A calendar of buffed morticians, graphic art from fingerprints and DNA and Flickr jumping on the bandwagon with a DNA button - sounds like a creative Crime Story to me.
Crime Story – DNA, Mortuaries and Fingerprints
The three topics of this article may well be part of a crime story.
I grew up in the brutality of apartheid South Africa and am now living in a young democracy in Africa that is finding it’s feet - violence and death are part of our everyday lives.
Don’t get me wrong, South Africa is not a war zone, but with HIV/AIDS and violent crime, we probably come much more close up with death and dying via our media and in our personal lives than most people living in the West.
So, like people who work with death everyday, death just becomes part of the cycle of life, which for me, includes a healthy does of humor, sometimes bordering on the macabre.
I wrote the Lighter Side of Forensics article and highlighted three very different; forensic-type issues which almost sound like part of a crime story;
Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar
I couldn’t make enough puns about grave humor and keeping a stiff upper lip and really digging this calendar, but it is for such a good cause and the guys are quite gorgeous. I think a Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar is the perfect item to hang on an exec’s office wall.
Flickr DNA
What will Flickr come up with next? Flickr has become so much a part of the visual web experience that one can’t ignore it, so take a look at Flickr DNA and check out the fit of your genes!
DNA 11 Art - DNA Portraits, Fingerprint Portraits, Kiss Portraits
It didn’t surprise me when I looked at this website that DNA Art would be so popular. After all we all want something unique, totally unique and what is more unique than DNA Art, Fingerprint Portraits or Kiss Portraits?
And that’s the wrap to this creative crime story.
