Skull Guy Noah Scalin Embraces Death Daily

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Story by alrdesign

Published on Oct 15, 2008 in Shop

Photo by KENNTWOFOUR

Author and Skull-A-Day maker Noah Scalin shares his Etsy picks for spooky and sweet skulls. Join him this Friday, October 17 at 11am (EDT) for a Skull-A-Thon in the Treehouse of the Virtual Labs. Get ready to share your skull-themed favorites and Noah will do the same. Together we’ll created a Treasury with our favorites! Without further ado…

I guess there are worse things to have shouted at you than, “It’s the Skull Guy!”…which is exactly what happened
the first time I set foot in the Etsy Labs!

At that point I had made just over 100 of the 365 skulls in my Skull-A-Day project and had
no idea where it was heading. Since then, the project has lead to a Featured Video
on YouTube (made by Etsy no less!), my very own book (called SKULLS of
course), and even a visit to The Martha
Stewart show, not to mention the thousands of fans across the globe, who
shared their own work and enthusiasm for the project with me.

It all
started with just a small orange cut paper skull I put online, saying “I’m making a skull a day for a year.” It’s a good thing I loved skulls
before I started the project, since I ended up spending anywhere from 2
to 10 hours every day for that year, thinking about, researching, making,
and photographing them! And it seems I’m not done with skulls yet, as
I’m curating a second year of Skull-A-Day with hundreds of skull submissions
by artists young and old who continue to be inspired by the project. At this point,
I guess I’ve earned the title of “Skull Guy” and
considering all that the skulls have done for me, I won’t even mind if
you shout it at me.

Check out Noah’s last visit to the Etsy Labs…

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 The related items below represent some of Noah’s skull-scouting on Etsy. Find your own new favorites with a few of these searches: “Skull Jewelry“, “Skull Art“, & “Dia De Los Muertos.”

Create your own cross-stitched skull with Noah’s original pattern or send a skull greeting for Halloween or anytime with Noah’s free skull e-cards.

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