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Alas, Poor Yorick
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Uploaded: 07/23/17 6:41 AM GMT
Alas, Poor Yorick
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I put a border around the image for people like me, who have a taskbar along the bottom of their desktop, so that they wouldn't lose a good chunk of the tombstone behind the taskbar. If you would like a copy of this image without the border or if you would like the image in a different size, just send me a message and I would be happy to alter it for you. Thank you for looking!
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Your creative ideas have no limits Lisa. a skull with a circus clown's cap! The intense colours of the cap in sharp contrast with the rest of the image. Wonderful work once again!
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Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
Lisa, I can't help it, but I have the feeling that I've seen this 'guy' before. Don't like the grin on his face. Think however that this 'joker' tries to tell me a joke, ☺ .
Great piece of art. Like your presentation too!
Very well done again!
Great piece of art. Like your presentation too!
Very well done again!
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Try to change what you can't accept, but accept what you can't change. Please CLICK HERE to see my journal! Feel free to save my images or to add them to your favorites.
You are one with a creative mind my friend, I really enjoy these creations of yours, I like the title for this one seems the perfect one for this very different, and very well done work. tigs=^..^=
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫
Credits Shakespeare with the original creative idea. I simply borrowed from his vision.
Historically, Yorick's court jester hat wouldn't have looked like this. It would have been more of a hooded cowl, but I didn't want to obscure the tombstone with the cowls's breast collar. This is more of a harlequin-type jester's cap.
I chose the "intense colours" for the cap, because red and white are the colors of the Denmark flag and royal court, Raj. The royal crests also frequently used a bright yellow with the red and white.
In the Middle Ages, when Shakespeare's Hamlet is set, Death itself was frequently garbed in jester's clothing, as Death targets everyone and always has "the last laugh". I believe that was part of Yorick's symbology in Hamlet.
The tombstone's gothic winged skull is also based on an actual historical, somewhat popular, and super creepy tombstone decorative design.
Historically, Yorick's court jester hat wouldn't have looked like this. It would have been more of a hooded cowl, but I didn't want to obscure the tombstone with the cowls's breast collar. This is more of a harlequin-type jester's cap.
I chose the "intense colours" for the cap, because red and white are the colors of the Denmark flag and royal court, Raj. The royal crests also frequently used a bright yellow with the red and white.
In the Middle Ages, when Shakespeare's Hamlet is set, Death itself was frequently garbed in jester's clothing, as Death targets everyone and always has "the last laugh". I believe that was part of Yorick's symbology in Hamlet.
The tombstone's gothic winged skull is also based on an actual historical, somewhat popular, and super creepy tombstone decorative design.
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Well done Lisa and quite an imagination. Reminds me of the Joker since I am a Marvel comics fan.
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Life's moments are sweet. I just want to capture all that I can of them.
You're quite the deep intellectual kind. Great entry and narrative!
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Long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the dark green forests were too silent to be real. Lightfoot 1967
Grins at Frank ... Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? (Not sure that the Joker "in the comics" ever actually said that though. Maybe just the movie Joker?)
And Alex, uh ... thanks?! :)
And Alex, uh ... thanks?! :)
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Different I like different got my fave and save.
Rob
Rob
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The reason why the sun sets in the evening is because it wants to see the sunrise in the morning. I rise in the morning because I want to see them both. RvdB
The Yorick maybe dead but at least he's still smiling Lisa! Why would anyone want you to alter it? It's a great image. (o:
This is Phlossys fifth comment folks.
This is Phlossys fifth comment folks.
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Progress equals a trashed planet since mankind is too busy altering it. BTW find the classic definition of Caedes here. Enjoy yourself today (o: because you don't know what tomorrow may bring.
(:X "Alas, poor Yorick...I'm kind of glad I never met the guy!" X:)
...You're not turning into one of these, are you?
Likey...faved...
...You're not turning into one of these, are you?
Likey...faved...
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"Put up...or SHUT UP!" Visit Jhihmoac's Gallery
Being a fairly modern guy, the Shakespearean idea of burying a dude, waiting a few decades, then digging up his rotted corpse just so I can have an ironic, self-absorbed conversation with his detached noggin is so old school to me. Why wait?
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There are more things in heaven and earth,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy. W.S.
Why wait?
Russ, uh ...
You're less likely to be interrupted by grieving relatives.
Yorick would be less wormy and sloppy after a few years of drying out.
You're the Prince of Denmark, can do whatever the hell you want, and have a vested interest in people thinking that you're batshit crazy.
And ... Ophelia needed the grave.
All very commonsense motives in the delusional mind of a fictional Danish dude.
Russ, uh ...
You're less likely to be interrupted by grieving relatives.
Yorick would be less wormy and sloppy after a few years of drying out.
You're the Prince of Denmark, can do whatever the hell you want, and have a vested interest in people thinking that you're batshit crazy.
And ... Ophelia needed the grave.
All very commonsense motives in the delusional mind of a fictional Danish dude.
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I wonder what Bill Shakespeare would have made of Night of the Living Dead. Or my favorite, Evil Dead 2. You don't go into the grave to get the corpse, the corpse comes out to get you.
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There are more things in heaven and earth,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy. W.S.
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"Put up...or SHUT UP!" Visit Jhihmoac's Gallery
That may be the sexiest picture of Shakespeare that I've ever seen!
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A nice piece of work..I do like the addition of the hat here!