Well, the nail gun Mona Lisa is fake anyway.
One of the fine people whose site is linked from my picture of the Mona Lisa, sent me a video of a guy re-creating a picture of the Mona Lisa with a nail gun.
Bryan, whose site is The Life and Time’s of Bryan Sr. And Family sent me the video via email. Incidentally, Bryan is a retired police officer who writes about his experiences on the force and also about family life with 7 children. Click on the links and go check it out. (Thank you Bryan!)
Anyway, I watched this video and was astounded by what I saw.
The action takes place in a workshop, and a guy brandishing a nail gun sets about firing nails at a blank canvas. In about 90 seconds this guy has created an unbelievably fantastic image of the Mona Lisa.
I was blown away at his skill, and totally envious of his workshop, but that’s neither here nor there.
Here’s the video:
Nail Gun Mona Lisa
It wasn’t until I started to read the comments underneath the video that I noticed some sharp eyed observer point out that at 0:57, the right arm of the guy on the left disappears under the elbow of the Mona Lisa.
He moves his arm in front to the canvas BUT the elbow of Mona Lisa is visible over the top of his sleeve!
Look at the screen shots below:
Mona Lisa Revealed as a Fake
For the record the eagle eyed observer was 3mpirion
So what do you think? Is this Mona Lisa a fake?
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Twitter: DaveFowler
May 15, 2010 at 15:11
Hi, I meant to add, if you like this please consider submitting it to digg, delicious, stumble etc. Thank you.
Dave.
Darn it, I wanted it to be a real deal. I watched and thought it was amazing. Oh well, I still wonder what they did to get it to where it is. Good catch on this one. Just can’t get rid of those police skills can you?
Twitter: DaveFowler
May 15, 2010 at 22:03
Hi Bryan, I’d like to claim I did the detective work, but the truth is it was shoved right under my nose.
Thanks for the vid though. Fake or not, there was some genius behind it.
Yeah — totally his arm disappears BEHIND the canvas. That this is fake makes sense when I observe the cheering guys not acting as one really would if such an amazing thing were taking place before their eyes. And when the camera guy followed the nail gun being set down — perfect time to switch in the real canvas.
It WAS very entertaining, tho!
My 8-year-old daughter recently did a report on the making of the Mona Lisa. Did you know her teeth were severely decayed? Mona’s I mean — not my daughter’s. That’s why DaVinci had her close her mouth — but it worked!
Twitter: DaveFowler
May 16, 2010 at 15:58
Hi Jannie!
There’s at least one time where the guy with the nail gun looks away for what seems like too long while he’s still working on the picture. It’s almost like they wanted to get found out.
A great stunt,whichever way you look at it.
Another point, at 1.34 he is ‘painting’ her fingers at the bottom of the portrait and the next moment the eyes, top part of the portrait while his hand position does not change one bit
Twitter: DaveFowler
September 10, 2010 at 10:34
Hi Pavan, well spotted. I hadn’t noticed that myself.
Thanks for dropping by.
How it’s made:
They first made the “painting” with nails and a hammer (or nail-gun from close up), then took the video going through all the motions. A white cover was digitally put over the finished work, and as the video progress the “white cover” was made smaller frame by frame showing more and more of the already completed artwork.
10 out of 10 for effort. ;>)
Twitter: DaveFowler
December 14, 2010 at 12:54
Hi Darius, thanks for dropping in and shedding light on how it was done. Either way it’s very clever!
There are some talented people out there!
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