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    Weird new goings on -Art and Digital

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    Whoa... Imagine that.

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    Amazing what magazines like the Atlantic will publish these days, eh?

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    Stupid is as stupid does.

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    I suppose that's a tiny bit interesting as an illustration or retouching exercise but I see no real underlying value.

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    Now they should do the Mona Lisa thru a Holga.

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    Let's face it: impressionism is just laziness. It's about time someone start cleaning it up and making it more believable.
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    As someone who has long been obsessed with Van Gogh, I find this pretty interesting. What strikes me most is how the intensity of that particular picture has been almost completely removed in the translation. I actually had a Van Gogh calender in my office last year and that self-portrait was one of the pictures. About midway through the month, my oldest son (he's ten) asked me very seriously if I would please take it down because it scared him. It really is an almost unbearable picture (I mean that as a compliment), but the 'photo' is well, just a photo.

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    Well if Van Gogh did want to take a blurry self-portrait with a camera, the technology
    certainly existed back then. No need for a Holga or Fauxtoshop blur setting, or the necessity to rephotograph a bad web image on a monitor. Perhaps he preferred real lead
    pigments because he could eat them; but he was probably a lot less insane than some
    of these magazine editors.

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    I enjoyed reading "Lust for Life" by Irving Stone, it presents a very interesting take on Van Gogh. But what was interesting for me with regard to this article is just how three dimensional the end result became and that the final product bears a rather striking similiarity to a friend. In my minds eye there is no doubt Van Gogh was a inovative artist. Some would argue the most influencial of his time-if not on all modern art.
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