La Salle Explorers

[hedge]

I thought we were already on that when it was just on the internets?

[BigRedMan]

I made a comment on Ecat's video with the car wreck that the Goofy falling scream should be added, or the dude from Blazing Saddles that says "Well, that is the end of this suit" to it or at the very least a message of "Go Home Superman, you are drunk."

And No I don't feel bad for saying that. He appears to be speeding or running from someone in a construction zone. He had to be going uber fast to cause that much damage.

[eCat]

An 82-year-old Spanish pensioner who gained global notoriety for ruining a fresco of Christ in a clumsy restoration has signed a lucrative royalty deal for the merchandising of her 'art'.

Cecilia Gimenez famously turned an oil fresco painted in the Misericordia Church in Borja, north eastern Spain, into an abomination described by the BBC as resembling a "crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey."

Her restoration of the 1910 depiction of Christ called Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Spanish artist Elias Garcia Martinez, made headlines all over the world.

However, media attention turned Gimenez's handiwork into a massive touristic attraction.

Visitors craving to have a close look at the botched restoration poured into Borja, prompting low-cost airline Ryanair to offer special fares to the nearby town of Zaragoza.

Church officials also decided to keep the fresco as it was, and introduce an entry fee.

One year on some 57,000 people have paid €1 to see the restoration, according to the foundation that manages the church, which said the money raised so far from ticket sales has been used to improve the building and cover personnel costs.

Gimenz, who first demanded her share of the takings in September last year, has now reached an agreement with the foundation over her work's image rights.

The pensioner is entitled to 49% of profits generated from the merchandising of the restored Ecce Homo.

The infamous image, which has already been restyled in dozens of ways and featured in an art exhibition in Barcelona, is now to be imprinted on t-shirts, mugs and key-chains.

According to the deal, signed on the anniversary of the restoration, the foundation will retain the remaining share of revenues.

Gimenez pledged to use her share of the money to fund charitable work.

"No one is going to get rich out of this," Gimenez's lawyer told AFP. "The foundation and Cecilia are to give the profits to charity."

[hedge]

She definitely improved the bottom half of the original with the scroll work...

[eCat]

She definitely improved the bottom half of the original with the scroll work...

making Jesus resemble a hairy monkey really pisses off the creationist folks the most. They wanted him redrawn riding a dinosaur

[Bklyn]

Her pic is no more inaccurate of a depiction of Jesus as the original fresca was.

[eCat]

Her pic is no more inaccurate of a depiction of Jesus as the original fresca was.

I suspect he's a bit more Mediterranean

[Bklyn]

He probably looked more like a darker version of my accountant...but probably even shorter.

[Cletus]

He looked like the invisible man.

[eCat]

I think there was somebody. Did he walk on water or was born to virgin? I'd have to go with no, but he was probably the Ghandi or Mother Teresa of his day and just had a great publicist.

[Bklyn]

I know Cletus' assertion well, he's laid it out in the old WX days. I don't believe it though. I do believe it was one guy. However, I would not be shocked to find out (like anyone ever would) that "Yeshua ben Joseph" was really an amalgam of different rabbis and bound together with certain long-standing mythologies of that time regarding God and man.

[Owlman]

It's Jesus The Christ.

Capitalize the T for that is his middle name

[hedge]

"Her pic is no more inaccurate of a depiction of Jesus as the original fresca was."

You were even less circumspect when I originally posted that item. I agree...

"He looked like the invisible man."

I am ambivalent as to the question of if Jesus really existed (as a mortal). Maybe, maybe not. It's not important. But I lay heavy odds on the idea that, if he did exist, he was just as big a nutcase as the disciples. There can't have been a whole lot to do back then, and I'm sure there were a shit ton of half wits scrabbling around that rock infested wasteland spouting all grades of bullshit. For some reason, Jesus's stuck. Probably b/c he told all those halfwits that they would inherit the earth. Who wouldn't go for that in that situation? They were surviving on walnuts and olives and the occasional snail, just tell them that none of this is real, that there's a better world "beyond" if you just believe in Jesus. They were like "hell yeah, sign me up"...

[Bklyn]

It's Jesus The Christ.

Capitalize the T for that is his middle name

Bullshit. It's H. It's in the King James version. Maybe tHe.

[AlabamAlum]

NO ONE fucks with the Jesus!

[AugustWest]

[youtube]8xTqP58o1iw[/youtube]

[SnoodGator]

Re WWII, my FIL was a combat photographer in the European theater. Came back and spent the rest of his life in VA hospitals until he died at 53. Im sure the horror is not measurable. To get an idea of the Japanese cruelty, read Unbroken about Louis Zamperini. Absolutely horrible. Met him a few mons ago and he's still sharp, witty, and thanks to the Lord, forgiving of what he endured.

[Jungle Rat]

http://www.fox19.com/category/240225/vi ... start=true

Once again, amazing.

[10ac]

A falcon nesting in a tree.

[AugustWest]

It's pining for the Fjords.