Library of Dust

David Maisel in the book “Library of Dust”, photographs decaying canisters containing the cremated remains of the unclaimed dead from an Oregon psychiatric hospital.

Apple Evolution

A nice poster of Apple’s evolution. Click to see it big.

Twin Town

Via the Daily Telegraph:

A village in Brazil might be populated by genetically altered twins created by notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

“For years scientists have failed to discover why as many as one in five pregnancies in a small Brazilian town have resulted in twins – most of them blond haired and blue eyed,” we read. “But residents of Candido Godoi now claim that Mengele made repeated visits there in the early 1960s, posing at first as a vet but then offering medical treatment to the women of the town.”

According to an historian named Jorge Camarasa who has written a book about Mengele’s bio-genetic legacy, “Candido Godoi may have been Mengele’s laboratory, where he finally managed to fulfil his dreams of creating a master race of blond haired, blue eyed Aryans.”

Dissonance Radio

I like “DC Punk” a bit too much.

DISSONANCE is a biweekly show on DC community radio diving into DC punk history with a weekly was-there guest.

It’s superb.

National Museum of Funeral History

If you ever find yourself in Houston, Texas may I suggest the National Museum of Funeral History.

415 Barren Springs Drive
Houston, Texas 77090

Nadav Kander in the Times

Nadav Kander whom I mentioned in this post, did 52 full-page photographs of the “new power elite” in Washington for the New York Times Magazine.

You can see the portraits here.

Displacement

Displacement by Ilia Ovechkin

An infinite album cover of 2 Live Crew’s “Nasty as They Wanna Be”

The Lives they Left Behind

When Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995, staff members found a door tucked under the rafters of an attic. Prying it open, they found rows of wooden racks, packed with almost 400 suitcases of all shapes and types – men’s on the left, women’s on the right.

The suitcases were untouched since their owners packed them decades earlier before being committed to the institution.

These contents were then made into a traveling exhibition documenting the lives of those who had stayed there.

It’s depressing.

See the exhibition here.

Paul Urich

Paul Urich is perhaps one of my favorite artists.

Looks like he has a great show up at Fecal Face Dot Gallery right now.

Body Bakery

In Potharam, Thailand fine art student Kittiwat Unarrom was creeping people out.

The son of a baker, he opened the aptly name “Body Bakery” as his masters thesis. He churned out unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of dismembered human body parts made entirely from bread.

“Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy”