Category Archives: Poetry

Starry Night: Animated

Petros Virellis has spun an update to the famous painting

I did nothing more than to try to visualize the flow and combine it with background responsive music. All the feeling still resides on the original masterpiece. The composed music has a charmolypic mood (a greek word for joy and sorrow as one). The interaction serves only to provide alternative views of the painting. It’s not meant to be used as a “game”.

The programming was made with openframeworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.

Reminds me of Amiga art with DPaint in 1989

American Military Suicide Rates

News seems to continue building about the rate of U.S. soldier suicide versus combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Rep. Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat] said a fuller reckoning of the number of suicides among military personnel and veterans is needed not so much to tell lawmakers and the public that there is a problem — that, he says, they know. Rather, it is needed to more accurately gauge the extent to which programs to help troubled troops are having an effect.

US Soldier Suicide Rate
‘american kills’ by chilean-born new york based artist sebastian errazuriz

Vado a bordo, cazzo!

Audio has been released of the Commander of the Livorno Port Authority yelling orders at the Captain of the Costa Concordia (nearly 115K tons and 1,000 feet long) after it rammed into rocks at 15 knots in calm waters on the 13th, began to sink and was declared abandoned.

Sinking of the Costa Concordia
Police divers close to the wrecked cruise ship off the coast of Giglio island, Italy. Guardian UK Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA

Here’s a YouTube version with translation. Note the line at 2:10 “Vado a bordo, cazzo!” (Go on board, cazzo!):

Italian maritime criminal law says a captain who abandons ship in danger can be punished with prison.

The captain of the luxury liner shipwrecked off Italy on Friday has explained his early escape from the vessel by claiming he stumbled into a life raft and was unable to get out.