The Sistine Chapel
August 31, 2010 7:10 AM   Subscribe

The Sistine Chapel
posted by Joe Beese (19 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: this post is reaching out and just touching the tip of its finger to that of this post -- cortex



 
"#006699, stipple effect, three days"

"No, you get me wrong. I want a picture with the Holy Father, the Jesus Christ and lots of little fat kids with wings."

"How about, #006699, stipple effect, three days, I'll be out of your hair...?"

"No, I need a painting that takes ten years to make, and Charlton Heston will do a film about it"

3 person joke that one...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 7:15 AM on August 31, 2010


The Creation Of Cortex.
posted by The Whelk at 7:16 AM on August 31, 2010


It's mathowie and cortex, playing with static electricity again.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 7:17 AM on August 31, 2010


Holy shit. Awesome.

If every place where cameras aren't allowed would do this, their policies would be much more tolerable. Wow!
posted by milestogo at 7:17 AM on August 31, 2010


Double.
posted by ericb at 7:18 AM on August 31, 2010


... sigh... Not my day.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:21 AM on August 31, 2010


I read the "Copyright MV Musei Vaticani" as being from the year 1005...
posted by DU at 7:21 AM on August 31, 2010 [1 favorite]


The floor is the best part.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:25 AM on August 31, 2010


Hasn't changed a lot since Ezio Auditore da Firenze got in a fistfight with the pope there.
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 7:26 AM on August 31, 2010 [1 favorite]


A rough guide. Amazing, thank you.
posted by fingerbang at 7:32 AM on August 31, 2010 [1 favorite]


of course, my comment makes even less sense now the link has been fixed. I suppose if we were being true to Eddie, the colour should be 'beige'.
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 7:34 AM on August 31, 2010


SILENZIO!
posted by beniamino at 7:41 AM on August 31, 2010


God, who is their decorator? Talk about over the top, it looks like that Color Splash dude smoked a little too much meth in there!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:42 AM on August 31, 2010


My dad totally made a bootleg video of the Sistine Chapel, put a piece of electrical tape over the video camera's blinking red light and everything.
posted by MrMoonPie at 7:46 AM on August 31, 2010


Lots of security cameras there.
posted by schwa at 7:48 AM on August 31, 2010


Wow, that is certainly one well-deserved reputation it's got.
posted by oddman at 7:54 AM on August 31, 2010


Sweet Sistine.
posted by Free word order! at 8:00 AM on August 31, 2010


For reference, in the top left corner (if you are facing the "last judgment" on the far (blue) wall, there is a scene with a small rectangle of uncleaned fresco. Yes, that dark, dark patch. You can see how drastically different the chapel looked not long ago. There are a few other spots left uncleaned for reference.

Or... "You missed a spot".
posted by JBennett at 8:12 AM on August 31, 2010


Beautiful as it is, I feel compelled to link to this. (Scroll down to number 5.)
posted by phunniemee at 8:21 AM on August 31, 2010


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