Medusa’s evil was so complete that even after being beheaded, her severed head could be used as a weapon. After Perseus slayed the creature, he used the head to turn the man forcing his mother to marry him, into stone. Perseus then gave the token to Athena, who originally helped him with the powerful shield. Athena then placed the Medusa’s head on her shield, the Aegis, where it could then be used to take down even the most deadly of enemies!
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Vurdlak on December 17, 2011, with 17 Comments
I love funny comics. I love them even more when they use an optical illusion as part of the joke. One such perfect example is this psychiatric session comic, sent to me recently by my friend Marin. I’m pretty sure we’ve already featured the floating beans wallpaper at some point in time, but today’s example puts the “seemingly animated” pattern in completely different surrounding – a shrink’s office! So, have you been drinking much coffee lately?
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Vurdlak on December 14, 2011, with 25 Comments
I always loved Rusty’s illusory paintings,
mostly because they look so nice, and all of them carry special
atmosphere surrounding them. Rusty’s works sometimes include hard to
find hidden stuff, but most of the time the illusion is simple and not so hard to spot at all! Yet each of his works turns out beautiful! Check the awkwardly named “Two Birds With One Stone” piece portrayed below. The huntsmen and his dog are preying on the harmless pheasant,
while at the same time not being aware there is much bigger forest
spirit guarding over the poor prey, carefully observing next step hunter
is about to make. Hope you have a nice day, started by this relaxing
story!
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Vurdlak on December 11, 2011, with 21 Comments
By now, I think it’s safe to say that most of you prefer when we feature realistic chalk drawing illusions. Below you may see a collection of otherworldly images that trick the eye. Author is #Gregor Wosik, a street artist from Poland. Although he is not as well known as #Julian Beever, #Kurt Wenner or #Edgar Mueller,
his quality work is quickly earning him an admirable reputation! If my
memory serves me well, he was the one who created those Jack Daniels anamorphic drawings.
While the pictures work form a specific angle, they look distorted from
every other angle. Whether the art pieces are composed of natural
scenery or fantasy, they are always quite a sight to see! Some of Gregor
Wosik’s works can be seen below, and more inside the attached gallery…
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Vurdlak on December 8, 2011, with 32 Comments
I
got these three animations from somewhere, and I think the time has
come for me to show them to you. What you are about to see is a simple
animated dot, which travels in all kind of directions
across a fixated background pattern. The pattern is motionless, yet
when your eyes concentrate on the moving ball, the background comes to
life and the pattern you first perceived as static, starts to dance and wiggle. There are three examples showcased below, and I invite you all to try them and report which one(s) you found most effective!You’ve probably recognized the pattern as one being often used in all kinds of optical illusion examples. From #Seemingly Bent category items, all the way to “Seemingly Moving Illusions” which are categorized inside the #Animations category. I still don’t truly understand what is so special with rectangles on grayish background, yet they aways do the trick! It must have something to do with all them subtle black and white shades each rectangle is equipped with, if you ask me…
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Vurdlak on December 7, 2011, with 97 Comments
Had this (so called) “optical illusion” laying around for quite
some time now. Originally titled “Even God has a sense of humor”, this
photo shows a horrible aftermath
of a location devastated by heavy floods. Cynics among you will spot it
immediately, while for the rest it will take few moments before they
can see it. My feelings are still mixed about today’s feature, specially
when I tell you (this is the truth) how I originally planned to post
this couple of years ago, but then Hurricane Katrina happened, and I felt it would be in bad taste. After a while I have revisited the idea, yet then this horrible 
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Vurdlak on December 4, 2011, with 56 Comments
Today’s illusion once again includes furniture. What? How in a world can these things fall into optical illusions topic, you ask me? To find out, check out this “ordinary” bookshelf built by Italian designers Eva Alessandrini and Roberto Saporiti of the Italian furniture design firm Saporiti. Can you see if there is something out of ordinary going on? How long did it take before you were able to spot it? Still no luck? Then feel free to jump inside this article, and scroll until you see the solution!
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Jill Harness on December 1, 2011, with 22 Comments
We feature a lot of chalk drawings
here, but this one stands apart from the rest if only because it is the
new Guinness World Record holder for largest chalk drawing. The
creation by Joe and Max, was commissioned by
Reebok to help promote their CrossFit sneakers (hence the brand name
seen on the left side of the canyon above). The creation took a full
week to complete (it rained most of the week) and stretches 1,160.4
square meters (3,807 square feet) and is 106.5 meters (345.5 feet) long.
That’s a serious jump in size from the last Guinness Record holder for
the title, Chinese artist Qi Xinghua’s Lions Gate Gorge, which stretched over 892 square meters.
Actors pose with gym equipment on what the Guinness World Records bills as the world’s largest 3D painting, at Canary Wharf in London (November, 2011)
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