new re-imagining of the sins that lead to hell fire made with toy Stormtroop­ers from Star Wars. And it’s brilliant.

The project is a mini-series by a pho­tog­ra­pher who goes by the han­dle Sté­fan, who has been, well let him explain it:

Stormtroop­ers 365 is a photo project star­ring TK455 and TK479, Stormtroop­ers in the Galac­tic Empire Army.

The project began on April 3rd 2009 and should end on April 2nd 2010. Each day dur­ing this year, a new pic­ture is added to the series.

The pic­tures are posted to Flickr.

Here’s a slide show of the 7 Deadly Sins, see if you can guess which sin is pic­tured. Dont’ for­get to check your answers. Also check out the rest his work. It is really funny, ironic and best of all exe­cuted with great skill.

7 Deadly Links:

• The 7 Deadly Sins wikipedia page
• The offi­cial Stormtroop­ers 365 page.
• Keep up to date with the troop­ers on Twit­ter.
• Get the Cal­en­dar.
• Fol­low the pho­to­stream.
• David Fincher’s Se7ven.
• The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hierony­mus Bosch

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