Only Yorick Knew What These Things Are
by raish

Comment by crik:
Quite a science collection. Looks like something you might see in a classroom.

Only Yorick Knew What These Things Are
by raish

Comment by neophyte:
Alas.....I like how the shelf fills the frame.

Only Yorick Knew What These Things Are
by raish

Comment by CharlieCarrah:
I like the variety of items here.

Something Lost in Translation
by raish

Comment by irisheyes:
I apologize I got lost in translation.. I think you have tons of personality and I look foward to seeing more of your work.

Only Yorick Knew What These Things Are
by raish

Comment by KarenNfld:
A nice display of specimins, good lighting, good shot for this challenge.

Only Yorick Knew What These Things Are
by raish

Comment by daboardergirl:
Interesting composition, and good crop.

Something Lost in Translation
by raish

Comment by noraneko:
Interesting. I actually wondered if anyone would pick up on the alternate meanings of the word 'bad' in other languages when I first saw this challenge.
I like the idea, but feel you needed to add something to give it the feeling of being your own, versus a photo of an Ikea ad. Still, there is something captivating about it. I didn't vote but probably would have given you a 6, as it is refreshingly different.

...to thine own self be true...
by raish

Comment by raish:
Thanks for all the comments here. I'm deliriously satisfied with it myself. I think this is yet another reaction to what I see as a fairly goofy challenge subject. In order to go beyond something that either looks or acts like a person, what do you have to do? The idea is to have something that apparently thinks or feels in human terms. This bit of brass is actually disingenuous in appearing to do so, which is even more human.
OK, it was a joke...

Something Lost in Translation
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Comment by raish:
There is an obscure Norwegian homomorph 'mad' which denotes fry, as in very small fish. In Danish 'mad' would be 'food', I think.
outtake:

Brushing your teeth is good. Being a little girl and brushing your teeth is even gooder. Being a cute little girl, a blonde-haired cute little girl and so on just gets gooder and gooder, until a blonde-haired, cute, white-robed little girl in a white-tiled bathroom, backlit by rays of morning sunshine and brushing her teeth, is in danger of inviting trade union representatives for heavenly hordes to complain about transgression of demarcation agreements. I thought it contrasted neatly with the Norwegian homomorph.

German too, huh? All in the linguistic family.

No added text allowed in basic editing, so it had to be xerox-like. Like the Warhol idea, though I don't aspire anywhere near it. This is largely a sort of reaction to the given theme as much as it is an interpretation of it. I'm completely happy with it.

Thanks for all the comments.

Only Yorick Knew What These Things Are
by raish

Comment by h2:
So Yorick would be the only one in the class who could read? Very nice, too bad for the slightly skewed perspective, though.