Conservation and restoration of fur objects made from keratin, which is also the protein that makes up skin, feathers, nails, hooves, claws, and horns. "The way I think a lot of people understand fur versus hair is in the density of follicles," says Ross McPhee, Curator of the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. "So for fur-bearing animals—which were converted into coats and so-forth—people always wanted it to be something that was very dense, so there’s the idea therefore that fur is dense, and it certainly is in [the] kinds of fur-bearers that we use for this purpose. Whereas hair is not
Rusty Nails (filmmaker) filmmaking, focusing on acts of teen violence and cult filmmakers, including George Romero. Nails supports his work through his film company, New Eye Films, and runs the Movieside Film Festival in Chicago. '*'Fancypants" (2011) Ambulance Onlooker (uncredited) Rusty Nails (filmmaker) Rusty Nails (a.k.a. Rusty Osgood, born 1966) is an American director, writer, producer, and actor. He is best known for his feature-length B-movie "Acne". Nails has also made several short films, including "God is Dad", "The Ramones and I", "Grethel and Hansel", "Animated Corpse", and "Santiago vs. Wigface", which won a special recognition award. Rusty Nails grew up in a