Hi my name is Derek! I'm a writer, photographer, and a digital artist. For the last 6+ years i've been working on a book called: "Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter". It's mostly about different discoveries I've made with Leonardo da Vinci's art: Inluding the Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, The Shroud of Turin, and more. It's a long story (hence the book) but I found that he used a previously un-discovered techniques to hide/ disguise additional images in his art that can't be seen without knowing how.
“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. These same subjects were explained in epic detail in Leonardo's own journals. It was through his journals and studying them with modern technology, that I have been able to understand how he achieved this "new" technique.
"I reveal to men the origin of the first, or perhaps second cause of their existence." daVinci
He was the first to conceive of tanks, planes, robots, automobiles, parachutes, submarines, and other things that were FAR ahead of their time. This inventiveness wasn't limited to engineering and inventions but also to revolutionizing art and painting. Anamorphosis, stereography, "photography", 3D and painting with transparent layers “Sfumato” were in his technical artistic arsenal. What I’ve discovered will add even more advanced achievements to the ever increasing legacy of the amazing Leonardo da Vinci.
“All of our knowledge has it's origins in our perceptions.” -daVinci
My book will follow the journey i've been on in something i'm calling "Interjections" that are interwoven between each chapter. How did a 20'something go from working as a receptionist & going to community college to running away to Australia and eventually to writing a book about Leonardo da Vinci? Why? How?
You can preview "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?" -daVinci
We're always under construction so please forgive any errors. Spreading the word about this site helps me out a lot. Thanks! Contact me:
"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." - daVinci
Derek Bair
- Born: March 9th 1983
- Age: 27
- Sign: Pisces | Boar
- Ethnicity: 1/4 Norweigan, 1/4 Itallian, 1/2: Irish, English, Welsh, Dutch, etc..
- Hair: Blonding
- Eyes: Hazel
- Height: 5'10"
- Religion: "Embrace the Mystery"
- Politics: Not
CONTACT | Blog | Interview | Faq | Press | Reviews | | Interjections
 Family & Early Life:
I was born in the city of Big Bear Lake - California. Which is interesting because my last name is Bair. Some of my family came to America only two generations ago, (from Norway and Itally) and others being traced back to William Bruster who was one of the first pilgrams.
This was the house I grew up in, in Ramona, San Diego, California. I had a 9Acre Back yard!
Strange Coincidence: the three main windows that looked out over the yard are identical to the three arches above the last supper..
Strange Coincidence: My last name Bair (or Bear) is the same as where I was born "Big Bear." Leonardo da Vinci means Leonardo from the town of "Vinci" ...
Education:
I've been to 11 different school throughout my life (mostly because we moved around a lot) I graduated from El Toro High school in 2001.
After High school I attended Saddle Back Community College for a few years off and on. I majored in Philosophy and film but took the path to transfer to a UC college (University of California) and was accepted into the Cal State Channel Islands, but decided not to go.
Australia | Sydney
 On a 'whim', I was fortunate enough to be supported and financed to travel to Sydney Australia to attend KVB: Institute of Technology where I studied Digital Media. A major that could be best described as art - on the computer via web sites, flash - animations - and photoshop. I was essentially learning how to paint and animate images on the computer. These skills would be what helped me notice what I did In Leonardo's art and be able to create a book/ this site. I have been mirroring and manipulating images since then. I also got into Photography while I was there. It was some of the best 5 months ever. I really enjoyed a class-room experience that was focused on learning a skill - rather than being told what the facts were and then being tested on your memory. It was a major factor in deciding not to stay in college and focus on my own education.
Influences:
Leonardo da Vinci, Fredrick Nietzche, Stanley Kubrick, Ang Lee, Steve Erwin, Socrates, Jeremy Narby,
Interests:
Animals, Photography, Writing, Movies, Music, Drawing, Making Movies, Cars, Egypt, Aliens, AI, Technology, Philosophy, Video Games, Plasic Surgery, TV
Interesting Facts:
Vegitarian. Bad speller, Phobic about Scorpions, driving over bridges, and public restrooms. Favorite animals are: Elephants & Octopusus. Very bad speller. Repetitive, Autodidact. Dyslexic when remembering numbers. Obsessed with noses. Bites my nails. Used to tumble. Has Hypographia
Currently:
I'm currently re-writing my book "Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter 2.0" and working on some other projects. Check back often and also follow me on twitter or my blog.
"Self Portraits"
I got into photoshop and photography by taking pictures of myself. I actually got obsessed with trying to figure out why some pictures looked better than others.
I started to realize that looking good in a picture is a lot different than in "real life" and this is what led me into photography and digital art. In trying to look good in a picture - I learned how to make the picture ITSELF look as good as I could get it to look. The skills that it takes to do something like that - on a computer - are the same set of skills that it takes to make a painting.
Perspective vs Perception vs Proportion
Either to make it photo-realistict, which means it looks as real-life as possible, or more abstract and artistic. I would play around with both ideas and impliment them in my "self portraits" The technical aspects would inadvertenly give me the basic knowledge it would take to see Leonardo Da Vinci's art for what it really was, or what it really had encoded within it.
By learning how to manipulate and enhance digital images, it meant I could do the same with Leonardo's Images once they were digitized... If I wouldn't have already had the skill-set I had I wouldnt have noticed what I have, OR been able to see them.
 
 
 
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Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter
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.
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Leonardo Ser Perro da Vinci
Italian inventor, painter, and apex Renaissance man: He also considered the greatest Genius who has ever lived, the end. HERE. |
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The Mona Lisa
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. -READ MORE |
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Salai Giacomo
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 |
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The Last Supper
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 |
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Shroud of Turin Vs. Vitrivuan Man
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 me a 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 greater discovery." - Mark
"..Pure genius and nothing more.." Pramod K. Uday
"You my friend you're like a Champollion and your book must be the Rosetta stone. I really don't understand why yourwork isn't well known or at least credited properly. The website is so pleasant too, 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."-M. Night
"It's always the last place you look."
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