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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Day 202 - The Visible Woman
From My Friend, Thedamnmushroom!
One hundred ninety-six days ago in telling the story about the Visible Man I've had since my early teen years, I mentioned having procured a Visible Woman in this decade. Here she is, naked to the world and without makeup. Yeah, I have been dragging my feet about getting down to the business of painting her innards; there's always something else to amuse myself with, damned Flickr.
I did however take the time to paint the veins and arteries on her shell (or the front and back and everyday middle -- haven't touched the pregnancy simulation middle), paint and glue her eyes into her skull, and glue together the organs that come in two pieces, plus assembled her skeleton -- and did a better job of cutting out the joint hinges this time than I did as a kid.
The Visible Woman comes with parts to simulate being pregnant. Which is kind of a trip since I know for a fact that The Visible Man does not have gonads.
Tabernacle Organ
The Tabernacle organ has an interesting history. President Brigham Young asked Joseph Harris Ridges, who was born and raised near an organ factory in England, to build the first Tabernacle organ. Suitable timber was located and brought by volunteers from the Parowan and Pine Valley mountains, 300 miles south of Salt Lake City. In the beginning, the organ was powered by hand-pumped bellows, later by water power, and today by electricity. With improved techniques in organ construction, the instrument has been renovated and enlarged several times. Now comprising 11,623 pipes, the organ has 206 ranks of voices, and the console has 5 manuals, or keyboards. The Tabernacle organ is considered to be one of the finest organs in the world.
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