Official website up!

Obituaries1913.com

For those who don't know, the project known as Obituaries 1913 commemorates the lives of 22 people. For each, there is a portrait (by Joel Kelly), an obituary (by Mark Yakich), and a song (all inst. T. McLaughlin). Quite simple, really.

Now everyone can sample the exhibit online, including high quality uploads of the portraits, obituaries, and songs.

Click "CD" to buy the 47 minute CD, complete with a 24 page booklet including all portraits and obituaries. You can sample a few more tracks there.

Check out upcoming exhibit information, as well as a series of pictures taken at both the opening and closing events, in the "SHOWS" section.

It is our pleasure as well as our duty to share the lives of these people with you.

Enjoy,

Tom McLaughlin

CLICK HERE FOR SAMPLE #1

Grand Opening

Greetings-
Some of you may know better than others what we have been working on for (our whole lives?) over a year now, but now is the time to give some more information.

About a year ago, an idea for a project involving music, images, and stories came to me. It was realized that this project should be called Obituaries 1913.

And so we have it. The idea is simple: 22 persons' lives commemorated through a charcoal rendering, an obituary, and a song each (with iPod and headphones for each, to ensure proper isolation). I worked with master painter Joel Kelly for the charcoal renderings, and with poet Mark Yakich for the obituaries. I am responsible for all music/sound. Together we have brought to life [again] the essence of these forgotten persons. May you just show up, take it all in, and react with them how you feel.

I hope so dearly (and I mean it, my M.O. is just to share this work with you, it's free so you can be sure of that) that you all can join us on one of the "opening" dates for this project at the Coup d'Oeil gallery, at 2033 Magazine St. in New Orleans (across from Juan's). The artist reception/opening will be held from 7-10pm on Saturday, April 17th. The companion CD release party/closing extravaganza will be held on Saturday, May 1st, 8-11pm. It will run in the gallery from April 15th-May 6th, so if you can't make it to one of those dates (gasp) you can at least check it out on your own time. In fact, even if you go to one of the openings you should come back to the gallery, again and again and bask in the pure humanity; but I digress.

Check out the links below if you have a sec. Attached is a preview of one of the person's songs.

I will be leaving the city (for at least a long while) in May, so it is very important to me that I share this with you before I leave. Very.

Warmest regards to all,

Tom McLaughlin.

http://tom.jomby.net/Miscellany/AG-obit-PAGE.pdf
www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com/upcomingevents.htm
www.Obituaries1913.com



Mick Veent

May Day!

On the 1st of May, as we reach the point equidistant from both equinox and solstice, we remember the labors of those who walked these streets before us. To all that pushed forward, against the wind, our heart is with yours.

Spring is upon us, and with the opening of the earth we welcome an earnest dedication to lives past. We started the Obituaries 1913 project to honor many of those whose passing was not properly commemorated. It is our duty to carry out the excavation of these remnants, as to share with the world the riches of their lives.

Let us not set bonfires, come Beltane, to ward away spirits of the Otherworlds; rather, let us celebrate them.

We hope that you join us in April at the Coup d'oeil gallery in New Orleans.

Light upon Light.

Industry.

Disinterment.

Dalanquist Dilbangiel

Unearthed.

"In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist."
-Thich Nhat Hanh