Comments on: Images of Madness http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: querent http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717840 querent Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717840 I am haunted by the memory of my mind. Gotta let that shit go. I am haunted by the memory of my mind.

Gotta let that shit go.

]]> By: danwarning http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717619 danwarning Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717619 That fellow in the middle looks like Stephen Colbert to me That fellow in the middle looks like Stephen Colbert to me

]]> By: InsertFingerHere http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717878 InsertFingerHere Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717878 Went to bed last night at midnight after working on a video edit for 10 hours, got up today at 4am to fly two hours to another city to shoot another video, got back 10pm to render the final output from the last one, and find in my inbox a "very small change" the client wants. 3 hours later, it's just about rendered out. Still have another hour at least to encode to various web flavours. Then I'm up at 6:45am to fly to another weekend-long gig, back home Monday at 2am. In short, I want someone to paint my picture right now and send it to this guy's blog... I think I've got the right look. Went to bed last night at midnight after working on a video edit for 10 hours, got up today at 4am to fly two hours to another city to shoot another video, got back 10pm to render the final output from the last one, and find in my inbox a “very small change” the client wants. 3 hours later, it’s just about rendered out. Still have another hour at least to encode to various web flavours. Then I’m up at 6:45am to fly to another weekend-long gig, back home Monday at 2am.

In short, I want someone to paint my picture right now and send it to this guy’s blog… I think I’ve got the right look.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717882 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717882 This photo in particular is a little less madness and a little more blind panic -- they're sinners being condemned to hell, and they've just now realized where they're headed. This photo in particular is a little less madness and a little more blind panic — they’re sinners being condemned to hell, and they’ve just now realized where they’re headed.

]]> By: RufusTheGreat http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717885 RufusTheGreat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717885 This reminds me of a trip I took through Italy. Every even slightly religious place you visited seemed to have some version of Judgement Day portrayed. By the end of the trip, whenever I saw a judgement day painting I had the same look of horror as those depicted in it. Coincidence or by design? This reminds me of a trip I took through Italy. Every even slightly religious place you visited seemed to have some version of Judgement Day portrayed. By the end of the trip, whenever I saw a judgement day painting I had the same look of horror as those depicted in it. Coincidence or by design?

]]> By: Lucifer http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717632 Lucifer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717632 You call it "madness", I call it a normal Friday night at the Alpha Phi sorority house. You call it “madness”, I call it a normal Friday night at the Alpha Phi sorority house.

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717636 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717636 "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here." “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here.”

]]> By: DCMarkie http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717637 DCMarkie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717637 I always liked Bosch's <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Garden_delights.jpg">Garden of Earthly Delights</a> for Renaissance weirdness. I always liked Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights for Renaissance weirdness.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717677 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717677 so there's no distinction between horror (o' hell, in this case) and madness? so there’s no distinction between horror (o’ hell, in this case) and madness?

]]> By: PauloButt http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717687 PauloButt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717687 Madness, you say? According to the new DSMV-V, madness looks like pretty much all of us. Madness, you say?
According to the new DSMV-V, madness looks like pretty much all of us.

]]> By: bklynchris http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717713 bklynchris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717713 Bravo PauloButt! But if this is what starkers looks like I guess that would be me sans birthday suit pretty much every waking moment! Bravo PauloButt! But if this is what starkers looks like I guess that would be me sans birthday suit pretty much every waking moment!

]]> By: Spynach http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717998 Spynach Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717998 Here's an image of madness from the inside out http://images.volkskrant.com/weblog/www/pub/mm/2007/04/1176717164.25341.jpg Here’s an image of madness from the inside out http://images.volkskrant.com/weblog/www/pub/mm/2007/04/1176717164.25341.jpg

]]> By: JoshP http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717760 JoshP Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717760 oh wait, combine netherlandish gothic painting w/ chompers.. I'm going to go pickle my frontal lobes listerine now. oh wait, combine netherlandish gothic painting w/ chompers.. I’m going to go pickle my frontal lobes listerine now.

]]> By: jtegnell http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/images-of-madness.html#comment-717777 jtegnell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-717777 In addition to linking to a larger version of one corner of one panel of that painting, you should have also linked to the whole thing: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Rogier_van_der_Weyden_001.jpg There are probably better versions to be found, but I'm lazy. Regarding everyone looking the same: I find that many many artists draw faces similarly. I have to assume this comes from the influence of having drawn their own portrait so many times as a study, and that the faces resemble the artist's own. Take a look at any Rembrandt painting, for example. In addition to linking to a larger version of one corner of one panel of that painting, you should have also linked to the whole thing:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Rogier_van_der_Weyden_001.jpg

There are probably better versions to be found, but I’m lazy.

Regarding everyone looking the same: I find that many many artists draw faces similarly. I have to assume this comes from the influence of having drawn their own portrait so many times as a study, and that the faces resemble the artist’s own. Take a look at any Rembrandt painting, for example.

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