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Todd Francis Christmas Ornaments: Tis the Season for Suicide
December 14, 2012For those wishing to celebrate a Christmas that’s more macabre than it is merry, consider these cheerful ornaments by LA artist and skate graphics designer, Todd Francis. Equal Distribution is offering the Todd Francis Christmas ornaments in a set entitled: … Continue reading
Olaf Breuning’s Cool Coffins
December 12, 2012It wouldn’t be Undead Wednesday without these cool coffins by Swiss artist, Olaf Breuning! Breuning journeyed to Ghana for the coffin creation back in 2004, but great arty caskets don’t stay dead and buried in the age of the Internet. … Continue reading
Kickstarter I’m Supporting: Morbid Anatomy Anthology
December 6, 2012Morbid Anatomy is a wonderful blog I like to look at when I’m feeling curious, waxing macabre, too aware of my mortality, grateful to be living in a time of Tylenol (though Wolcott’s Instant Pain Annihilator DOES look like a good time) … Continue reading
Dumb Ways to Die and The People Who Died Doing Them
November 20, 2012Melbourne, Australia’s Metro train system hired McCann advertising agency to create a campaign ensuring we’re all in agreement that “trains are big, fast and not to be messed with”. Metro specifically wanted to reach the people who “just don’t get … Continue reading
Considerate Suicide Public Service Announcements on London Tube
October 12, 2012How dark and dry is your sense of humor? Are you a pragmatic person? These public service announcements were designed to send a polite, practical and quintessentially British message to riders of the London Underground: Kill yourself at home. The … Continue reading
This Sundead Coffin Emits Death Rays
July 30, 2012Argentinean artist and designer Luciano Podcaminsky has created the perfect final resting place for the cast of Jersey Shore. Sundead comments on the fatal effects of suntanning. The full-sized coffin, Sundead, opens to reveal an interior lined with rows of suntan lights. The piece … Continue reading
Remembering Donna Summer as a Fantastic Customized Toy by Stor Dubiné
May 17, 2012Way back in 2008, before I became increasingly (2010) jaded (2012) on the direction of custom/DIY vinyl toys, I had an unlikely love affair with a series of customized Munny disco divas. I say “unlikely,” only because I am firmly … Continue reading
Dead Musicians Photoshopped Out of Classic Album Covers
May 14, 2012LIVE (I See Dead People) was a tumblr by Jean-Marie Delbes and Hatim El Hihi that currently appears to be as dead as its subjects. But for one clever, technically proficient and morbid bender, the duo used Photoshop to remove dead … Continue reading
R.I.P. Maurice Sendak
May 8, 2012Beloved author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, passed away today of complications from a recent stroke. He was 83. I grew up loving (and living) Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are. The New York Times has more on … Continue reading
