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[chickenwhisperer123]

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Do you guys ever have any skulls for sale?

I never even thought about chicken skulls!! Thats pretty cool.

 

[Rillion]

Maybe it is morbid, but I think bones are neat. There's a store called The Bone Room that sells skulls, complete skeletons, jewelry made from bones, and other stuff that I'd just love to spend a bunch of cash on.

In Tibet they decorate monkey skulls to look like this:

I always thought it would be neat to do something similar with a deer skull.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

Okay you wanna hear morbid....

A few months ago I had a badly injured chicken that I put down.
I then purposely left the body to decay or break down because I was "curious" about how long it would take in the spring for a body left out to go to bones. I also wanted to check out an intact chicken skeleton.

It took two days for ants to completely pick the body clean, actually a little less. When I came out the second morning and went for a walk out in the paddock where I had placed it, the body was already completely gone leaving a perfectly cleaned skeleton posed the way I put it.
It was fascinating....

Then again, I'm also seriously thinking about going to school for forensic pathology (to be a Medical Examiner).

 

[Rootball]

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You might not be the only one but.....I used to work a lot with art as a preparator at a museum and a private art handler shipping peoples collections back and fourth to Galleries and Museums. What something is made of isnt going to determine price or popularity it will be the ideas and the way the materials are used. I helped shipped hundereds of millions of dollars of art. For one woman alone in one year we shipped over $200 million worth of stuff including a painting worth $48 million and these were a very small part of a small half of her collection, probably insignificant in terms of her entire holdings...like less than 1%.

She was a big fish but the kind of art she owns wasnt rare. Probably have seen hundreds of clients with over $1,000,000 in art and that is just in one small town in Colorado.

In an economy like this, people buying artworks in the $10,000-100,000 range drop off severely and many galleries go out of business. BUT for people who can afford something in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars range, its business as usual.

I dont recall anything made of bones specifically, but plenty of stuff made of found objects including rusty metal, all sorts of rubbish, used needles, seeds, broken electronics, human feces etc.

What does continue to mystify me however is stuff like this

Thomas Kinkade. The most commercially successful artist ever in the history of the planet. Why anyone would pay a dime for this stuff, ill never know.

 

[Rillion]

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Cool! If you haven't already, you should totally read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers , by Mary Roach. Very informative and highly entertaining.

 

[Rootball]

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I used to have one of these that I bought in Kathmandu...I gave it to a friend. Mine was not covered in metal below the eyes and it had the fangs intact, it was pretty cool and good for a laugh.

 

[AngieChick]

I made a collage a few years ago that used some dead baby bird bones. It was a life and death piece that helped me process some events that were going on in my life at the time.

It actually turned out lovely, with the bones being just a small part of the piece. Someone bought it, though I wish that I still had it.

So no, I don't think it's strange at all. Perhaps he's doing a piece on the death of the family farm in America, who knows?

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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I found a hummingbird that had died, just laying in the grass. I admired the blue-green sparkles on the feathers, but I couldn't touch it, much less pick it up. At that time, I super freaked at feather-y things. Loved to look, hated to touch. Well, after a while, I noticed a few little red ants on it. I ran and got my little boy to show him, but when we returned, it was completely covered. Within about one minute. So we continued what we were doing in the yard, and I went back to see what was going on with the hummingbird, and there was NOTHING there except those pretty little blue green sparkles! No bones, no feet, nothing but sparkles. In less than 15 minutes. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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You might not be the only one but.....I used to work a lot with art as a preparator at a museum and a private art handler shipping peoples collections back and fourth to Galleries and Museums. What something is made of isnt going to determine price or popularity it will be the ideas and the way the materials are used. I helped shipped hundereds of millions of dollars of art. For one woman alone in one year we shipped over $200 million worth of stuff including a painting worth $48 million and these were a very small part of a small half of her collection, probably insignificant in terms of her entire holdings...like less than 1%.

She was a big fish but the kind of art she owns wasnt rare. Probably have seen hundreds of clients with over $1,000,000 in art and that is just in one small town in Colorado.

In an economy like this, people buying artworks in the $10,000-100,000 range drop off severely and many galleries go out of business. BUT for people who can afford something in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars range, its business as usual.

I dont recall anything made of bones specifically, but plenty of stuff made of found objects including rusty metal, all sorts of rubbish, used needles, seeds, broken electronics, human feces etc.

What does continue to mystify me however is stuff like this

http://bonya.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/winter-light.jpg

Thomas Kinkade. The most commercially successful artist ever in the history of the planet. Why anyone would pay a dime for this stuff, ill never know.

I wouldn't pay a dime for his paintings, but when i look at his, it makes me wish i was there. Most other paintings don't give people the escape feeling. Besides, it doesn't snow here. His paintings make snow look like lollipops and gumdrops for adults. I guess it's to make a yucky world prettier for a person, especially stuck in a city. I look at paintings or pix of big cities, and I feel repelled. I wonder who buys the Kincaid paintings: people who live IN the type of scenery he paints, or people who wish they did. Frankly, I'd rather be at the kitchen table of someone who collected his pieces than at the table of someone who collected many other works. They're probably americana in a nutshell.

 

[Quack Shack]

Cleaned on a night crew at a medical school in the Gross anatomy lab and the morgue. Nope, not interested in bones, etc. Donate any usuable parts and then have the rest tucked somewhere out of sight. Sigh. Now I'll have to go do happy things so I can sleep tonight. OP, gonna have to post a warning on this thread that you may require a binky, a blankie or a night light after reading this thread.