Slog - Comments on What Happened to You After You Died http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died If you happened to be an inmate of the Oregon State Insane Asylum between 1883 and 1970s and nobody wanted your body, you were cremated and sealed inside a copper canister. You sat on a shelf in your canister, numbered somewhere between 01 and 5118. Over time, your ashes reacted chemically with your canister, as the canister reacted chemically with the air. You were inside, trying to get out. Then, in 2005, a photographer named David Maisel found you, took your portrait, and just published it in a book called Library of Dust.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:00:39 -0800 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:03:26 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by adrian that is the coolest fucking thing i've ever seen

]]> adrian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172791 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172791 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:05:19 -0800 Comment by mollie aw, i was hoping mr. mudede would see this, as it seems quite up his alley, but i'm glad someone at the stranger appreciated it :-)

]]> mollie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172800 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172800 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:19:09 -0800 Comment by ballard dude Amazing...

]]> ballard dude http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172803 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172803 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:19:47 -0800 Comment by nightlifejitters Wow, copper must have been pretty cheap back in the day. These pics remind me of aerial photos of mine tailings, which are of course nasty pieces of work, but rather pleasing from high above.

]]> nightlifejitters http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172807 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172807 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:21:19 -0800 Comment by mmmm you can still taste the crazy.

]]> mmmm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172816 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:36:46 -0800 Comment by d.bkieneker Sounds like a movie prop...

"North by Northwest" meets
"The Hellfighters" in Alaska,

with Beck doing a fuzzy soundtrack
pre-Modern Guilt

answering Elvis Costello with a Question....

"What ever happened to you before Martini met McMurphy doing Nurse Retched's neckline?"


"LET"S SEE WHAT ELSE SARAH PALIN CAN TELL THOM YORK!!!!!!!!"

]]> d.bkieneker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172827 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:55:12 -0800 Comment by jrrrl that table makes me so sad. i can just imagine how horribly people were treated.

]]> jrrrl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172828 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172828 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:55:18 -0800 Comment by snakes I also assumed this was a Charles post, until I saw what was below, and realized my error.

]]> snakes http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172830 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:56:14 -0800 Comment by Matthew @8: Me too.

BTW: This is the best thing I've seen on Slog in forever. Excepting Monica Bellucci's rack.

]]> Matthew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172833 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:58:18 -0800 Comment by homage to me My god. How beautiful and heartbreaking. And scientific, too.

]]> homage to me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172854 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:31:14 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Bailo Thomas I wish my roommate would fucking die.

]]> Jonathan Bailo Thomas http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172863 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172863 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:52:53 -0800 Comment by TVDinner What is it about mental hospitals that is so eerie? I live near Eastern State Hospital, and its late 19th century brick architecture runs a chill up my spine every time I drive up to it.

I've worked in the hospital, too, interpreting between English and Spanish for the crazy people, and it's like entering a world time forgot. The staff is never in a hurry, the cliché that it's hard to tell them from the patients is true, and there's a tiny bowling alley in the basement of one of the many sprawling buildings.

One day I met the president of Iraq. He was doing water aerobics in the pool.

]]> TVDinner http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172898 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172898 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:02:06 -0800 Comment by Kristin Bell creepy, somehow horrific...could have been my fate had I been born earlier in time! shudder...

]]> Kristin Bell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172899 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:06:23 -0800 Comment by reverend dr dj riz .. this is the loveliest post i've seen in sometime..and by the way. i didn't recognise who you were til after you left..sorry about that.old age is a bish..
kisses to you and yours anyways..

]]> reverend dr dj riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172922 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172922 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:13:00 -0800 Comment by slap happy Geoff Manaugh profiled Library of Dust on BLDGBLOG a few months ago, but nothing prepared me for actually looking through it at Elliot Bay a few weeks ago. Absolutely incredible.

]]> slap happy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172924 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:15:41 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Wow. Those are beautiful.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172926 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172926 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:29:59 -0800 Comment by Clint You find some of the neatest things.

]]> Clint http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172938 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172938 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:35:30 -0800 Comment by pretentious that is a very visually beautiful epilogue to some very sad and painful lives. i want that kind of legacy. thank you.

]]> pretentious http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172960 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172960 Life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:28:07 -0800 Comment by DJ Eternal Darkness Those are incredibly cool. Wonder if there's prints...

]]> DJ Eternal Darkness http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172977 Life Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:33:18 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger I have always wanted to be creamated. Now I TOTALLY want to be put into a copper container!!!! That would be a cool looking way of going out!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172995 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1172995 Life Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:29:15 -0800 Comment by sepiolida It's beautiful!

@11, ????

]]> sepiolida http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1173021 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1173021 Life Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:17:45 -0800 Comment by Eric F @19, they are prints, big lovely prints. He shows with Haines Gallery in San Francisco and Von Lintel in New York. The book turned out really well, it's oversized and the plates are impeccably printed.

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1173054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died#c1173054 Life Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:03:26 -0800