Last Supper

This is pretty cool... apparently they took a DSLR up to Leonardo's Last Supper to digitize it. The real work is fading fast and is so sensitive to light they have to keep it in near darkness. Shucks, by the time I make it up to a trip to Europe the only thing left for me to see are some charred lumps of marble and some faded blank old rag canvases.

Anyway, this is pretty neat. Take a peek at the hi-rez image if you're interested....you can zoom right up to the flakes of paint coming off of the thing. While it's not quite as exciting as standing there in front of the painting itself, you can certainly see details there that you would never see unless you got your nose right up against it.

A 16-billion-pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper -- said to be the world's highest-resolution photo -- went online Saturday, making the masterpiece available for scrutiny by art lovers everywhere.

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/10/lastsupper

Interesting to note DSLRs have come such a long way these days that they're being used for rare situations such as these.

Now for something a little less fine art, I took this photo this past Sunday. It's a view from King Street over on the right (never knew King Street was that straight) down across to Nuuanu and the Downtown area.

I like the Matrix-y look of it all. The sheets of rain coming down around Downtown gives it this cool look.