If you love jewelry and you love insects you’re in luck. Local fashion designer Jared Gold has both available at his Black Chandelier store in Trolley Square.
Gold sells crystal studded brooches made from living Madagascar hissing cockroaches.
"They’re Austrian Swarovski crystals and they come in all sorts of colors and each roach has his little pattern on them so they’re all individual" says the avant garde designer.
Gold says his company buys insects from a breeder in Los Angeles. A co-worker actually sticks the crystals to the back of every bug. Its a painstaking task that involves what he calls, "a secret process."
They go for forty dollars each, and Gold says they’re selling like hotcakes. But, what will animals rights activists say?
Posted by Alex in Music on October 9, 2006 at 11:58 pm
The beauty of the InterWeb is that sometimes you re-discover old things.
Back in the old days, people accuse Black Sabbath of sneaking satanic messages into their song (that you can only hear by playing it backwards).
That’s nothing compared to Aphex Twin, who sneaked in the devil’s face in their Windowlicker EP in 1999. The face is revealed when the song is played by a computer software that visualizes sound waves.
Spluch found this strange photo where doctors surgically (temporarily) attach a man’s torn-off limb to his crotch in order to save it:
If you had met Israel Sarrio in March 2004, you may not have wanted to shake hands with him mostly because his hand was sticking out of his crotch. The then-25-year-old truck driver had his arm reattached after it was torn off in a tragic accident, but when it became infected, doctors had to re-amputate it to treat the ailing limb and stump. The arm was attached to Sarrio’s groin, which kept the limb alive by feeding it blood through its veins and arteries while doctors worked to cure the infection on the stump it was taken from. It was later successfully reattached.
This is by far and away the strangest product I’ve ever had to try. Inspired no doubt by the “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” bush tucker trials this game does exactly what it says on the box by serving up a bizarre delicacy of bugs and insects for you to eat.
There is some method to this madness and a series of challenges are used to decide who will ultimately have to suffer the fate of eating a handful of bugs. At the start of the game players are split in to two teams and a leader for each team is nominated. Next a series of ‘bug’ cards are dealt out to each of the players. Lastly a spinner is spun to select a bug and if you’re the unfortunate person holding the most cards with that bug then you’ll have to eat it, That is unless your team can complete a challenge card…
Do you need school to succeed? These billionaires certainly didn’t – check out the Billionaire Dropout list at Pennylicious.
You may not know him, but Stanley Ho is worth $6.5 billion and has one very interesting life story:
Stanley Ho is called the King of Gambling for a good reason: he controlled the casino business in Macau for over 35 years because of a government-granted monopoly.
Like many of his colleagues in this list, Ho’s early childhood was tough. Although his family was wealthy at one point, his father lost a lot of money in a stock market crash and went bankrupt. His father abandoned him and his elder brothers committed suicide, leaving Ho and his mother impoverished.
This really made Ho one tough guy: once, he was in charge of a trade at sea when the ship was attacked by pirates, who then shot dead his partners. Ho was holding the money (the equivalent of several million dollars today), so naturally, the pirates rushed him. Undeterred, Ho got hold of a gun, shot a few people, gained control of the ship, and beat back the pirates!
Although Ho was a poor student, he is now the wealthiest man in Macau with $6.5 billion to his name. In fact, his company accounts for one-third of Macau’s GDP! Not bad at all for someone who dropped out of college.
A few on the list are well known for dropping out (like Bill Gates), but other names may surprise you: Link
While you’re at it, check out a couple of interesting posts on Pennylicious, Neatorama’s sister blog on the weird and interesting things about money.
An aquarium in Guangzhou, China has recently added to its collection a "24K Gold Fish". This rare fish – which amounts to a 5 digit figure – has a glittering body that resembles a golden sculpture, and it is imported from the Amazon River in South America.
The funniest music video you’ll see today (if you haven’t seen it already! It’s making the rounds on the InterWeb – and deservedly so.) It’s the new King of Pop! (Not sure if it is Bollywood, though) Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – thanks KH Low!
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