and what are they doing there? the machine you see there is an x ray fluorescence scanner and, this way, we get an idea of the elements present in this painting. but this is a painting which is for us to admire. why is it so important for you to know about the elements? because we need to figure out. yeah, we want to know how rembrandt painted it, what his ideas were when he was painting it, how did he make this nice composition? was it first all ok on the canvas, or did he change his mind and change small things, or did he change the composition? those things we would like to know. yeah, we re basically on rembrandt s shoulder and watching him while he s painting these paintings. so we re going to photograph the painting in daylight, but we re not going to do it, like, one snapshot, but we re going to do a lot of photos next to each other. i think, from the top of my head, it s 11,000 photos. wow.
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painted the picture before restoration can begin. and it s all being carried out in one of their galleries in full view of the public and live streamed online. oh, man! so that s it, the night watch. yeah. it looks incredible. and what are they doing there? the machine you see there is an x ray fluorescence scanner and, this way, we get an idea of the elements present in this painting. but this is a painting which is for us to admire. why is it so important for you to know about the elements? because we need to figure out. yeah, we want to know how rembrandt painted it, what his ideas were when he was painting it, how did he make this nice composition? was it first all ok on the canvas, or did he change his mind and change small things, or did he change the composition? those things we would like to know. yeah, we re basically on rembrandt s shoulder and watching him while he s
using high tech methods to carry out a forensic examination of how rembrandt actually painted the picture before restoration can begin. and it s all being carried out in one of their galleries in full view of the public and live streamed online. oh, man! so that s it, the night watch. yeah. it looks incredible. and what are they doing there? the machine you see there is an x ray fluorescence scanner and this way, we get an idea of the elements present in this painting. but this is a painting which is for us to admire. why is it so important for you to know about the elements? because we need to figure out yeah, we want to know how rembrandt painted it, what his ideas were when he was painting it, how did he make this nice composition? was it first all ok on the canvas, or did he change his mind and change more things, or did he change the composition? those things we would like to know. yeah, we re basically on rembrandt s shoulder and watching him while he s painting these paintings
george washington got on his horse to violently protest. they use the excuse that they can be violent at any time and they re willing to brandish that claim as a threat in pursuit of their political aims. it s not some academic thing, right? right now the threat of violence and menace hangs over our collective political life, from the armed protests in the michigan state house last spring which included men who, the fbi says, plotted to kidnap and kill the democratic governor to the violent insurrectionists on january 6, some of whom vowed to kill any lawmakers who wouldn t do their bidding. it s become increasingly standard for the most hardcore dvts of trump and his faction to, at the very least, wink at the notion that they re ready to hurt anyone who gets in their way. sometimes the threat is all too