Paper Fish for 2004 September 14 (entry 0)

# Tue Sep 14 21:29:42
Picasso didn't low-level format his canvas - discarded painting recovered
Great article over at Salon about an entire painting (not just sketches) found under the "Rue de Montmartre". Thanks to x-radiographing, 500 pixel-per-inch scanning and the eyedropper tool of Adobe Photoshop there will now be an exhibit of the Rue de Montmartre and a digital representation of the painting under it.

Extrapolate this out a few decades: "Scientists were able to clone the famous author from some DNA found in an old museum exhibit, then read a previously unknown manuscript directly from the atoms in his brain."

Media are alive. They find ways of springing back to life after years of laying low.

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