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- Live Forever as a Limited Edition Vinyl Record Containing Your Ashes
- Star Wars Fans Travel to Tatooine to Restore Luke Skywalker’s Home
- The Delicate Paper-Cutting Art of Hina Aoyama
| Live Forever as a Limited Edition Vinyl Record Containing Your Ashes Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:46 AM PDT
We recently learned that immortality is just a few years away, but if you’re not willing to wait that long, perhaps you could try living forever as a playable vinyl record containing your cremated ashes. I know, it’s not exactly your idea of immortality, but hey, nothing is perfect. At least you’ll be able to (sort of) talk to your loved ones from beyond the grave, by recording your voice on the record. Actually, And Vinyly, the company offering this bizarre service, allows you to record pretty much anything you want on the record, as long as it’s not longer that 24 minutes. It can be a “Death Metal” (pun intended) compilation, a recording of your voice, or just 24 minutes of creepy silence, so those close to you can hear your “pops and clicks” as the needle scratches your ashes. Pretty neat, right? And Vinyly offers a basic £3,000 ($4,700) package that includes up to 30 vinyls, the standard R.I.V. (Rest in Vinyl) artwork with your name, the date of birth and date of death. If you want something special, your family can send a photo of you and artist James Hague will paint a unique acrylic and ash portrait, or you can arrange a 1 hour sitting with James, before you die. If you’d like to be buried, And Vinyly can make the records with just ashes from some body parts you agree to have cremated. As you can see they’re very flexible. Just to make things more clear, here are the steps you have to cover in order to have your immortality as a vinyl, as listed on the company’s website:
One thing they want to make clear is “that www.andvinyly.com accepts no responsibility for any copyright violations committed by material you supply.” Well, I’m dead, so I guess I can take responsibility. Just tell the record deal to sue the vinyl my ashes are in… via Geekologie Live Forever as a Limited Edition Vinyl Record Containing Your Ashes was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
| Star Wars Fans Travel to Tatooine to Restore Luke Skywalker’s Home Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:41 AM PDT
A group of dedicated Star Wars Fans took it upon themselves to travel to Tatooine and restore the Lars Homstead, the iconic igloo-shaped home Luke Skywalker grew up in. It might sound like an impossible feat, but if you’re a true Star Wars fan, you know the scenes on the desert planet of Tatooine were actually filmed in the African country of Tunisia. Still, gathering the necessary resources and manpower necessary for such a journey is nothing short of impressive, and shows the kind of commitment some fans of the legendary franchise are capable of. The man behind this interesting restoration project is Belgian Star Wars enthusiast Mark Dermul. Back in 2001, Mark traveled to Tunisia to see for himself where his favorite movie was shot. Over the years, he went back there multiple times guiding over 50 other fans to the locations where the famous sci-fi saga was shot, but by 2010 he noticed the Lars Homstead was in a terrible state, so he decided to kick-start a restoration project. Photo: Mark Dermul The Lars Homstead was first featured in “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope”, in 1977, again in 2002, in ”Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones”, and finally in 2005′s ”Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith”. After that, it was once again forgotten and left at the mercy of the elements. But die-hard fan Mark Dermul wasn’t just going to stand by and let such an important piece of Star Wars lore simply fad away. But, alas, it wasn’t as easy as things usually are in the movies. Although he started the “Save Lars Restoration Project” back in July 2010, he and his team of Star Wars saviors finished completed their mission in May of this year. After gaining the support of Lucas Arts’ Head of Fan Relations, they’ve had to raise $10,000, but that was accomplished in the first ten months. The most important hurdle was negotiating with the Tunisian government, which eventually agreed to allow them to carry out their project in December of 2011. The team finally arrived at the Lars Homstead in May of this year and made sure they restored it back to its former glory. Photo: Mark Dermul It took a week of working in 46-degrees Celsius heat, but the Star Wars fans saved the Lars Homestead on Tatooine. We’ve posted some photos and a video of their work, but for the full details make sure you visit Mark Dermul’s website. Photo: Mark Dermul
Photo: Mark Dermul
Photo: Mark Dermul
Photo: Mark Dermul
Photo: Mark Dermul
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| The Delicate Paper-Cutting Art of Hina Aoyama Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:18 AM PDT
You’ve probably seen intricate paper-cut art before, but Hina Aoyama takes it to a whole new level by achieving an incredible level of detailed using only scissors. Unlike other artists who use fine tools like an X-acto knife to create elaborate pieces of paper-cut art, Japanese-born Hina Aoyama only uses a pair of scissors and lots of patience. The Paris-based artist takes anywhere from a few hours to several months to complete her lace-like fragile masterpieces, as she needs to keep a steady hand and arm herself with patience throughout the whole creative process. Looking at her works, I can’t help but wonder if Hina has some kind of magical powers that help her cut out such delicate marvels, but the videos she made of her carving tiny paper details prove she’s just a very talented artist. Her style reminds me of an artist we recently featured on Oddity Central. Ming Liang Lu, the safe described master portrait cutter living in New York employs a similar technique to carve portraits of passers-by.
For more fragile beauty, check out Hina Aoyama’s Flickr stream. The Delicate Paper-Cutting Art of Hina Aoyama was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
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