Beautiful Alice in Wonderland rings

These official Disney/Burton rings commemorate the new Alice movie -- there's also a lovely Cheshire cat-in-tree with glowing eyes and mouth!

Anéis Alice: surpreendentes (via Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

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Ugly Canuck

I kinda like the ring, regardless of its purported capitalist-slave origins. After all, it is jewelery. It’ll be cool a hundred years from now, maybe.

There have been other artists, and other “Wonderlands” – here’s a musical one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAW4AA5yjeo

(OT?: IMHO artists must always dream; how sad that they must also eat!)
Pipenta

These rings didn’t seem nearly as much “Alice in Wonderland”, as they did “A Christmas Story”, because, really, THEY’LL PUT YOUR EYE OUT!
Anonymous

Hi everybody! If you want more information about these rings go to H.Stern English website: http://migre.me/t6Ju
Marya

The work of this workshop makes me gasp with pleasure and delight. Just looking at the H Stern atelier work lowers my blood pressure and makes me smile. I roll metal and hammer metal and try my best to properly set stones all the live long day, and dream of jewelry like this when I sleep at night.
Anonymous

i don’t understand how to buy this. i have been collecting lewis carroll books and such for 15+ years. i really think this is beautiful and would love to have it for my collection.
EH

“I mean it looks like the slightest contact with the ring is gonna break it and render it useless for its “wow” factor and as a decorative object.”

That’s how you know it’s “commemorative.”
agentouchie

i can’t wait til this movie goes away so we can never, ever talk about it again.
- JonStewartMill
  
  I haven’t seen it myself, but a friend of mine is a huge Tim Burton fan and she agrees wholeheartedly with that sentiment.
watchout5

Supporting a company like Disney is like supporting slavery. I heard about this union organizer in Rwanda who had his kneecaps blown for speaking to workers. I’d rather this post be about independent artists making really kick ass Alice art, not some mega corporation who kills and hurts people around the world in order to make cookie cutter crap based on a movie that seems finally more based on the crazy drug world surrounding it. I don’t feel like I can ever support Disney again, and I find their mention in this post sickening.
- Quiet Noises
  
  Well then wouldn’t you be surprised if I were to tell you the rings are made by a local artist in the Bay Area, whom you can send donations & feedback to her website.
  
  I bet you’d be pretty surprised. Since I have actually no idea who makes the rings, not some Bay Area artist or Rwandan union supporter, I won’t try to surprise you.
  
  Don’t go blowing whistles when you have absolutely NO idea who makes these things?
- dculberson
  
  So somebody somewhere told you about some union organizer that was beat up by someone? Could you get any more third-hand-friend-of-a-friend-maybe-made-up?
rikkus

“These official Disney/Burton rings commemorate the new Alice movie”

No. No they don’t. They _cash_in_ on the film. Not ‘commemorate’ it.
- Pantograph
  
  Yup. Then again, they are quite stunning. Who cares what piece of entertainment they are associated with?
  (I happen to own a really nice ‘official’ LOTR ring (not THE RING), even though I find both the films and the books they are based on long winded and juvenile.)
IWood

gonna be a looong day on the intarwebs
- Anonymous
  
  IWood, you got that right…..
glory bee

Oh why choose mushrooms for the ring? There must be more examples you can show? Anyway mushrooms are not a big feature of the story. What is big is the author’s relationship with his child pupil!
CrisB

I was considering buying one of these for my friend, she loves rings. But, they appear a bit… unusable. I mean it looks like the slightest contact with the ring is gonna break it and render it useless for its “wow” factor and as a decorative object. Not to take away from the artists, they’re beautiful. Just unwearable. Maybe a collectible item?
- Real Celeb Fake Speak
  
  I agree, it’s more a weird-things-I-bought-on-a-whim collectible than something I’d actually want to wear.
- technogeek
  
  It’s hard to tell durability from a single photo; that depends too much on the materials and construction details.
  
  I’m not a huge fan of Disney, but that’s more because Disney does so much drek along with the Good Stuff. For that reason, I’m delighted to see them actually doing _tasteful_ souvenirs, and I think it’s worth considering encouraging them with a bit of careful voting-with-wallets.
  
  As to whether it’s display piece or something you’d actually wear: Matter of personal taste. I’m not sure I’d wear one because I don’t wear rings generally, but I think I’d be suitably impressed/amused by someone who was wearing one; it’s a statement of attitude in several different ways.
JessicaWalden

I love the drama of these rings, but agree that they might be hard to wear.

That being said, this is a great ‘statement’ piece. Something you wear at a cocktail party or a special event (like a costume ball!). Not for daily use and I think that’s part of the point.
Anonymous

I loveee it!
Kissis from Brasil ;**