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How those TSA Strip Search Machines Could Unlock a Real Life Da Vinci Code

TSA is Removing Those Pesky Strip Scanners – from CNN

This week, the TSA announced it is ending its contract with Rapiscan “due to its inability to deploy non-imaging ATR software.” The Automated Target Recognition (ATR) software has been opposed by privacy groups since their introduction years back. In short, people do not like to be stripped searched naked in public,even virtually, hence these “backscatter” machines were reviled by some, and viewed suspiciously by the rest of us.The TSA will remove all 174 backscatter scanners from the 30 airports they’re used in now. Another 76 are in storage. It has 669 of the millimeter wave machines it is keeping, plus options for 60 more, TSA spokesman David Castelveter said.

The need to keep us safe from would be terrorists carrying either plastic or metalic weapons is seemingly outweighed by the need to keep these virtual strip search machines at bay. But what happens to these machines and how can they be utilized in new and surprising ways? The art world would be a strong possibility I think. I strongly suggest that the company L3 consider making arrangements with museums worldwide, with the intent of using these machines in a non invasive manner, on non living things, paintings.http://video.answers.com/row-over-lost-da-vinci-painting-517236409 In Europe alone, researchers have be stunned by how technology is revealing secrets hidden for centuries, paintings that, on the surface seem to be what they say the are, but in fact are hiding a treasure trove of information not seen by the naked eye.

Case in point: the recent discovery of sketches one of Da Vinci’s greatest paintings, a discovery that shocked the Louvre.  Now researchers have also shocked the world by finding yet more symbols, hidden in some of the most important artwork in human history. How easy it would be to use these amazing machines in the archives of the many museums that strive to unlock the mysteries of thousands of paintings thought to contain all manner of secrets. Now that a real life Da Vinci code quest has been called off because of “invasive technique concerns” perhaps the incorporation of these scanners into archival settings will bring forth a wealth of information that these artworks seem to be slowly revealing., mysteries hidden for centuries, unknown knowledge told to canvas by artist, and hidden by pigment only to be revealed countless years later. There is your Da Vinci code, your Caravaggio code, your Bellini code, your skeleton key to history…And perhaps a better use for those Orwellian TSA machines would be in unlocking the countless riddles hidden by those amazing artists of the Italian renaissance. The journey could start here at the famed Uffizi gallery. Log on to www.uffizi.org for a wonderful stroll down history’s corridors.

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Da Vinci and the Mysterious Singing Moon: Listen to an Actual Da Vinci Composition! Must See VlogBlog2013 by Thomas Schoenberger

In keeping with this year’s pledge to reveal to my gentle readers little known facts of towering geniuses ( Da Vinci, Frankin, Mozart, Lincoln, etc), I now want to show you a musical composition by Da Vinci. You did not know Da Vinci was a musician? He was – and a a superb one at that. How much of his music, like his paintings remain lost, hidden. Hopefully, more of it will appear in time.  It is said that Leonardo was easily the most intelligent human being who ever lived. Who knows. He was easily the most famous genius who walked the earth. Here is a sample of a short piece of music he composed around 1500.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BxwsKtRdFs

If the above video clip doesn’t play, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BxwsKtRdFs.


I also urge readers to listen to my singing moon composition herein one of my albums for infants.  The idea of creating a polyphonic piece of music a la singing moon ( harvest moon) was the conclusion of an experiment, to see if I could merge a number of melodies at once, and reverse the melody onto itself, as Da Vinci achieved in his famous mirror writings.Thomas Schoenberger

 

 

 

 

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

 

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Mona Lisa into 2013 – Da Vinci Codes and Hidden Symbols: A Look Through History’s 510 year old mystery Through New Eyes

The recent discovery of Leonard Da Vinci’s hidden symbols, painted on canvas, below the surface of the mysterious image of Mona Lisa stunned the research team entrusted to investigate the painting.The markings, discovered through x ray technology to have been painted prior to finishing stokes, has the art world and symbology world atwitter.

In the last three years, researchers intent on revealing the late master’s 500 year old secrets have declared stunning new developments, including, what they claim is the number 72 painted behind Mona Lisa’;s right eye. History would be wise to take notice.

Now we know Da Vinci was born April 15th 1452 ( tax day) and began the Mona Lisa at the age of 51, after a lifetime of study in mathamatics, war engineering technologies, creating far reaching proto types of submarines, heloicopters, etc….This man was so far ahead of his time, he still captivates the world today. I have seen the painting several times, first as a small child in 1967, and then again over the years as I have returned to Paris on business and pleasure. I have watched the tourists scratch their heads.. They KNOW there is a mystery behind her smile. She know somethiing… She has a secret, a very important secret that can chance peoples lives. When she tells this secret to the the rest of the world, if she tells it of course, a lot of people will disagree with her… but, she knows what she knows, no one can chance that..

So as researchers have started their investigation on the eyes, and hit pay dirt, now they must come to terms with, what I think, could be a revolutionary way to look at Da Vinci in his majestic entirety.. in ways Dan Brown may have pointed to…. To give you the story in a nutshell, we start with this http://www.ibtimes.com/mona-lisas-eyes-reveal-da-vincis-real-code-art-historians-250385

Now on to my ponderance. or rather ponderances…..
What if,hidden behind Mona Lisa’s smile, lies a pattern of markings, with a hidden message for a later date? Should we be looking closely at the entire canvas for clues, not just the eyes? We know that what Da Vinci feared most were floods, tidal waves, drowning, water gone wrong. Note the serene water behind Mona Lisa. Could her secret have to do with a amazing insight Da Vinci had about water, and perhaps his answer is hidden behind not just the eyes of the portrait, but behind the entire canvas. Could the peaceful enigma the world knows as “Mona Lisa” actually hide a torrential downpour, a tsunami of water, all dressed up in soft beguiling pigment? Is the most secretive and mysterious smile on earth really a message that, like calm waters turn to rough seas, so too do warm smiles turn into gnashing teeth.Da Vinci, the master of dichotomy, would be capable of such a message. In fact, it would be right up his alley.

His “Riddles”, a corpus of moody and brillantly penatrating drawings sketches and writings, drip deeply with his fear of water. Read his seminal insights on water engineering, and water weaponry in this regard. Floods, consuming floods, controlling water all spelled out in detail…It is as if he is predicting Katrina, Irene, Superstorm Sandy, etc. The man used parhcment sparingly. he could write backwards, and with both hands. He understood water’s fearful symetry long before it became a fashionble term.His eyes saw differently, as Mozart’s ears heard differently, as the rarest among us have the rarest of gifts to stun us centuries later.

Da Vinci actually SAW things differently, that is to say that he took in motion unlike other human beings, He could calculate depth, velocity, color in an instant, would gaze for hours watching birds fly, spent his greatest energies on water…always water..his greatest fear and his greatest problem solving issue….Now for a man bent on hiding his riddles for future generations, it would be just like him to hide his greatest riddles behind his greatest works. Perhaps this is why he kept the painting till he died…..

Now what if he created hidden markings, codes, riddles, behind the entire canvas arena of the Mona Lisa? What if there is a broad constellation of messages embedded in the canvas, delivered in the same manner as he entered crytic knowledge in his codex’s? What if, in many of his late paintings, Da Vinci left clues, clues he wanted kept hidden from the prying eyes of the church, or potential enemies, or feuding ducalities? It stands to reason, considering this genius’s methodology, incredible  acccuracies  and clandestine ways, and in light of his times, Da Vinci had to hide much of what he created.What if researchers have only just begun to unravel the tip of the glacier.Leonardo’s greatest riddles may just be revealed soon.What if Da Vinci had more than one code? ……and what if the codes are hidden in plain sight?. We are on the advent of looking at his art, and the art of the entire renaissance with bold new eyes…….Thomas Schoenberger

 

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Modern Couple – Asteria – Performs and WriteS About Late Medieval Music and History

Of special interest is a  couple performing Medieval Music who exude history in everything they do. The music  of  Asteria is some of the finest early music I have heard. Their performances, many held in palaces and castles, is stunning. For a real amazing glimpse into what some musicians are doing, I urge everyone to listen to these fantastic performers and to read their captivating blog.
Thomas Schoenberger
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The Mozart of Burgundy – Guillaume Dufay of the 15th Century

His story is remarkable. He was noticed for his genius before he entered childhood. He traveled and performed, and became the most famous musician in all of Europe ! Upon his final illness, he requested that his mass be sung to him as he knew his life was concluding. We all know this story. We all saw Amadeus.But did you know this is not his story, or rather, his story shares an eerie similarity to another man forgotten to history? You cannot make this stuff up. Another one of histories elusive composers, the incredible life of Dufay……….the Mozart of Burgundy.

 

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Superstorm Sandy Did Da Vinci predict it?

 

 “Water gnaws at mountains and fills valleys. If it could, it would reduce the earth to a perfect sphere”

(Codex Atlanticus, 185v).

Thomas Schoenberger

Did Da Vinci warn of great floods to come?
“Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin, sometimes it is seen bringing hurt or pestilence, sometime health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into as many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the colour of its subject, so it alters with the nature of the place, becoming noisome, laxative, astringent, sulfurous, salty, incarnadined, mournful, raging, angry, red, yellow, green, black, blue, greasy, fat or slim. Sometimes it starts a conflagration, sometimes it extinguishes one; is warm and is cold, carries away or sets down, hollows out or builds up, tears or establishes, fills or empties, raises itself or burrows down, speeds or is still; is the cause at times of life or death, or increase or privation, nourishes at times and at others does the contrary; at times has a tang, at times is without savor, sometimes submerging the valleys with great floods. In time and with water, everything changes”Leonardo described water as “the vehicle of nature” (“vetturale di natura“), believing water to be to the world what blood is to our bodies…….

 

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