Is this clown on the tightrope walking upside down or right-side-up?  Without the placement of the moon, you might just assume that the black space in between the buildings is the ground.  But since the moon is there, it almost feels as though you are on the ground looking up toward the tops of the buildings (therefore making the black space the sky).

(via Chow Hon Lam)

If you want to impress visitors to your home or are looking for a unique flooring idea, then you might want to consider 3D epoxy floor painting.  In the example below, created by Imperial Interiors (a design company serving Dubai and the United Arab Emirates), a bathroom floor has been transformed into waves washing onto a sandy beach.  While this type of flooring would probably not work in everyone’s home, I would think that it could be quite interesting in a hotel, restaurant, or maybe even a vacation home.

Two additional 3D epoxy floor painting designs can be found below.

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Born and trained in India, Arvind Narale is an architect by profession who currently lives in Canada.  He attended Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta where he studied watercolor and oil painting.  Among his many talents is the ability to create drawings that have multiple meanings when viewed from different directions.  Below is an example of one of these topsy-turvy drawings featuring an innocent-looking young lady.

When you flip the image upside down, however, a completely different image is revealed.

(via Arvind Narale)

The blue and yellow circles made up of what look like bicycle chains appear to spontaneously rotate.  Try focusing your attention on only one of the six circles at a time and you should find that the one you are focusing on stops moving.  If you want to maximize the motion effect, move your eyes around this image rapidly.  As your focus moves from circle to circle, the perceived motion increases significantly.

(via Akiyoshi Kitaoka)

This interesting house has features that make it appear to look like a face.  The two rounded windows on the roof look like eyes and the woodwork located over the window resemble a smiling mouth.  When I saw this pictures, I almost noticed the face before the actual architecture.  I would be curious to know if some see a house first and only notice the face after looking at it for a while or it was pointed out.  It seems that if you look at pictures like these that are small (such as a thumbnail), the facial features are more prominent.

(via Pazsit Ulla at English Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons)

This anamorphic optical illusion was created by Brusspup as an homage to the fictional character Walter White from AMC’s television show Breaking Bad.  I’m sure many of you are familiar with this show, but if you have not seen it, I would highly recommend that you binge watch it immediately.  This is one of the most well-written TV shows that I have ever seen.  In fact, there was only one episode that I thought was not great (can you guess which episode I’m talking about?)… the rest were incredible.  In his description for this illusion video, it is interesting to note that Brusspup added the following:

Ok, Yes, I’m a bit late on the Breaking Bad band wagon, but I just recently finished the series and absolutely loved it. So here’s my tribute to the show.

The digital production house squint/opera decided to get into the Christmas spirit by painting a giant anamorphic Christmas tree (complete with red bulb decorations and a gold star on the top) across its office space.

This photograph, taken from another angle, helps to demonstrate how they had to paint the tree in order to get it to show up properly when viewed from the angle above.