This is a pretty powerful example of a motion illusion.  Do the green, purple, white and black “tubes” appear to be moving in a swirling motion?  It almost appears as though the objects are made of wax and melting on the screen.

Tracy Lee Stum is an internationally recognized chalk artist / streetpainter who specializes in large interactive 3D chalk art.  Her painting below, titled “Escape of the Mummy”, was created in 2008 for the Youth in Arts Street Painting Festival in San Rafael, California.  The painting took 2 1/2 days to complete and measured 12 feet […]

A tiger can be seen in the foreground of the image below.  Can you locate the hidden tiger in this painting by American artist Rusty Rust? More of Rusty’s paintings can be viewed on his personal website at Rusty Art.

In the video below, two colored bars (feet) move horizontally across the screen.  One is red and the other is blue.  Stare at the area marked “Look Here” and watch what happens as the bars move across the two different backgrounds.  As they travel across a background that is striped, they appear to be out […]

To call this stairway construction an engineer’s nightmare would be an understatement.    Start on the pathway at the bottom and climb down the stairs.  As you do so, you actually are moving up the building.  Be thankful that you are not the person tasked with constructing this bizarre series of stairs. To see more impossible […]

A bearded man wearing a beret squints as he looks off into the distance.  He cannot seem to find his dog.  Can you help him find his pet? By rotating the image 180 degrees and viewing it upside down, the man’s dog (nibbling on a bone) is located. This topsy-turvy figure was drawn by Russian […]

“Pool”, by David Macdonald, features a man in the center of the image who appears to be climbing down a ladder.  (I suppose he could be climbing up, but since he is looking down, that is probably the direction that he is headed.  Either way, the illusion is the same!)  The top and the bottom […]