[High Praise! to hwuu]
As near as I can tell, this is a real thing:
Yes, that’s a cremation urn designed to resemble President Obama’s head:
Personal Cremation Urns for ashes are the latest in custom personalized cremation urns for ashes. They are created from one or two photographs with exceptional attention to detail. The advent of state-of-the-art 3D imaging means that these high-tech urns can be made to look like anyone.
Personal urns can have hair added digitaly for short haired people, as in the sample of President Obama. For longer hair we can add a wig to your specifications. A solid brass nameplate is available. This cremation urn rest on a solid black marble base. The ashes are loaded from the bottom.
Personal Urns for ashes will provide a very realistic memorial for anyone. We simply request from you a good photograph of the front of the persons face. If you have one or two from the side, then all the better.
No official word on whether the cost of it will be covered under Obamacare, but you’d think they’d give you a free one at your death-panel review.
UPDATE: Related, and pretty disturbing in its own right:
But for rancor and revenge, there’s nothing more satisfying than putting a despised face on an urn. The urns, incidentally, can also be personalized so you can keep a loved one or a hated one, complete with photos, in your home … to help you honor your loss or anger.
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UPDATE: Linked by Conservative Nation News
UPDATE: Linked by iOwnTheWorld
I wonder if it’s big enough to be used as a chamber-pot?
If not, then I’m sure it could be used as a spitoon. I know some OWS type will try to turn it into a bong and “choom out”.
I seem to recall seeing a commercial where the Chia people were hawking a Chia-head Obama.
Okay, but if it talks, I’m smashing it.
Go ahead. Make it talk.
(I suppose then it would be a talking ashhole.)
I don’t think the Obama face is for sale. I believe the company chose it as an easily-recognizable face that would demonstrate the company’s skill in rendering a likeness, so that each prospective customer can be reassured that his or her urn will truly resemble the loved one before he or she became a smoldering pile of ashes.
Personally, I’m holding out for the time that the Kitty-Copter becomes available for human corpses. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jun/05/catcopter-dutch-artist-amsterdam-video
If you can’t have fun with your loved one’s remains, then funerals would just be all sad and stuff.
It can’t be Obama, the ears don’t stick out enough… and the nose is crooked. It must be someone else, but “you didn’t build that”.
My wife could use it to save her cigarette butts.
Then he’d be a true butt-head. heh-heh, heh-heh.
What’s the intended market for this?
Who want’s to be interred inside that?
I mean, other than Larry Sinclair.
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Sorry.
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Oh, here’s the intended market…
http://www.myspace.com/video/contributor/snl-skit/3262032
At least his fake head will be full of something for a change. Does it come with a complementary bucket.
Ever heard of the “uncanny valley”? Apparently it now applies to inanimate objects like urns, as this thing is just plain creepy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
It’s real. You can have anything made into an urn. I worked for a funeral home/cemetery for 3 years. Never saw anything as weird as this though.
Or as ugly.
The urge to buy it and then vandalize it is overwhelming. Must…resist…
And in its ultra-realizm the empty skull is large enough to hold Michelle, a burrito and two orders of curly fries…
a cremation urn designed to resemble President Obama’s head
Perfect for interring the US economy and the Bill of Rights.
Does it come as a wall mount? President Romney could use it for demonstrative purposes. Would look great by that fire place where the president sit with foreign dignitaries and meet the press. Imagine the exploding heads of journalists…
I think we should order one for BO’s remains, except it should be in the image of Winston Churchill.
Suggested use (safe for all ages):
I’d buy one. Everyone should have a vivid reminder of what failure looks like and two dimensions just doesn’t cut it.
And people thought using a 3D printer to “print” gun parts was dangerous…
Skip the funeral and send that money to the occupant’s campaign! Your loved ones will understand. You can see them in the county cemetery!
Here’s one that may or may not cross the line but consumers will have to beat the high demand (so get yours while they last!) by Chrissie Matthews and one of the PutzOTUS’s core constituencies, the LGBT deviants: Head-O-State
well as a cremation urn it’s kinda creepy, but as a potty training aid, sign me up!
…and as a potty training aid, it would consistently contain more brains than the person it was modeled after.
A fitting storage container for every Democrat who wishes to continue voting after they die… purchase will soon be mandatory. I mean a tax… I mean… a penalty.
I can’t see this as a bad thing. If someone put my ashes in that then, metaphoricly speaking, I’m living, rent free, in Obama’s head, forever. Win!