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Oooh, what a neat idea.<\/p>\nOooh, what a neat idea.<\/p>\n
Spike Vain, a veterinary tech in LA, uses X-rays of some of her patients to make awesomely creepy lampshades. You can see more photos of her work here<\/a>. (She also has an Etsy shop<\/a> where she has a few X-ray bookmarks for sale, but doesn’t appear to sell the lamps there.)<\/p>\n I figured that you’d have to ask your local vet (or hospital) about purchasing discarded X-rays, but it turns out you can buy them online. A couple of sites, like Buy X-Rays<\/a> and Buy X-Rays Online<\/a> specialize in them, but you can even find a few at Amazon: Human<\/a> | Animal<\/a>.<\/p>\n After that, all you need is a suitable lampshade. DIY lampshade kits are available at craft suppliers, but you could also just pick up a cheap lamp from a thrift store and re-use its shade. Be sure to choose a shade with a sturdy frame that’s attractive enough to display, since the X-rays are suspended from ties instead of being glued on top.<\/p>\n From the photos, it appears that Spike cuts the X-rays to shape, covers the edges with some sort of binding (possibly fabric tape?), then inserts grommets into each corner. Ribbon (or in some cases, possibly wire; it’s hard to tell from the photos) is threaded through the holes and used to tie each panel in place on the frame.<\/p>\n The result is really striking. The lamps would be a perfect decorative accessory for Halloween, but they’re certainly attractive enough to use year-’round. They’d also make an interesting gift for a physician, dentist, or anyone else who works with bones.<\/p>\n (via WitchArachne)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oooh, what a neat idea. Spike Vain, a veterinary tech in LA, uses X-rays of some of her patients to make awesomely creepy lampshades. You can see more photos of her work here. (She also has an Etsy shop where she has a few X-ray bookmarks for sale, but doesn’t appear to sell the lamps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24520"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24626,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520\/revisions\/24626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}