But here you have them real life as well as in the movies." These bits of Americana impressed him, as did the rhythms of American dialect, and he carefully placed them all under the bell jar of his prodigious memory, where they later provided him with the signs of an easy familiarity that character of his best American films."Ī few paragraphs earlier there's mention that, during his visit, Hitchcock indulged daily in two American delicacies: ice cream and steak - he had ice cream for breakfast, and steak for lunch and dinner. If we have rocking chairs in England it is only as curiosities. I pointed them out to my wife and we stood and looked at them. Actually rocking chairs, with people rocking in them. "There it all was," he said afterward, "Houses with verandahs.
Next morning, leaving their daughter in Joan Harrison's care, Hitchcock and Alma left alone for a two-day trip to Saratoga Springs, New York. The night after the dinner at the 21 Club, Hitchcock was interviewed on the New York radio program "Gertrude of Hollywood," where he overwhelmed his questioner with comparative facts and figures about the English and American film industries. From Donald Spoto's The Dark Side Of Genius: The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock (emphasis added): The Hitchcock's American holiday proceeded with considerable public fanfare. Sarah pointed this out on Twitter this week and something about it is just kind of oddly funny: Alfred Hitchcock visited Saratoga Springs in 1937 and took note of. + Because it's park furniture shaped like a tulip How Albany does not have a bar called The Broken Tulip, we do not know. The streaked tulips that result from this virus - such as the famed Semper Augustus - are called "broken tulips." Here's a video that might provide a better look. In this piece, the stripes will depend on the value of bitcoin, changing over time to show how the market fluctuates. "Mosaic" is the name of the virus that causes the stripes in a petal which increased their desirability and helped cause the speculative prices during the time. The appearance of the tulip would be controlled by bitcoin price.
It will show a tulip blooming, an updated version of a Dutch still life for the 21st century. Blurbage from her website: Drawing historical parallels from "tulip-mania" that swept across Netherlands/Europe in the 1630s to the speculation currently ongoing around crypto-currencies, this video work is generated by an artificial intelligence (AI). It's called "Mosaic Virus" and it's a commission for the Impakt Festival in Utrecht later this year (festival theme "Post-Truth"). This is random and weird and kind of wonderful, and because tulips.Īn artist in the Netherlands named Anna Ridler is working on a project in which she's training an alogrithm to create tulips. More AI tulips!!! With the larger dataset I've made and spectral normalisation I'm able to get much more variety in the type of tulips it produces.
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