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The Laughing Fool, at Davis Museum, Wellesley College, is in the public domain, its origin uncertain. It is thought to be from the early 1500’s by Dutch artist Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen. I combined the image with my own photographs and textures for the “We’re Here!” group of the day Jesters, Jokers and Fools.
See original image here:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laughing_Fool.jpg
Check out all the grand foolishness going on over at We’re Here!
Submitted to Purple Mystery's challenge, "Ghosts":
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Awa Odori, also known as ‘the dance of fools’, comes from Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. “Awa” is the name of the feudal province which later became Tokushima and 'Odori' mean dance.
According to tradition, Awa Odori originated in the 16th century after drunken revellers took to dancing in the streets of Tokushima in celebration of the completion of Tokushima Castle.
While there is no firm evidence to support this, the exuberant, often frenzied nature of the dance is in keeping with the story’s theme of drunken revelry. Traditional lyrics to the music used for Awa Odori translate to “The dancers are fools and the watchers are fools; if both are fools, you may as well dance”.
Although its home is obviously Tokushima (its Awa Odori is one of the biggest street dance festivals in the world, attracting around 1.5m spectators annually), other major Awa Odori include those held in Koenji in Tokyo (which now almost rivals that in Tokushima for size) and in Minami-Koshigya in Saitama prefecture, photographed here.
Although much smaller than its cousins in Tokushima and Koenji, it still attracts around 800,000 spectators...
The proof is in the pudding, as they say. I took this shot just a little while ago as yes, it was snowing here in the suburbs of Montreal.
What a day with 2MEST and JATES....
Check 2MESTS flick for a genral summery of events...
This ones out to TWESH for the mini production we painted in the HA HQ the night before doing this......
foto by Datachump
When I was out yesterday to get a picture of "The hunters tree" I met a group of deer not far away from here. Sadly I didn´t bring my 300mm with me. As the sunset was going to be nice, I came back and the group did do me a favour to cross the field with the Hunters tree. Thanks for that.
Shot at sunrise from ground level. A small piece of driftwood is on the right. The dune look alike on the left is actually a footprint in the sand, only yards away from the foreground, but the hills in the background are miles in the distance.
On I-75 heading home and came upon this UHaul with cleverly painted rear cargo door. I certainly thought the back was open until came side by side. Nice optical illusion advertising.
Sony A6500 (ILCE-6500), Sony Zeiss Sonnar FE 55mm F1.8 ZA (SEL55F18Z)
Many thanks to everyone for your visits, comments and faves! Very much appreciated!
This is another Peace Rose that has bloomed, and I would be a fool not to appreciate it!
I hope we all were a little foolish today-why not be? It makes life a bit more fun when we can laugh at ourselves, don't you think? ;-)
Défi-self : Les pâtes.{On explore LOL}
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Ok. so I'm a fool for gold, like poppies on a spring day in the foothills of the Sierra. This was from 2019 when sufficient moisture brought spring formal wear out. This year is a no-show due to drought, and I'm already missing the opportunities, so indulge me in a little reminiscence.
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Ok Flickr, seriously? Every day something new breaks. This site is becoming unusable. Two words: Change Control.
Anyway, if I can survive this new Flickr gauntlet, there's some landscape stuff on the horizon - no pun intended. I've had a 50mm Zeiss T/S franken-lens for two years and never made a photograph with it before today. It was nice to get out and enjoy the solitude of this kind of shooting, in spite of a few mishaps and sub-freezing temps...
Galahs visiting the very tall bamboo in next door garden, late afternoon. New South Wales, Australia.
121 pictures in 2021/121 Touch down
Build for Greeble De Mayo week 3: Minifigure.
Greeble De Mayo is a contest held on the Iron Builder Discord server. Max allowed size of the build is 8x8x8 studs.