This is the exact height, width, and thickness of the board if you could get that close and personal. "Mona Lisa"-- the most famous painting in the world, done by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, who just celebrated his 500th anniversary of his death. You know, Leonardo leaves us no clues about the "Mona Lisa." We don't know whether she's rich, or poor, or titled.
And I know he would have wanted his knot art included when authenticating a "Salvator Mundi" or an Earlier Version Mona Lisa. Well, this is known as the Academia Vinciana Knot Series 1 through 6, six mandalas of interlocking extravaganza doneby Leonardo da Vinci.
53. And there's a standard deviation around that. "Mona Lisa." "Mona Lisa", right?
53. And there's a standard deviation around that. "Mona Lisa" doesn't make the cut.
So, without further ado, I want to let Mona tell us her story. Thank you so much for coming today, too. Thanks. Mona Caron: Thank you so much for being here as well.So I am going to talk to you a little bit more about what was suggested to me by Paul that might be of interest of you today and kind of stressing a little bit how sometimes
Male in Video #1: You could do that? Mona Caron: If you want. You wanna be in it?Male in Video #1: Yeah.
Male in Video #1: Yeah. Mona Caron: You wanna be in it? I'll take your picture and then you'll tell me M andK. Male in Video #1: Yeah.
K. Male in Video #1: Yeah. Mona Caron: Yeah. Walkin' down the street?Male in Video #1: Yeah.
Male in Video #1: Yeah. Mona Caron: Where do you want to be?Male in Video #1: Here. Well, you can put us down there then and make us tall, you know what I'm saying?
Male in Video #1: Here. Well, you can put us down there then and make us tall, you know what I'm saying? Mona Caron: Right here?>.Male in Video #1: Make us tall.
>.Male in Video #1: Make us tall. Mona Caron: You two together?Male in Video #1: Yeah.
Male in Video #1: Yeah. Mona Caron: Great. Male in Video #1: All right?Mona Caron: Actually, do one where you're pointing where you're gonna be so I remember.
Mona Caron: Great. Male in Video #1: All right?Mona Caron: Actually, do one where you're pointing where you're gonna be so I remember.Awesome. Okay, great. Male in Video #1: Yeah.
Female in Video #1: That's pretty good. Mona Caron: You want to be in it too? All right. So in front of check cashing place.Male in Video #2: Yeah. You know right there?
That's where everybody sells marijuana at. Mona Caron: Ahh. Male in Video #2: So I'll stand right there though 'cause that's where I do my thing.Mona Caron: I see. I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you the picture when I'm done.
Mona Caron: Ahh. Male in Video #2: So I'll stand right there though 'cause that's where I do my thing.Mona Caron: I see. I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you the picture when I'm done.Male in Video #2: Okay.
Female in Video #2: And that's you right there. Mona Caron: I'm doing good. I'm doing good.Male in Video #9: We were just talking about you earlier.
Male in Video #9: We were just talking about you earlier. Mona Caron: Hey. Male in Video #9: We were talkin' about you earlier.Mona Caron: Yeah, yeah.
Mona Caron: Hey. Male in Video #9: We were talkin' about you earlier.Mona Caron: Yeah, yeah.Cameraman: Have you lived in the neighborhood long?
Male in Video #12: That's me right there on my way to church. You can see in that picture of the future - this is a sun shiny corner so I come here sometimes just to get the sun. Mona Caron: Okay so that's - my friend Nick Kasimatis made this little video clip for me. It's pretty great to have. It's a great souvenir. It was really an amazing experienceand here maybe you see how, how incredibly social this place is and it's, it's working there was it kind of like contradictory thing all the time.
Male in Video #1: Oh. That's the building over there. That's the parking lot right there. Mona Caron: It is.Male in Video #1: Yeah. I see the painting on the wall.
Male in Video #1: Yeah. I see the painting on the wall. Mona Caron: Yeah. Except it's a fantasy.Male in Video #1: Huh. It'd be nice if it looked like that.
Male in Video #1: Huh. It'd be nice if it looked like that. Mona Caron: So when I get your, your headdress and like the color of your shirt. All right.Stay right here and I'll take a picture. Okay. Like maybe here or maybe we can add another one.
Female in Video #1: Yeah. Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Female in Video #1: Yeah.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Somewhere in here, having some food.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Yep and that's the art. Let me see. Is that one of the ones that I did
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: It's this one, look, with the tree.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Yeah. Male in Video #3: That's a good sounding board right there.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Yeah, it's great.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Not yet.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Your daddy's right here with your sister.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: No. Not yet. Not yet. You're gonna be there in a few days. Okay? Not so
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: And that concludes my presentation. Thank you so much Paul Stout: Don't go away. Don't go away. So any questions, definitely feel free. We
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Umm, forever.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: I'm gonna tell you. So I basically started with the whole research, you know going on tours and walking around the neighborhood in the summer of 2008, Fall 2008; started
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: That would be really interesting actually. Whether I've done it?
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: You know, I don't actually - the projects, these mural projects have come to me. I don't really come to them so much so if - I'm also an illustrator and I do pictures
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Oh, yeah, well - so the funding for some of the public murals in San Francisco, most of the them come from grants. It's the non-profits that I go through that apply for
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: It's true and I kind of want to do that. I really want to - obviously I'm not super great at it but I try to do what I can on my website. On the other hand, you
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: What was your question?
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: I would have to say the Tenderloin one is my favorite one so far because - precisely because of that. Like in a way, in terms of what I'm trying to achieve, this whole thing,
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Well, there's a filmmaker in the city called Paige Bierma who's actually made a short documentary about the, about the mural and I think that my friend Nick
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Yeah. Anyone else? Ooh, sorry.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here.Mona Caron: Thank you so much for having me. A real pleasure.
monks had dedicated themselves to a life of studying the Bible, to copying scriptures to prayer, to removing themselves literally from the temptations of the world. And so they would seek monasteries that were remote, and the most remote locations you could find were islands in the North Atlantic, because it's just so difficult to get there.... So the ocean was considered a place of safety. Not sailing on the ocean, but these islands were
Other times, the people come out 'cause they hate the emperor, and they drag the emperor out and cut his nose off or monastery. - Right. - Okay. You're right. So here's what elections do.
people's money, go ahead. They'll just move. And if you really make it difficult for them in every state in Monaco. Monaco. That was hilarious.
people's money, go ahead. They'll just move. And if you really make it difficult for them in every state in Monaco. So maybe that's where the child eating robots are. Uh, so Kevin, be careful.
And again, this-- of course, he's writing under Nero, so he's writing in praise of monarchy. Monarchs can be clement. Laws can't be clement.
And therefore, everybody ruled Dor, starting from the Canaanite at the late Bronze Age and the sea people and the Israelites, which means the united monarchy under King David and Solomon and Assyrians and Persians and Greeks. And finally, the Romans arrived in Israel in 63 BCE and stayed here for 250 years.