b9 wrote:
this is very sad to me.
it makes me feel like crying a bit.
i got a powerpoint show from someone with this in it, and i had to convert it to an avi to post it on youtube so i could show it here. what a headache.
i had to download a free powerpoint to avi appliction to convert it, and it has a watermark at the bottom right of the video which is enraging, so please do not read the watermark ("unregistered powervideomaker") with the printed words.
it also degraded the audio quality to a horrendous degree, but it still conveys the feeling and effect of what i felt when i watched this. i watched it many times.
it is about vincent van gogh and it shows the tragic brilliance of a life who was overlooked in his time. i am dizzied by his simple portaiture of extreme depths of consciousness.
i think if i can love, then i can love him.
what a wonderful person.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBB5VKbPOc[/youtube]
I recommend that you watch Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams". It's a collection of short films that he (Kurosawa) made, depicting some of his own dreams. One of them is a dream in which he is looking at Vincent van Gogh's paintings, and he is able to walk right into one of the paintings, so the landscape around him turns into the scenery of the paintings. He walks around in van Gogh's painted world, and has a bit of a conversation with him. Some of the talking is in French (I think), but the conversation with van Gogh is in English. That particular video can be found on You Tube, in two parts, but it's much more beautiful quality if you watch it on the DVD. The other dream-films on the DVD are very good as well, but this is the only van Gogh related one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TGXgskvmAQ