{"id":18678,"date":"2013-06-05T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18678"},"modified":"2013-06-04T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:33:11","slug":"incredible-floral-skeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18678","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Floral Skeleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/floralskeleton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/floralskeleton-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"Floral Skeleton\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18721\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/floralskeleton-300x104.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/floralskeleton-150x52.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/floralskeleton-1024x357.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/floralskeleton.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click to embiggen)<\/p>\n<p>Japanese funeral home director Nishinihon Tenrei asked ad agency I&#038;S BBDO to create an &#8220;unconventional&#8221; ad for his business.  They decided to focus on celebrating the beauty of a person&#8217;s life, which remains after death.<\/p>\n<p>The result was this gorgeous life-size skeleton made of pressed flowers and ferns, titled &#8220;Life is Endless&#8221; (Spoon &#038; Tamago has another photo of the ad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/2013\/05\/08\/the-most-gorgeous-ad-for-funeral-home-services\/\">here<\/a>).  I would dearly love a framed print of this; unfortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/nishiten.com\/\">Tenrei<\/a> site doesn&#8217;t seem to mention it anywhere (although I will note that it&#8217;s the cheeriest funeral home site that I&#8217;ve ever encountered), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbbdo.co.jp\/\">ad agency<\/a> site is an impenetrable mass of Flash.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if someone were particularly ambitious they could press their own flowers and create something similar.  (The less-ambitious might try a dried-flower <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/103825386\/pressed-flower-skull-print\">skull<\/a> instead.)<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to pdq)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click to embiggen) Japanese funeral home director Nishinihon Tenrei asked ad agency I&#038;S BBDO to create an &#8220;unconventional&#8221; ad for his business. They decided to focus on celebrating the beauty of a person&#8217;s life, which remains after death. The result was this gorgeous life-size skeleton made of pressed flowers and ferns, titled &#8220;Life is Endless&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18678"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18763,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions\/18763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}