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Friday, October 21, 2011

Upside Down Faces Illusion

6:52 AM homesweethome No comments

There is a saying that goes ‘there is always two sides to every story’, well I would have to say that there are two sides to every picture on this post. 5 more pics after the jump.

Interesting illusion of letters on the walls at the Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne that can be read perfectly at certain angles while looking distorted at other angles. Similar project are the Cardiff Bay and 3D room paint optical illusions. This car park project won several international design awards.

4 more pics of the Eureka carpark illusion after the jump.

Shadow Illusions

6:50 AM homesweethome No comments

Not everything you see is true and here are a series of shadow illusions from Panther House that shows that sometimes what the eye perceives is not the entire truth. 6 more pics after the jump.
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Melting Building Mural

8:40 PM homesweethome No comments

This melting building mural is located in Georges V Ave. in Paris France. Trompe-lâ€™oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from French for â€œtrick the eyeâ€, from tromper – to deceive and lâ€™oeil – the eye.

Defaced Illustrations

8:41 AM homesweethome No comments

The Ali Jabbar ‘Simple Public Figures’ art installation shows just how familiar we are with some of the world’s most powerful and infamous personalities.

This faceless artwork features the likes of Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Marilyn Monroe, Larry King, and Mahatma Gandhi drawn without their eyes, noses or mouths. Still, without these distinguishing features, I’m sure you can identify every single subject from the Ali Jabbar ‘Simple Public Figures’ project.