Baumgartner Restoration – The Hole Nine YardsAn evening pause: If your weekend hobby is art restoration, this is a video you have got to see. And if not, you should watch anyway because the repair he does is truly breathtaking.
Hat tip Cotour.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: If your weekend hobby is art restoration, this is a video you have got to see. And if not, you should watch anyway because the repair he does is truly breathtaking.
Hat tip Cotour.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
A great restoration, combining engineering & artistic expertise. I especially appreciated his hand-tearing of the Japanese mulberry paper (8:10) because he wanted to have a feathered edge, not a scissors-made straight edge.
One thing missing – how much was the cost of the restoration? $500?; $10,000? How much was the painting appraised for before restoring it? I’m not impressed with the painting itself, so restoring it would not be a consideration if I owned it, as a second or third owner, say. If this were a relative in the family, however, then it doesn’t matter what I think of it, it holds value to someone willing to pay to make the painting whole again. Can’t attach a price to someone else’s idea of beauty. As long as I am not required to use my own money to pay for it. (Government, are you listening?)
Full disclosure – I am not impressed with any of Pablo Picasso’s paintings either, whether his old or his new styles. So what do I know.
Don C.:
Can’t vouch for this, but there is a Tool….
“Art Restoration Cost Estimator”
https://momaa.org/art-restoration-cost-estimator/
“There’s no way I’m watching 30 minute of this, but the evening pause is usually interesting. Let’s see…”
30 minutes later.
“Wow. That sets a new standard for ‘expert makes something impossible seem easy’.”
I have an very old photo album. The ancestors in it are labelled with first names. No one alive in the immediate family knows who they are or cares. I wrestle with the idea of just throwing it away. I never look at it. I don’t know who they are. But the history! This makes me feel guilty for even considering throwing it away.
In videos like this it is all about the complete process for me.
There was a beginning, nice smooth and calming narration laying out the problems, the goals and how to achieve them.
And then there is a satisfying end result / finished piece.
The subject or medium most times does not matter to me.
I love the dedicated process.
I always loved industrial films in grade school.
Did you mean “breath-taking”?
Andi: Yes. Fixed. Thank you.
Who can forget…
Rick Dale
“American Restoration”
(Season 1 Episode 2)
https://youtu.be/ZNUz1HHYMEo
36:52