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As if you had to ask: Our tombstone will be a list of the Top 10 People, Things, Places and Times of Our Life. We have a draft of the list going at all times, which we revise almost daily as new things happen and the order changes and some things seem less significant. As [...]

Obviously it’s very, very easy to kill snowmen: just turn up the heat. Nevertheless, a popular trend in creative snowman sculpting is to stage horrible scenes of murder, death and bloodshed in the snow, with plentiful splashes of red spilling all over the pristine white winterscape. WebUrbanist recently rounded up 38 Scenes of Cold-Blooded Snowman [...]

There’s something very appealing about the idea of having a funny tombstone, rather than one that is solemn and muted. After all, if there’s anywhere that needs a little humor to lighten the mood it’s the cemetery. Manofest has done some impressive digging to find The 25 Funniest Tombstones, out favorite of which marks the [...]

Yesterday we heard the sad news that American photographer Roy DeCarava had passed away at the age of 89. One of the pioneers of a new kind of American street photography, especially between the late-40s and late-60s, DeCarava focused his lens on the desolation of the neighborhood where was spent most of his life: Harlem. [...]

As you may have heard, Irving Penn, the famous photographer who shot virtually every celebrity and famous designer from the late 1940s onward, died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Manhattan home. Aside from his fashion photography for Vogue, Penn was probably best known for capturing playful and intense moments with some of [...]

You presumably heard about the little girl who was saved from certain car-crushing death by a metal pole in a shopping mall parking lot, right? Well, she’s just the latest in a series of death-defying folks saved by some miraculous stroke of luck on camera. Epic Carnival has assembled the luckiest listicle ever, featuring The [...]

Few things, you’ll surely agree, are more exciting than a swash-buckling big-screen battle of sword-wielding opponents. As with actual human history, some of the greatest and most significant disputes in film history have been resolved at sword-point. The rich canon of bladed throwdowns gets a loving tribute in Gunaxin’s listicle of 10 Memorable Movie Swordfights, [...]

As you’ve surely heard by now, Patrick Swayze, the 80s superstar responsible for the enduring popularity of the mullet and, conversely, making it okay for men to wear leggings, passed away yesterday after a bout with pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. Lest we forget, though, he did a great deal to make it [...]

Legendary modernist architectural photographer Julius Shulman (seen in the self-portrait at right) passed away Wednesday night at age 98, and over the course of his rich, visionary career, he captured some of the most legendary modern structures of the 20th century, both in the U.S. and abroad, by architects like Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, [...]

Remember that time you had that really deep discussion about which way you’d die given the choice between fire and ice? Well, there’s a reason water is never an option: drowning extremely painful. It’s also kind of pathetic and doesn’t exactly make for the most exciting cinematic death, usually. Sometimes it’s actually awesome, as you’ll [...]