{"id":1779,"date":"2008-11-20T07:51:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T11:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2008-11-14T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T16:01:13","slug":"pimp-my-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Pimp My Skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jeweledskull-111x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jeweled Skull\" title=\"Jeweled Skull\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Here&#8217;s an interesting project for the more obsessive amongst us: Bejeweled skulls.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Amy Sarkisian apparently specializes in these; she&#8217;s got <a href=\"http:\/\/asark.com\/sarkisian\/skull\">photos of several<\/a> on her site.  There isn&#8217;t any accompanying text to describe her method or what materials she uses, but I&#8217;m guessing &#8220;beads&#8221; and &#8220;glue&#8221; are the basics.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if these were inspired by Damien Hirst&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/06\/02\/damien-hirsts-diamon.html\">diamond-encrusted skull<\/a> or not, but it&#8217;s nice to see something similar done with more readily-accessible materials.  If you&#8217;ve got a lot of beads, a dime store plastic skull, and some time on your hands, this would certainly be an unusual and striking accent piece.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of her other <a href=\"http:\/\/asark.com\/works.html\">art<\/a> too; it&#8217;s delightfully disturbing.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.craftzine.com\/\">CRAFT<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting project for the more obsessive amongst us: Bejeweled skulls. Artist Amy Sarkisian apparently specializes in these; she&#8217;s got photos of several on her site. There isn&#8217;t any accompanying text to describe her method or what materials she uses, but I&#8217;m guessing &#8220;beads&#8221; and &#8220;glue&#8221; are the basics. I have no idea if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}