photograph by DME

So Tim Jenison (of Iowa) wants to figure out how Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer was able to paint masterpieces with out doing preliminary sketches on the canvas first (x-rays) or being able to directly trace (additive qualities of pigment prevent that). Okay, we get that. And he figures out the little mirror tool that will allow him to do that. Okay.

So what does any of that have to do with turning it into a 5 year project by learning to build the furniture for the set of Vermeer’s ‘The Music Lesson’? Learning to create oil painting pigments by hand? Melting glass to make your own focusing lens? Then sanding it by hand??

The FILM seemed like it lasted 5 years! Good night, then to top it off, they didn’t even get into painting techniques! Supposedly the point of the movie! But I do know more now than I ever wanted to about furniture making and grinding glass. Good grief. Everything was shown BUT the supposed point of the movie! I thought sure he would invent the vacuum cleaner also, as it really sucked.

At least a very good Mocha was had at Zanzibar’s beforehand.