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Giant Mirrored Building Facade Turns Visitors Into Spiderman

By • Jan 21st, 2012 • Category: Architecture, Art, Latest Posts, Optical Illusions

If you happen to be in France rigth now, you can finally make your old dream come true! A giant mirrored building facade by artist Leandro Erlich will instantly turn you into a Spiderman. The installation is called Bâtiment (Building) and is currently on display at Le 104 in Paris as part of their In_Perceptions exhibition. Be sure to also check out his incredible Fake Swimming Pool we featured earlier (if you haven’t done that yet.)

Anamorphic Medusa Inside a Factory

By • Nov 14th, 2011 • Category: Art, Latest Posts, Optical Illusions

Do you remember the Anamorphic Typography by Joseph Egan we’ve posted earlier? Well, Truly Design made this cool Medusa illusion using the same eye-deceiving technique called anamorphosis. This challenging work was implemented in the factory/urban lab which hosted Sub Urb Art.

3D Grass Globe Illusion at Paris City Hall

By • Sep 12th, 2011 • Category: Art, Latest Posts, Optical Illusions

Today, we want to show you another wonderful 3D illusion which is installed in front of the steps of Paris’s city hall. French artist François Abélanet created this incredible 3-dimensional grass globe with the help of about ninety workers and called it ‘Qui croire?’ (‘who to believe?’). When viewed at a certain angle it looks as though it was a large sphere.

The 5 Most Talented 3D Sidewalk Artists

By • Jul 4th, 2011 • Category: Art, Featured, Latest Posts, Optical Illusions, Street Art, Weird

This time we compiled a list of the world’s top 5 most talented 3D sidewalk chalk artists showcasing some of their best works. Those guys are: Edgar Mueller, Julian Beever, Kurt Wenner, Manfred Stader, and Eduardo Rolero. Their works are created using a projection called anamorphosis, and create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle.

Amazing Body Art Illusions by Craig Tracy

By • Jun 29th, 2011 • Category: Animals, Art, Body Art, Featured, Latest Posts, Optical Illusions

Born and raised in New Orleans La, USA, Craig Tracy has always been an artist. A graduate with honors from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Craig was a professional Freelance Illustrator by the age of twenty. Actually, he hated being an illustrator, so he retired from illustration 6 years later. Only then he fell in love with body painting, and now he’s one of the most famous body painting artists in the world.

Anamorphic Typography by Joseph Egan

By • Jun 20th, 2011 • Category: Art, Design, Latest Posts

London-based graphic designer Joseph Egan together with his colleagues from Chelsea College of Art & Design created this eye-deceiving anamorphic typography installation as part of the assessment for his Foundation Degree course.

3D Illusion Painted to Slow Down Traffic [Pic]

By • Sep 20th, 2010 • Category: Optical Illusions, Picture of the Day

Preventable, BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation, and the District of West Vancouver have launched a 3D illusion geared to make drivers slow down at high-risk intersections.

Probably The Best Optical Illusion Ever [Pic]

By • May 26th, 2010 • Category: Picture of the Day

(By Craig Tracy via moillusions.com)

25 Incredible Photos Made Without Photoshop

By • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Latest Posts, Optical Illusions, Photography

Aren’t you tired of all those digitally modified photoshopped pictures? A girl sends you her picture, and when you meet her the Photoshop effects are gone on her face. Nowadays you can’t believe even your friend who’s showing his newest photos from his trip to Egypt, because all those photos might be photoshopped. It’s a scary world we’re living in – full of lies, sins and photoshopped images. But things can be different. There are brave people who said NO to Photoshop and did everything in an old fashioned way.