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The sensuous curves of Roger Tallon. Image: Sweded.

Death Of The Week: Roger Tallon

October 27, 2011 By Andrew Tijs

Vale a giant of space-age industrial design, Roger Tallon, who helped France, and the world, experience l’esprit de l’escalier with a touch more class.

Vann-Nath

Death Of The Week: Vann Nath

September 12, 2011 By Andrew Tijs

Vann Nath would have died 30 years ago if a Khmer Rouge prison guard hadn’t written “Spare the painter.” Yet Vann’s paintings would help expose the horrors of the regime and convict that guard of war crimes.

Only naked cult leaders are taken seriously. Image: Sweded.

Death Of The Week: Ior Bock

October 25, 2010 By Andrew Tijs

Finnish pagan cult leaders need history, sure. Experiencing incest, fratricide, crippling and then fatal stabbings in your own lifetime will certainly help the mythos. But not every cult leader has a prog rock album about them.

Dash Snow says "Fuck the world" one last time. Image: Sweded.

Death Of The Week: Dash Snow

July 17, 2009 By Andrew Tijs

Ah, the life of a New York hipster artist. To be young, on drugs, screwing models, and telling your billionaire family to go fuck themselves. Pity there’s usually a heroin overdose into the bargain.

Verdict: Freaky. Image: Sweded.

Death Of The Week: Shi Pei Pu

July 6, 2009 By Andrew Tijs

Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese female impersonator who initiated the most bizarre case of international espionage ever. Only a Frenchman could exacerbate a sex and spy scandal this strange.