WARNING: The following post contains artistic nudity.  Although this isn’t pornagraphic in nature, please use caution if you are offended by naked bodies.   If you have interest in death related art, you’ve at least seen the final product of Salvador Dalí’s work floating around your studies and searches.  You may also have some understanding of […]

This from Frank Somerville KTVU‘s facebook page. This is one of the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen. It’s also one of the most heartbreaking pictures I’ve ever seen, because of what happened just 72 hours later. This is Ryan Manning dancing with his mother Mary Ann Manning at his wedding earlier this month. He says […]

  1981: David Allen Kirwan, a 24-year-old, died from third-degree burns after attempting to rescue a friend’s dog from the 200 °F (93 °C) water in Celestine Pool, a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park on 20 July 1981. 1981: Boris Sagal, a film director, died while shooting the TV miniseries World War III when […]

My friend (and post-grad professor at the University of Winchester in England) Dr. Christina Welch is attempting to revive a Late-Medieval Memento Mori. A 200 year old tree has recently fallen at a local arboretum that Christina has ear-marked should she get the money.  Christina is half way there and if she gets more than the […]