Showing posts with label epic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epic. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Aftermath: Full Story of the Elderly Spanish Woman who destroyed 19th century Church fresco: Demanded Money and Claimed Copyrights.


Aftermath: The Reaction on Internet.

What followed after the elderly woman in Spain who messed up and destroyed a 19th century church fresco with her restoration attempts that she undertook without permission in August 2012 is even more fascinating.



What followed it was Epic..
Overnight interest in it exploded. The painting became an sensation when pictures of her amateur 'restoration' hit the internet and sparked a craze for copycat 'restorations', mocked-up purely for comic purposes online.
Many of Leonardo Da Vinci's most iconic creations have been given the botched restoration treatment; with the Mona Lisa's famously enigmatic smile obscured by Jimienez's work.



Online craze: Da Vinci's Mona Lisa gets a makeover
Masterpieces made-over: The Mona Lisa's famous smile is hidden behind the rendition of Jesus, left, while Edvard Munch's subject really has something to scream about in this altered version of the masterpiece, right


Reworking: The handiwork of Cecilia Jiminez has made its way onto The Last Supper, by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci
The handiwork of Cecilia Jiminez has made its way onto The Last Supper,
by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci


Jokers on the web also replaced the face of the baby in the Renaissance master's Madonna and Child with the face from the fresco, and transformed Jesus and all twelve of his apostles in The Last Supper.
A Twitter account was also set up under the name of Fresco Jesus which got over 4,000 followers in few days. 
Initial reports suggested the elderly woman took it upon herself to alter the artwork - which had been damaged by moisture in the church - without asking for permission.
But the 80-year-old has since said the priest had given her the go-ahead to carry out her repair job.

Spot the difference: Internet jokers have made a not-so-subtle change to Da Vinci's Madonna and Child
Spot the difference: Internet jokers have made a not-so-subtle change to Da Vinci's Madonna and Child

Full Story of the Elderly Spanish Woman who destroyed 19th century Church fresco: Demanded Money and Claimed Copyrights.


This is a surprising story of an old woman in Spain who just messed up!

An elderly woman in Spain messed up and destroyed a 19th century church fresco, The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) with her restoration attempts that she undertook without permission in August 2012.


Before and after...
Three images: How the fresco should look (left); how it looked before the "restoration" (center); and what it looked like after Cecilia Gimenez was done.
Ecce Homo by 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez on the walls of the church of Santuario de Misericordia Photo: gawker.com
The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain, is a fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez depicting Jesus crowned with thorns. Both the subject and style are typical of traditional Catholic art.

Intersetingly, Old lady's repair job on fresco becomes unlikely tourist attraction as hundreds queue to see her handiwork..

Tourists flock to see the damaged 19th century Ecce Homo fresco (right) by artist Elias Garcia Martinez at the Santuario de Misericordia de Borja Church, at Borja in Spain's Aragon region
Tourists flock to see the damaged 19th century Ecce Homo fresco (right) by artist Elias Garcia Martinez at the Santuario de Misericordia de Borja Church, at Borja in Spain's Aragon region
But very surprisingly the woman who ruined Fresco Of Jesus then demanded to get paid! and above of it she claimed copyright over the reformed painting.

In September 2012, Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman who really messed up when she tried to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus demanded a piece of the action from the 2,000 or so euros ($2,600) her church had collected from tourists coming to see the ruined artwork.

Spain's El Correo reports, according to Gawker's translation, that the 80+ year-old Giménez hired lawyers to make her case. The Church also lawyered up. A court battle went on as expected.

What followed it was Epic.. Read it here
Overnight interest in it exploded. The painting became an sensation when pictures of her amateur 'restoration' hit the internet and sparked a craze for copycat 'restorations', mocked-up purely for comic purposes online.
Many of Leonardo Da Vinci's most iconic creations have been given the botched restoration treatment; with the Mona Lisa's... 


Friday, 29 May 2015

Epic: Funny tweets by Jeffery Archer trolled Sachin Tendulkar and his wife in photo session.


Sometimes you come across epic tweets on twitter and if it is by celebrities, it makes your day.

Here is an epic tweet on twitter by Jeffery Archer. He taunted cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and his wife, Anjali Tendulkar in his subsequent tweets on twitter.




Soon after: 

Epic: Funny tweets by Jeffery Archer trolled Sachin Tendulkar and his wife in photo session.


Jeffery Archer trolled Sachin Tendulkar by calling him "unknown".


If you don't know these two legends, then lets learn about them,

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare is an English author and former politician. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament, but resigned over a financial scandal which left him almost bankrupt.
Some of his movies and TV shows are The Verdict, Not a Penny More, Everest and False Impression.

Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded to be one of the greatest cricketers of all time in the history of cricket. He is generally seen as a honest, humble and respectful personality. He married to his love Anjali Tendulkar aka Mrs Tendulkar who happens to be five year elder to him.



Millwall Football Club: No one likes us. We don't care ; Interesting and funny motto!



The football club I support is Millwall FC and it has an interesting motto

"No one likes us. We don't care."


Millwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in New Cross, south-east London, that plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football.
 From then until 1993 the club played at The Den, a now-demolished stadium in New Cross, before moving to its current home stadium nearby, also called The Den.
The traditional club crest is a lion rampant, referred to in the team's nickname "The Lions". Millwall's traditional kit consists of blue shirts, white shorts and blue socks. Millwall have a long-standing rivalry with West Ham United. The local derby between the two sides has been contested almost 100 times since 1899.


 In the media, Millwall's supporters have often been associated with hooliganism, with numerous films having been made fictionalizing their notoriety. The fans are renowned for their chant "No one likes us, we don't care" which is sung to the tune of Sailing by Rod Stewart.
In 2004, the team reached the final of the FA Cup and, in doing so, qualified for the UEFA Cup the following season, playing in Europe for the first time in their history. The club has also reached FA Cup semi-finals on another four occasions, in 1900, 1903,1937 and 2013. Millwall have spent the majority of their existence competing in the second or third tier of the Football League. The team spent two seasons in the top flight between 1988–90, in which the club achieved its highest ever finish of tenth place in the First Division. Based on all results during the club's 87 seasons in the Football League from 1920–21 to 2013–14, Millwall are ranked as the 40th most successful club in English football.