Still one of my top favorite game franchises of all time.
More about Mario over the last 25 years – HERE
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If I got my girlfriend one of these, she would likely want to punch me:
For this work, I collected spent bullets at a firing range and made jewelery out of them.
The rings that were created remove the bullet from its original function and they surprisingly turn into a bejeweled object and emphasize the beauty and aesthetics of the bullet when it is distanced from its surroundings
Every bullet retains memories and traces of the journey it underwent from the moment it was fired until it was picked up.
Interesting…
I have two concerns when it comes to this particular art/jewelery:
- Some of the corners look incredibly sharp.
- Am I the only one extremely conscious of lead poisoning? At the very least I’d say those should have a clear coat on them for safety reasons.
Visit the Artist Adi Zaffran’s website – HERE
Thanks to Lloyd, Michael, and Steven for the Link!
I was doing some cleaning today and I opened all my plastic Glock boxes and took a look inside…
Those of you (in most states) that have bought a new Glock might recognize the following picture as the envelope and casings from 2 spent rounds that are included:
Their are some states that require the two casings to be retained by law enforcement and entered into a database as a way to fingerprint your gun. I talked about the failure of one of these ballistic identification systems in in New York in a prior article (HERE).
Definitely something I’d like to have in my office.
There is no price listed on the artist’s site. I’ll have to drop him an email.
The artist Alexander Reh’s website – HERE
While we are on the topic of office furniture and decorations, I really want to get an inert M18A1 claymore (not a blue training model), and also one of those anti-tank hedgehogs.
R Lee Ermey from the History Channel show Lock & Load:
Making your own:
What I Did:
I started off with my favorite set of ear plugs The Com-fit AB corded ear plugs. DB 26 rating.Then took my Px4 outside and fired 2 rounds into the hillside as to retrieve 2 spent .40 s&w casing (winchester 165 gr target ammo; 100 rnds $30 @ walmart). all my other brass i pawned at the gun shop for a few bucks.
Took a small nail; and hammer (because im too lazy to dig out my fathers reloading equipment) and gently taped, from the inside, removing the primer from both shells.
using a drill bit fed into the hole in the ear plug (ment for the cord) and put the ear plug into the casing, bit thru the primer hole, and filled it with hot glue from a glue gun. (WARNING CASING WILL BECOME HOT; use a vice or gloves when doing this step)
now on the .40 i had to drill the primer hole out a slight bit as it was too small for the cord to fit through. i then threaded the cord in thru the rear of the casing and viola…. spent casing ear plugs. novelty and hearing protection brought together as one.
Note: cord is NOT needed; but helpful to keep from loosing them. Also it helps secure the ear plug into the casing as it might slide back out after the glue settles (in testing it was rare but did happen; some super glue on top of this wouldn’t go amiss; however with the cord i don’t have that problem at all)
Source – mXm Community