Sedlec Ossuary

This place is estimated to have the bones and skulls of between 40.000 and 70.000 people artistically arranged to cheer the place up a little. When their abbot returned from a vacation to the Holy Land in the 13th century, he brought with him a sample of earth from the damned place. He sprinkled it around on the cemetary, and since then, it’s been a very popular place to be buried. Ofcourse, business got *really* boomin’ with the outbreak of the Black Plague. In the following century a church was built here, and in the century yet after that, legend has it that the task of exhuming rotten skeletons of thousands, and stacking the remains into the church, was given to a half blind monk of the order. Poor fellow. It was not untill 1870 that a woodcarver/carpenter was honoured with the other gruesome task of arranging all these skulls and bones into what it is today.

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Hidden Moves

Hidden Moves, the toybox of Welsh designer Rhys Owens, doesn’t have a lot to offer quantity-wise, but as far as quality is concerned it’s got plenty. Check out these awesome graphics, available on posters or t-shirts for no more than 25 pounds! I’m digging this style so much I might just order one, and for sure that I’m including three more images after the jump! :P (more…)