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Showing posts with label casket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label casket. Show all posts
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Big Space Years = FUNNY Comic = Between Birth & Death PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, Life
Saturday, January 19, 2015
Friday, October 3, 2014
Friday, November 8, 2013
Artsy Coffins-Have You Designed Your Own Coffin Yet? Or Even Bought One? PREPLAN&PREPAY!!
La Salle University Art Museum Presents Jeff: Coffins and Cages
La Salle University Art Museum is pleased to present the exhibition Jeff: Coffins and Cages, September 19–
December 6, 2013. Opening reception, September 18, 2013, 5-7 p.m. Artist’s talk, December 6, 2013, 1-2 p.m.
in Olney Hall, room 100.
The exhibition, Jeff: Coffins and Cages, demonstrates the artist’s ongoing interest in themes of confinement
and mortality over the past three decades. Utilizing the compositional devices of architectural cages within
cages, and designs for the artist’s own coffin, the artist works through variations on the two motifs. This
exhibition includes work from the early 1980s to the present in a range of media including pencil and ink,
charcoal and pastel, mixed media and oil on paper, colored etchings, and a cast bronze sculpture.
www.jeffart.com
"Glass Coffin to be Shattered When in Place" 1981-91, plexiglass. 77" x 32" x 16-1/4"
"Coffin with Sealed Seven Containing Secret's for Eternal Bliss" 1986, mix media inside painted & lacquered wood, 37"x16"x7-1/2"; (Coll: Peter Stern)
"Coffin for Changing Direction" 1984-91, pine, plywood, 16-1/2" x 37-1/2" x 15-1/2"
"Coffin with Bars to Prevent Escape" 1981-4, steel, locks, 77" x 32" x 16-1/2"
"Artist's Coffin with Extra One Tied Underneath to Contain Art Critic" 1981-3, top: mahogany, bottom: pine, nylon strap, 82"x34"x32"
Coffin Installation, Alternative Museum, NYC, "Ashes to Ashes: Visions of Death" 1983
Monday, September 3, 2012
What Casket Did JFK, Mickey Mantle, etc. Use (A Sad Story)
Marsellus Casket made fine wood caskets for politicians, celebrities
Published: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 9:18 AM Updated: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 10:28 AM
Syracuse, NY -- The Marsellus Casket Co.'s building has a long history as the place where workers made fine wood caskets used in the funerals for politicians, sports figures, religious leaders and celebrities.
Here are some of the people who have been buried in a Marsellus Casket.
Tennis star Arthur Ashe
Composer Leonard Bernstein
Cardinal Terence Cooke
Jacqueline Onassis
President John F. Kennedy and his widow Jacqueline Onassis
Football coach Vince Lombardi
Baseball star Mickey Mantle
Richard M. Nixon
President Richard Nixon
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
President Harry Truman.
Here’s a history of the company.
1872: John Marsellus founds the Marsellus Casket Co.
1889: Marsellus builds a 70,000 square-foot, four-story brick building in Syracuse on the banks of the Erie Canal. At the time, it’s one of the biggest buildings between Albany and Buffalo.
1926: John C. Marsellus, son of the founder, becomes company president.
1936 John F. Marsellus, the third generation of the family, enters the business.
1978 John D. Marsellus, great grandson of the founder becomes company president.
1993: Lawrence English becomes the first person outside of the Marsellus family to be named president. John D. Marsellus becomes chairman.
1990: The company moves the majority of its casket making assembly plant to Kinne Street in DeWitt.
1997: The company is sold to Service Corp. International, the largest funeral home and cemetery business in the world.
At the time Marsellus had 300 employees and made 17,000 to 18,000 hardwood caskets a year.
2003: Service Corp. International nails plywood over the lower floors of the casket factory on Richmond Avenue before telling 315 employees that it is closing the company, and has sold its brand name, designs, patents and other intellectual property to its chief rival, Batesville Casket Co. of Indiana.
Service Corp. International tells employees that it doesn't want to invest millions of dollars for a distribution system and new equipment for the company.
May 29, 2003: The last casket rolls off the Marsellus Casket Co. line. It is a model 710, “The President, “ a mahogany casket polished to a high gloss and lined with pearl-colored velvet. It went to a Texas funeral museum.
November, 2003: The original factory on Richmond Avenue and the Kinne Street building are bought for $2.8 million by a group includes Eli Hadad ,of Miami, an investor linked to corporations that have acquired at least 13 local commercial properties.
2007: Richmond Ave. Development LLC, a Westchester County investment groups, buys the building on Richmond Avenue.
November, 2003: The original factory on Richmond Avenue and the Kinne Street building are bought for $2.8 million by a group includes Eli Hadad ,of Miami, an investor linked to corporations that have acquired at least 13 local commercial properties.
2007: Richmond Ave. Development LLC, a Westchester County investment groups, buys the building on Richmond Avenue.
Today: Fire destroys the building.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Casket Attire: Shorts And A T-Shirt?
What clothes should you wear in your casket? Something further to think about.
Per P.J. O'Rourke in "Men in Shorts: There's no fool like an old fool dressed like a young fool": More and more middle-aged men are no longer wearing suits to work. Many are wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and not well. Instead of casual Friday, every work day is casual day now. "And (we're not getting younger) you can't go to the grave wearing shorts and a t-shirt. The one place where a dress code reliably obtains is among morticians. You WILL be wearing a suit when you're dead. If your family and friends have never seen you in a suit before, there's a chance that you'll be mistaken for the funeral director. You really don't want people leaning over your casket, asking, "How much is this costing us?"
Per P.J. O'Rourke in "Men in Shorts: There's no fool like an old fool dressed like a young fool": More and more middle-aged men are no longer wearing suits to work. Many are wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and not well. Instead of casual Friday, every work day is casual day now. "And (we're not getting younger) you can't go to the grave wearing shorts and a t-shirt. The one place where a dress code reliably obtains is among morticians. You WILL be wearing a suit when you're dead. If your family and friends have never seen you in a suit before, there's a chance that you'll be mistaken for the funeral director. You really don't want people leaning over your casket, asking, "How much is this costing us?"
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Whitney Houston Funeral Crowning Moment / Casket
Whitney Houston's funeral service at New Hope Baptist Church lasted nearly four hours. It was moving and must have made a lot of people think a lot about her and God and Jesus and church and faith and religion. Ultimately the service came down to one moment really: The sound of her own voice.
At the end of the service the strains of her biggest song, "I Will Always Love You," filled the church and the TV screen. You couldn't help but be deeply moved and wonder-filled. Then six men smartly assembled next to her casket, 3 on each side. Suddenly and very dramatically they lifted the casket up on to their shoulders and then started the procession out of the church, the casket sitting on their shoulders with their hands at their sides. The casket itself was a strikingly beautiful shiny silver-and-gold one. Her mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, followed immediately behind the casket, her face framed by a large stunning black and white feathered (?) neckpiece. She was held up by two women and wailed, "My baby! My baby!" as she was led out of the church. Slightly behind her was the pop icon's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, crying uncontrollably.
At the end of the service the strains of her biggest song, "I Will Always Love You," filled the church and the TV screen. You couldn't help but be deeply moved and wonder-filled. Then six men smartly assembled next to her casket, 3 on each side. Suddenly and very dramatically they lifted the casket up on to their shoulders and then started the procession out of the church, the casket sitting on their shoulders with their hands at their sides. The casket itself was a strikingly beautiful shiny silver-and-gold one. Her mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, followed immediately behind the casket, her face framed by a large stunning black and white feathered (?) neckpiece. She was held up by two women and wailed, "My baby! My baby!" as she was led out of the church. Slightly behind her was the pop icon's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, crying uncontrollably.
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