Print isn’t dead, it’s only bleeding

Things your iPad can’t do number 3,448: Print in human blood.

Yep, there seems to be a trend occurring with two different stories in today’s RSS feed: a Swedish (where else?) black metal band uses human blood to silkscreen its posters, and an opening page in Sachin Tendulkar’s limited edition 37kg opus is made using some of his.

It’s not the first time this has happened – KISS mixed their blood with red ink for a comic book about them in 1977. As a commenter on this cover image points out, this is probably the only comic book that could one day be used to clone the characters featured within.

Next up: probably a gimmicky ad for HBO series True Blood that I really don’t want to go near. Yuck.