No doubt Leonardo Da Vinci would be highly impressed, the futurist that he was, predicting air travel, solar power, and calculators. Now his masterpiece, “The Last Supper” is online, no longer confined to Milan, Italy:

As of Saturday, all you need is an Internet connection. Officials put online an image of the “Last Supper” at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera.

The high resolution will allow experts to examine details of the 15th century wall painting that they otherwise could not — including traces of drawings Leonardo put down before painting.

The high-resolution allows viewers to look at details as though they were centimeters (inches) from the art work, in contrast to regular photographs, which become grainy as you zoom in, said curator Alberto Artioli.

“You can see how Leonardo made the cups transparent, something you can’t ordinarily see,” said Artioli. “You can also note the state of degradation the painting is in.”

Go here to see “The Last Supper.”

It was four years ago that journalist Leslie Kean brought a lawsuit against NASA to uncover documents from the Kecksburg 1965 UFO incident, in the aftermath of production of a Sci Fi Channel documentary, “The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed.” The documentary has since been posted online and you can watch it here. Now, after the four-year court battle:

NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Traffic was tied up in the area as curiosity seekers drove to the area, only to be kept away from the crash site by soldiers.

The Air Force’s explanation for the unidentified flying object: a meteor or meteors.

“They could not find anything,” one Air Force memo stated after a late-night search on Dec. 9, 1965. Several NASA employees also were reported to have been at the scene.

Eyewitnesses said a flatbed truck drove away a large object shaped like an acorn and about the size of a Volkswagen bus. A mock-up based on the descriptions of local residents sits behind the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department.

UFO enthusiasts refused to let the matter die and journalist Leslie Kean of New York City sued NASA four years ago for information.

“This is about the public’s right to know,” Kean said. “We would be doing this lawsuit regardless of whether UFO groups were interested in it or not. It’s a freedom of information issue.”

Here is the documentary, “The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed,” narrated by Bryant Gumbel.

Jeremy Blake was a pioneering artist whose work was a unique synthesis of abstract painting, digital and video imagery. His untimely, tragic death by suicide earlier this year is a tremendous loss to the art world. A major retrospective exhibit of his art begins today at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. From the Corcoran Gallery Web site:

Jeremy Blake’s (1971–2007) lush digital videos combine representational and abstract imagery to create visual narratives that are dreamy, historical, and richly psychological. Renowned for his shimmering, hallucinogenic “moving paintings,” which loop seamlessly without beginning or end, Blake was influenced as much by Hollywood culture as by the history of modernism. His coolly expressive digital and painted abstractions are slick, non-linear ruminations on topics as wide-ranging as reality television, vernacular architecture, mid-century Colorfield painting, the megamall, and the superchurch.

Blake’s cinematic video portraits are the final development in a career that consistently challenged distinctions between painting, photography, and computer and video art. In his last works, Blake turned to portraiture, plumbing the life, imagination, and aesthetic vision of three extraordinary artists. He honored his subjects’ achievements through an innovative new form that is its own contribution to the history of art.

Jeremy Blake with his companion, writer and filmmaker, Theresa Duncan, whose death by suicide preceded his.

An image from “Berkshire Fangs,” 2001

Video: “Beck’s Round the Bend”