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Vurdlak on November 28, 2011, with 28 Comments
Arjen Goldschmidt has sent in what appears to be the best (proof-endorsed) color optical illusion I have seen up to date! Below examples showcase embedded lines of seemingly different colors. The reason they look different is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors.
So without us even knowing it, in first example, our brains compare the
flowing red stripes to the yellow stripes, forcing us to think they are
orange. The blue stripes make the red ones appear much darker -almost
purple, even though they are exactly the same color! This is just one of
the examples why you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes.
Next time someone swears they saw Jesus, UFO, or a ghost, show them this animation ;)
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Vurdlak on November 27, 2011, with 27 Comments
Not much can be said about the impossible pipe
below. I don’t know who found it, revealed it’s existence nor took the
showcased photo of it. Yet what I CAN tell you is that the illusion works great! The trick is obvious, and the perspective optical illusion
works flawlessly. Still, if some of you know the original source and
author, be sure to ping me so I can update the post with appropriate
credits. Enjoy!
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Jill Harness on November 25, 2011, with 15 Comments
When is an open box more than just a piece of cardboard? When it’s part of Krystina Naylor’s fantastic Open Box art installation featured at the Saatchi Gallery
in London. Yes, at first glance, these may look like a boring old
cardboard boxes that you might use to move your home possessions in, but
they are actually completely functionless sculptures designed purely to manipulate the way you observe objects around you. 
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Jill Harness on November 24, 2011, with 16 Comments
These days Hollywood
has a bad reputation for being filled with some of the most unpatriotic
people in America, but back in World War II, things were a lot
different. In fact, between their celebrity-filled war bond rallies and moral-boosting films, Hollywood played a huge role in driving support for the war effort.But while those efforts were pretty well known, the studios also played a much more covert role in keeping America safe -by disguising some of the nation’s largest aircraft plants to look like residential neighborhoods. The images featured here are all from The Lockheed-Vega aircraft plant in Burbank (seen at left before the camouflage was applied and below afterwards), although these techniques were used on multiple military locations.
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Vurdlak on November 23, 2011, with 15 Comments
Seems we have caught Liu off-guard in those rare moments he wasn’t
paying too much attention. In this shocking, revealing photos you will
see Liu Bolin as an ordinary man he really is – for example: smiling as he prepares to demonstrate another camouflage art installation, where he’s gonna blend in with all sorts of vegetables displayed on the shelves at a supermarket in Beijing. More important, it seems we have finally revealed his “so called” disappearing act, as well as learned how Liu actually looks like in person when he is not hiding from us.
Check the below exclusive evidence of assistants assisting Liu in his
witchcraft! Still, there is some good left in Liu – did you know he has
started his optical illusion artworks of becoming ‘invisible’ more than
six years ago, while describing them as a form of political protest and
his way of ‘hiding from the authorities‘?
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Vurdlak on November 22, 2011, with 51 Comments
Getting the answer to the question presented before you is a lot
harder than you may originally perceive. Still, if I helped you out with
some additional fun-facts, you might actually have a chance at cracking this. So, what we you should know is that the author behind this installation is Markus Raetez, person responsible for YES/NO ambiguous sculpture we featured recently. Markus has a great talent for ambiguous art, and also loves making a reference to every-day items in his creations. Playing around with Moillusions
way of tagging and lurking file-names is a big no-no. It might help,
but this would mean taking a shortcut, and we all know you can do better
than that. If none of this helped, you might as well expand and reveal
the solution anyway – like I care. But it would be interesting to learn
if some of you actually came to conclusion on their own! (PS checking
above hyperlinks might provide additional hint or two ;)
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Vurdlak on November 21, 2011, with 18 Comments
Laura Jani discovered what seems to be an art installation done by Spanish artist Ivan Puig
titled “Hasta la Narices”. If you google for a translation you’ll soon
discover it means something similar to “Fed-up”. What is obvious from
these shots below, the installation features a “sinking”
VW sedan – which in reality is all but that. Update: Laura has also
provided this spoof on Puig’s installation, a version that features her
own sinking banana. Interesting approach to art, I must say…
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