Friday, October 05, 2007
AshKara!
OK, this brilliant pun in the title of this post is totally lost on the non Hebrew-slang-speakers among you. Well, just couldn't find a better title, so there.
Got this from the Fresh Internet Juice blog. This guy has not posted anything for, well, forever - but has just made a comeback with this glorious post, that compensates for the long disappearance.
Apparently, for a modest fee, this website will create a special ink from - - -
- - - no, wait! I simply cannot make it sound better, so here it is, straight from the horse's mouth:
"Welcome to Inkafterlife.com. We make custom photo memorials by creating a custom ink formulation using ashes from a loved one or pet and our ink. We then print a beautiful memorial photo using that blended in".
How does it work?
You fill in your order, they send a you a vial "for you to fill with ashes of your loved one or pet", as they gracefully put it. They even assure you that "Any unused ash is returned to you with your completed order." Then they mail you the "Inkafterlife Memorial Photo".
Takes 4-6 weeks.
Grayscale for $49.99, full color $79.00.
Plus shipping, I presume.
Now, that's different!
I used to joke with The JohnnyB that when I die, I want to become a watercolor pigment. (Hey, there's a color called Navajo Red. Why not Nava Purple?). Hmm... so much for that joke, eh?
I betcha that even WackieM, who uses anything and everything to create texture, did not think of that.
Among the many questions this is provoking, I, as a cautious artist who puts quality first, cannot help wondering: is the print going to be archival?
Labels: Damn Technology, Meta Bloggin', WTF?
# posted by Nava @ 6:07 PM 
Comments:
I was watching a movie the other night where one of the characters said he wanted to be cremated and his ashes sent to the National Mint, mixed with the inks and used to print money. That way he'd be everywhere.
Ok, WOW, that's almost as weird as Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones snorting his father's cremated ashes up his nose!!
Ashkara, eh? I'm still figurin' out that it ain't life that sucks so much as what I do with it.
IWoT.
Clever idea!
At my old college's 50th. anniversary celebration they featured an artist (don't remember the name) who averred that since sheep were a prominent feature in the college's surrounding landscape he would use the sheeps' products - which we usually wiped off the soles of our shoes - to decorate the windows of the art gallery - placing another sheet of glass over the "art forms' to protect them....or the viewers' nostrils perhaps!! His slathered forms left transparent areas through which one could view the main college buildings thus integrating the animal with the college one surmises. So you see weirdness is everywhere!!
# posted by 
: 10/06/2007 6:36 PM
Sounds like a bargain. I found a company (LifeGem, that would take someone's ashes and make a diamond out of it. The cost was quite a bit higher. I wonder if it would have resale value? Depends on who it is, I guess.
I used to do this cool card trick using liquid soap and ashes. And it was pretty artistic. But the ashes were from cigarettes, not loved ones.
# posted by : 10/08/2007 4:03 AM
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IWoT.
Clever idea!
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