I have a bone to pick with The Day of the Dead.
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| http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/images/ |
It's meant to be a solemn occasion but it's way, way too scary.
It's giving me a headache.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/4329993236/ |
In fact, it makes me very much afraid.
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| Much Afraid from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, 1683 |
Well, I'm glad I got that off my chest.
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| https://memegenerator.net/Waiting-Skeleton |
Now I'd like to get on with my skeleton benches and all their funky bones.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Bones |
There are 22 bone benches in this sculpture. The human body has 206 bones, including 80 bones in the axial skeleton (skull and torso) and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton of the arms and legs. Did you know that each of your feet has 26 bones and . . .
Yeah, ok, that's enough anatomy. I've got to find some more Day of the Dead benches.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/jotpeh/133475559/ |
The skeleton benches came out of the closet for Halloween.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/phidauex/4465124089/ |
We had loads coming to the door asking for treats.
I even found one in my ensuite.
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| http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2980051095/ |
Oh, that old trick: popping into the loo for a cigarette.
Can I light that for you?
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| Vincent Price, 1960s film |
Some people argue that whatever skeletons get up to, they aren't that scary because you can see right through them.
That's a bone of contention.
And skulls aren't so good either. They're usually signs of danger.
Don't give up hope though, Migs. Your perfect guy is waiting on a bench near you.
You'll be together forever.
Although having been married myself, I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Love is in the air; I can feel it in my bones.
Here's a knight in shining armour. He's riding on a bench!
The knight seems to be alive, more or less. But the horse is a skeleton.
I think Miggy is maybe being too fussy. There are loads of nice men out there.
What about these two guys at the library?
Dead. Both dead.
What about this guy on a stone bench?
Too thin. Positively skeletal. And dripping with blood.
At least he's got some colour though. The trouble with skeletons is, they're almost always black and white.
Black and white is ok though. This skeleton bench is gorgeous!
I like this one too.
Er, this isn't a skeleton though.
But doesn't a pop of colour make skeleton benches more attractive?
Miggy says no.
She says if you want something lovely, look at these beautiful skeleton leaves.
These really warm the chilly autumn of my bones.
And now I need to put the brakes on this story about skeleton benches.
Man Geht Mil 1916, Hannah Hoch
A Party on Mobilisation Day 1936, Daniel Sabater
The two headless skeletons are on a CNC cut red bench based on "PlayaTech" collapsible bench designs, used for Burning Man 2009, and Pandora's Fix-It Shoppe and Lounge. They were photographed by Sam Ley at https://www.flickr.com/photos/phidauex/4465124089/ Sam is a renewable energy engineer from Boulder, Colorado.
The skeleton in my ensuite is from the wonderful Powerhouse Museum Collection on Flickr Commons. http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2980051095/ It's a plate glass negative, taken about 1900, entitled Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair. It's a gift of the estate of Raymond W. Phillips, 2008.
The praying skeleton is entitled Osteographica or The Anatomy of the Bones, published in London around 1733. It is an engraving from Gerard Van der Gucht (1696-1776) and the image is in the public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheselden_t36_prayer.jpg The author is William Cheselden (1688-1752).
That's a bone of contention.
And skulls aren't so good either. They're usually signs of danger.
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| www.etsy.com/shop/signfail |
They just rock up anywhere.
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| Carved wood rocker, 19th century Russian |
Even when you just want a taco.
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| Sign Appreciation Society, Facebook |
Although you don't want to over think your fears.
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| Monkey with Skull, 1893, Hugo Rheinhold |
In fact, you could argue that skeletons are rather cuddly and cute.
And make no bones about it, some of them are a real laugh.
In the scary stakes, skeletons don't hold a candle to vampires or witches or clowns.
Yes, they do.
Skeletons, we salute you.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/mliu92/3013958299/ |
And make no bones about it, some of them are a real laugh.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/doublecompile/14446642564/ |
In the scary stakes, skeletons don't hold a candle to vampires or witches or clowns.
Yes, they do.
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| photo by Joanna Michalak |
Skeletons, we salute you.
I don't know what goes on inside their heads though.
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| L'Assiette au Beurre 1904, Gustave-Henri Jossot |
Skeletons are very musical apparently. Some of them play the trombone.
This one plays a mean banjo.
He's playing on his own. I guess he had no body to play with.
By the way, I saw a great trio the other night.
And there was a cracking skeleton duet down at the Fibula's Arms.
They're back tonight for the Day of the Dead.
Las Calacas are very big in Mexico.
This is the artist Drida Kivera and her husband Friego. What a love story!
I know many a woman who has waited a long time for the perfect man.
It's my best friend Miggy. She's been waiting a long time so she's trying online dating.
Apparently she keeps meeting a lot of clowns.
Miggy says a wishbone isn't going to help her find a good man.
This one plays a mean banjo.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/13663658613/ |
He's playing on his own. I guess he had no body to play with.
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| photo by Joanna Michalak |
By the way, I saw a great trio the other night.
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| http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/8141311057/ |
And there was a cracking skeleton duet down at the Fibula's Arms.
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| www.thrillomatic.com |
They're back tonight for the Day of the Dead.
Las Calacas are very big in Mexico.
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| https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BonesNelson |
This is the artist Drida Kivera and her husband Friego. What a love story!
I know many a woman who has waited a long time for the perfect man.
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| https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/splendorlocity |
It's my best friend Miggy. She's been waiting a long time so she's trying online dating.
Apparently she keeps meeting a lot of clowns.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3137649302/ |
Miggy says a wishbone isn't going to help her find a good man.
Even online dating isn't going to help.
Don't give up hope though, Migs. Your perfect guy is waiting on a bench near you.
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| https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/splendorlocity |
You'll be together forever.
Although having been married myself, I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterkellystudios/190417556/ |
Love is in the air; I can feel it in my bones.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/24931020@N02/16461750339/ |
Here's a knight in shining armour. He's riding on a bench!
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/4106823451/ |
The knight seems to be alive, more or less. But the horse is a skeleton.
I think Miggy is maybe being too fussy. There are loads of nice men out there.
What about these two guys at the library?
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| http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild. |
Dead. Both dead.
What about this guy on a stone bench?
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| http://www.flickr.com/photos/garydenness/ |
Too thin. Positively skeletal. And dripping with blood.
At least he's got some colour though. The trouble with skeletons is, they're almost always black and white.
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| http://www.flickr.com/photos/mieke/ |
Black and white is ok though. This skeleton bench is gorgeous!
I like this one too.
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Er, this isn't a skeleton though.
But doesn't a pop of colour make skeleton benches more attractive?
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/klg19/8133357262/ |
Miggy says no.
She says if you want something lovely, look at these beautiful skeleton leaves.
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| https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SkeletonLeafJTL |
These really warm the chilly autumn of my bones.
And now I need to put the brakes on this story about skeleton benches.
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| Miss Unsafe Brakes, 1938 |
The story's a bit thin though, isn't it?
Positively skeletal. I guess it's more of an outline.
I'll just have to pray that it's ok.
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| http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenneroo/ |
I'll just have to pray that it's ok.
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| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheselden_t36_prayer.jpg |
I'm going dancing later.
Credits
If you don't find skeletons terrifying enough, have a look at our previous Benchsite Halloween story. You'll find plenty of ghosts, ghouls, goblins, zombies, and other horrors at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/terrifying-benches-for-halloween.html
The first skeleton sitting on a stone bench seems to be picking a thorn from his foot, so no wonder he looks miserable. The lithograph is from Elementi di Anatomia dating back to 1837-39. The source is
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/images/1200%20dpi/III-A-12.jpg
and the authors are Francesco Bertinatti and Mecco Leone at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:III-A-12.jpg
Travis is an archaeologist who is originally from Long Beach, California, though he has also lived in Seattle, Anchorage and North Carolina. Borracho is his photo of the drunk skeleton on a bench, which was taken at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in 2009. https://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/4329993236/
Much Afraid is a character from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, 1683
The skeleton sitting on a bench with a prominent ribcage is a meme generator from July 2011. https://memegenerator.net/Waiting-Skeleton What did people come up with for the waiting skeleton? Well, the usual stuff really. 1) Hello, customer service? Yes, I'll hold. 2) She said "I'll be ready in five minutes." And my favourite: Waiting for affordable healthcare.
The public artwork Funky Bones is an outdoor sculpture by Atelier van Lieshout, a Dutch artist collective led by Joep van Lieshout with a studio in Rotterdam.
http://www.ateliervanlieshout.com The sculpture was created in 2010 and is the site of a romantic picnic in the novel The Fault in Our Stars. Currently located in the 100 Acres Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park within the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Museum. Made from fiberglass, plywood and concrete, the Funky Bones sculpture consists of 22 white and black bone-shaped benches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Bones
The little skeleton looking for something is a performing skeleton which Jot Peh saw at Las Ramblas in Barcelona way back in 2006. Jot is a Dubliner who is much, much travelled. Check out his albums at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jotpeh/133475559/ And speaking of Ireland, we have some very green St. Patrick's Day benches at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/st-patricks-top-o-irish-benches.html
If you don't find skeletons terrifying enough, have a look at our previous Benchsite Halloween story. You'll find plenty of ghosts, ghouls, goblins, zombies, and other horrors at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/terrifying-benches-for-halloween.html
The first skeleton sitting on a stone bench seems to be picking a thorn from his foot, so no wonder he looks miserable. The lithograph is from Elementi di Anatomia dating back to 1837-39. The source is
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/images/1200%20dpi/III-A-12.jpg
and the authors are Francesco Bertinatti and Mecco Leone at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:III-A-12.jpg
Travis is an archaeologist who is originally from Long Beach, California, though he has also lived in Seattle, Anchorage and North Carolina. Borracho is his photo of the drunk skeleton on a bench, which was taken at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in 2009. https://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/4329993236/
Much Afraid is a character from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, 1683
The skeleton sitting on a bench with a prominent ribcage is a meme generator from July 2011. https://memegenerator.net/Waiting-Skeleton What did people come up with for the waiting skeleton? Well, the usual stuff really. 1) Hello, customer service? Yes, I'll hold. 2) She said "I'll be ready in five minutes." And my favourite: Waiting for affordable healthcare.
The public artwork Funky Bones is an outdoor sculpture by Atelier van Lieshout, a Dutch artist collective led by Joep van Lieshout with a studio in Rotterdam.
http://www.ateliervanlieshout.com The sculpture was created in 2010 and is the site of a romantic picnic in the novel The Fault in Our Stars. Currently located in the 100 Acres Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park within the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Museum. Made from fiberglass, plywood and concrete, the Funky Bones sculpture consists of 22 white and black bone-shaped benches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Bones
The skeleton looking into another skeleton's head is an illustration from a French anarchist magazine published in 1904. The illustrator is Gustave-Henri Jossot (1866-1951
The two headless skeletons are on a CNC cut red bench based on "PlayaTech" collapsible bench designs, used for Burning Man 2009, and Pandora's Fix-It Shoppe and Lounge. They were photographed by Sam Ley at https://www.flickr.com/photos/phidauex/4465124089/ Sam is a renewable energy engineer from Boulder, Colorado.
The skeleton in my ensuite is from the wonderful Powerhouse Museum Collection on Flickr Commons. http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2980051095/ It's a plate glass negative, taken about 1900, entitled Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair. It's a gift of the estate of Raymond W. Phillips, 2008.
Yes, Head of a Skeleton With Burning Cigarette is by the great Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). It was created in 1886.
Sign Fail is one of the brilliant discoveries I have made on etsy. Michael Bancroft from Melbourne makes funny sign replicas inspired by real-life hilarity - the best of Chinglish and Engrish on handmade funny signs, cards & magnets. There are loads of Sign Fail signs on Benchsite. They're quirky, cool, inexpensive, great fun. www.etsy.com/shop/signfail
The little red skeleton child on a bench was in San Diego way back in 2008. The photo is by Mike Liu, a dad who fancies himself a writer. He describes himself as an occasional oversharer, in the classical internet-neat-stuff-curation sense of the word. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mliu92/3013958299/
In 2015 two skeletons in Portland, Oregon seem to have tickled the funny bone of a man on a bench https://www.flickr.com/photos/doublecompile/14446642564/ The photo is by an extroverted software engineer, outdoorsman, role-player, and otaku who communicates mostly in movie quotes. Here's looking at you, kid.
Joanna Michalak sent me the skeletal hands holding up candles, and the skeleton head with a very flimsy body which looks like it might be made out of a hessian bag. I know Thin is Good and all that, but really, it's not much of a body, is it?
The two saluting skeletons holding candles are in the wonderful Franche Compte museum at the Citadelle in Besancon, France. This quirky museum shows all facets of rural life in Franche Compte.
Sign Fail is one of the brilliant discoveries I have made on etsy. Michael Bancroft from Melbourne makes funny sign replicas inspired by real-life hilarity - the best of Chinglish and Engrish on handmade funny signs, cards & magnets. There are loads of Sign Fail signs on Benchsite. They're quirky, cool, inexpensive, great fun. www.etsy.com/shop/signfail
The little red skeleton child on a bench was in San Diego way back in 2008. The photo is by Mike Liu, a dad who fancies himself a writer. He describes himself as an occasional oversharer, in the classical internet-neat-stuff-curation sense of the word. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mliu92/3013958299/
In 2015 two skeletons in Portland, Oregon seem to have tickled the funny bone of a man on a bench https://www.flickr.com/photos/doublecompile/14446642564/ The photo is by an extroverted software engineer, outdoorsman, role-player, and otaku who communicates mostly in movie quotes. Here's looking at you, kid.
Joanna Michalak sent me the skeletal hands holding up candles, and the skeleton head with a very flimsy body which looks like it might be made out of a hessian bag. I know Thin is Good and all that, but really, it's not much of a body, is it?
The two saluting skeletons holding candles are in the wonderful Franche Compte museum at the Citadelle in Besancon, France. This quirky museum shows all facets of rural life in Franche Compte.
The skeleton looking into another skeleton's head is an illustration from a French anarchist magazine published in 1904. The illustrator is Gustave-Henri Jossot (1866-1951
The skeleton playing a banjo is an animated Halloween decoration from Walgreens for Halloween 2013. It's from the collection of Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube. I saw it in Mike's Flickr photostream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/13663658613/
The skeletons playing the piano are from the National Archives UK, 1893.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/8141311057/
What is it with skeletons playing musical instruments? The Day of the Dead skeleton couple are from www.thrillomatic.com I really like them! They have featured on Benchsite before, at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/gambling-on-love-in-las-vegas.html
The Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera second wedding photo is by Bones Nelson in Canada. Sherri Nelson makes all kinds of dazzling folk art, including this brilliant portrait print photo. Her etsy shop is at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BonesNelson and her website is at www.sherrinelson.ca She sells a wide assortment of Day of the Dead psychedelic art prints, custom portrait paintings, kids' clothes, sugar skull ornaments, gothic art, rockabilly art , necklaces, printable cards, PDFs and home decor.
Calaca is a colloquial Mexican Spanish name for a skull or skeleton. Calacas are prominent in Mexico and are especially used as decorations for the Mexican Day of the Dead festival on the first of November. LetDrida Kivera Frida Kahlo and Friego Rahlo Diego Rivera show you the magnifico fiesta of Mexican benches we found at
Gone are the days when wedding toppers were scared grooms and bored brides. At Splendorlocity in Stone Mountain, Georgia they have all kinds of amazing wedding toppers, including themes with lots of people sitting on benches. Day of the Dead Goth themed wedding toppers? No problem. A skeleton bride who has waited for ever for the right man? Yes, definitely. And much more besides. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/splendorlocity
Peter Kelly is a business analyst from Sound Beach, New York. He went travelling back in 2002 and saw lots of bizarre things, including the skeletons in love on a bench; they were in a very strange sculpture park in
Nong Khai, Northeast Thailand. https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterkellystudios/190417556/
Valerie Everett lives in Tuscumbia, USA and is a frequent Benchsite contributor. She was out and about on Christmas Day in 2008 when she photographed Ronald McDonald on a bench in Indianapolis. https://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3137649302/
In his album Words, Ozzy Delaney spells out words using, um, the stuff that the word is about. So, the word Orange is made from slices of carrot. Fire, cheese, popcorn, toothpaste, nuts and bolts, guess what? With bones, don't worry, it's not human bones. It's vertebral chicken bones. https://www.flickr.com/photos/24931020@N02/16461750339/
Pascal likes benches and he likes skeletons. His skeletal horse on a bench with a knight was a photo for Bench Monday back in November 2009. Pascal says that the advantage of being undead is that you always get the bench you want for Bench Monday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/4106823451/
The skeletons sitting at a table (in the library?) are from the Bundes archive Bild in Berlin's Arbeitsschitz Museum in 1931. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-
11038,_Berlin,_Arbeitsschutz-Museum.jpg
Gary Denness is a British expat who used to live in México scraping a living as a TEFL teacher. He photographed the skeleton on a bench and has a set called Mexile 365 with a Mexican picture for every day of the year. He and the delightful Paola seem to spend a lot of time travelling. http://www.flickr.com/photos/garydenness/
I was intrigued when I saw Studio Job, the black and white bench of animal skeletons by Mieke Tacken in Amsterdam. Mieke's photostream shows a real commitment to design: she goes to all the design shows and takes photos of amazing things. Like some other people I know, she seems to have an interest in photographing seating of various kinds. Chairs? There are thousands. And quite a few brilliant benches too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mieke/
The zebra is from Jolly Roger Ltd. Lifesize Models in the UK. http://www.lifesize-
models.co.uk They have thousands of quality resin and fibre-glass 3D life-size models, figures, signs, statues, props, furnishings, etc. Their showroom has over 2000 themed models, which include animals, people, and everything from counter-top coffee beans to fullsize elephants. Their Facebook page shows some of the models in amazing situations https://www.facebook.com/TheJollyRogerLtd You will also find them talked about on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lifesizemodels
Karen Green is a librarian in Manhattan. She says that the red, white and black Halloween skeleton bench is her kind of bench. She photographed it in Hopewood, New Jersey in 2012. https://www.flickr.com/photos/klg19/8133357262/ We're very literary here on Benchsite so you'll find plenty of book benches to suit any librarians. http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/world-book-day-dewey-need-library.html
Samantha Lyth runs Skeleton Leaf Craft Supplies in North Yorkshire in England. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SkeletonLeafJTL She makes skeleton leaves, bodhi leaves, and mixed colour packs, such as the lovely autumn leaves shown in the story. The leaves look delicate but they are very durable and great for crafting, printing, card making, gift tags, table decorations, scrapbooks & wedding invitations etc. Just by chance, a friend gave me a lovely pair of earrings this week, stuck into a gorgeous turquoise skeleton leaf. Samantha's skeleton leaves are from the Pará rubber tree, skeletonised, and dyed in a variety of hues including yellows, reds, and various shades of brown to look rather like fallen autumn leaves. If, like me, you've fallen for autumn benches, see http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/falling-for-autumn-benches.html
Stick People Dancing on a Bench is a work of light graffiti by glenneroo, who is
currently based in Vienna. glenneroo does a lot of portraits and he gets around; he has sets from all sorts of places, and a whole set of light graffiti photos as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenneroo/ For a whole alphabet of dance benches see http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/an-alphabet-of-dance-benches-for-world.html
The skeleton playing a banjo is an animated Halloween decoration from Walgreens for Halloween 2013. It's from the collection of Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube. I saw it in Mike's Flickr photostream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/13663658613/
The skeletons playing the piano are from the National Archives UK, 1893.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/8141311057/
What is it with skeletons playing musical instruments? The Day of the Dead skeleton couple are from www.thrillomatic.com I really like them! They have featured on Benchsite before, at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/gambling-on-love-in-las-vegas.html
The Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera second wedding photo is by Bones Nelson in Canada. Sherri Nelson makes all kinds of dazzling folk art, including this brilliant portrait print photo. Her etsy shop is at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BonesNelson and her website is at www.sherrinelson.ca She sells a wide assortment of Day of the Dead psychedelic art prints, custom portrait paintings, kids' clothes, sugar skull ornaments, gothic art, rockabilly art , necklaces, printable cards, PDFs and home decor.
Calaca is a colloquial Mexican Spanish name for a skull or skeleton. Calacas are prominent in Mexico and are especially used as decorations for the Mexican Day of the Dead festival on the first of November. Let
Peter Kelly is a business analyst from Sound Beach, New York. He went travelling back in 2002 and saw lots of bizarre things, including the skeletons in love on a bench; they were in a very strange sculpture park in
Nong Khai, Northeast Thailand. https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterkellystudios/190417556/
Valerie Everett lives in Tuscumbia, USA and is a frequent Benchsite contributor. She was out and about on Christmas Day in 2008 when she photographed Ronald McDonald on a bench in Indianapolis. https://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3137649302/
In his album Words, Ozzy Delaney spells out words using, um, the stuff that the word is about. So, the word Orange is made from slices of carrot. Fire, cheese, popcorn, toothpaste, nuts and bolts, guess what? With bones, don't worry, it's not human bones. It's vertebral chicken bones. https://www.flickr.com/photos/24931020@N02/16461750339/
Pascal likes benches and he likes skeletons. His skeletal horse on a bench with a knight was a photo for Bench Monday back in November 2009. Pascal says that the advantage of being undead is that you always get the bench you want for Bench Monday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/4106823451/
The skeletons sitting at a table (in the library?) are from the Bundes archive Bild in Berlin's Arbeitsschitz Museum in 1931. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-
11038,_Berlin,_Arbeitsschutz-Museum.jpg
Gary Denness is a British expat who used to live in México scraping a living as a TEFL teacher. He photographed the skeleton on a bench and has a set called Mexile 365 with a Mexican picture for every day of the year. He and the delightful Paola seem to spend a lot of time travelling. http://www.flickr.com/photos/garydenness/
The zebra is from Jolly Roger Ltd. Lifesize Models in the UK. http://www.lifesize-
models.co.uk They have thousands of quality resin and fibre-glass 3D life-size models, figures, signs, statues, props, furnishings, etc. Their showroom has over 2000 themed models, which include animals, people, and everything from counter-top coffee beans to fullsize elephants. Their Facebook page shows some of the models in amazing situations https://www.facebook.com/TheJollyRogerLtd You will also find them talked about on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lifesizemodels
Karen Green is a librarian in Manhattan. She says that the red, white and black Halloween skeleton bench is her kind of bench. She photographed it in Hopewood, New Jersey in 2012. https://www.flickr.com/photos/klg19/8133357262/ We're very literary here on Benchsite so you'll find plenty of book benches to suit any librarians. http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/world-book-day-dewey-need-library.html
Samantha Lyth runs Skeleton Leaf Craft Supplies in North Yorkshire in England. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SkeletonLeafJTL She makes skeleton leaves, bodhi leaves, and mixed colour packs, such as the lovely autumn leaves shown in the story. The leaves look delicate but they are very durable and great for crafting, printing, card making, gift tags, table decorations, scrapbooks & wedding invitations etc. Just by chance, a friend gave me a lovely pair of earrings this week, stuck into a gorgeous turquoise skeleton leaf. Samantha's skeleton leaves are from the Pará rubber tree, skeletonised, and dyed in a variety of hues including yellows, reds, and various shades of brown to look rather like fallen autumn leaves. If, like me, you've fallen for autumn benches, see http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/falling-for-autumn-benches.html
Stick People Dancing on a Bench is a work of light graffiti by glenneroo, who is
currently based in Vienna. glenneroo does a lot of portraits and he gets around; he has sets from all sorts of places, and a whole set of light graffiti photos as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenneroo/ For a whole alphabet of dance benches see http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/an-alphabet-of-dance-benches-for-world.html
The praying skeleton is entitled Osteographica or The Anatomy of the Bones, published in London around 1733. It is an engraving from Gerard Van der Gucht (1696-1776) and the image is in the public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheselden_t36_prayer.jpg The author is William Cheselden (1688-1752).
Miss Unsafe Brakes appeared at the Chicago Auto Show in 1938. I guess it makes some kind of sense.
The very, very thin couple walking together are not skeletons but they are seriously thin. The work is called Man Geht Mil and I have not been able to get a sensible translation of this. It was created in 1916 by German artist Hannah Hoch.
The dancing skeletons are a painting by Spanish artist Daniel Sabater (1880-1951). Made in 1936 at the start of the Spanish Civil War, it's called A Party on Mobilisation Day. No political metaphor there then.
A dogbone bench comes in handy when you have a lot of hungry dog benches to feed, as I did when I wrote the Noah's Ark story on Benchsite . The Tenino Dogbone bench is from Marenakos in Preston, Washington. They make a variety of granite dogbone and other types of benches. www.marenakos.com And who'd have thought a dog bone bench would be so useful? If you're into bones and anatomy, there are some very nice medical dogs on Benchsite at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/feelgood-medical-benches-for-world.hthttp://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/feelgood-medical-benches-for-world.html ml And indeed some very nice dog benches too.
A dogbone bench comes in handy when you have a lot of hungry dog benches to feed, as I did when I wrote the Noah's Ark story on Benchsite . The Tenino Dogbone bench is from Marenakos in Preston, Washington. They make a variety of granite dogbone and other types of benches. www.marenakos.com And who'd have thought a dog bone bench would be so useful? If you're into bones and anatomy, there are some very nice medical dogs on Benchsite at http://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/feelgood-medical-benches-for-world.hthttp://benchsite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/feelgood-medical-benches-for-world.html ml And indeed some very nice dog benches too.
