Nazi Library of the Occult

Read more HERE

1933 Viennese Autopsy Film

more HERE

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Album covers, back from the dead

I've written before about the album art of Joy Division (including the sandpaper album cover meant to destroy other album covers)

Just as artist’s books are surviving in the underground, there are artists still pushing the boundaries of album art. These are some very cool examples: one set is permanently sealed within its sleeve and has remnants of the artist’s own blood.  Another has human ashes (as described on the sleeve) that are crushed and painted onto the playing surface of the record.

Talk about putting yourself into your music.

Pictures and info HERE

Sound HERE

Kostice, i.e. Sedlec Ossuary, i.e. The Bone Church of Kutná Hora

The Corruptible Bodies of Modern Saints

Once, the fact that bodies did not decay, and remained sweet-smelling, was a sign that a person is holy according to early Christianity. But today, it takes a little more work. (Story by the New York Post).

A quote:

When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, the Vatican used a wrapping technique similar to what was believed to have been applied to Jesus. It failed miserably. Only days after his death, his nose fell off, and a Swiss Guard fainted due to the stench while he was guarding the body.

Thanks for the link, AW!

For more information on how dead folks were "proven" to be holy via autopsy, check out the work of Bradford Bouley.