Comments on: De sterrennacht

De sterrennacht

flyingsquirrel — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:37:58 -0800

Van Gogh's famous painting The Starry Night, rendered as a moving image.

By: Grumpy old geek

Grumpy old geek — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:41:14 -0800

This pretty much what an acid trip looks like if you stare at an image long enough (usually 2 to 3 seconds).

By: Fizz

Fizz — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:45:49 -0800

He really needs to do this with Edvard Munch's The Scream.

By: jammy

jammy — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:48:42 -0800

beautiful. thanks for posting this!

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:51:17 -0800

I've always believed that the only thing that should be "rendered" is lard, and have tended to leave classic works of art out of the oven.

By: damehex

damehex — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:54:04 -0800

I don't understand all the talk of the video being 'interactive' in the description and vimeo comments. Does vimeo have some extra functionality that I am not figuring out how to access?

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:11:57 -0800

I don't understand all the talk of the video being 'interactive' in the description and vimeo comments. Does vimeo have some extra functionality that I am not figuring out how to access? It's not the vimeo video but the actual physical artifact which is interactive.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:21:32 -0800

I like it.

By: Big_B

Big_B — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:30:33 -0800

This pretty much what an acid trip looks like if you stare at an image long enough (usually 2 to 3 seconds). See also: Psilocybin

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:34:20 -0800

See also: Drempels screensaver. Last time I used this was on WinXP, so I have no idea if it still works, but it was awesome at the time.

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:45:56 -0800

Yes, this is EXACTLY what my psychedelic experiences have been like. Minus the touch screen, of course. Amazing to see it with my "normal" eyes.

By: SmileyChewtrain

SmileyChewtrain — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:57:31 -0800

Buuut I thought it already was a "moving" image... (showing myself out) (then peeking back in)

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:04:10 -0800

I saw one once that was based on the film Taxi Driver. You could put your finger on Travis Bickle and move him around the screen. If you rubbed him next to Harvey Keitel a hard rain fell and washed all the scum off the streets. If you rubbed him next to a taxi it made a 'cha ching!' sound. If you rubbed him next to Cybill Shepherd once, he grew a mohawk and she said 'ew'. Twice, and everyone in the scene grew a white afro. Three times and Christopher Walken popped up and said 'no means no'.

By: GavinR

GavinR — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:22:09 -0800

Totally should have used this as the background music.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:30:46 -0800

There was a lovely moment in the Doctor Who episode Vincent And the Doctor that did this (been trying to find that clip), where Vincent Van Gogh is talking about how he sees the night sky ("Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air....") and as he talks, the static shot of the stars gradually shifts and swirls and transforms into the sky from Starry Night.

By: George Lucas

George Lucas — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:34:52 -0800

All art is technology and it improves every year.

By: Hoopo

Hoopo — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:57:27 -0800

I'm not wild about this. Cool toy I guess, but the painting itself already does a great job of expressing motion this seems superfluous

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:02:19 -0800

It's really weird, but I rarely ever saw images or TV of recording artists, back in the day. Don Mclean here, in Gavin's link, singing "Vincent", is annoyingly attractive. Yesterday I made the same discovery about (vintage) Greg Lake.

By: LoudMusic

LoudMusic — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:05:27 -0800

All art is technology and it improves every year. All technology is art and it improves every year.

By: timshel

timshel — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:10:04 -0800

COOL

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:18:10 -0800

I like it. Art is fluid, sometimes literally so.

By: Decani

Decani — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:03:05 -0800

Totally should have used this as the background music . posted by GavinR at 4:22 PM on February 11 [3 favorites +] This is a level of incorrectness that even I, with my massive, swelling vocabulary, do not have words to adequately express.

By: Megami

Megami — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:35:42 -0800

Have to admit I was ready for this to be way too twee for me, but it was actually lovely. As I said to my partner while watching this, I almost wish I did drugs if this is the outcome.

By: killdevil

killdevil — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:52:48 -0800

It's like that drug trip in that movie I saw when I was on that drug trip.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:49:32 -0800

I almost wish I did drugs if this is the outcome. Acid takes it to a whole new level, though. You can actually enter the painting in 3 dimensions. Like, you know the opening credits from "Carnivale"? ...kinda like that. The downside: no "off" switch. Also, you tend to worry about a lot of strange things, and become intensely interested in the mundane. (this can be an upside as well, of course)

By: beagle

beagle — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:26:39 -0800

Last month we had Guernica in 3D. Now Starry Night animated. While we are at it, Mona Lisa animated. Las Meninas 3D. All of these are really corruptions of the painter's intent. They don't add understanding, depth or interpretive value. Study the painting the way the painter painted it.