Itsjustlife.com | Derek Bair| Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter

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

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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." - daVinci

The Sfumato Effect:

Sfumato is the name given to Leonardo da Vinci's technique for painting. It means "Smoke" or to blend with no perception of the transition. I'm calling his hidden and secret technique to add special effects and movement to a non-moving image "The Sfumato Effect" There is more than one type but they will be explained and labeled as I go on.

Clue: What could you do if you knew why the image below appears to move, when it is not moving? I bet you could make some pretty interesting art - huh?

(Stare into the center, you will buy my book when it comes out, you will buy my book when it comes out... )

"O marvellous, O stupendous necessity, thou with supreme reason compellest all effects to be the direct result of their causes; and by a supreme and irrevocable law every natural action obeys thee by the shortest possible process. Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature such as these? What tongue will it be that can unfold so great a wonder? Verily none! This it is that guides the human discourse to the considering of divine things. Here the forms, here the colours, here all the images of every part of the universe are contracted to a point. What point is so marvellous? O wonderful, O stupendous necessity---by thy law thou constrainest every effect to be the direct result of its cause by the shortest path.

These are miracles...forms already lost, mingled together in so small a space it can recreate and recompense by expansion. Describe in thy anatomy what proportion there is between diameters of all the lenses in the eye and the distance from these to the crystalline lens." - Leonardo Da Vinci 500 years ago.

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"Stereograms, also known as Magic Eye pictures, use seemingly-random patterns of dots but rely on the viewer to cross his eyes in just the right way, or to look through the image until the eyes see just the right part and allow the brain to decode the hidden depth information." -21st Century 3d Stereoscopic Technology

This is not really moving, your mind makes it appear it is. Why? How? what if you could implement this complicated optical phenomena into your art? What if someone already did, hundreds of years before it was thought to be "Discovered" what if no one noticed, until now...

Da Vinci's Self portrait combined with the portrait of Salai and the Mona Lisa..)

"If Liberty is Dear to you, May you never DISCOVER that my face is Love's Prison" - Leonardo Da Vinci

:DISCOVERING DA VINCI'S DAUGHTER 2.0:

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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.
	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.
	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
	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
	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
	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."