IMAGE PROVENANCE

Human ambition, reconstructed in data.

Nineteen real photographs and historical works, interpreted as animated binary data. These references are not OpenWork projects or captures.

New York, 1932

Lunch atop a Skyscraper. Rockefeller Center, 1932. Photographer attribution is disputed. The source record marks the photograph as public domain in the United States because copyright was not renewed. Rights can differ outside the United States.

Building the skyline.

Preus museum. No restrictions. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

The riveters.

Lewis Hine. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

The pyramids of Giza.

KennyOMG. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters. This image’s binary visual adaptation is available under the same license.

The Great Wall.

Severin.stalder. CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters. This image’s binary visual adaptation is available under the same license.

Concrete in motion.

U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Edward Miller. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

The Colosseum.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1489

The aerial screw. Historical drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, public domain.

The Medici legacy.

Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. CC BY 2.0. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

Michelangelo, c. 1512

The Creation of Adam, detail. Public domain artwork and faithful two-dimensional reproduction.

St Peter’s Basilica.

Alvesgaspar. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters. This image’s binary visual adaptation is available under the same license.

Building the Eiffel Tower.

Louis-Emile Durandelle. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

Built by hand.

U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Yan Kennon. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

Above the city.

Lewis Hine. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

Apollo 11, 1969

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong. NASA / AS11-40-5903. Public domain.

The Sagrada Família.

Sagrada Família (oficial). CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters. This image’s binary visual adaptation is available under the same license.

The Burj Khalifa.

Nick Fewings. Unsplash License. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

Working together.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan G. Wilber. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

The people who build.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Demetrius Kennon. Public domain. Cropped, rendered in grayscale and transformed into animated binary characters.

OpenWork / Image and music credits.

Music

“Emergent” by Scott Buckley, released under CC BY 4.0. Original track and source. Excerpt from 00:35 to 01:35, with a four-second crossfade into 00:30–00:35 to create a continuous loop, re-encoded for web playback. The same score continues through the logo reveal, with an original synthesized logo impact, reverberation and a gradual reduction to a very quiet, low-pass-filtered ambience.

Previous soundtracks, retained as alternatives: “Machina” and “Decoherence” by Scott Buckley, CC BY 4.0.

Narrative quotations

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.” — Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks, §1147, translated by Jean Paul Richter. Public-domain translation. The transcription’s spelling “preceptions” is corrected to “perceptions.”

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” — R. Buckminster Fuller. Source: Buckminster Fuller Institute.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke. Source: The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.

The statement revealed by the OpenWork logo is original company vision copy, presented under Eugenio Francés, CEO of OpenWork. It is separate from the historical quotations.