MLT Club Member Jürgen
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The Magic of the Depth
The ocean and the human imagination have in common that their depth is finite. But their diversity is immeasurable.
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Sometimes great art can be found in very small details
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The Magic of Islands
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The magic of the deep blue seas and oceans
What would it be like to go back to the place where all life began? Only for a few minutes, perhaps, but completely without technical aids or devices. What kind of world would open up to us?
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Hi Jung, I’m very sorry that I have awakened such memories with my selection. After all, you experienced the show live and I hope that you can keep it as a loving memory.
Originally I wanted to post a fountain show from Hamburg. They have very nice performances there as well. Unfortunately, most of the videos I found are not of very good quality. That’s why it became the show in Bellagio (really an interesting coincidence that you were already there).
The water organ in Hamburg was built in 1953. There is a so called water organ player. This player operates levers synchronously to the music. These levers then activate the individual jets or fountains. I have attached a video how the whole thing works. Unfortunately, the video is only in German, but at least the first few minutes give an interesting insight into how the whole thing works. The individual levers are labeled with letters and one or more levers are assigned to each tone sequence. The score of the piece of music is thus translated into a sequence of letters that must be pressed. It is probably quite difficult to play synchronously, since the water comes out of the nozzles with a time delay. This means that the player must actually press the levers even before the musical notes sound.
PS: If you still have some space in your garden, maybe another nice hobby: water organ player
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Hi Jung, thank you for the entertaining walk through the world of arts. Your little private exhibition grows constantly. Imagine only some of the pictures would be in your private property, then you could immediately go into retirement.
How many of the pictures I have recognized, I can not say exactly. At least I have seen some of these at exhibitions. I personally found the portrait of the Mona Lisa quite unspectacular. But this is also due to the fact that you have to stand in a queue and then stop just before the picture only a short time. The portrait is not particularly large and behind the thick glass screen it does not come out particularly well. But I have seen some very impressive huge murals in the Louvre. Some of them were 7 or 8 meters wide (maybe 26 feet). The people on these pictures were painted almost in life size (the people of earlier times were not particularly tall either). 🙂
The frescoes of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel I found very impressive. But this is where my expertise as an art connoisseur ends. Yes in life you sometimes know more things than you think you know.
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Thanks David for the extra dry but as always very good and informative explanatory notes.
