Tag: Bryn Scott-Grimes

Princess Diana’s Funeral, Played and Replayed

19 December 2023
death, mortality, the deadfilmfuneral, commemorationfunerals, cemeteriesmedia, technologymemoriesmetaphor, symbolpassageperformance, play, entertainmentpolitics
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The year 2023 is about to turn into 2024. The Crown, a televisions series treatment of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, is currently playing on Netflix. The series includes two funerals, one for Princess Diana, the other for her deceased lover, Dodi Fayed. The funerals occur in season 6, episode 4. The current media…

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Cápsula del Tiempo (Time Capsule)

19 May 2020
death, mortality, the deadfunerals, cemeteriesthings, objectstime, historyvideo & audio
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Earlier I wrote a post about coffins: Before the pandemic arrived, I had begun building a coffin with my friend Ted not because I’m dying but because, as my daughter put it, Dad’s not afraid of dying. Truthfully, Dad is a bit afraid, but he displays his fear by defying death. Dad is self-inoculating, staving…

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Big questions

22 November 2017
aging, childhood, adolescencereligion, spiritualityvideo & audio

When the kids were little, we began tossing them big questions. Where are your dead grandparents? Where do babies come from? What is a good person? What’s bad? If the house were on fire and you had to grab one thing, what would it be? These videoed interviews took various forms: storytelling, metaphysical speculation, flights…

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