Blogger Michael Halcomb Makes New Da Vinci Discovery

Dan Brown's Da Vinci discovery was only the start of miraculous things found in the painting. Following Brown, the Italian computer guru Slavisa Pesci claimed to find hidden persons in the picture. I poked fun at that claim in a post titled Da Vinci Againci. Following Pesci, and just days ago, another Italian (what is it with these Italians?), this time a musician named Pala, has found a musical score in the painting. Wow :)

But what about me? What about my discovery? Why has it not been promoted? Here's how my discovery came about:

I went to Rome, photographed the painting, came home and began to fiddle with it in Adobe Photoshop. I tried a few tricks such as inverting the photo, rotating it 45 degrees, changing the hue / tone, and surprisingly, nothing worked. However, when I used my special effects "blogger lens" tool, something amazing happened: The painting totally changed.

From left to right, the faces of numerous bloggers appeared to be having dinner with Jesus: Chris Tilling, Jacob P. Breeze, Nick Norelli, Jason Gaines (the youth minister at the Church where I serve...he is peeking through the window), Me (Michael Halcomb), Josh McManaway and a younger, much more desirable Jim West. Incredible. I did notice, though, that of everyone in the painting, I am located closest to Jesus--that's only to be expected. Ironically, Tilling is the farthest away from Him--again, that's only to be expected!

I don't know about you but I definitely think this is newsworthy! So bring on the cameras CNN and as for the rest of you, let's make this discovery of mine known!

Da Vinci Againci: Superimposed Style

A computer guru and internet technician (from Australia, I believe) is resurrecting the Da Vinci debates. Slavisa Pesci has taken the painting "The Last Supper" and has superimposed it on itself. The result: A couple of new characters appear in the picture, a knight and a woman holding an infant. Just as well, Mary Magdalene disappears from the painting. Of course, a number of people are suggesting that this proves Dan Brown's theories true but really, this only seems to make them more laughable. Anyways, even if the paintings were exact representations of the original, this still really proves nothing. All of us know that if we take a picture of someone, copy it and flip it over on itself, there will all of a sudden be another person in the picture--duh! Anyways, I have posted a copy of the superimposed picture below for your enjoyment--you may need 3D eye-glasses or perhaps crossed-eyes to make sense of it all. Oh yeah, and if you're interested in reading more, click the following link: Da Vinci Againci.