Ryan Kattner, a.k.a.
Honus Honus, the
lead singer of
Man Man, came up
with the idea in
2013 when he was
on tour with the
band and got a bad
case of the flu.
“I felt dead,” he said, “so I
just started posing in dead
positions.“
Since then, he’s kicked the
bucket everywhere from the
fake Prada store in middleof-nowhere Marfa, Texas,
to – yes – the gallery housing
arguably the most famous
piece of art in the world (out
of which he was escorted
immediately). Wherever the
band has toured, Kattner has
died – again, and posted the
picture to his Instagram feed.
For any meme-nerds out
there who think this is just
planking, you’re wrong.
There’s an extra lifeless
quality to “deadagain.” The
aim is not to gleefully balance
on handrails — the more it
looks like a murder scene,
the better. And there’s the
missing shoe element, unique
to Kattner’s hashtag.
“I think I’m just trying to be
Laura Palmer,” he said. “Minus
the wrapped-in-plastic and
being beautiful.
“I want to print them out now
and have an art show.”
“When we were driving from L.A. to San Diego, we got to
stop at Tony Hawk’s offices, so I took a ‘deadagain.’”
108 . TRAVEL WITH PURPOSE