Badass Bust Forms

Artist, Federico Uribe, has created these female toros using different materials like coins, bullets, safety pins, color pencils, locks, clothes pins, pencil erasers and others. Which is your fav?

 

Tags: art bust forms, bullet torso, Federico Uribe

PRETTY N PINK

Pretty in Pink & Dangerously Chic-Don’t let the shade fool you-we’re on the front line!

Tags: diamond duster, gun, pink chains, Pink Fashion, pink tank, soldier

Call of the Wild

 

Tags: animal jewlery, call of the wild, FSMNYC

The Eye of the Beholder

John Rankin, London photographer, the man behind the lens, has an eye for eyes with his work focusing on his subjects’ gaze. From ad-campaigns to art exhibitions, and to his new collaboration with Swatch, it’s in the eyes that which his work comes alive.

Tags: eye art, John Rankin, make-up ohotography

LOVE IS IN THE AIR….Your Guide to Valentine’s Day

It’s that season again, THE SEASON OF LOVE, and FSMNYC has the perfect pieces to show that special someone how much you care: Be it your lover, best friend, or both-we’ve got it covered!

DUSTERS:

Tuff Luv, You Fill My Heart, and Rose Duster

RINGS

Sexy Time, Hold My Heat (3-in-1), Engagement Ring

PERSONAL ENGRAVING

Single or Double Heart Rings with your choice of initial or message engraving

THE KISS COLLECTION

Kiss Cufflinks, Kiss Pendant

BODY CHAINS

Gold Harness, Red Harness, Chain Bustle, Chainmail Harness

Tags: Heart Ring, love, sexy jewelry, Valentine day jewelry, Valentine's Day, valentine's day gifts

The Art of Preserving

  Japanese artist Iori Tomita transforms the scientific technique of preserving organisms into beautiful art with his series, ‘shinsekai toumei hyouhon’  (‘new world transparent specimens’).

Tomita has been mastering this skill of preserving and staining fish, early on as a fisherman. The first step is removing the scales and skin after being preserved in formaldehyde.  He leaves the organism to soak in a mixture of blue stain, ethyl alcohol, and glacial acetic acid before using the enzyme trypsin to deteriorate the protein and muscles, which stops the reaction as soon as they become transparent but before they lose their form. The bones are then stained by soaking the fish in a combination of potassium hydroxide and red dye, before the specimen is preserved in glycerin.

  

Iori Tomita:
‘People may look at my specimens as an academic material, a piece of art, or even an entrance to philosophy. There is no limitation to how you interpret their meaning. I hope you will find my work as a ‘lens’ to project a new image, a new world that you’ve never seen before.‘

 

Tags: iori tomita, japanese artists, preserving specimens, transparent specimens

Graceful Walking

Polish artist Erwina Ziomkowska gives Ginger Rogers a run for her money.

  Using 4 ½ pounds of straight pins hammered into vintage shoes, we see the reflection of the relationship amongst shoes, pain, and beauty. Not your average Saturday night stilettos!

Kind of reminds me of the pin-sculpture toys of the 90’s

Tags: erwina ziomkowska, pin, pin sculpture, pin shoes, polish artists

Introducing the FSMNYC Snub Nose Gun Pendant

 FSNYC Snub Nose Gun Pendant 

 BANG BANG! I shot ya down! This is our largest scale gun made-in a snub nose designs for all those crooks &  sleuths!

Available this weekend at Artist and Fleas Market

AND online as FSMNYC

Tags: FSMNYC, gun, gun jewelry, Jewelry trends 2012, snubnose

Sculpted Wings by Kate Mccgwire

How do you make something so colossal seem as though it weighs less than an ounce?

 London-based artist Kate Mccgwire  has done just this in her new sculpture collection of feathers  entitled, ‘guile’, ‘lure’, ‘seer’, ‘quell’, and ‘yearn’. The majestic forms are made from thousands of wing and tail feathers gathered from many birds including  pigeon, magpie, goose, teal, pheasant, duck and woodcock. Working with feathers as one of her mediums since ’07, this most recent exhibition is far beyond compare.

‘I gather, collate, re-use, layer, peel, burn, reveal, locate, question, duplicate, play and photograph.‘ -Kate MccGwire 

‘I collect because I have to. It’s my way of making sense of my self and forging a material connection between my inner world and the world of objects, which is the world we all inhabit but which I’ve chosen to make my living in as an artist who makes “things”. I enjoy the fact that collecting allows me to make a spectacle out of the everyday, which is essentially what I try to do in my work.’ - Kate MccGwire

Tags: feathers, kate mccgwire, londen artists, sculpture

Bullet Duster

Although, not a new piece, we feel we haven’t given enough amo-power to our bullet duster.

One of our first collaborations, FSMNYC and ASTALI brings you the BULLET DUSTER.  Shannon Astali DeJong, the caliber and designer of ASTALI has been on the fore-front of bullet jewelry designs.

Some of my Astali favs? Check out the Snake Vertebrae Bracelets, Peep Show Cuff Links, and the Bullet Casing Cuffs.

Tags: Astali, Bullet jewelry, bullet ring, FSMNYC