“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” -daVinci
To understand what I've found has led me to research other subjects that include optics, perception, perspective, humanities, optical illusions, and our vision system.
“All of our knowledge has it's origins in our perceptions.” -Leonardo da Vinci
My book will follow the journey i've been on in something i'm calling "Interjections" that are interwoven between each chapter. I'm hoping to be done soon but until then you can review "Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter" by going through this site and visiting my blog.
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" -da Vinci
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"Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past. Prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly." - da Vinci
TIMELINE
of Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter
(& It's previous Titles)
How did I start writing a book about Leonardo Da Vinci? What discovories did I make, when, and how? I thought a timeline would be the best way to present what I found. This 'story' - my story, is going to be included in "Interjections" between each chapter but until I'm done w/ my current re-re-write this section of the site will explain what i've gone though while writing this book and why it's taken so long to finish. One thing leads to another - and then another - and at a certain point I stopped trying to update the current version of the book until I was at a point where I could have an ending without having to start again.
Started Itsjustlife.com 2003
My site started as a "Blog" about my stay in Australia to keep friends and family updated. I would post stories and pictures and practice the digital art skills I was learning at College "Uni."
Bought Da Vinci art book on Sale for Plane Trip
Before my plane trip - which was going to be 17 Hours! I decided to get some books to read on the way over. There was a book with Da Vinci's art on sale for $9.95 - I read though it and it was the first time I heard that his own Self portrait aligned with the face of the Mona Lisa. I didn't know much about Leonardo at this point and didn't become really interested until I read the Da Vinci Code.
Went to Sydney to Study Digital Media @ KVB Institute of Technology
Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 5:22:12 AM
I had been playing around with Photoshop and Photo-Manipulation for years before but while I was in Sydney I started to experiment more - especially with mirroring. This image was something I made for the title of my site.
Moved back to Southern California
Read "The Da Vinci Code"
Dan Brown gave a lot of background information about Leonardo that I didn't know and I became really curious about his art and why there was so much controversy and mystery behind it. I started to research da Vinci more and more after reading this book.
Read "How to think like Leonardo da Vinci"
This was the next book I bought about Leonardo, I really enjoyed it and it inspired me to hone my writing and art skills into something more than my personal Journals. I startd to write and think about things that were more scientific - especially how images/ photography/ 3d/ and perception works.
Quit my Job to write "Its Just Life" Full time. (Long story)
On a manic spending spree at a book store I bought as many Leonardo da Vinci books as I could carry. I stayed up and didn't eat for 4 days in a row and started to see things in his art pop out and move around. INTERJECTION TEN explains a little bit of what happened. This will be expanded upon and explain in the updated version.
During "The Nights" that started me on my Da Vinci Re-search/ book I filled up 4 poster boards with graphs and drawings. I was trying to figure out how to design a 2d drawing to be encoded with 3d information. Later when I read Leonardo's own journals that I had just bought - I realized he was trying to do the same exact thing. I didn't think this was possible 500 years ago.
First Da Vinci Theory: "The Mona Lisa is 3d"
My very first "Theory" was that the Mona Lisa was 3d. I was playing around with the painting in photoshop and testing different settings such as levels and curves. I noticed that the painting changed in a sequence that was making her look like a sculpture. I didn't know how to explain it at the time but I seemed to understand what was happening.
I had remembered reading that Mona's Face and Leonardo's Self portrait aligned. I wondered why he would have done that so I tested it out myself. What I realized was that he had actually designed the faces to not only Align but to COMBINE. Again, I couldn't understand how he did this, but I knew that they were meant to go together.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 5:14:44 AM (First ancient art Image I ever Mirrored on itself)
I was still reading though the Leonardo books I had just bought and this painting caught my eye. Since I was considering 3d and the only knowledge I had at the time about 3d was that it had something to do with Red and Blue glasses, I thought there might be something special about an artist using red and blue in their paintings.
I scanned this painting in and started to play around with it in Photoshop like I had been doing with the Mona Lisa. I couldn't understand what the artist meant with how he painted Jesus's hands. They seemed like they were trying to allude to some hidden meaning.
How I explained it in an Interjection:
"As I looked through the Da Vinci book a little more I came across a painting called “Jesus with the Doctors” it wasn’t by Da Vinci but at one point they thought it was. Now they say it’s done by Bernardino Luini around 1515. (that name looks funny to me for some reason, there’s something weird about it! It looks like Leonardo Da Vinci but changed??)
I looked at this painting and thought: What is he doing with his hands?Why is one finger pointing to the stone in his shirt? Why did the artist use red and blue? What is going on in this painting? What is the meaning? Does the hand gesture mean 3? Or 1? 1 +3? There is obviously some kind of meaning!
For some reason after I scanned that painting in my computer I thought that it would make an animation if I flashed it how it was, and then mirrored. Why? I have no idea, I was going on 3 days with no sleep and wearing 3d glasses looking at ancient art.. There isn’t really a great explanation for anything at that point…
If you glace back and forth at the hands you’ll see what I mean and maybe why I thought to do this. It kinda freaks your mind out and you might also see what I meant by it being an animation. Left right, left right, left right. Something like that. 1 2 3 ? Do it, look at one side and then the next as fast as you can! Also if you can combine them with your eyes (crossing them) see what happens.. It looks like Jesus is doing gang signs." Interjection from Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter
This was what originally made me start to mirror and cross images on themselves.
Wrote "Terces" Thursday, June 01, 2006, 9:30:00 AM
I was still going on days without sleep and for some reason I thought I had to finish an entire book about what I found IMMEDIATELY. I titled it "Terces" which is S E C R E T spelled backwards. It wasn't even a book, but more like a flyer showing what I had just found. It is pure crazyness and totally embarassing! I had literally lost my mind but thankfully when I finally got some sleep I woke up with a memory of insanity and a weird book and discovories to work with!
I spent the next couple weeks working on a new book about how Leonardo's face combined with the Mona Lisa and why he designed them to do so. I also continued to experiment with his art on the computer to figure out how he encoded his art with hidden images, 3d stereograms, and animations.
RIGHT as I was finishing up the editing of that book I came across a painting of Giacomo Salai on Leonardo's Wikepedia page. It said that it didn't have a known painter. There was still something off about the Mona Lisa and Leonardo's face combining that I couldn't explain. Coincidentally I had just seen one of those images that takes two faces and combines them together to show what their child might look like. I was like, hmmm, I wonder if this painting of Salai would go over the Mona Lisa?
I found that when I superimposed Salai's Face over the Mona Lisa's - they also combined. I also realized Mona Lisa's title was an annagram for "Mon Salai" There is more info and pictures about Salai HERE
Terces Changed to "Lisa Mona"
I spent the next couple weeks working on "Lisa Mona" which is Mona Lisa backwards. It ended up being 100pages and calling it a novice attempt would be an understatement. It's barely understandable and is a jumbled mess. I was still in a frantic state of mind and it was put together as fast as possible. I was expecting that what I found was going to be announced in the news and I had to have it done before that happened.
Mona Lisa or Mon Salai?
by Louie Parsons
2006-11-17 08:26:17
In November one of the first article about what I was working on and what I discovered was posted. A lot of it was paraphrased from what I had on my web site. During this entire time I had been updating itjustlife.com with what I found and trying to get people to help announce what I found. Keep in mind I had NO idea how to release a book or an artistic discovery! Everyone in my life thought I was completely crazy and didn't understand what I was doing. That really hindered my progress but I always had this realization of how important what I found would be to some people - even if it wasn't to anyone around me.
I was reading da Vinci's journals during this whole time and I was re-confirming that I wasn't crazy and that he really did mean for this to happen - but also that he used his secret technique in his other art.
I tried to mirror the Last Supper on itself and discovered that this mirroring process could be used to hide and actually animate hundreds if not thousands of other images within one single painting.
The first thing I noticed when the painting was mirrored on itself was that the green tie that was on the character to the far left's shoulder crossed over and became masks/ and hats on the other characters.
This absolutely blew my mind. Not that it was there or that there were hidden images - BUT the huge amount of thought and time and planning that would go on to make a painting be able to do this. I had absolutely NO prior experience or knowledge of anything like this so it took me a very long time to be able to understand all of this.
In The Da Vinci code it mentioned that the Character to the left of Jesus was "Mary" I had thought that it was obvious that it was a female but after more research with the painting, especially after applying the mirroring technique I found that Leonardo left behind a strew of clues to hint that it was a woman. I purposly kept what was in the painting and any type of biblical history seperate. I didn't want to be controvercial I just wanted to explain what I found in a PAINTING. More on the Last Supper HERE
When Jesus from the last supper was mirrored on himself I noticed what appeared to be an upside down skull over his head - this reminded me of The Shroud of Turin that others had suspected Leonardo Created. The Shroud is considered one of the most studied human artifacts of all time, it is so special because it has a 3D image imprinted on it. A 2D image encoded with 3D information - exactly what I had been finding in other Da Vinci art. So I decided to test the Shroud in photoshop like I had with Leonardo's other art and found that it had the mirroring effect as well. That led me to comparing it to the drawing of the Vitruvian Man - and wow. They combined.
Lisa Mona Changed & Was upgraded to "The Anatomy of Mona Lisa: Love's Prison"
Late 2006 Published the first Version of "The Anatomy of Mona Lisa" :331 Pages
Published an updated "The Anatomy of Mona Lisa" April 2007: 400pages
The first person to both read and review this book was Pramod K. Uday: Read the Review
At that point I had no idea if what I was writing was good or absolutely terrible. Her review really helped to motivate me to keep going but also to improve my writing and try to make it easier to understand.
I sumitted what I found to Unexplained-mysteries.com and they Featured me as the top story of the day! This generated a lot of traffic to my site which had been almost non-existent at that point.
Around this time my personal life and living situation were completely compromised and I was forced to finish my latest re-write in a matter of weeks. I was essentially home-less during this re-write and I decided to change the name of my book to:
May 2007: The Anatomy of Mona Lisa is changed and updated to "Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter" 444pages
I was so desperate for any kind of recognition or.. well anything to happen that I posted my entire book online for free. I thought that people thought I was trying to sell them on something un-true so I thought the best way to prove that it was legitimate was to post the entire thing online for people to read for free first - then if they liked it they could buy it. That was NOT a very genius move and I didn't sell any books but only succeeded to leak my discovories and everything I had been working on - online for anyone and everyone to read. That combined with the new attention my site was getting from the Unexplained-mysteries.com article motivated me to have someone write and send out an Official press release.
I didn't get any responce back from anyone - BUT submitting a "press release" puts the information "out there" and sent to thousands of sources. A month later I was checking AOL and Saw this:
Last Supper Theory Crashes Websites:
"
Now Slavisa Pesci, an information technologist and amateur scholar, says superimposing the Last Supper with its mirror-image throws up another picture containing a figure who looks like a Templar knight and another holding a small baby.
"I came across it by accident, from some of the details you can infer that we are not talking about chance but about a precise calculation," Pesci told journalists when he unveiled the theory this week.
his Websites ... had 15 million hits on Thursday morning alone, organizers said, adding they were trying to provide a more powerful server for the sites."
I was ... um. Both completely destroyed and completely motivated. What I had dedicated my life to for the last couple years was being released VERY sucessfully - but by someone else. 15 MILLION hits in a day is un-heard of. The motivation came from finally having some validity to what I had been telling everyone in my life who thought I was dillusional "See! People are actually interested in what I found!" Think about how many books I could have sold if those 15million people went to my site instead? I usually got less that 15 hits a day and sold maybe 2 books.
I contacted the person who sent out my press release and asked why Pesci was able to get publicity with the exact same story - and I wasn't? He sent out another release for free:
For the first time since I started I gave up. I deleted everything from my web site and only had "Itsjustlife.com is for SALE" - that only lasted a couple days and after giving myself a reallllllllly big reality check and pep-talk. I continued on.
Although I had been emailing with a few people since I started I was contacted by someone who I could finally identify with. She would go on to be one of my best friends and my "online mom" La Jan! She was also discovering hidden images in Leonardo's art and she helped me feel a lot less crazy. http://n2davinciandbeyond.com/
By the end of 2007 I had decided to re-write "the book" yet again. This time combining everything I had learned and the new stuff that I had not yet published. I was finally going to write the book I really wanted to and not be rushed.
Fast Forward >>
DEJA VU
February 2011: Another HUGE news story went out about something that was already in my book - by someone else. This time about "Mon Salai"
The Following links are only a few out of the dozens that are popping up all over the world.
Artist Spots Hidden Animals In Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa LINK "Oil painter and graphic designer Ron Piccirillo thinks that Leonardo da Vinci meant for the Mona Lisato depict envy, based off of some images of animals he’s discovered in the painting after turning it on its side that relate to some of da Vinci’s thoughts on the subject. FromThe Daily What:"
Artist Believes He's Found a Secret Code in the Mona Lisa LINK
'DDD' encompasses quite a few different
Discovories
Da Vinci's use of Stereo-grams (not
thought to be invented till the 1800's)
The assertion that Da Vinci created the Shroud of Turin (It combines with his drawing the Vitruvian Man
That the Mona Lisa Contains hundreds of
other images hidden inside her thousand of layers. Also that the painting could make a movie/ animation
once I figure out the mechanics and process to do it! (which
I have and will be in 2.0)
The correct way to view the Last
Supperwhich shows a baby being passed around.And proves that Da Vinci intended the person to Jesus's right - to be Mary and not John.
The True Identity of the Model in
the Painting "Mona Lisa" - which is Da Vinci's daughter -
painted and metaphorical and not Lisa Giocondo. I've found
another painting that has an "unknown painter" that matches
and combines perfectly with the Mona Lisa of Salai - Da
Vinci's partner of 25 years who's name is anagrammed in the
title "Mona Lisa" and who's portrait combines as well. -
Da
Vinci's Self portrait - Salai - Mona Lisa (they all
combine)
I've found that the Mona Lisa's edges align when rolled up - answering why the
perspective in the back ground is "off"
Da Vinc's
paiting of "John the Baptist" is really of Salai. (This was already known)
This painting and another painting of Salai
both combine with the face of the Mona Lisa. Salino
*another version of Salai's name) is annagramed as -
ona Lisa (Mona Lisa without the M)
I'm calling Leonardo's secret technique "The Sfumato Effect" but since there is more techniques i've discovered which are different from each other- there will be other titles for the various techniques as well. I had been working with the computer to de-code his process, but have since found a way to verify that everything was possible - 500 years ago.
Is the title of a book i've been working on for the past 5 years. I'm writing Version 2.0 Right now and hope to be finally finished soon. You can preview it, what it's about, and what I discovered by clicking HERE.
Is the most famous work of art in existence. Her face is also one of the most recognizable - and is potentially worth a billion dollars. It's both a mystery and a convtroversy over who she really is and how da Vinci painted her. -HERE
This is a painting of Da Vinci's pupil, assistant, and probable lover Salino Giocomo, or "Salai." Why is the title "Mona Lisa" an anagram for "Mon Salai" ? Why does a painting of Salai combine with the painting of Mona Lisa? Read more
There is something really special about Da Vinci's art, especially so in one of the most famous and controversial paintings in the world: "The Last Supper" From the gender of the character to the left of Jesus, to the hand holding a knife? What I found answers these questions but also asks a LOT more Read more
The Shroud of Tuin is said to be the single most studied human artifact of all time- with very good reason. It's more like a 3d photograph from possibly thousands of years ago. Some believe it's proof of Jesus's divinity, some think it's a weird scientific anomoly, but no one knows for sure. I think I know who made it.. Read more
"What does it all mean, I don't know yet, but that made me decide to contact you who may really be the best Da Vinci expert in this age if not the reincarnated Da Vinci himself" - Teemu
"..your book really fascinated mea lot (as the topic was very different and new for me)...Well i have started reading your book and i am liking your research...." Deepika Mehta
"I find your work to be outstanding. I too think that you are just dangling on the precipice of a greaterdiscovery." - Mark
"You my friend you're like a Champollion and your bookmust bethe Rosetta stone. I really don't understand why yourwork isn't well known or at least creditedproperly. The website is so pleasanttoo, your focus and perspective on Da Vinci is for me like entering that new dimension which was there all along but i couldn't acknowledge without the proper key companion to shed a different light than the common mainstream thinking and analysis. And I just bought your book! I'm so excited, i couldn't wait for the re-visited version, i'm too curious to wait actually!" @FritesMoutarde
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident" - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt." -Thomas Edison
"That's the moral of the story, no one is ever told who they really are."
