In 125 Years, Millions Of People Have Looked At This Painting. No One Really Saw It Until Now.

[Omaha Steve]

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http://www.upworthy.com/in-125-years-millions-of-people-have-looked-at-this-painting-no-one-really-saw-it-until-now?c=upw1

Curated by Alisha Huber

I'm not easily impressed, OK?

I know Van Gogh was a genius. If the point of this were "Van Gogh was a mad genius," I would not be sharing this with you.

But I found this and I thought, "Oh, what a vaguely interesting thing." And then I got to the part about the Hubble Space Telescope, and, let me tell you: Mind. Blown.

We've got the set up here, but you have to watch the video for the full effect. It's all the way at the bottom.


MUCH more at link you should look over first.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. Amazing! I love the neuroscientific ramifications of this!

Thanks for posting, OS!

[daleanime]

2. Kick....

[Jim__]

3. The description at the end reminded me of Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Living with a Wild God."

In that book, Ehrenreich describes episodes in her life, mostly in her adolescent years, where she experiences a form of visual dissociation. She sees things, familiar objects, and yet they don't appear to her as those familiar objects, but rather as (I'm speaking from memory so this may be somewhat off her description) form and color floating in her visual field. She could still recognize the object, but she wasn't processing it visually as an object. Ehrenreich said that her linguistic description could not do justice to the experience. She believed that she was experiencing an aspect of reality that our senses normally mask - again, that's my recollection of what she was saying.

[tblue37]

15. I like to disorient my students by telling them that their senses are not there

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mainly to convey information to their brain, but rather to filter out almost all the information that is out there, so they can focus on the tiny bit of info necessary for survival without crashing their wetware computers.

[Jim__]

17. I'd say that's pretty much in agreement with what Ehrenreich was saying. - n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Good stuff!

[mopinko]

5. art. more than something to hang over the sofa.

and people wonder why we should have government agencies to support artists......

and a reminder that van gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. he would have starved without his brother, theo.

[Hekate]

6. Fascinating! KnR

[840high]

7. kick

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. K & R

interesting

[BeanMusical]

9. Really cool!

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. posted to for later

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

11. Thanks Steve... Totally awesome!

[FourScore]

12. being a genius and having mental issues seem to frequently go hand in hand. n/t

[abakan]

14. Great stuff!

Thanks K&R

[rurallib]

16. Mind blown

thanks

[Iggo]

18. Kick'd & Rec'd.

[tanyev]

19. *gasp* So. Cool.

I'm not big into art, but I've always loved Van Gogh. Can't really explain why.

[longship]

20. Interesting.

Even with very limited download limits, I had to click through and watch.

And yes, turbulence makes undergrad physics and engineering students cry. Grad students know better. They just shrug.

R&K

[Omaha Steve]

21. I have to mention

In 1978? (or so pre-ST I shooting) Marta and I attended Leonard Nimoy's one man show of Vincent with the bubbly mixer. Yes we got the autograph.

Starry Night is the background of my Excite homepage.

OS

[DeSwiss]

22. The ''stars'' have always been seen as spirals to me:

- Or as a spinning toroidal-vortex -- as seen from the top or bottom.

K&R

[proReality]

24. That vortex

periodically happens around the outer rim of my eyes just since my cataract operation. I go to bed and close my eyes when it happens...now I think I'll try painting while it's going on to see what comes out on canvas.

[DeSwiss]

29. The vortex is everywhere.

- Around us and all matter. The vortex is the vibration, the resonance, the frequency of matter within nature.

It spirals and turns, into infinity......

[zentrum]

23. The study of turbulence

is in Da Vinci's notebooks. He did experiments trying to understand it. I think he may have been the first to take this on.

He made a glass model of a pig's heart in order to understand, among other things, the turbulence in blood flow.

[Dustlawyer]

25. Good thing Van Gogh had health insurance that covered his mental illness!

[CTyankee]

26. I think science has intervened in a wonderful way with art...

just look at the example of Vermeer...

[elehhhhna]

27. nobody could place the paint like Vermeer

Technology or no.

[CTyankee]

28. my guess is that Vermeer was experimenting but really didn't know what he was really doing...

he had his vision and he had his device but I am not sure he knew what exactly he would find....until he did! Good hunch!

[LongTomH]

30. I'm thinking of the Dr. Who episode: "Vincent and the Doctor."