"If Leni Riefenstahl were alive today, she’d spit on the floor as she walked out of these movies"

[Fumesucker]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/05/07/who-is-john-galts-mother-and-is-this-her-ugly-bracelet/

The fools who paid for the Atlas Shrugged movie are making jewelry, just in time for Mothers’ Day. (via). This grotesque artifact is made of anodized aluminum, the stuff dreams are made of, if you dream on the cheap, though it’s called “Rearden Metal”, which I thought was only reserved for cock rings in the Randian world.

I’ve just seen clips of the Shrugfest films, but they all look like they were produced by Stalin’s favorite pornographer. This bracelet in particular looks like something Trotsky would have sent home to his babushka to memorialize the sacrifice of the noble workers in the Siberian bauxite mines.

I’d call the Hollywood Galtians’ aesthetic “fascist”, but that would be an insult to Hitler and Mussolini, who actually had a bit of flair and style. If Leni Riefenstahl were alive today, she’d spit on the floor as she walked out of these movies.

[BainsBane]

1. As a jewelry connoisseur

[MineralMan]

2. What? No spikes?

Industrial style jewelry does nothing for me. There was a brief trend of cast iron jewelry at one point in history.

[HappyMe]

3. Oh, that's very pretty.

The jewelry in the OP looks like some crappy star trek junk.

[MineralMan]

5. The cast-iron jewelry originated in Germany,

at a single foundry in the early 19th century. Typically coated with black lacquer, it was used mainly as mourning jewelry. It actually brings pretty good money today, if you can find any of it. Very brittle, it had a short run of popularity, primarily in Berlin. A few artists still make cast-iron jewelry today in their own small foundries.

It came to be during the early part of the industrial revolution, when cast iron was an exotic material, and foundries were experimenting with new ways to use it. It was used during the Napoleonic wars in exchange for gold jewelry. Very odd stuff.

Just another useless factoid from the keeper of useless factoids. There is a Wikipedia entry on this, if you are so inclined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Iron_Jewellery

[BainsBane]

8. That's lovely

Spikes were recently in style. This one doubles as a lethal weapon.

[Brickbat]

4. From the reviews:

I'll admit that the clasp is tricky, but it's difficult in an Ayn Rand kind of way. Just figure it out, and it's really not that tough. Let gravity do the work.

[MattBaggins]

7. Difficult in an Ayn Rand kind of way

So you have to be fucking brain dead and ready to believe and crap spouted at you in order to open the thing?

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Anyone who gives that to his mom for Mother's Day

deserves to be slapped.

[Safetykitten]

9. You will know others of your kind wearing this little number because it has a bell.

[Initech]

10. So did the director of Atlas Shrugged treat the cast and crew like parasites?