A diamond is forever, so how special is that? Anyone can get a diamond. You can’t destroy the things. But a dinosaur bone? That’s awesome. And it says that your love is an ancient and special thing that can only be destroyed by a worldwide calamity that wipes out an entire species. Now that’s love.
These handmade rings come from Jewelry by Johan, who gets the materials for the rings from the Morrison Formation in Utah. Sadly, they’re not actual bone fragments, but the colorful quartz minerals formed in the fossils where dinosaur bones once lay. Still, these fossils date all the way back from the Jurassic Era over 65 million years ago. They also make some rings with meteorite fragments as well.
Prices for the dinosaur bone rings range from $450(USD) to $1800(USD).
Nothing says love like wearing the bones of dead giants, or so I once heard a Klingon say.
[via Huffington Post via Neatorama]
As if the facehugger from Alien wasn’t creepy enough, one artist has decided to go out and make himself a Facehugger skeleton. But this thing isn’t just a sculpture, it’s made from actual animal bones.
Artist Tim Prince of Forgotten Boneyard created this Alien-inspired piece entitled Parasitoid using the bones of a box turtle, mink, wild turkey, coyote, skunk and a mouse. Eeesh. From all of the different genetic material this thing has assimilated, you might say it was equally inspired by The Thing.
If you’re into freaking people out, you can put this creeptastic thing in your home for $1000(USD). Me? I’d rather sleep at night and not worry about this thing jamming its proboscis down my throat so it can implant an alien embryo in my stomach.
Hey, can I give you a hand with that phone? This slightly creepy Bone Phone Stand is made of adjustable silicone. Just bend the fingers into position and it holds your phone up just like real human anatomy has evolved to do (it’s true, unbend your own fingers from the touch-typing position and they will instantly go into the “hold your smartphone” position).
This stand is somewhere in between cute and creepy. Cute if you’re a doctor, creepy if you’re an ax murderer. If you’re both, well that’s a whole different story. The product page admonishes you to not use it to scare your friends, which only makes me want to use it to scare my friends. You can’t stop me words on a screen.
Creepy Skeleton Hand Phone Stand
Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Are you reading this? Seriously, are you? Sure, we know you think you are, but what if you're just a sub-feature of a complex computer program. A sprite, nothing more than the creation of software. The problem with this question is, how would you ever know? You wouldn't, right? Well, not so fast there. Turns out, maybe there is a way to unravel the matrix (if there is one). It'll come as no surprise, that this is one of the topics in this week's collection of alternative stories. Think that's all we got? Not even close. We'll explore the truth behind cloning dinosaurs, as well a rare performance by singing mice -- all before dinner. Or is it really dinner? This is alt-week.
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Permalink | | Email this | CommentsAs art, these guns made from the bones of dead animals, is pretty awesome. Still, it’s a bit too creepy for my gun-wielding needs. These guns are a lot like checking out a hot Goth chick. They are morbidly beautiful and I can’t help but stare, nevertheless, I don’t want to be around most of them.
These unusual gun replicas are made from the bones of a variety of woodland animals by Bruce Mahalski. No, they don’t fire bone ammunition and they aren’t for killing demons. As far as I know anyway. The bones are attached to toy guns to give them their structure.
You’ll find parts of ferret’s, cat vertebrae and more on these guns. I don’t even wanna know where he gets his supplies. Maybe he knows somebody in the roadkill cleanup business. Say, wasn’t that on an episode of Dexter?
[via Nerdcore via Obvious Winner]