In 1895, he produced "Self-portrait with Skeleton Arm", a lithograph showing his fully-fleshed face over the skeleton bones of his arm resting, as it were, along the base of the picture frame.
He also took up embroidery on pudding cloths and lengths of deckchair canvas, using the skeleton of an old deckchair as an embroidery frame.
In the men's skeleton, Rudman's fiance, Kristan Bromley, was in fifth place after the opening two runs with a time of 1 45.80sec, giving him a chance to be in medal contention later today.
Amy Williams has Britain's first individual Winter Olympics gold in 30 years in her sights after she set a track record in the women's skeleton.
Scientists have spent years devising its cross-hatched reinforced Kevlar skeleton and its Twistatec technology which "allows for easy insertion".
It is, as he said, appalling that mortality rates can be 16% higher on a Sunday, and it would surely be better – as he also suggested – if services were organised around spikes in demand, not weekend rotas for skeleton staff.
High quality papers are the skeleton around which you must build a lot of breakout and coffee sessions.
The trial means he is suspended from duty, but somehow he and his partner (Jamie Hector, also from The Wire) end up investigating the death of an adolescent boy whose skeleton is found in Laurel Canyon.
Coral bleaching is a stress reaction caused by temperature extremes when the colour-giving algae separate from the coral skeleton.
And then there are things such as the 6ft 2in, 23.5-stone Atlas robot, which looks like it would be as happy shouting "Danger, Will Robinson!" as it would folding your skeleton up like a bony accordion and punting it over the nearest alp.
Desert heists, scars, swords, scythes, drug dealers, a skeleton holding a gun – from the look of this poster, it's probably going to be a U certificate.
