Archive for the ‘Death + Art / Architecture’ Category
Skyscraper Burial in Mumbai
29, Sep 2010Vertical Cemetery is a Greenery Clad Final Resting Place for Mumbai Yuka Yoneda, Inhabit.com (September 28, 2010) We’ve posted before about vertical burial — that is, placing corpses in upright containers for burial in the ground standing up. The proposed Moksha Tower in Mumbai takes this concept to a whole new level by providing burial [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial|Death + Art / Architecture|Eco-Death
- Tags: religion, vertical burial
Săpânţa: The Happy Cemetery Dumneazu (July 23, 2010) While grave markers can be creative and downright wacky, most reflect the solemnity of death — just the facts, m’am, perhaps with an accurate but general epitaph, like “Loving wife and mother.” Aren’t they all? And would you really say otherwise if not? The Happy Cemetery in [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Art / Architecture
- Tags: grave markers, memorializing
WNYC Interview on Memorial Tattoos
22, Jul 2010Morbid Ink: Memorial Tattoos Samantha Stark, WNYC radio (July 21, 2010) WNYC radio in New York put together a short piece on Memorial Tattoos, which coincided with my talk on the same subject for Observatory and the Morbid Anatomy Library. Samantha Stark, the WNYC reporter who put the story together, did a really good job [...]
Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo An Illustrated Lecture with Dr. John Troyer, Deputy Director, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath Date: Tuesday July 20th, 2010 Time: 8:00pm Admission: $5 On Tuesday, July 20 I am giving a talk in Brooklyn on memorial tattoos. The talk, Morbid Ink: Field Notes [...]
Charles Bowden on Juarez
19, Jun 2010Dreamland: The Way out of Juarez On The Media (June 4, 2010) Earlier this week I wrote about the drug-cartel murders in Juarez, Mexico, and mentioned Charles Bowden, a journalist who has been covering the situation for over a decade. He recently spoke with On The Media about a new book, Dreamland: The Way Out [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Art / Architecture|Death + Crime|Death Ethics
- Tags: homicide, Mexico, writing