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Awesome Illusions

David Blaine Tricks Harrison Ford

David Blaine Tricks Harrison Ford

David Blaine stuns Harrison Ford with a teleporting card trick. We refuse to believe that Ford was in on it. He looked like he was going to seriously have a heart attack. From Blaine’s ABC special Real or Magic.

David Blaine Tricks Cranston & Paul

David Blaine Tricks Cranston & Paul

Magician David Blaine blows the minds of Breaking Bad stars Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston with a seemingly erroneous card trick. Yeah magic! A preview of Blaine’s ABC special David Blaine: Real or Magic.

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The Ping Pong Knife Trick Explained

The Ping Pong Knife Trick Explained

Remember the daring carnival trick involving ping pong paddles, a girl and knives? Viral video vigilante Captain Disillusion reveals that the video has two more crucial ingredients: visual effects and a piece of string.

Secret Monitor Mod

Secret Monitor Mod

Brusspup shares a simple but effective way to protect your monitor from prying eyes. The modified monitor will appear white unless seen through a pair of polarized glasses. More on the video’s description or here.

Honda: CR-V Illusions

Honda: CR-V Illusions

This new commercial for the fuel-efficient European Honda CR-V 1.6 i DTEC will quickly have you scratching your head through a series of mind-bending optical illusions, touting the tagline “An impossible, made possible.”

3D Desktop Illusions

3D Desktop Illusions

Borrowing heavily from one of Brusspup’s earlier illusions (and even the music), Never Hide Films created this desk filled with faux 3D objects and messes with our heads in this spot for Ray-Ban. Kudos to Never Hide for the unexpected finish.

Hallucinatory Video

Hallucinatory Video

Not everything that causes hallucinations is ingested. This video can take you on a trip (or give you a headache) for a couple of seconds. Play it on full screen and in HD. It didn’t work on us, but we really need to wipe our monitors now.

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The Vanishing Bandana

The Vanishing Bandana

Illusionist and comedian Carl-Einar Häckner shares a magic trick for beginners that he learned from an absolutely legit magic teaching cassette tape. He has one problem though: he misheard the list of props he needed to bring.

Illusion @ Science Gallery

Illusion @ Science Gallery

An interactive exhibition in which fluids appear to run upstream, static objects come to life, people float, and figures appear out of light – all achieved by tricking our brains. Runs through 9/29/13 at Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

Magic Proposal Card Trick

Magic Proposal Card Trick

Stuart Edge loves using tricks to get closer to women. Here he takes things to another level with a simple but amazing card trick. Hit up YouTuber Mismag822 if you want to know how the trick works.

Iodine Clock Reaction

Iodine Clock Reaction

YouTube’s famous illusionist brusspup shares a mixture that suddenly changes its color. But it’s no trick. It’s called the iodine clock reaction, a chain reaction where the slow first step is followed by one or two speedy reaction(s).

Optical Illusion Paintings

Optical Illusion Paintings

Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak creates surreal portraits which double as optical illusions. Each image offers at least two completely different perspectives on its subject matter thanks to his clever composition.

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Mirror Magic

Mirror Magic

Vine user JehReh uses a mirror, a door and a smartphone to pull off three crazy magic tricks in just six seconds. The video’s looping format should help you figure out how his disappearing act works.

Split Man Illusion Prank

Split Man Illusion Prank

We can’t imagine how magician Andy Gross manages to contort his body to pull off his Split Man illusion, but he does a great job scaring the crap out of bystanders with it. Nice sandbox faceplant there.

B&W Dance Illusion

B&W Dance Illusion

A chorus line of girls performs the strangest dance we’ve seen as they wear one massive set of black and white set of tights to mess with our brains and eyeballs. We’re really trying hard not to think of Human Centipede.

The Escherian Stairwell

The Escherian Stairwell

This video is the centerpiece of RIT student Michael Lacanilao’s attempt at starting an urban legend – that somewhere on the RIT campus, there is a space-bending stairwell that was made by a mysterious architect.

Screengrab

Screengrab

A pair of hands constantly moving between three and two dimensions. Vimeo contributor Willie Witte created this mesmerizing screenception using simple but effective photography and editing.

Illusions (Part One)

Illusions (Part One)

Shot in Santiago and Pittsburgh, Samm Hodges Illusions is a graceful, multilayered short film that explores optical illusions, memory and the human experience. (Thanks Christine!)

Stop Motion Chalk Tetris

Stop Motion Chalk Tetris

Artist Chris Carlson specializes in making 3D illusions using pastel chalk, paint and graphite. Watch him play a quick round of amazingly detailed stop motion Tetris. Note the shadows on the blocks.

Tile Illusion

Tile Illusion

A tricky set of tiles that seems to maintain the same number, even after removing some. We assume it has something to do with the tiles in the middle which are not fully formed and have a bit of extra space in between them.

Burger Magic

Burger Magic

Street magician Cyril Takayama messes with the heads of bystanders as he orders up some burgers in the most unorthodox of ways. Who wants to order that one with the bite taken out of it already?

Water & Sound Illusion 2

Water & Sound Illusion 2

YouTuber Brusspup returns to his experiment with water and sound, but this time he set it up so the hose was in contact with the speaker. It’s a shame we can’t see this with our own eyes.

The Book of Impossible Objects

The Book of Impossible Objects

For kids and kids at heart, Klutz’ Book of Impossible Objects offers 25 fun and mind-bending illusions and tricks. Our favorite – the stare-o-saurus, a dinosaur whose eyes remain fixed on yours.

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