Some people have interesting hobbies. Take Christy Rupp, for example—the Chelsea-based artist collected enough chicken bones to recreate skeletons of extinct birds (which she researched at the American Museum of Natural History)... some of them are even life-sized! Today the Daily News looks at her unusual craft, some examples of which are on display at the Museum of Arts and Design's show "Dead or Alive." Rupp talked about her bone collecting habits with the paper, saying, "I started asking friends, which got awkward... 'Can I have that carcass?'" Check out her work here—what do you think, less or more creepy than making animals from animal parts found in Chinatown?
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