Photographs of Robot in Tokyo by David Guttenfelde

Stunning photographs with a strong sense of uncanny: take a look at the robots in the link below

Robot Invasion Welcomed in Japan By HIROKO TABUCHI http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/robot-invasion-welcomed-in-japan/

image from Metropolis (Fritz Lang)

"Haunted" by Christian Boltanski at Guggenheim

"Haunted" is an exhibition where the artist "employ[s] found photographs to quietly create a mood of loss, commemoration, and ritual." The photographs he uses are taken from a 1931 Viennese Jewish private school. Check the website and the exhibition (if you can)

[image and text from]: http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/haunted/#/artist/boltanski

Julian Sheather: Doctors’ religious beliefs and end of life care

Interesting article about religious and ethnic affiliations' influence on end of life care, and also of how media can mis-report informations around this issue.

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/09/03/julian-sheather-doctors-religious-beliefs-and-end-of-life-care/

EASA 2010 - Death and imagination

Thanks to all presenters and participants for attending last week EASA2010 workshop "Death and imagination: creative strategies to embrace and avoid the crisis of death". We heard many interesting papers and it was a great success!

to see papers' abstracts > http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=590

photo by zunardu at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zunardu/3785439533/

"Departures" by Yôjirô Takita

Very interesting movie on the "encoffinment" practice in Japan; highly recommended to those interested in recent creative developments around celebrating the dead.

http://www.departures-themovie.com/

Last Portrait of Mother by Daphne Todd, 63, wins UK's leading portrait prize

Daughter's painting of dead mother wins BP Portrait prize and causes discussions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/22/last-portrait-of-mother-portrait

The Noise of Mourning...

check this project if you can understand Italian and are interested in the topic of death and mourning http://www.ilrumoredellutto.com/