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Obama’s Revealing Taste in Art

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Frozen

HT: Eucatastrophe

Comment: Interesting.

Art shanties back on Medicine Lake

Art shanties turn arctic temps into an art form

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Out on Medicine Lake in Plymouth, it doesn't matter if you're dancing, quivering or using your own exhalations to save your nose. Frozen tears and snot turn everyone out here into a cousin of Yukon Cornelius, that dude from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" who carried his ax and a peppermint preoccupation all the way to Antarctica.

Comment: More: www.artshantyprojects.org. They say the ice is as thick as it has been in three years. Access at Harty Boat Ramp.


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Harty's Boats & Bait
(763) 546-6711
1920 Medicine Lake Blvd E Plymouth, MN 55441-4235

I hope to take some photos tomorrow

The real Da Vinci code?

Comment: Image from www.vertigolibri.it

Babelfish translator (select this link ... add the Italian web page ... translate)

Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'

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An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.

"It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala said. "It's like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus."

Painted from 1494 to 1498 in Milan's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the "Last Supper" captures a key moment in the Gospel narration of Jesus' last meal with the 12 Apostles before his arrest and crucifixion, vividly depicting the shock of Christ's followers as they learn that one of them is about to betray him.

Pala, a 45-year-old musician who lives near the southern Italian city of Lecce, began studying Leonardo's painting in 2003, after hearing on a news program that researchers believed the artist and inventor had hidden a musical composition in the work.


CNN: Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'

www.lamusicacelata.it

Comment: Regarding the Italian websites: looks like there is a book and a CD ("Libro con CD allegato") (I think "CD" in Italian = "CD" in English!)