Pain? No that's Humour...

With the obvious realisation that infact, although the images are meant to trigger dark, painful and sorrowful emotions, and all emotions you may try to group in with those to name but a few, for a namely few the imagery I produce is going to insight laughter, such as myself. The majority will see these images as serious portrayals of tortured, unsightly souls looking for a release, however it is true that infact they will look funny, in a queer, demented darkly humoured way. In sight of this, I would like to present a blog depicting my humour, and what may inspire me subconsciously through the way in which I have aged and seen certain aspects of comedy (or atleast, what I see as comedy...)

http://hipsterhitler.com/

A vastly deranged look on Hitler as a Hipster. It gives insights into possible ways a Hipster Hitler would have dealt with certain war scenarios, meetings and so on, and puts a smarmy metrosexual association upfront and personal. This is hilarious to me, though many may be offended by its confrontational aspects, people affected by the war etc. This is nothing that concerns me, and wouldn't even if I had been affected by the war, it's just plain dark humoured comedy.

http://gnomebomb.tumblr.com/

This is an ironic look at the life of a gnome if they were actually living as you and I. utilizing gnome associations and other aspects of what we suggest to be gnome-like, witty subtle humour is possessed by the tangle of words strewn between the images shown on this blog. I could not stop laughing the first time I saw this, it's so far fetched and ridiculous I could not help myself, even if it is dealing with the delicate times a gnome would face in reality.

Obviously my humour is not simply catered for on the internet, but also in such comedians as Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle, and Bill Bailey to name a few. Something such as Fawlty Towers attracts me due to the unnervingly easily angered Basil, played by the actor John Cleese. The way in which he is infinitly bound to be displaced from his comfort zone, inducing some sort of pain, hysteria or anger is something that really makes me laugh, not just at that fact, but also at the way in which a large section of british society also watched this, and took humour from pain, joy from someone elses distraught situation. This resilience to another's emotions makes me want to try to break down that barrier, or atleast appease it in the process. I think it also doesn't help that I don't seem to have this emotional connection or ability in myself, and so by creating works that explore emotional aptitude, I am allowing myself to try to get to grips with something so alien as emotion dramatisation of what I suggest is an abnormal amount of emotion to display over something. I could do with getting in touch with my inner emotional states more.

© Dean Ross.