Greek artist Petros Vrellis creates an interactive version Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, through the use of open source C++ toolkit openFrameworks. The painting’s brush strokes are animated and the user can temporarily play with and change the painting.
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Paul Strand, Photograph (“Abstraction~Bowls”); Printed in Camera Work December 1916
First abstract photographic still life.
Walter Benjamin: A Literary Organism Analysis by Stefanie Posavec
There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour and have meaning only under the eyes of love.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Grant Wood March, 1939 (Lithograph)
I survived. ‘He survived to tell the tale’—that’s what people say, don’t they? History isn’t the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It’s the more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
