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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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