Ideas that are given to the world

In honoring the memory of a budding artist whose work I enjoyed, I'm taking this time to applaud him on the physical direction that he decided to take this lunatic character . Classically (never thought I'd be using that term to describe comics) most of the world knows the joker as this : the well-groomed-perfect-white-complected-well-placed-red-lipstick wearing madman. The legions of comic nerds know him as such especially, and when dealing with them, you tread on dangerous territory because despite their looks, they will fuck you up. I'm not sure if Heath Ledger knew of these dangers, but he flew in the face of all that and brought a new version of the Joker to the masses. When this image of the new Joker was first released, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen, but it made sooo much sense. From one image, you could tell it was a real life mad man, a Joker that, apparently toward the end of shooting the "dark knight", was staying in Heath so much that he was getting only 2 hours of sleep a night. Fuck the perfect green hair, you can see that my shit is clearly dyed, but I'll still cut ya! Fuck the chemical bath perfect white skin, my shit is makeup, makeup runs, but I'll still shoot ya! And lastly, fuck the permanent smile, that shit hurts and I can't have my face hurting while I'm being devious so I'm just gonna carve it into my fucking face!

Combined with a great online marketing strategy, new trailers and a 6 minute preview of the film, Heath Ledger and Christopher Nolan have forever changed the image of the Joker. Already, a google image search of the character yields many images of this interpretation (as well as the occasional porn). Though the character didn't start out this way, once it was released into the world, it began to morph and change in nature. That, in my opinion, is probably the highest honor any creator can have; being present for your idea to be birthed into the world and then watching as the world molds it. Though the world may fuck your shit up every now and again, when they get it right, its truly something to behold. Now get those ideas flowing and release them into the world and as I always do at this time, get that inspiration bitches...

Heath Ledger (1979 - 2008)

just added: Christopher Nolan's Newsweek article about Heath

"Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren't many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them."