Monday, April 27, 2015

Joker's tattoos



Today I tried to force myself to think only of sensible things, of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings but you kept pulling me down, pulling me down like gravity and like I'm wearing cement shoes. Look at all those heavy entries down there.

That's sealing wax.

That would makes sense in a nonsensical poem. My version is better. Loftier. See how you keep dragging me down, dragging me down? 

Then I encountered this lofty video on this rarified subject and see it handled as I was thinking, as so many were thinking how ace this movie's Joker's tattoos are and why, except in reverse to show the absurd choices made for the show. It's not an insane criminal getting a tattoo, it's a regular guy having a regular tattoo the regular way by usual tattoo-logic. Reversed too because tattoos are already absurd so it's reversed to sensible so far as tattoos can be called such.

The Joker is insane so he will have insane tattoos. Random things all over the place. Well executed, but random. Not done all in one sitting. Inked in manic fits here and there, not all at once, so, inconsistent style with varying degrees of mania. I look at what they did with Jared Leto for the movie, or maybe this conception, and think, "Yes, this." 

The parody in the video relies on presenting the Joker as a regular guy having the tattoos done all at once and not over time and inconsistently in manic insane fits, and planned with a tattoo advisor, rather than self-inflicted as the Joker would do. But then, you'd expect "damaged" written backwards as if he did it himself. 


3 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Jokes on you, America.

Slush

ricpic said...

It Could Be Worse

Chipster in the sky with diamonds,
Dullards want to drag him down;
At least he's not a scary Joker
In an alley in Denver town.

Methadras said...

It's interesting to see the progressions of the levels of imagery across the decades become more and more disturbing. This isn't disturbing to me per se, but I find it fascinating how as mores and progressivism has become more ingrained in our culture, the loosening or de-anchoring of morals and ethics in this country has led to a downward spiral of imagery depicting things like debauchery, insanity, mania, sexual depravity, etc.

People predicted that this would happen, but no, they were considered squares or uptight and now we have descended into what we are today and then those that complain how this happened wonder when the answer was always before them. Now we have to deal with mess that these people have created. It's no wonder civilizations burn after a time.