HOME |
RSS | 
Ring Pops are fun, but I light up candy rings are way more fashionable. These would be good for kids, but they would even be awesome for adults going out at night. If you want to make your own, Instructables can teach you how.
Link Via Geekosystem
Just about every woman has a ring with jewels on it, but these rings on WebUrbanist are really unique. From the weird and creepy, like the belly button, tooth and pimple rings on the bottom row of the montage, to the cool projector, architecture and book ones on the top row, there are all kinds of fascinating looks for women brave enough to wear them.
You know what you need? A piece of chicken around your neck. No, really! Let’s say a fried chicken wing, painted a nice shade of pink, and then suspended from a gold chain around your neck. Here, put it on before you go to that job interview. You want to make a good impression, right?
Link -via Nerdcore | Photo: Onch Movement
Do you ever feel like your love of the internet just isn’t obvious enough when you’re away from the computer? If so, you may need to invest in some of the jewelry on this great BuzzFeed list, like these delightful LOL earrings.
Gone are the times when we actually bothered with… with… what were they called? Photographs? You know — the paper things with people’s face on them and stuff… You used to could put them into jewelry called “lockets” and — get this — wear them around your neck! Who knew!? Emily Rothschild takes this retro concept and puts it into a turn-of-the-century mourning locket which contains a USB drive. What will they think of next? Admittedly, it is quite a bit cheaper to get an actual USB drive that resembles a phaser or a Tardis or something more realistic, you can have this nifty piece for $240.
The snail shells above are simply gorgeous, as are the jewelry made from them. The only problem? The snails are being driven to extinction just so people can makes earrings and necklaces from them. That’s not the only idiotic reason humans have been driving certain creatures to extinction, read the rest over at Cracked. Warning: some of the language is NSFW.
Comments Off
Artist Jackie Kaufman makes these cool jewelry accessories out of in the noses of people’s pets. The pieces are made by pushing a silicon mold onto the nose of the animal for a second or so and then casting the jewelry in the mold. It’s a great way to immortalize your favorite pet and those who have had the pendants made say their pets weren’t bothered by the process at all.
Link Via The Mary Sue
Kerry Howley, an art student at Middlesex University, put together a jewelry collection made from human hair. In reference to how people think about hair, she’s entitled it “Attraction/Aversion”. Howley writes:
The necklaces are made of human hair, a material we are familiar with and take pride in. However once off of the body it becomes an innate source of aversion. I wanted to see if I could make discarded hair attractive again.
Link -via Nerdcore | Artist’s Website
Mummy Jewelry Box – $10.95
This is not your Mummy’s Jewelry Box. No, wait! It is your Mummy Jewelry Box.
With this amazing trinket box from the NeatoShop you can keep your prized possessions under wraps.
Be sure to check out all the fantastic Money Banks & Storage items available at the NeatoShop.
Comments Off 
Jewelry designer Heidi Abrahamson has turned her kitties’ hair into earrings, a necklace, and a cocktail ring to celebrate National Hairball Awareness Day. Who knew there was such a thing? If you like she’ll spin your cat’s hair into jewels as well.
If you really love your dog, you can immortalize its nose in jewelry! Jackie Kaufman makes these necklaces using a mold of your dog’s nose, which you can do yourself using a kit. Find out more at Pawesome. Link
Artist Celina Saubidet creates “Osseus Jewelry,” with designs based on bones, like this silver-plated skeletal hand necklace. Yes, it’s full-size and was inspired by a real skeleton. She also has rings and cufflinks that resemble bones at her Etsy store Link -via Bioephemera
Kate Bauman designed these engagement ring knuckle dusters. Some brides may need them. We know that weddings can raise one’s ire.
Why have one engagement ring when you can have four? Handmade from sterling silver, the ring features four perfect cubic zirconia crystals and features elaborate detailing.
Link- Via Book of Joe
Someone bought this necklace featuring a snake fetus in a vial, but the Etsy seller has more vials of creepy things for sale. The necklace is part of a list of 10 Shockingly Creepy Pieces of Taxidermy Jewelry. Bones, feathers, teeth, and other animal parts are available for you to wear. But would you want to? Link
One of the great things about the internet is that designers and manufacturers can find a specialized clientele, and consumers can find specialized items that locals stores cannot afford to stock. Case in point: jewelry that reflects your interest in the geeky worlds of technology, video games, science fiction, and other hobbies. Check out some awesome jewelry items in this list at Oddee, like these circuit board earrings. Link
Comments Off 
Bandoleer Magnetic Bracelet – $14.95 
Stylish jewelry isn’t unusual – but stylish and fun? Here’s a clever jewelry called the Bandoleer Magnetic Bracelet from the NeatoShop. It’s composed of sturdy little magnetic "bullets" that come apart and snap back together to create – literally – wearable fun.
Take a look at what it can do:
Guys, get a jump on Valentine’s Day and get one for your loved ones (and then, you can um, investigate the bracelet yourself, of course! Strictly for scientific purposes): Link| More Magnet Fun
Sensebridge is a hackerspace collective in San Francisco. The members of it created Heart Spark — a piece of jewelry that flashes LEDs to the rhythm of the user’s heartbeat. Its battery life is about eight hours, and it’s made so that the owner can reprogram it.
Link via Make | Photo: Sensebridge
Comments Off 
Simple Bridge is a piece of jewelry that combines earring and a necklace. The two earrings are connected with a ball chain. From a distance, it looks almost like someone wearing ear buds. Not to be worn on athletic adventures, for obvious reasons. Link -via The Daily What
Jewelry on your fingers are so passé. Here’s the cutting edge: facial jewelry by Turkish designer Burcu Büyükünal.
Whether you think facial jewelry improves your looks or cause what looks like uncomfortable swelling, one thing’s for sure: it certainly draws attention to your face.
I can hear Ahnold say it: It’s not a tumah! It’s facial jewelry: Link
For many of us, the first time we appreciated the art of math was when we played with a Spirograph. However, it’s a long way from addition and subtraction to epicycloids, and very few of us actually study math that far. But those who do sometimes end up creating some very beautiful artworks based on mathematics and geometry.
Sculpture
Sculptor Bathsheba Grossman creates metal and crystal artworks of forms found in math, physics, biology, and astronomy. Grossmen shows us Borromean rings, hypercubes, gyroids, fractals, Calabi-Yau spaces, and interlaced sculptures based on the five Platonic solids. I particularly like this Voronoi network wrapped onto a Möbius toroid, sculpted in white glass.
Grossman created this beautiful lamp from one of her Ora series sculptures. Available in several lamp styles from Materialise.
Jewelry
The Julia set is a fractal equation that produces a series of rather pleasing spirals. Designer Marc Newson took that fractal shape and designed a necklace of 2,000 diamonds and sapphires that took jewelry craftsmen 1,500 hours to put together. Note that the necklace is not symmetrical, but still has a sense of balance. See how the jeweler, Boucheron, advertises the necklace.
Drawing
Probably the best known artist to use math concepts in his works is M.C. Escher. Many of his 2-dimensional drawings turned 3-dimensional geometry on its head. The lithograph titled Waterfall illustrates the concept of the Penrose triangle, also called the impossible triangle. Escher also explored tessellations in many of his drawings.
Computer Imaging
Paul Nylander was one of the developers of the Mandelbulb that we saw in a previous math post. He is a computer engineer and an artist who renders math and science concepts into colorful images including animated .gifs to help us visualize their 3- or 4-dimensional structures. Shown is a Dodeca-Spidroball, a variation on the spidron, which was invented by Daniel Erdely in 1979.
Belgian mechanical engineer Jos Leys renders and animates all kinds of math concepts into beautiful forms that boggle the mind. His artworks include fractals, Kleinian groups, inversive geometry, recursions, tessellations, knots, and tilings in both images and video renderings to show 3- and 4-dimensional effects. The image above is called Indra200, an example of “Kleinian jewelry“.
Other artists rendering math images worth checking out include Torolf Sauermann, Brian Johnston, Mehrdad Garousi, and the late Titia Van Beugen.
Video
Creating visual representations of math concepts became easier with computer rendering software and digital video capabilities. That doesn’t mean it is simple. Homporgo, the artist who created this video of a Mandelbox zoom said in a comment:
Believe me Bill, I wanted to go further too, but at the end part a single frame took 18 minutes to render, and the whole 1:27 minute video needed 12 days nonstop rendering. I felt thats more than enough at the time.
Twelve days! The result looks worth it to me. How about you? See more fractals on video in this post.
Previously at Neatorama: A Non-Math Look at Math Objects and A Non-Math Look at Math Shapes.
Paris-based designer Laurent Milon makes rings decorated with iron filings shaped by magnetism, then galvanized with silver and nickel. He also made a cool video of the process that makes the emerging product look like a living, dancing animal.
Link via DudeCraft | Artist’s Website | Video Link
Silversmith and offbeat artist Polly van der Glas creates jewelry made from human teeth, hair, and sterling silver. Aside from rings, she also makes necklaces, earrings, purses and more.
All works are handmade in Melbourne, with sterling silver, human hair and human teeth. Human teeth are locally donated and sterilised, and human hair is either locally donated or sourced from India and China.
Teeth are particularly difficult to come by, so any donations are gratefully accepted.
Link (Photo via OddityCentral.)
For her senior project in 2002, Molly Epstein of Temple University made a glass-filled nylon necklace that looks like a set of vertebrae. Epstein specializes in synthesizing jewelry and medicine:
During her time at UW, she actively associated herself with engineers and doctors in an ongoing quest to understand what an artist may contribute to medical science. She has literally narrowed the gap between the disciplines by collaborating with Doctor Richard Hopper from Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center on the Patent Pending SAM Device. The Seattle Alar Molding Device is a nasal molding device for children born with varying degrees of the cleft palate deformity. She was also a research assistant for Dr. Murray Maitland from Rehabilitation Medicine at UW and helped bring to life a modified prosthetic hand device.
Link via Make | Information about the Artist
The Fibonacci sequence, named after a 13th Century Italian mathematician, is a sequence of numbers in which every third number is the sum of the previous two numbers. This ring and others like it by Etsy seller Holmes Craft is an homage to that mathematical sequence in that the beads are organized according to the first four Fibonacci numbers.
Link via Technabob | Math Explanation | Photo: Holmes Craft
A billboard in Chattanooga has people doing double takes. You have to look twice before you see which finger the woman is giving you -her ring finger. The caption reads, “She’s tired of waiting.” The ad is for a local jeweler.
“If you look at it twice you ought to get a chuckle,” said Barry Schenck of M.M. Schenck Jeweler, “that’s what we are hoping for.”
Schenck says it’s not the first time he’s paid to post more than a dozen billboards before Christmas, but this latest stunt is getting feedback.
“It’s sort of putting a lot of pressure on young men to ask their girlfriends to marry them,” said Carolyn Miller of Chattanooga.
Critics say Schenck’s ploy is in bad taste, but Schenck stands behind the scheme. He says the woman in the picture is no actress.
“She is single, she does have a boyfriend, and she is waiting,” said Schenck.
Link (with video) -via Simply Left Behind
Bibliophiles, you can now wear books around your neck! Etsy seller TheBlackSpotBooks offers this necklace with eleven tiny books made from a mix of antique and scrap leather. Each is hand-made and no two are alike. Custom books designs are available by request. Link -via Bioephemera
Branch Bangle by Anthony Roussel, Photo: Rob Popper
Artist and designer Anthony Roussel creates intricate jewelry from materials not usually associated with adornments – wood! This one above is a birch wood bangle – you can see more at his website: Link – via a+.29
Delfina Delettrez Fendi (yes, of that Fendi) has a new line of to-die-for jewelry. This skeleton wrist jewelry was part of her debut at the Paris Fashion Show. WWD has the gallery (what’s up with the taxidermied animals as props?): Link – via Haute Macabre
Link via LoveItAlot
Baba Akcja’s Sophia Lamp (“2in1 – Lamp and Storage”) is a new way of storing earrings. The perforated lampshade lets you hang your earrings and decorate the lamp into a one-of-a-kind art project!
From the Upcoming 
ueue, submitted by whitespace.
