Checking out the intersection of memory and mortality.Tumblr (3.0; @sitesofmemory)http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/826a74b04aa3fa038d55887f65025943/tumblr_mmkab7HPlz1r3dq4jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Completely gorgeous ad for funeral home services. See? It doesn’t have to be sad or scary. Check out <a href="http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/08/the-most-gorgeous-ad-for-funeral-home-services" target="_blank">this</a> post on Spoon & Tamago.</p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/50062139663http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/50062139663Thu, 09 May 2013 22:45:07 -0400Roger Ebert on mortality: About the loveliest meditation on living and dying I’ve ever read....http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/47315130416http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/47315130416Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:15:53 -0400Memorials for Medical School Cadavers: As many medical students around the country do, students at...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/41839449298http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/41839449298Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:34:37 -0500What would anyone think of his/her own memorial?: This Esquire blog posts asks, innocently: What...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/41747728056http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/41747728056Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:39:12 -0500Art project: stools made from dead people's stuff: Dutch designer Joost Gehem uses all kinds of...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/40678826402http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/40678826402Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:29:00 -0500“Tell me, what else should I have done?
 Doesn’t everything die at last, and too...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/40389258748http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/40389258748Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:24:53 -0500Photos reanimate Michigan's once-largest school: Extraordinary photos: teenage life from a bygone...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/37988629715http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/37988629715Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:36:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me4522Ksb41r3dq4jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The <span>Medical Pathology Museum of Tokyo University contains a collection of around 105 preserved human skins tattooed in the traditional Japanese style, including a number of full body suits. Art too good to bury when the tattooed person died? Monstrosity? Memorial? Too close to Nazi horrors?</span></p> <p><em><span>Click on the photo to read more.</span></em></p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/36610985742http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/36610985742Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:01:14 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdamjvik861r3dq4jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Members of a Bolivian cult keep skulls of family members in their homes and decorate them in advance of the annual Dia de los Natitas - ‘Day of the Skulls’ - ceremony. </span><span>They have the craniums blessed at the cemetery chapel, which they believe brings them good luck in the future - from finding a job to helping their favorite football team win.</span></p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/35437217671http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/35437217671Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:31:07 -0500Fish memorial?: An animal rights activist in Irvine has proposed a roadside memorial for 1600 lbs....http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/34654686918http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/34654686918Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:58:26 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbutun5TXe1r3dq4jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://cargocollective.com/gregsmith/Commemoration" target="_blank">Commemoration</a><span>, a range of poetic capsules designed by recent Kingston University grad </span><a href="http://www.gregcsmith.co.uk/" target="_blank">Greg Smith</a><span>, preserves nostalgia in a tangible realm. Smith’s airtight vessels “preserve traces of personal scents to trigger memories” after a person has passed away. The series puts a modern spin on conventional rituals like keeping cremated ashes in an urn. </span><span>Smith’s prototypal design captures DNA without contaminating it. The DNA is then decrypted in hopes that one day a lost loved one could be genetically reconstructed.</span></p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33639461706http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33639461706Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:55:15 -0400““You have your wonderful memories,” people said later, as if memories were...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33493869685http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33493869685Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbk3jsXfwa1r3dq4jo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Photographer Murray Ballard documents the behind the scenes operation of cryogenics facilities. You won’t need a memorial if you never die.</p> <p><em>Click on the photo to view the entire series on Ballard’s website.</em></p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33158510516http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33158510516Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:54:23 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbi3s61LrO1r3dq4jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Red Hook, Brooklyn. This scene reminded me of an Ed Ruscha painting, except for the memorial flower arrangement.</p> <p><em>Photograph by Angela Riechers.</em></p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33052218959http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/33052218959Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:19:00 -0400memorialroadside memorial<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb6fstRvCy1r3dq4jo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Photographer Annu Matthew’s project Re-Generation animates old snapshots by digitally adding images of new family generations into them, emphasizing how place can remain constant as time flows onward and people pass through. </p> <p>Read an interview with Annu <a href="http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/frames-of-catharsis-photos-are-precious-sites-of-memory" target="_blank">here</a>. Click on the photo for the animated project series.</p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/32667440720http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/32667440720Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:57:39 -0400memoryphotographyAnnuMatthewStreet Ghosts: Artist Paolo Cirio’s project Street Ghosts pastes lifesized paper printouts of...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/32493431938http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/32493431938Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:56:46 -0400PaoloCirioStreet GhostsGoogle Street ViewMemorials<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/eisenhower-e-memorial-monumental-disaster_652733.html">Will an app improve the plan for Eisenhower memorial?</a>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/31981642192http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/31981642192Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:57:53 -0400memorialEisenhower memorialmemorial appGeorgian Eye Jewelry: “Eye miniatures came into fashion at the end of the 18th century. In France,...http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/31064910027http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/31064910027Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:47:59 -0400“It is part of grief to remember.” - —Ovidhttp://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/30884120785http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/30884120785Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:58:18 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9f3a2tBfd1r3dq4jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>These layered portraits, from the series Misunderstanding Focus by <span>Japanese duo </span><a href="http://www.nerhol.com/" target="_blank" data-bitly-type="bitly_hover_card">Nerhol</a>, <span>focus on just three minutes of a subject’s life. Because it’s impossible to sit still even for 180 seconds, each one of the thousands of exposures is a little different. Carving through the huge stack of resulting images creates a combined photo/sculpture hybrid that seems to show time passing. </span></p> <p><em><span>Click on the photo to read more.</span></em></p>http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/30315307342http://sitesofmemory.tumblr.com/post/30315307342Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:08:26 -0400