Brian Dettmer‘s  stunning tape skull…

(via designboom) 

 Brian Dettmer on flickr

The mortises, a memento mori by Ryan McNamara and Kool-Aid Mizrahi…

All this grieving calls for a soundtrack, something with a beat that would also remind us of our imminent deaths. (If art distracts from our mortality, it also serves to reinscribe our finitude—like a child, art should outlast us.)…

…This is my death rattle.

What about Jerome Considerant‘s updated pictograms instead of the old, conventional road signs?

Beautiful digital art by AandG (Alexey & Galina)…

after game, 2007

Christian Lemmerz‘s sculptures…

“…Death has stood as a central artistic theme. Not only physical death, but also the emptiness of existence. His works attempt, not without some measure of ambiguity, to transgress our collective repressions and draw forth the seamy side of ideal pictures in order to create a conflict-ridden confrontation between work and viewer….”

Untitled (Virginia), Carrara Marble, 1998

It was 1999 when Jake Scott shooted the amazing Hey Boy, Hey Girl video for the Chemical Brothers….

watch it on youtube