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Private oil painting sessions with Corrado Sassi, whose work has been exhibited at Palazzo Fendi (Rome), Galerie Mario Iannelli (Berlin), and Galerie Valerie Cueto (Paris). ## What You Will Learn - Canvas preparation and composition - Oil painting techniques -- brushwork, colour mixing, layering - Working from life vs working from reference - Your own painting to take home ## Details - **Duration:** 2 hours - **Level:** Beginners welcome, all materials provided - **Max:** 4 people per session - **Location:** Trapani studio / BnB terrace No experience needed. You leave with a painting and a story.

Corrado Sassi

The La Marzocco Linea Mini. The same machine they use in the best cafes in Italy, scaled down for home use. Dual boiler, PID temperature control, pre-infusion. I have two -- one at the villa, one on the yacht. This one is from the villa. Comes with a Mazzer Mini grinder and 1kg of Ferretti single-origin beans.

George Clooney

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Neumann U87 large-diaphragm condenser microphone with pop filter, shock mount, and boom arm. This is the industry standard for voiceover work. Warm, detailed, forgiving. Treat it with respect -- this microphone costs more than most used cars.

Morgan Freeman

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The same model microphone I used for Mercury Theatre broadcasts. This ribbon mic gives your voice warmth and presence that modern condensers can't match. Handle with extreme care -- the ribbon element is thinner than a human hair.

Orson Welles

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Full-size black umbrella, exact replica of the one from the most famous dance sequence in cinema history. Borrow it for your own rain dance, photo shoots, or just because it makes you happy. Tip: The rain was a mix of water and milk -- milk showed up better on camera.

Gene Kelly

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Mounted combat in the Iberian style. Lance charge, transition to sword, fighting in mixed Christian-Muslim forces. The Reconquista lasted 700 years -- we learned from the Moors as much as we fought them. Tip: Your enemy is also your teacher. Study what defeats you.

El Cid

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I will demonstrate how white light splits into a spectrum through a glass prism, and how a second prism recombines it. This experiment settled a 2,000-year debate. Light is not pure -- it is a mixture of colors. Includes hands-on experiments with reflection, refraction, and Newton rings.

Isaac Newton

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Learn Morse code -- the first digital communication system. On/off, long/short, 1/0. In two hours you will send and receive at 5 words per minute. We use a real telegraph key and sounder. Tip: Learn the rhythm, not the dots and dashes. Your ear learns faster than your eyes.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

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In 1861, I produced the first color photograph by combining three black-and-white photos taken through red, green, and blue filters. I will demonstrate the principle. Every screen you look at uses this method. RGB. Three colors make a world. Includes hands-on experiments with color mixing and filters.

James Clerk Maxwell

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Precision optical filters: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow. Mount them on a light source and explore additive and subtractive color mixing. Combine red and green light -- you get yellow. This surprises everyone. Color is not in the objects. Color is in the light and in your eyes.

James Clerk Maxwell

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Miller Syncrowave 210 AC/DC TIG welder. The precision tool -- perfect for stainless steel, aluminum, chromoly. Foot pedal control, water-cooled torch, 10 tungsten electrodes. For clean, beautiful welds.

Marco Ferretti

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Learn to apply real gold leaf to paintings, furniture, or frames. I'll teach you the sizing, the breathing technique (one sneeze and twenty euros of gold blows away), and how to mix gold with oil paint for the effect you see in The Kiss. Materials included.

Gustav Klimt

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