{"id":21,"date":"2008-07-12T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-07-12T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T22:09:01","slug":"second-life-living-in-starry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/second-life-living-in-starry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life: Living in “Starry Night”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ran across this on Andrew Sullivan’s blog, where he had it intriguingly titled as “Mental Health Break.”<\/a><\/p>\n

I found this very affecting; the creativity and dedication displayed here are humbling. A preview: Robbie Dingo,<\/a> an alias for a resident of Second Life<\/a> was a fan of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night” painting, and decided to do a homage to it in 3-D using the Second Life world-building tools. Watching the video, the process is speeded up; you see all the CAD architecture, lighting\/shading, texture mapping, etc. tools employed to make that vision a reality, all set to Don McLean’s touching song. <\/p>\n

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I often say when I run across something that stands out, that shows that the creator was after something more than just satisfying a client or chasing a buck, that “Someone loved <\/b><\/i>that [fill in the blank].” That love shows through here, and I encourage you to take a few minutes out of the day, lean back in the chair and just experience this. Also, the higher-res version is available here, if you have the bandwidth. <\/a><\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: Starry Night<\/a>, Van Gogh<\/a>, Second Life<\/a>, 3-D art<\/a>, art<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ran across this on Andrew Sullivan’s blog, where he had it intriguingly titled as “Mental Health Break.” I found this very affecting; the creativity and dedication displayed here are humbling. A preview: Robbie Dingo, an alias for a resident of Second Life was a fan of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night” painting, and decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25,12],"tags":[33,852,31,11,858,853,32,30],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-new-media","category-online-video","tag-art","tag-design","tag-machinimation","tag-multimedia","tag-new-media","tag-online-video","tag-second-life","tag-visual-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}