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Awesome Illusions

Pejac: Window Silhouettes

Pejac: Window Silhouettes

Spanish artist Pejac’s simple acrylic paintings creates illusory silhouettes that use windows as frames and the view outside as the background. The painting is completed when it’s photographed in certain angles.

Floating Building

Floating Building

Designed by Alex Chinneck, Take My Lightning But Don’t Steal My Thunder appears to be a stone building with its upper half suspended in mid-air. The polystyrene structure is actually supported by a thin steel frame at its corners.

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3D Illusion Sketches

3D Illusion Sketches

Artist Nagai Hideyuki creates drawings which seemingly defy the laws of optics, bursting forth from his spiral notebooks to produce an impressively 3-dimensional appearance. Watch how he draws them over on YouTube.

Antonio Santin: Rugs

Antonio Santin: Rugs

Antonio Santin’s ongoing series Rugs is composed of hyperrealistic oil paintings. Antonio distorts the patterns and simulates shadows to make it appear like there’s a body hidden underneath each carpet.

Crazy Circle Illusion

Crazy Circle Illusion

For his latest visual trick, Brusspup shows off an illusion which makes it look like a bunch of balls are rotating around inside a circle, when in fact they’re each moving in a straight line. Original illusion by Arthur Shapiro and Alex Rose-Henig.

Painting Changes Perspective

Painting Changes Perspective

YouTuber Benjamin Dalsgaard Hughes shares this trippy painting in Windsor, England that reveals a different perspective depending on how you look at it. The trick is simpler than you think. We wonder if it works just as well in person.

An Audio Illusion

An Audio Illusion

We’re used to optical illusions, but sounds can play tricks on us too. The Pulse on WHYY demonstrates how we make sense of gibberish by providing our brains with context. Part of the Your Brain exhibit at Philly’s Franklin Institute.

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Invisible Glass Trick

Invisible Glass Trick

A neat trick that makes clear objects dipped into liquid appear to have vanished. The secret – using glycerol or another clear, viscous liquid with the same refractive index as the outer glassware. Yeah, science!

Canon Pixus x Gundam

Canon Pixus x Gundam

To show off the impressive imaging quality of its Pixus printers, Canon created a series of optical illusion prints which blur the lines between reality and paper. They also printed a life-size Gundam. Wonder how much all that ink cost.

An Honest Liar (Trailer)

An Honest Liar (Trailer)

An Honest Liar is a biographical film about James Randi, the retired magician who made it his life’s mission to expose paranormal and occult claims. But it seems as if Randi himself may have perpetrated a grand hoax.

Perpetually Melting Sculpture

Perpetually Melting Sculpture

Artist Takeshi Murata created this mind-bending illusion which appears to be a molten sphere of metal that is constantly flowing. The effect is based on a zoetrope, using strobe lights and synchronized still images. Read more here.

Snake 3D Chalk Art

Snake 3D Chalk Art

Another neat stop-motion video from chalk artist Chris Carlson. Watch as the classic mobile game Snake comes alive. Can you believe we only had this and Space Impact before, and now we have freakin’ XCOM on our phones?

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Darcy Oake’s Dove Illusions

Darcy Oake’s Dove Illusions

Illusionist Darcy Oake joined this year’s Britain’s Got Talent to showcase his award-winning skills. Watch him make doves appear out of thin air. And then some. We wonder what’s in his right jacket pocket. Skip to 1:22.

Bie The Ska: VFX Tricks

Bie The Ska: VFX Tricks

Like Zach King, Thai comedian Bie The Ska loves to share short clips of illusions that involve visual effects and camera tricks. The difference is that Bie is insanely pleased with himself. WHOOOOAAAAA

Ring Juggling Illusion

Ring Juggling Illusion

Juggler Lindzee Poi uses four rings to create optical illusions. Matching his movements with the song Comptine d’un Autre Été from the Amelie soundtrack, Lindzee made it seem like the rings were suspended in midair.

Stockholm in Card Tricks

Stockholm in Card Tricks

Swedish magician Charlie Caper promotes his country’s capital through card tricks. Stockholm – the fastest growing source of clean water for all kinds of Internet-connected couples. Also 5,6,7,8 and 9 are not coincidences.

Base-Pong-Ball

Base-Pong-Ball

The guys from the quirky Tumba Ping Pong Show mess with our heads yet again, with another brain-twisting clip that you’ll need to play over and over again to figure out. Hint: It’s done with mirrors. We think.

The Tube of Mystery

The Tube of Mystery

Richard Wiseman shows us a simple trick that makes it seem like you can make objects appear out of nowhere. Like many magic tricks, the key here isn’t obscuring what you see, but playing with what you think you’re seeing.

The Arrow Illusion

The Arrow Illusion

Anyone can perform this simple optical illusion with a glass tumbler, a sheet of paper and some water. We never realized that when objects are viewed through water in a glass, they are mirrored. You learn something new every day.

Rolling Toy Illusion

Rolling Toy Illusion

Brusspup’s latest visual trick is a fun one you can easily do yourself with a couple of styrofoam rings and some hot glue. When attached at the right spot, they look like the rings that held General Zod captive in the original Superman.

Zach King’s Vine Magic Tricks

Zach King’s Vine Magic Tricks

YouTuber FarlyTeem compiled the magic tricks posted by Zach King aka FinalCutKing on Vine. Many of the tricks are simple edits, but at least a few of them are clever and will leave you scratching your head.

Magic Tricks for Blind People

Magic Tricks for Blind People

Last year Tommy Edison was asked if there were magic tricks for blind people. Jokes aside, Tommy didn’t think there were any. It turns out not only are there tricks for blind people, there’s even a magician for blind people.

Animated Optical Illusions 3

Animated Optical Illusions 3

YouTube’s resident illusionist brusspup is back with more static images that spring to life, thanks to our silly brains. Just make a spoon graphic already dude. Check the video’s description for links to the images.

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