{"id":979,"date":"2014-01-21T13:16:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2014-01-21T13:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:18:34","slug":"paint-a-starry-night-again-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/paint-a-starry-night-again-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint a Starry Night Again, Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/438026311\/loving-vincent-bringing-van-goghs-paintings-to-lif\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s always been a difference between the performing arts and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that&#8217;s it. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, &#8216;Paint a Starry Night again, man!&#8217; You know? He painted it and that was it.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Joni_Mitchell\" target=\"_new\">Joni Mitchell<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These guys are about to attempt the impossible. They&#8217;re gonna paint A Starry Night again&#8230; and again&#8230; 56,800 times.<\/p>\n<p>Their aim is to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/438026311\/loving-vincent-bringing-van-goghs-paintings-to-lif\" target=\"_new\">feature film<\/a> about the life of Vincent van Gogh, every frame hand-painted in his style. These people are the real deal&#8211;an Oscar-winning stop-motion producer and some very talented artists. And if their project gets funded, it&#8217;ll employ dozens of painters to spend their time painting instead of whatever else they&#8217;d otherwise have to do to make a living. A worthy project no matter how you look at it. Backed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s always been a difference between the performing arts and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that&#8217;s it. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/paint-a-starry-night-again-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paint a Starry Night Again, Man!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}