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Well, when you’ve got something working for you go with it! Speaking (or writing I suppose) of iconic images, I guess we are stuck with having Einstien as our default image for all sciencey / geniusey things for quite some time to come eh? Do you think he’ll ever be replaced?

Ha! I was thinking, “wow! What I coincidence. I was thinking exactly…” then I realized you had the same thought because you just watched the same video.

I suppose Germany can be forgiven for having a little Einstein envy…

Well, paint me blue and call me a bonehead. I thought LdV’s ML smile was enigmatic. Never occurred to me that there could be something more logical than LdV’s superhuman effort to baffle us modern peoples. Like, that’s the only type of smile he can draw/paint/etc. Makes sense.

But then sense isn’t a strong forte for various people.

Thank you for hammering in one more nail into The Da Vinci Code‘s coffin. (That book is one that I absolutely hate. I probably hate that book more than Hell and Satan combined.)

And, better Einstein than someone else!

Oh, Godwin: thou shalt never rest.

I think we would be sorta weirded out if LvD went a different direction re: smiles dontcha think?

Terry Pratchett!!! Well, not really. But, anyway. Terry Pratchet!!!! Yay!

I have yet to read his books, although what little I have read about them indicates to me that they will very well be worth it.

It’s an oldy. Couldn’t resist…

And, Musli, it’s the art historians and pundits that piss me off. The casual appreciator of fine art can be forgiven for not knowing Mona Lisa’s smile was common as muck (not only was it the ONLY one Da Vinci could draw, it was stylistically typical of the era).

edited to add: Oh! And as for the Da Vinci Code…I don’t get it! If you’re not a Christian, it means nothing to you. If you are a Christian, it’s a pack of offensive nonsense. So who was this thing supposed to appeal to? (No, I didn’t read it. I’m in column 1, and I truly didn’t care).

Still…I guess it appealed to a lot of people.

Hey, now! Granted he didn’t use much variety in the facial expressions in his paintings, but it’s a bit overmuch to state that he was utterly incapabale of doing so. I mean come on – really?

Mona Lisa was preggers! Who knew?

And kids! His contemporaries had a lot of trouble depicting children. They all look like small, ugly, deformed adults. Apparently artists of the time were too busy to actually look at kids while (or before) painting them.

But kids are small, ugly, deformed adults. That’s why I’m doing the world a favour by hoying rocks at them whenever I see ’em.
As far as Mona Lisa’s ‘smile’. Some say enigmatic, I say an expression of contempt, boredom or trapped wind.
for those of you who appreciate La Gioconda, thank your lucky stars that da Vici could be arsed to finish it. I hear he was mighty lazy.

No, kids turn into small-minded, ugly, deformed adults. Like this one. You’ve seen ‘him’ before. What would be more painful, beyond the video, a rock or a taser turned up to ‘fry’?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b16_1189761406

While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they can’t and that is why
They know not if it’s dark outside or light

Heh. Funny. I drove out of my usual radio station range on Sunday, so I rummaged in the glove compartment for a CD. First thing I put my hands on was Madman Across the Water. Hadn’t listened to it in years…

Elton John was really quite good in his early years.
Tumbleweed Connection was a good album as was one called
11-17-70

I mentally filed him away as the love-child of Liberace and Kiss after “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”.

Oh, I know. I went to see him in concert in 1975, expecting to see a quiet young man in round glasses playing the piano. Instead, I got a screaming queen in platform shoes and feathered shades. I was a little taken aback (she said with masterful understatement).

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