franco the great, known as harlem’s picasso via mike j.

Anonymous Works: Colonial New England Headstone Carving

comicallyvintage:

Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine

Steve Ditko from Black Magic Volume 4 Number 4 (whole number 28), Jan.-Feb. 1954.

claytoncubitt:

Morton Roberts, Storyville and Jazz scenes for LIFE Magazine, 1958 (link)

“It was pretty, all right, to see those funerals. A man belong to one of the organizations and die, his widow say ‘let him have music’ so the organization hire a marching band. On the way out to the cemetery, before they bury the man, the band played most all hymns, like ‘Just A Closer Walk with Thee.’ But once they left there, then they started to swing. They wouldn’t be 25 feet from the graveyard before they hit ‘Didn’t He Ramble.’ Yes sir, he rambled, he rambled. Then they’d play ‘Sing On,’ or ‘The Saints.’ The kids would come a runnin’, wanting to jump. So they’d form that second line beside the band. Everybody else would be bouncing along too, some with baskets of flowers, some with those sharp lookin’ umbrellas. I liked to see that. Finally the band would get to the lodge hall and break up and that was always the end of a perfect death.’

See also: Wynton Marsalis plays ‘2nd Line’ live + History of the Second Line in New Orleans

Also also: Monkmus animated video featuring Second Line for Kid Koala’s amazing version of ‘Basin Street Blues’

Also more: Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club at 100

Also last: Sunset Over St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans

cosmic-dust: goodghoul

cosmic-dust:  bobowoodlake softener

craftstream:

Funeral Wreaths commemorating rejection letters by Gina Dawson

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anormalanomaly:

Charles Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette

anthrolology:

via

comicallyvintage:

seltzerlizard:(via retrospace)

claytoncubitt:

Coffin Couches, ‘Low Rider’ model, $3500 plus shipping

(via emmacooper)

Life in the Cemetery via anthrolology

Amazing photo essay about 10,000 Filipino families who live in the northern town cemetery in Manila:

Some of them got there by accident. Some inherited the mausoleums from their great-grandparents and now live in there. Others came from the province and are unable to earn enough money to live in a big city.

In all cases, mainly families have nowhere to go.