Miré los muros de la patria mía y la tradición poética de las ruinas
The sonnet Mire los muros de la patria mia by Quevedo has traditionally been read from two main perspectives. The first dwells upon the spiritual concept of death and the author's reflections upon this subject. The second reading puts political aspects rather than spiritual reflections at the forefront and presents the poem as a reflection of the decadence of Spain under the reign of the Austrias. This article is not a new reading but rather an analysis of the symbol of ruins in the poem, which reconciles the two principal interpretations of the poem.
Aníbal Núñez: Una relectura del tópico barroco de la ruina en el siglo veinte
Golden Age Tradition has a great relevance in Anibal Nunez’s poetry, particularly Gongora and Quevedo’s literature. This paper endeavours to compare the baroque treatment to ruins with the modern approach by Anibal Nunez, focusing on the survival of baroque features and the innovations included. The most important loci will be the connection between ruins and home and body, the hopes of escaping from ruins through nature, the replacement of pilgrim by stroller and the ruin’s change into a sacred space of wisdom.
FlowBrush: optical flow art
The depiction of motion in static representations has a long tradition in art and science alike. Often, motion is depicted by spatio-temporal summarizations that try to preserve as much information of the original dynamic content as possible. In our approach to depicting motion, we remove the spatial constraints and generate new content steered by the temporal changes in motion. Applying particle steering in combination with the dynamic color palette of the video content, we can create a wide range of different image styles. With recorded videos, or by live interaction with a webcam, one can influence the resulting image. We provide a set of intuitive parameters to affect the style of the result, the final image content depends on the video input. Based on a collection of results gathered from test users, we discuss example styles that can be achieved with FlowBrush. In general, our approach provides an open sandbox for creative people to generate aesthetic images from any video content they apply.