Archive for July, 2009
DeathRef Skelly Approaches Kindle Fame!
29, Jul 2009Hey, everyone! I, your DeathRef warrior Meg, am in a contest at Engadget to win a Kindle with our very own Death Reference Desk ambassador, Mister Studious Skelly, laser-engraved on the back! Anyone can vote on the designs, and the top five designers win the Kindles they’ve created!
Please vote for me, Number 3!
Yes, this [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology
Urn Design Comes to a Head
28, Jul 2009Personal Urns from Cremation Solutions
via Chip Chick
Death masks are so eighteenth century. Cremation Solutions – purveyor of creative cremains transformations—offer urns that look like the noggin of the dearly departed, or whoever’s head it is you want to be stored in.
I am suspicious of company names that boast “solutions,” as that implies the [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cremation| Death + Art / Architecture| Death + Technology
- Tags: cremains, memorializing, urns
Death and Art: Walking on Eggshells by emma PERRY at 50a Contemporary Art Space, Cumbria UK
28, Jul 2009Walking on Eggshells
A New Art Exhibition by emma PERRY
50a Contemporary Art Space (and online)
South Street
Egremont, Cumbria
Attention all Death Reference Desk readers in the UK: you do not want to miss the newest art exhibition by emma PERRY. Her newest project, Walking on Eggshells, is a mixed-media installation that critiques modern representations of death. Emma is [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Art / Architecture
Radiolab: After Life… Now with John Troyer!
28, Jul 2009Radiolab: After Life
originally aired July 27, 2009.
What happens at the moment when we slip from life… to the other side? Is it a moment? If it is a moment, when is that moment? And what happens afterward? It’s a show of questions that don’t have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from our [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Afterlife
- Tags: brain death, cardiac death, definition of death, moment of death, podcast