Today's Cultural Upliftenment - Another Special "For Neil" Edition
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Free from the fetid chains of communism, culture continues to flourish in Albania - in new and ever more creative ways.
Now, an Albanian artist has created.... Well, I'll just let you read the start of this....
Albanian Hammers Out Largest Nail Mosaic
Albanian artist Saimir Strati has hammered tens of thousands of nails into a wooden board over the past 24 days to create a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and the world's biggest nail mosaic.
"I can officially confirm that we have a new record for the largest nail mosaic of eight square metres," Guinness World Records adjudicator Scott Christie said late on Monday.
The mosaic stood in the main hall of Tirana's pyramid-shaped culture centre, exactly where a larger-than-life sculpture of the late Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha [ed. - may he burn in the deepest circle of hell for all eternity] used to stand.
See what kind of art you can get without the NEA?