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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Da Vinci Masterpiece

This tag line gave me a great laugh this afternoon: 

From timesunion.com
Woman recreates da Vinci's 'Last Supper' with lint
Updated:11:29 p.m., Saturday, January 15, 2011

The "Lint Last Supper"
[Excerpt] ROSCOMMON, Mich. (AP) — A northern Michigan woman has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" by making a replica out of laundry lint.

Laura Bell of Roscommon collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter's masterpiece.

Bell says she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, and 200 hours to recreate the mural. She bought towels of the colors she wanted and laundered them separately to get the right shades of lint.

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