It’s universal, our delight with things optical illusion. On 8 марта (March 8), International Women’s Day in Russia, these ladies performed a clever little optical illusion number to the delight of the entire audience. Click the photo to see the video. As you can see, each costume is half black and half white. The left half…
Author Archives: Myrna Hoffman
I Wish I Had the Time These Guys Have!
I’d just sit and watch the clock all day! I’m even fantasizing about flying to Dubai to do it. That’s where Stockholm-based designers Bastian Bischoff and Per Emanuelsson are exhibiting this utterly brilliant timepiece during Design Days Dubai 2013. In 2011, Bischoff and Emanuelsson came up with their first optical illusion Clock Clock – “a…
Love in the Shadows
For this woman (and I’m not alone) receiving chocolates and a dozen long stemmed red roses on Valentine’s Day is a total yawn. So conventional. No effort involved. But some lucky gal’s guy (or guy’s gal or guy’s guy or gal’s gal) put real thought into speaking from the heart by creating the clever image…
Love is an Optical Illusion
Ambivalent feelings this Valentine’s Day? Read the black letters then read the pink to see the opposite. Ambigrams are extremely clever exercises in graphic design that play with optical illusions, symmetry and visual perception to create images which can be read more than one way. The Love/Hate example above is by renowned typography artist John…
Early Holiday Gifts from Brusspup
One of my favorite optical illusionists, Brusspup, is at it again with his latest anamorphic tricks. I understand he shoots photos of simple oblects like those in the photo below, skews the images in Photoshop, prints them, trims the paper, and positions the skewed photos so that, from an exact viewpoint, the image looks 3-D…
Eye Don’t Think So….
Is it a mermaid surfacing out of sea foam? A frog peeking through bubble spawn? Barbie having a shampoo? None of the above. It’s an optical illusion of an eye-shaped whirlpool, inadvertently captured by Reddit user Liammm. “Out of boredom” in cooking class he had decided to take a picture of his sink draining. “It…
And for After All that Sugar – Halloween Skull Art #31
This clever, healthy snack of apple slices, mini marshmallows, and peanut butter… Courtesy of Toms River Dental Care
Finally, 4 More Skulls by Orosz – Halloween Skull Art #29
Please visit my blog every day in October to enjoy images of some rather ingenious skull carvings and drawings I collected over the past year. By Halloween you’ll be up to your own eye sockets in skulls!
And Yet Another Skull by Orosz – Halloween Skull Art #28
Please visit my blog every day in October to enjoy images of some rather ingenious skull carvings and drawings I collected over the past year. By Halloween you’ll be up to your own eye sockets in skulls!
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