Breaking: Actor Robin Williams found dead in home.

[Snapdragon]

This friend also is an artist, and just to give a glimpse into what it is like to be him, I am posting a picture he calls "the color of crazy". If you think about it, it also seems to reflect Robin's work, just in a different medium.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

Much of Robin Williams stand up was fast, intense, somewhat insightful and f-ing funny.
Robin Williams Stand Up Comedy rare old material very funny - YouTube

I posted this video because it is funny and posted six months ago (not a recent post for his death). But filmed 10-20 year before? His stand up was awesome.

The man touched my heart with Patch Adams, and Good Will Hunting.

I recently loss my cousin to suicide, he was 25. I think my cousin could of made this place a little bit better if he would of hung around.

Robin Williams did make this a better place. He made millions laugh, and he made me cry by acting in rolls were we can effect other people in a positive way.

 

[CindyE]

My son is an art student and was hit hard by this as his father committed suicide almost five years ago. This was his sketch that he drew this morning as a tribute to a man who made him laugh many times during his childhood. We enjoyed so many of his movies together.

He normally doesn't comment on celebrity news, but this one he just had to use as an opportunity to post on his FB page about depression and suicide hotlines that are available. Prayers for Robin's family as they deal with this tragic loss.

I really like this portrait, it made me smile.

 

[Snapdragon]

My son is an art student and was hit hard by this as his father committed suicide almost five years ago. This was his sketch that he drew this morning as a tribute to a man who made him laugh many times during his childhood. We enjoyed so many of his movies together.

He normally doesn't comment on celebrity news, but this one he just had to use as an opportunity to post on his FB page about depression and suicide hotlines that are available. Prayers for Robin's family as they deal with this tragic loss.

This captures him so well, Mom.

 

[CindyE]

I was sad most of the day yesterday, thinking about this, and life in general. He was a brilliant man, and did a lot of good, there always seemed to be a bit of a sadness about him. I'll have to catch up on some of his work I haven't seen yet.
I think it's fair to say nobody should judge Robin for his suicide. He reminds me a bit of my father, and also a friend of ours, both struggled with alcoholism and inner demons, and were funny and smart guys. Both gone too soon, as well, despite having so many people who cared about them.
When I was younger, I would have thought, "How could someone like Williams be depressed?" Now I know sometimes it is just that way.

 

[Expat]

Maybe it's just me but doesn't it seem as though so many comedians have a self-destructive side to them?

We have seen a lot of them die from drugs, alcohol, suicide, other self destruction... John Belushi was probably the most upsetting for me, back in the day.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves | Cracked.com

Don't blow this off just because it's on Cracked. It's a serious and very well written article. I have perspective on it in a sideways sort of way, plus some experience with a few "troubled" people. Also cf Smokey Robinson "The Tears of a Clown". Once you understand it, it won't be such a mystery that the funniest among us self destruct at such a rate. Regardless availability of help, you have to seek it, and that can be the hardest thing, especially when there's so much invested in the "happy" facade.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Gun Quotes from Robin WilliamsSTSA by Gregory Smith | STSA by Gregory Smith

 

[ArcadiaGP]

So this is disgusting.

Zelda Williams Deletes Twitter - Business Insider

People are real ****holes.

 

[actaeon277]

So this is disgusting.

Zelda Williams Deletes Twitter - Business Insider

People are real ****holes.

Yes some are.

 

[pudly]

Gun Quotes from Robin WilliamsSTSA by Gregory Smith | STSA by Gregory Smith

The quotes were taken from this bit:

[video=youtube_share;PGeWT5vuYZ0]http://youtu.be/PGeWT5vuYZ0[/video]

 

[Alamo]

Maybe it's just me but doesn't it seem as though so many comedians have a self-destructive side to them?

Not just comedians. I think it has long been commented on that many people who seem especially creative/intelligent also suffer from a mental illness. I suspect that the same mechanisms of the mind that let a person break free from present reality and imagine something new, that allow things to be cobbled together in new ways, also allow the mind to go too far, to become a little too free-floating and unhinged, and it becomes impossible to distinguish between creative/useful in the real world, and madness. People are often urged to break down the walls of their thinking to become more creative, to look beyond for new insights, but there might be a reason for some of those walls. Suspending judgment can allow you to see new things, but eventually judgment about what's a good idea and what's not has to come back into play.

John Nash, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1994, did the work that won him that prize as a very young man just about the same time that he was developing full-blown paranoid schizophrenia. In his case he had audible hallucinations, people (voices) that were telling him strange things. Years later when his illness had miraculously gone into remission, one of his friends asked him how he could have believed all the crazy stuff the voices were telling him. I don't remember his answer to quote exactly word for word, but basically it was that the voices were coming from the same place that his insights into economics, mathematics, cryptography, etc were coming from, so there was no reason not to disbelieve them.

There might really be such a thing as being too smart for your own good.

 

[mom45]

I saw this on the news web site tonight.

Wife: Robin Williams had Parkinson's disease | Entertainment - Home

 

[Hookeye]

Burn twice as bright, for half as long.

 

[pudly]

I always appreciate great artwork. This is very impressive.

[video=youtube_share;YIaEaB3tbWc]http://youtu.be/YIaEaB3tbWc[/video]

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Robin has been an odd situation with me. I've been seeking things to watch recently, and started in on the "Louie" series on Netflix, by Louis CK.

Season 3 Episode 8, first half featured Robin Williams. The premise was humorous, and Robin was older... white goatee.

Every time I see it, it's laughter with tears... and I can never tell if the tears are from the laughter or from remembering Robin. I don't know why... I remember the night he died... I remember sitting there in front of the TV watching the coverage of his death...

At the time, Depression was a huge deal in my life... with relation to multiple relatives taking their own lives... my own dealings with it... etc. It wasn't until recently that I'd see his actual cause of death was Lewy Body Dementia. Regardless... his death definitely pulled depression into the spotlight. Especially when coupled with his personal talkings about depression and troubles.

I dunno. Just rambling tonight. Saw that episode of Louie... now I'm binging a bunch of Robin Williams tributes with a bottle of bourbon... just felt like posting.

 

[Spear Dane]

I understand. There are/have been so many great comedians but if you have to name "One Comedian to Rule Them All"...Robin Williams is it, hands down.

 

[patience0830]

Robin has been an odd situation with me. I've been seeking things to watch recently, and started in on the "Louie" series on Netflix, by Louis CK.

Season 3 Episode 8, first half featured Robin Williams. The premise was humorous, and Robin was older... white goatee.

Every time I see it, it's laughter with tears... and I can never tell if the tears are from the laughter or from remembering Robin. I don't know why... I remember the night he died... I remember sitting there in front of the TV watching the coverage of his death...

At the time, Depression was a huge deal in my life... with relation to multiple relatives taking their own lives... my own dealings with it... etc. It wasn't until recently that I'd see his actual cause of death was Lewy Body Dementia. Regardless... his death definitely pulled depression into the spotlight. Especially when coupled with his personal talkings about depression and troubles.

I dunno. Just rambling tonight. Saw that episode of Louie... now I'm binging a bunch of Robin Williams tributes with a bottle of bourbon... just felt like posting.

Hang in there, G. Life is good. Bourbon is not Xanax.

 

[mom45]

Hang in there, G. Life is good. Bourbon is not Xanax.

This ^^^^^^

My ex-husband/father of my children, used alcohol rather than the meds he was prescribed. It did not end well for anyone. Please take care of yourself.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Robin has been an odd situation with me. I've been seeking things to watch recently, and started in on the "Louie" series on Netflix, by Louis CK.

Season 3 Episode 8, first half featured Robin Williams. The premise was humorous, and Robin was older... white goatee.

Every time I see it, it's laughter with tears... and I can never tell if the tears are from the laughter or from remembering Robin. I don't know why... I remember the night he died... I remember sitting there in front of the TV watching the coverage of his death...

At the time, Depression was a huge deal in my life... with relation to multiple relatives taking their own lives... my own dealings with it... etc. It wasn't until recently that I'd see his actual cause of death was Lewy Body Dementia. Regardless... his death definitely pulled depression into the spotlight. Especially when coupled with his personal talkings about depression and troubles.

I dunno. Just rambling tonight. Saw that episode of Louie... now I'm binging a bunch of Robin Williams tributes with a bottle of bourbon... just felt like posting.

Stay strong. I don't believe you're religious, but here's a verse that helps me when my thoughts turn towards dark thoughts.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.