Mona Lisa bearing

Scientists look at art differently, that's for sure. But definitely some interesting detail in this.

Mona Lisa has apparently just give birth to her 2nd child. Through infrared light and 3D technology they found a of gauze dress, thin and transparent which was worn following or during pregnancy. Also a not on the hair "hanging loose" it is supposed now that she's wearing a bonnet and only a few curls escape. Good news for the time period, makes her 1) not a child and 2) not of 'poor virtue.'

Most notably the piece was painted very thinly on wood and so difficult to see the brush strokes to discern the styles used in making the painting.

"It's extremely thinly painted and extremely flat, and yet the details of the curls of hair, for example are extremely distinct. So the technique is unlike anything we've ever seen before. Leonardo was in a league of his own," he said.

The Right to Your Own Things

Thought I'd go with some art tools, today I'm featuring the Mac Pro, the latest dream Mac to come out of Apple. Here's some sales talk:


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Pretty fun eh?

Throw that in with your pick of these:



and bonus of one of these:


That's at least a place to start.

Don't fear the fish, it's in pencil.

Had an oppurtunity to show a really odd fish and there you are.

I like the work, the pencil work is nice even though it's not quite a Disney fish.

I don't do much animal sketches generally but this one I thought was worth the note.

Where's the Music Scene?

I don't think this is the music scene but it appears to be a music scene.

Found someone while waiting for the elevator today who was listening to some middle eastern/turkish/romanian gypsy/death metal/funk on his oversized headphones and nameless brand CD player. I asked about it and he mentioned a few bands off the top of his head, the band he was listening to was Estradasphere. Made some mentions of of Eric and CHIPs in relation to them but that didn't make all that much sense.

He did mention the record label was Web of Mimicry, or former apparently but still related. They are about what I expected for eclecticity of the music - definitly a freedom of expression kind of bunch.

Hottest topic in popular in art

When I look for what's happening in art today, I see the creativness and exploration in the field which is always on going and vital for the future. But what's the popular topic in art? Copyrights, or more accurately the abuse of them.

The image featured is a service announcement of Human Right #27 - Copyright.

While mainly the concern in the music industry due to digital distribution of music and becoming more of a concern in the area of film as well. But this is also getting in to the realm of fine arts. While the the real thing is generally still appreciated over a dup even when it's a fully fledged real to the touch duplicate, a print of prestine quality, they are likely found to be thought of as nothing more than neat in the eyes of many a connoisseur.

But outside of this and that opinion, the case in this matter is that it's criminal. If you produced some kind of goods and I took them away from you with no exchange, this would be considered criminal.

So from this one can assume if you spent, oh, let's say 3 years writing, composing, recording, mixing, producing, arranging designing, finally distributing and promoting a piece of music for instance, you may be a bit upset were I to take it and distibute all over the planet for free to everyone and not even tell you I did it and having done that by getting an illegal copy from someone else who is likely to have stolen it, you might then be upset.

Films and music while they seemingly just "appear," they are worked out harder and longer than almost form.

If you see this happening around you, get them to watch the annoucement above and should they carry on have them watch it again and get it into them that they need to exchange.

You have never experienced a more up-lifting event, if you have not been to an International Association of Scientologists Anniversary event. These events are choc bloc full of humanitarian true stories. Check it out.