Memeing the Early Modern: Danse Harlem Shake Macabre #WoodcutWednesday

While I should have spent the past few days finishing my post on Othello’s “Arabian trees” that drop “medicinable gum,” I, instead, spent the last day or so working on a new late medieval/ early modern meme experiment. The “Harlem Shake” phenomenon’s coolness has dissipated in about the amount of time it takes to watch a Harlem Shake video, but I decided to try my hand at making one anyway.

Taking the Danse Macabre as my inspiration, I present you with this:

[youtube=http://youtu.be/4XYqWstm8uM]

What better way to celebrate the death of a meme, than to meme death itself?

Here endeth this leaf of Shaping Sense, called Memeing the Early Modern: Danse Harlem Shake Macabre #WoodcutWednesday. Imprinted by Senseshaper Press at senseshaper.com, firſt ſet forth the twenty-ſeventh day of February, 2013. Free to read, ſhare and cite under CC BY‑NC 4.0. Finis.

Cite as
Fisher,
Zachary [Senseshaper].
“Memeing the Early Modern: Danse Harlem Shake Macabre #WoodcutWednesday.”
Shaping Sense,
27 Feb. 2013,
senseshaper.com/memeing-the-early-modern-danse-harlem-shake-macabre-woodcutwednesday.
Short form: Senseshaper, “Memeing the Early Modern.”