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Artist Imagines Spilled Coffee As Monsters (New Pics)

Stefan Kuhnigk is a German illustrator and copywriter who works at an ad agency by day and turns coffee stains into monsters by night. Prompted by his love for coffee (and can we blame him?) and clumsiness, he created his first...

Stefan Kuhnigk is a German illustrator and copywriter who works at an ad agency by day and turns coffee stains into monsters by night. Prompted by his love for coffee (and...

Artist Paints Creatures She Sees Around Her Due To Pareidolia (34 Pics)

Do you remember how you used to look at the clouds in the sky as a child and your imagination projected animals and various scenes of life? This phenomenon is called Pareidolia, which scientifically means the tendency to perceive a specific,...

Do you remember how you used to look at the clouds in the sky as a child and your imagination projected animals and various scenes of life? This phenomenon is called...

Artist Brings Dull Everyday Objects To Life By Giving Them A Playful Makeover (51 Pics)

With a creative eye and a little bit imagination a, what seems to be, dull and casual environment can become cool and whimsical. And if someone ever called you out for seeing a happy electrical socket or a sad faucet, remember...

With a creative eye and a little bit imagination a, what seems to be, dull and casual environment can become cool and whimsical. And if someone ever called you out for...

30 Times People Experienced Pareidolia In The Most Unexpected Places

Scientists believe that this kind of subconscious information processing accelerates judgment and decision making when a fast reaction is needed. And this ability, as much as we use it for recognizing human emotions, also helps to determine the demeanour of wildlife.

Scientists believe that this kind of subconscious information processing accelerates judgment and decision making when a fast reaction is needed. And this ability, as much as we use it for recognizing...

Artist Inspired By Pareidolia Adds Faces Where They Don’t Occur Naturally

Fabien Barrau is a digital artist from France who works with big brands offering them his advertising expertise. On his spare time, however, he is an avid enthusiast of pareidolia - a phenomenon in which someone sees a pattern or image of...

Fabien Barrau is a digital artist from France who works with big brands offering them his advertising expertise. On his spare time, however, he is an avid enthusiast of pareidolia - a...

Pareidolia: I See Faces Everywhere I Go, So I Turn Them Into Characters

Hey! My name is Keith Larsen and I use pareidolia to create characters I see in everyday objects. "Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern." We've all seen faces in things before,...

Hey! My name is Keith Larsen and I use pareidolia to create characters I see in everyday objects. "Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random...

63 Trees That Look Like Something Else And Will Make You Look Twice

Have you checked if you're a pareidoliac yet? For all of you that enjoy seeing random objects in places where non exists, Bored Panda has prepared a special treat. We have compiled a list of peculiar-looking trees that appear to look...

Have you checked if you're a pareidoliac yet? For all of you that enjoy seeing random objects in places where non exists, Bored Panda has prepared a special treat. We have...

71 Times Everyday Objects Were Actually Pop Culture Icons In Disguise

For those who haven't yet heard, pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists. To put it simply, it's a bug in...

For those who haven't yet heard, pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where...

I Have Pareidolia, And I Create Characters Out Of The Faces I See

Hey, I'm Keith! A lot of the time, people don't see the faces I see in inanimate objects. So, I decided to illustrate them in a cartoonish way and write little stories about them to bring them to life. You can...

Hey, I'm Keith! A lot of the time, people don't see the faces I see in inanimate objects. So, I decided to illustrate them in a cartoonish way and write little...

30 Funny Examples Of Pareidolia In Everyday Objects
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