ANCIENT ALIENS - THE DA VINCI CONSPIRACY
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bh2kb
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...there, fixed it.
As I didn't have any thing to do I watched it (in three parts), and it's the biggest load of rubbish I have ever seen.
Great episode A51. I'm not to sure about the statements made in the video but Da Vinci was quite a character. He could write with either hand and do backwards mirror writing to boot. He was a very loooong way ahead of his time. 8)
https://www.livescience.com/65225-da-vinci-ambidextrous.html
https://www.mos.org/leonardo/activities/mirror-writing
Very interesting guy! To say the least.
Quote from: WhatTheHey on April 27, 2019, 06:39:12 PM
Great episode A51. I'm not to sure about the statements made in the video but Da Vinci was quite a character. He could write with either hand and do backwards mirror writing to boot. He was a very loooong way ahead of his time. 8)
https://www.livescience.com/65225-da-vinci-ambidextrous.html
https://www.mos.org/leonardo/activities/mirror-writing
Very interesting guy! To say the least.
Indeed. The fact that he used mirror writing opens the door to him having used mirror images as well.
Quote from: A51Watcher on April 28, 2019, 04:24:19 AM
Indeed. The fact that he used mirror writing opens the door to him having used mirror images as well.
Not as much as they pretend to in the video, as he used mirror writing when he wrote with his left hand, mirroring the movements of the right hand instead of converting them to write the letters as they should be.
Quote from: A51Watcher on April 28, 2019, 04:24:19 AM
Indeed. The fact that he used mirror writing opens the door to him having used mirror images as well.
A very good point! :)
Quote from: A51Watcher on April 28, 2019, 04:24:19 AM
Indeed. The fact that he used mirror writing opens the door to him having used mirror images as well.
Now that I thought about it, it was the people on the video that used mirrored images, not Leonardo. If he did use the images as they say then he "de-mirrored" the images before painting them.
PS: mirroring images like they did on the video is likely to create shapes like that, as we can see below, done with a random stock image.
(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/canstockphoto26931090.jpg)
Quote from: ArMaP on April 27, 2019, 06:30:23 PMand it's the biggest load of rubbish I have ever seen.
Rubish ya say? Oh well I guess i won't have to watch it them as I have your word on that :P
ACTIVITY: MIRROR WRITING
Writing Backwards
Write a message using Leonardo's mysterious backwards mirror writing style.(https://www.mos.org/leonardo/sites/mos.org.leonardo/files/uploads/leonardo-writing.jpg)
QuoteLeonardo's Private Notes
Not only did Leonardo write with a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself, he also mirrored his writing, starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Only when he was writing something intended for other people did he write in the normal direction.
The purpose of his mirror writing is unknown, but one idea is that it may have kept his hands clean. People who were contemporaries of Leonardo left records that they saw him write and paint left handed. He also made sketches showing his own left hand at work. As a lefty, this mirrored writing style would have prevented him from smudging his ink as he wrote.
Seems like the Museum of Boston is having study lessons on the technique
https://www.mos.org/leonardo/activities/mirror-writing
We all know, or should by now, that the old masters hid things in their paintings. I could fill several pages with great examples, especially "Illuminati" painters. But here is am Interesting article by a skeptic...
Leonardo da Vinci's work mirrored
by Whimsical KT in Art, Random Tags: Art, Leonardo Da Vinci, mirrored art, Renaissance, strange
Okay, this might sound like I have lost my mind.. and maybe I have. I recently heard that if you take Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci's art work and "mirror" it, you will come up with "weird" images. I want to make clear that I think the DaVinci code is a load of hog wash. Secondly, I am not a fan of Da Vinci's work. There has always been something about his style that I do not like, NOT that I do not appreciate it... obviously I do. I have just never been a big fan of his. I have always been more of a Goya (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes) fan. He has "hidden" things in his paintings, but they are mostly cats and birds.. seriously, how could I not love his work?! His work is beautiful and at times very twisted.
After hearing this mirroring about Da Vinci's work I decided to try it for myself to see if there is really anything to it. The first painting I started with was The Baptism of Christ. After simply looking at the painting I noticed several things that were "off" about it. Now, I am not an art expert... but I don't suppose I need to be to notice some of the things I noticed. I suppose some of them could have been symbolic for other things... but that doesn't seem to add up in this painting.
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv.jpg)
First, why was Jesus painted as an old man? He is heavily wrinkled in the painting. That seems uncommon... wrinkles would have been a sign of mans sin nature... Jesus had no sin nature so why did he have wrinkles? Second thing that struck me odd is the black bird to the upper right. I do not understand why it is there. Third, the tree the black bird is flying near, the tree is supposed to be in the background but it still seems odd that it would be shaped that way. Fourth, the girl by the river, I think that is supposed to be either Mary Jesus' mother or Mary Magdalene. Either or, why is her eye contact completely off? Fifth, Jesus' foot. His right your left. There was a great deal of time spent on this painting. What is up with his middle toe? It looks like a wart or something on his foot. Again, that doesn't add up to the time frame. Sixth, the dove and arms above Christ. The arms seem strange but that might just be me. The dove's head is tilted in an odd way as well and it might just be me. Seventh, the girl's sleeve that is black. It seems out of place as does the bottom of the girls dress behind her. Finally, Jesus' halo seems strange because it is red and white and doesn't line up with his head the way the halos on the other people do.
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv1.jpg)
So I mirrored the image in photoshop. At first I mirrored the entire image then I cut the image into three's, vertically, and mirrored each part. Here are the results.
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv2.jpg)
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv3.jpg)
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv4.jpg)
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv5.jpg)
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv6.jpg)
https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/leonardo-da-vincis-work-mirrored/
continued...
I also mirrored one of his paintings that I never really liked. It is a painting of Jesus. This painting never looked "right" to me that is why I didn't care for it. After mirroring the image, I like it! Maybe that was the point of this particular painting... maybe it was to be viewed mirrored.
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv7.jpg)
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv8.jpg)
https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/leonardo-da-vincis-work-mirrored/
Quote from: zorgon on April 29, 2019, 12:32:10 AM
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv.jpg)
That painting is not from Leonardo da Vinci, it's from Verrocchio, his first master. He painted parts of the painting, as apprentices used to do, but not the main parts, as those were done by the master.
Only in the final exam the apprentice had to paint a main figure on one of the master's painting, before that they were only allowed to paint minor figures, in this case one of the angels on the left.
PS: I looked for that painting because it didn't look like a Leonardo work, and it looks like I was right. All those years helping my sister with her art course helped. :)
Quote from: zorgon on April 29, 2019, 12:36:05 AM
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv7.jpg)
(https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lv8.jpg)
https://twopartswhimsicalonepartpeculiar.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/leonardo-da-vincis-work-mirrored/
One thing that mirroring images like this does is removing the light/shadow effect, resulting in an image that appears to have an uniform lighting, removing the lighting imagined by the artist.