Sarah Doherty

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    What a great way to market yourself in the afterlife. Art Caskets, is a company that sells special interest caskets. Kicked the bucket and cremation isn’t your style? Why not plaster your favorite activity on your casket for all to see. Depicted here is the golf theme, but there are plenty more to choose from. Categories range from military to special interest, to religioui and lifestyle.

    I learned about this site in my Digital Print Processes class today. My professor was extremely enthusiastic about it, as it does push the means of printing in an entirely new direction. However, I don’t think this is the way I would like to go.

    The class got a good chuckle over my inquiry as to how long the print will last on the casket. If I’m paying for a golf scene of the last supper, I want to know if its going to disintegrate in a few months or if a few years down the line I can check on Great Aunt Suzy’s resting place.

    Extra money on something ridiculous? I think so. But its sure would allow for some interesting conversations at the funeral home, and the possibility to market yourself- even after death.

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    1. Winson said on April 25, 2005 8:21 PM:

      omg by professor, do you mean Mike Riordan?

      i think i took that same class last year, and not only he, but another student (Mark, i thiink that’s the name.. or Greg, or something), was absolutely too excited about it.

      i thought building wraps were the shizness, boy was i wrong!

      (btw.. large format printing is HUGE here in Hong Kong. It’s a rarity to not see any large format outputs in the local mtr stations.. from subway to station wraps.. you name it and it’s probably here.)

    2. Sarah Friedlander said on April 26, 2005 1:10 AM:

      Winson - Professor Mary Anne Evans; she is awesome.