I am a huge fan of Radiolab , and happened to hear their story of the Resusci Anne, or CPR Annie, recently. I thought Pallimed Arts readers ...

We have done posts that featured unusual cemeteries in the past. I've heard people make comments about where they would want to be bur...

I recently came across an educational computer game called "The End".  The game was developed by UK broadcaster Channel 4, specifi...

Buried in the middle of Pink Floyd's album, The Dark Side of the Moon , I never really paid a lot of attention to this song, The Great ...

Happy Halloween everyone!  Traditionally here at Pallimed Arts we've used the Halloween holiday to focus on skeleton art.  In years p...

No, it's not an virtual autopsy. When I first heard the name of this internet company, that was my first guess. Written on the main pa...

There are multiple ways an artist may choose to deal with personal grief.  Some allow the theme of their work to capture their feelings. A...

At a recent event, I had the opportunity to watch the documentary, You Just Have to Laugh . This comedic documentary was appropriately put ...

The Lien Foundation has done it again.  They're making us smile by doing unconventional projects that incorporate ideas about dying i...

When I was listening to the newest Red Hot Chili Pepper album, I'm with You , I discovered the song "Brendan's Death Song...

I came across this inspiring story of artist Casey Shannon.  Casey is an artist that lives in Carmel Valley, California. At the age of 36, a...

A few weeks back, when my husband and I were on vacation in London, we came across an interesting tour. There were lots of tours we saw adv...

Artist Ray Johnson is mainly regarded as a correspondence artist, having founded something called the The New York Correspondence School, w...

This HBO documentary looks into the life and death of Diane Schuler. In 2009, Diane was involved in a head on collision that killed her dau...

British graphic designer Ross Mackintosh lost his father in 2009 to prostate cancer.  Like many artists before him, he turned to art to proc...

A question popped into my head that I paused to ponder, despite the numerous tasks on my list waiting to be checked off (or more likely m...

I discovered Redemption Song on the Rolling Stone top 500 songs list. It is listed as #66, stuck between #65 Sunshine of Your Love by Cre...

According to the National Funeral Directors Association , the cremation rate in the United States in 2009 was 36.86%, that's up from 25....

June 25th, 2011 marked the second anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson . I find it very interesting how iconic celebrities like Jack...

Paul Hill is regarded as one of the most influential photographers of Great Britain and is best known for his work " White Peak, Dark P...