Courtesy of Gizmodo.com by way of Vimeo, or something like that.
Here, courtesy of Gizmodo.com, is an intriguing stop-action video of a girl, a dozen or more cans of paint and a camera. Very amusing, and delicious. She’s a lovely girl, apparently named Elvis, and I post this under the rubric of architecture because it raises the question of what is beauty. At some points in the video, which lasts a bit more than four minutes, her obviously pretty face is exalted, at least somewhat, by the effects of the paint and at other times her beauty is diminished. (A side issue is whether one might like the camera to have strayed downward a bit, but I’ll leave that to the technorati.) Be that as it may, her range of expression as she reacts variously to what the paint inflicts on her is priceless. Here is Elvis.
When you get to the site, scroll down past the first screen. The first screen with the small white square box (if you click it) is the wrong screen. In the correct screen she has red lipstick and stitch marks, and there’s music.
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This blog was begun in 2009 as a feature of the Providence Journal, where I was on the editorial board and wrote a weekly column of architecture criticism for three decades. Architecture Here and There fights the style wars for classical architecture and against modern architecture, no holds barred.
History Press asked me to write and in August 2017 published my first book, "Lost Providence." I am now writing my second book.
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Almost like Maria in 1927 film Metropolis.
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She credits Fritz Lang as an inspiration. Maybe she is Maria!
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