Hedgehog's Dilemma

Wikipedia: Hedgehog's dilemma

Mark Doty: Gone

The Touching Story Behind These Unique Headstones

The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband who, due to the segregation of the period, were not allowed to be buried together.

In the 19th century, the Dutch lived with a form of segregation known as pillarisation. The two primary pillars were the Catholic and the Protestant. Each pillar had there own separate schools, newspapers, banks, hospitals, trade unions, political parties, ect. This often led to a situation were people of one pillar had little to no contact with people from another.

In 1842, J.W.C. van Gorkum, a colonel of the Dutch Calvary, married  J.C.P.H van Aefferden. The marriage was no doubt scandalous as van Gorkum was Protestant and van Aefferden a Catholic. Despite this, the two remained married until the passing of van Gorkum in 1880. Eight years later van Aefferden passed away. Though the couple wished to be buried together, the pillarisation of the period would not allow it. As a work around, arraignments were made for each to be laid to rest near the wall which separated the Catholic side of the cemetery from the Protestant side. The tomb stones rise above the wall with two hands reaching over the top clasped together.

Headstone of J.W.C. van Gorkum

Headstone of J.C.P.H van Aefferden

The cemetery near the chapel in't Zand

Pillarisation

Boing Boing: Segregated headstones reach over the cemetery wall

Tony Schwartz: Nancy Grows Up

Heard this on the Radiolab episode on time. American sound archivist Tony Schwartz’s ‘audio time lapse’ of his niece year-by-year from one month old to 13 years of age in under two minutes. I found it very touching.

FYI, you will probably need to adjust your volume down.

listen to ‘From birth to age 12: "Nancy Grows Up" by Tony Schwartz’ on Audioboo

90 year old grandmother experiences virtual reality

I really want to bring back the phrase "Holy Mackerel!"

Collected Image Films

I really like these (what I refer to as) collected image films.  I find they come together nicely to portray the intended story or theme, yet at the same time leave me feeling a little bewildered.

I think you have to watch these two or three times to get the full emotional effect, since the first time around your brain is trying to work through the confusion.

This first one titled "From Love to Bingo" is an advertisement for Getty Images and was created by AlmapBBDO advertising.  Really loved this one.





The second one titled "Ball" was created by artist Daniel Mercadante.


Ball from Daniel Mercadante on Vimeo.

A fun thing to do with these flims is to randomly stop it to see what the still image is.  For instance, in the first video image 392 is a shot of the power rangers, 413 shows bizarre clown dolls and 535 is a man looking at a astronaut in a space suit