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sturm โ Into the ossuary 2
Published: 2004-09-14 19:59:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 897; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 48
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Czech Republic - SedlecTaken at the Cistercian Monastery in Sedlec. Due to plague epidemics in the 13th century, thousands and thousands of bones began to pile up. The monastery was eventually bought by the Schwarzenberg family and in 1870, a Czech woodcarver turned the bones into ghoulish attractions, one of which is this piece.
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That is a true work of art. I'd like to have seen it work.
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Yeah, pretty bizarre, huh?
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I'd love to have a masquerade there on hallows eve or halloween. Light it up. It'd be so ghastly but so fun. Dancing around under the flickering candlelight.
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lol, now there's an interesting idea 
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Mhmmm. Well, I wonder if I saved up loads and loads and loads if I could pay them enough to let them let me own it.
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lol, that would be cool... "I own a church with skulls in it", sounds like something out of a B-type horror movie
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Mhmmm. My life would be complete then.
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How weird!
This awakes many different feelings. How can only somebody have the idea to make interior design out of real human bones?! Just because their were many?! Iยดd like to know what kind of person this designer was. Iยดve to look for further information!
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Try this page on Wikipedia: [link]
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Thanks a lot for the link!
Iยดll have a look at it tomorrow.
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Just out of interest, was it weird going into the Ossuary? Like, knowing that those are actual people. I've always wanted to go there, but it's quite expensive to get to the Czech from where I am 
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Well, it's a *little* bit weird... from the outside, it's just a church like any other, but then you go down into this sparesly-lit "dungeon" where these huge piles of bones are lying around. That in itself is pretty awkward, but it gets even weirder when you see that someone has actually made decorations of other people's bones...
It was a mixed feeling of mostly amazement and a tiny bit of horror
Is it really that expensive from UK? You could go by car through the Canal tunnel and then drive all the way to the Czech republic; which wouldn't cost you anything except gas (which is, admittedly, rather expensive at the moment), especially if you take along a tent to spend the nights in
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Oooh now there's an idea....I could sleep in my car and travel through the bits of Europe...hmm, now there's a new prospect! Gee, that'd be great, especially now it's getting closer to winter! My job ambition is to be a forensic photographer so the whole macabre thingy probably wouldn't bother me as much!
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Hehe, if you're gonna sleep in your car, perhaps it'd be better to wait until it's spring or summer again... otherwise, you're gonna wake up as a popsicle one day
Nevertheless, you really should come over to the mainland one day
Are you going to an art college or something, to become a forensic photographer?
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Nah, right now I'm trying to sift through my life and decide what to do and where to go. I found out I wouldn't be able to do Forensic Photography until next September, so I have to stay at uni for now whether I like it or not!
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As far as the "where to go" part, I can recommend The Netherlands
Too bad that you have to wait for almost a year to switch to Forensic Photography, is your current study so radically different that you can't switch during the year? Or is it because of regulations and rules?
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It's just rules and regs unfortunately
Half of my family come from the Netherlands 
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Hmm, bummer... it's not cool when rules and regs are preventing people to do what they trugly want... What are you studying right now, then? (if you don't mind me asking
Cool, so you have dutch roots, one more reason to come over one day 
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I'm doing Illustration for Graphic Novels. Before, we weren't really doing anything to do with our course, but now it's getting interesting because we're doing proper briefs
I miss Holland quite a lot, I used to go over when I was younger. I miss the pancakes
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Illustration for graphic novels? As in, book covers and inside page art? Cool
Heh, we had pancakes yesterday
You should definately come visit us someday, my girlfriend makes the best pancakes in the world! With apples & raisins, brown sugar & cinnamon, bacon & cheese, maple syrup, and powdered sugar
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awwww you make me hungry >.< We learn how to draw comic books too. It's quite fun now
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Ok, good to hear that you're having a good time now, that's important for a study that you're going to spend a couple of years of your life on
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That is like something from another sick fantasy world where our values of the human life are quite absent.
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Well, since I'm not able to hop between different worlds, I can assure you that this piece is from this world
On the other hand, in most european cultures, the dead are usually left both in peace and in one piece... but knowing that the creator of this place is already dead as well, I guess we'll never know what his motivation was...
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The creator was a monk.
The church is a roman catholic-one.
'Memento Mori' was the message.
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ifi was there i would make sure and try to touche everything. its fucking insane
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*grin*
Then you'd definately be in for a surprise... most of the stuff there is protected by touch-sensitive sensors so that an alarm goes off as soon as you touch something... trust me, we tried
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Ha! that happened when we went into the wax museum once, i wanted to try and see if i could molest jesus chirst, eh yeah no luck....
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wow a somewhat macabre picture.....
I would have liked to see it a little more focused, but who am I to judge this photograph
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Hehehe, thanks
A little more focus would've been nice, yes, but I also wanted the complete chandelier to be in the picture
By the way, the black shadow on the right is caused by another light source, causing that part of the chandelier to somehow become under-exposed
Anyway, thanks for dropping by and commenting
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yeah I was also looking at that under exposed part of the chandelier, but it didn't bother me. in fact I think it's rather interesting.
and your welcome ^^
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OMG I wish I could visit this place. This is wicked....I could spend days looking at every detail. Another great capture
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