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A clue to van Gogh’s final days is found in his last painting

48 points by prismatic 6y ago

phreack 6y ago
From the article: "A researcher says he has uncovered the precise location where the artist painted “Tree Roots,” thought to be the last piece he worked on the day he suffered a fatal gunshot wound." I really dislike clickbait titles, though it's an interesting article.
- amelius 6y ago
  Where was the location?
  - javert 6y ago
    It's just a clump of tree roots on a small embankment, very close to the inn where Van Gogh was living, and died.
neonate 6y ago
https://archive.is/QRQxg https://archive.is/QRQxg
dangoljames 6y ago
Screw paywall journalism.
- overcast 6y ago
  yeah! screw advertising too! salaries too!
  - draw_down 6y ago
    Come on
  - efreak 6y ago
    I have nothing against making certain content unavailable to nonsubscribers. You can even pick, say, three articles a day to be free and put the rest behind a paywall. You can also block every article and make a short summary available for free. What I have an objection to is the fact that current paywalls give everyone different free content every day--thus when an article is shared to nonsubscribers they can't actually finish it--and they don't find out until they've already started. All because they've already read their free 3 articles of the month. If it was 1-2 articles free daily, I'd probably have less problems with it than 5-10 per month. I don't usually read any of their articles at all on any given day, and my average would probably stay the same.
    - Aloha 6y ago
      I'd be happy to pay something, like 25 cents an article, or even a buck a month, for you know 60 articles or something. But for me to subscribe to WaPO, and NYT, I have to pay something like 240 bucks a year, when I get most of news from news aggregators.
      - wombat-man 6y ago
        Idk, I don't think it's too much to ask. Good journalism takes a lot of work.
        xattt 6y ago
        Good journalism wouldn’t rely on [please subscribe to read rest of comment].
        nelaboras 6y ago
        Good software engineering doesn't rely on [please pay to access app].
        perl4ever 6y ago
        The problem as I see it is not that I can't pay or don't see the value in good software or journalism, but that charging $$ is negatively correlated with trustworthiness and quality. Or at least not positively correlated.
panpanna 6y ago
If you are interested in Van Goghs life and his death, I highly recommend watching "Loving Vincent". It is an animated movie using mostly hand drawn oil paintings, very beautiful and _very_ unique. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/

48 points by prismatic 6y ago

From the article: "A researcher says he has uncovered the precise location where the artist painted “Tree Roots,” thought to be the last piece he worked on the day he suffered a fatal gunshot wound." I really dislike clickbait titles, though it's an interesting article.

amelius 6y ago
Where was the location?
- javert 6y ago
  It's just a clump of tree roots on a small embankment, very close to the inn where Van Gogh was living, and died.

neonate 6y ago

https://archive.is/QRQxg https://archive.is/QRQxg

dangoljames 6y ago

Screw paywall journalism.

overcast 6y ago
yeah! screw advertising too! salaries too!
- draw_down 6y ago
  Come on
- efreak 6y ago
  I have nothing against making certain content unavailable to nonsubscribers. You can even pick, say, three articles a day to be free and put the rest behind a paywall. You can also block every article and make a short summary available for free. What I have an objection to is the fact that current paywalls give everyone different free content every day--thus when an article is shared to nonsubscribers they can't actually finish it--and they don't find out until they've already started. All because they've already read their free 3 articles of the month. If it was 1-2 articles free daily, I'd probably have less problems with it than 5-10 per month. I don't usually read any of their articles at all on any given day, and my average would probably stay the same.
  - Aloha 6y ago
    I'd be happy to pay something, like 25 cents an article, or even a buck a month, for you know 60 articles or something. But for me to subscribe to WaPO, and NYT, I have to pay something like 240 bucks a year, when I get most of news from news aggregators.
    - wombat-man 6y ago
      Idk, I don't think it's too much to ask. Good journalism takes a lot of work.
      - xattt 6y ago
        Good journalism wouldn’t rely on [please subscribe to read rest of comment].
        nelaboras 6y ago
        Good software engineering doesn't rely on [please pay to access app].
        perl4ever 6y ago
        The problem as I see it is not that I can't pay or don't see the value in good software or journalism, but that charging $$ is negatively correlated with trustworthiness and quality. Or at least not positively correlated.

panpanna 6y ago

If you are interested in Van Goghs life and his death, I highly recommend watching "Loving Vincent". It is an animated movie using mostly hand drawn oil paintings, very beautiful and _very_ unique. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/