A Tragedy in One Act

Didn't know quite where to put this one. Perhaps we need a new

category: Dire Warnings!

Everything we could hope for except for a faint view of a train coming around the corner!

I had no idea that Mondrian was into juggling.

Cheers

 

PDE

We have grown so accustomed to dark images which convey bad things that seeing a predominance of white with a person falling off the platform and onto the tracks changes the paradigm.  I suppose the three lines expresses a vocalization of horror as the end is near with the approaching train. This all sounds so morbid and I wish I could put a positive spin like "they will soon be in paradise". 

I think this may also qualify as comedy, Jack. Truly, Marcel Duchamp's got nothin' on you. I think you're entering your Dada phase. I am delighted to see it. 

 

Excellent graphic image, super colour, frame and story, nice work.

Even some ample seconds before possible death, life is still colorful. Confronting Jack well seen

 

 

the day of the stick figure is over here is an example of a healthy not so stick figure

Nice graphic image, you forgot to add a cell phone that seems to be the trend now days in most of accidents that happen.

Getting back off of those tracks without any hands or feet isn't going to be easy.

Thanks for coming by and commenting on my macabre little image. A juggling Mondrian, I like that Mark. Tony, there is no Paradise for stick figures, they just go back to the drawing board. Hmm... that sounds kind of Buddhist, doesn't it, being re-used again and again. Dan, you have to view it as a kind of comedy; if you really take it serious you forget how to laugh and if you forget how to laugh, you're lost. Right about the cell phone, George. On the train last night, 75% of the passengers were engrossed in their hand held implants. Gordon, this is the latest evolution of the stick figure. They were starting to climb out of their frames so the authorities (who are kind of stick figure themselves and so are aware of the situation) had to do something.

 

Actually, this is one example of the many signs plastered everywhere in Japan warning of this or that danger. Muggers, purse snatchers, perverts, dogs pooping in the street, people falling onto tracks...everything is dangerous. It's a wonder that people still have the courage to leave the safety of their own homes.

Hi Jack, are the Japanese still into ritual suicide? if so this way lacks style.

Sorry if this is an unsuitable take take your photo.

GC.

 

That's kind of old Japan, not so much today. Nowadays someone is more likely to fall off the platform because they're paying more attention to their smart phone than where they are. It's absolutely epidemic over here.

Not sure why, but the pose of the figure together with the beams shooting out of the head makes me think the text is more "Where am I now? How did I end up here?" rather than something of imminent danger, terror and an unfriendly encounter with the train. It could be due to those smartphones indeed.

Indeed something of a more comical angle rather than a flat-out warning. The visual language here to me seems very mild and mellow; maybe it's a cultural difference? Or is this sign the odd one?

Thanks. Like you, I was more taken by the graphics of the sign than by any sense of danger or tragedy. If you're so drunk or obtuse as to fall off the platform you're probably not paying much attention to warning signs anyway.