Wayne and I went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium Museum in Myrtle Beach while we were there. He was amazed I wanted to go, but I did. (He has taken the kids lots of times during all their trips to Gatlinburg, but since I'm never with them I never had a chance to see it.) So that was our little Valentine's Weekend date. It was just as awe-inspiring as I had hoped. Gory stuff, weird stuff, amazing stuff, all combined into a wacky museum.
Here are the two pieces of artwork that we found impressive:
"Biblical Art"
"Believe it or not, this magnificent picture of Christ is composed entirely of the words of the Gospel of St. John. The man who developed such miniscule writing as an art form is Gweng Hyuk Rhee of Korea. He created this and other similar masterpieces especially for Ripley's in the 1950's."
We were amazed to see that the bottom right hand corner ended exactly with the last verse of St. John. How did he figure out how to get all the words in there, and in a perfect square?
"Abraham Lincoln Continuous Line Drawing"
"Based on a famous photo of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Brady, this picture was drawn with one continuous line, the artist pencil never having been lifted from the paper."
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