Back in the early 80’s, I had a friend that owned a hearse, as a cheaper alternative to a van, as he was a roving bookseller. I also had a girlfriend that was interested in performance art.
The idea was to do the movie trope “just married” decoration of a car, except do it as “just deceased” with lettering in shaving cream, the cans on strings, etc. Then produce an “Our Funeral” album in the style of the worst of overblown 80’s wedding style.
This was before I had any significant amount of wood tools, so it got hung up on the creation of the coffin. (and coming up with money to rent tuxes, pay a wedding photographer, etc) We had a volunteer to play the corpse (Brewster Kahle now of the internet archive). You might give it a little thought….
Jake von Slatt
Back in the early 80’s, I had a friend that owned a hearse, as a cheaper alternative to a van, as he was a roving bookseller. I also had a girlfriend that was interested in performance art.
The idea was to do the movie trope “just married” decoration of a car, except do it as “just deceased” with lettering in shaving cream, the cans on strings, etc. Then produce an “Our Funeral” album in the style of the worst of overblown 80’s wedding style.
This was before I had any significant amount of wood tools, so it got hung up on the creation of the coffin. (and coming up with money to rent tuxes, pay a wedding photographer, etc) We had a volunteer to play the corpse (Brewster Kahle now of the internet archive). You might give it a little thought….