Best Read of the Day — Putting the Fun Back in Funeral!
Creative urns! Some crazy artists are exhibiting their own creations for their own cremations.
Take, for example, the Ego Machine, David Sullivan’s pre-post-mortem opus:
Sullivan said he wanted to create an urn that was visually interesting, allowed some user interactivity and referenced the physical body. He decided that his remains will be integrated into a computer processor. A virtual agent running on the computer that contains his ashes will scour the web for mentions of his name. As the mentions increase, an on-screen image of Sullivan will morph into an image of his younger self. But if the mentions decline, Sullivan’s image will age, deteriorate and eventually fade away.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that this kind of “user interactivity”, or any kind for that matter, is the first major innovation in urns in centuries.
