At the end of his life, Vincent van Gogh painted seventy paintings in seventy days. That’s right. The daughter of the innkeeper in Auvers told us that his schedule was quite regular: he woke up bright and early and went out to paint, came back to the inn for lunch, spent the afternoon making the [...]
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So firstly, interviews are going great. I never really have let myself imagine what kind of performers I might end up using for Vincent’s Yellow… though I knew what kind of qualities I was looking for. While there are some “looks” I’m interested in, I do think that more than anything I find myself looking [...]
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I should’ve done this a long time ago.
So here we go, after 3 years of research, these are the primary things that drive me crazy, in order from most obvious to least obvious (but assumed somewhere in the back of people’s minds). If you ever read anything that makes any of these claims, you can [...]
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