Maine recently announced that they were going to start selling instant scratch-off lottery tickets called “Kwikies”. After sending a note to 1,300 retailers announcing this, complaints started flooding in about the name being inappropriate. It now seems that the tickets will be called something else. Interestingly enough, Maine used a topsy-turvy optical illusion to help advertise the launch of these new tickets. The caption reads, “Change your life. In an instant.” Rotating the card 180 degrees turns a bald grumpy man with a beard into a younger man with a full head of a hair and a smile on his face.
Have you ever wondered what you could do with 2,646 post-it notes and a free weekend? You could consider making a giant portrait of Elvis on a wall in your office like Charles Mangin did.
Mangin recalls that:
My boss decided that we needed to do something fun and creative in one of our conference rooms – the one we use for brainstorming and internal meetings – and together we came up with the idea of filling the wall with post-it notes in a multicolored mosaic of (and i’m not sure whose idea this was) Elvis.
Gene Levine’s stereogram designs have been published in books and magazines throughout the world. Stare at the colorful pattern below and a hidden image will emerge. For those of you who might be interested, please note that Gene also designs custom stereograms for individuals and companies via eyeTricks 3D Stereograms.
If you are having trouble seeing the hidden image, please read through the following stereogram viewing tips.
How many legs can you count on the three rabbits below? Does it seem like they aren’t lining up quite right? Malaysian tee shirt designer Flying Mouse (aka Chow Hon Lam) no doubt drew inspiration from Roger Shepard’s impossible elephant (or L’egs-istential Quandary) when creating this design.
To view more tee shirt designs or buy art prints from Flying Mouse, please visit his website at FlyingMouse365.com.
Noah Scalin likes skulls. He is the founder of the Skull-A-Day project. Now in its sixth year, the project features a new image of a skull every day. In 2012, Scalin created the following anamorphic skull using 497 VHS cassette tapes as a commission of the TCC Visual Arts Center in Tidewater Virginia. The skull only appears to be “correct” when viewed from one vantage point.
Anyone who owns a camera can create their own optical illusions using forced perspective. In the photograph below, which looks to be from the 1940’s, a woman sitting on the beach holds two of her miniature friends in the palms of her hands. She really seems to be enjoying herself, doesn’t she? Who knew camera tricks could be so much fun?
A series of balls appear to roll up hill. However, as you will quickly suspect, everything is not always what it appears to be. Once the camera moves to a different angle, the true shape of these ramps are revealed. Through an anamorphic trick in their design, the ramps appear to be angled upward when viewed from one vantage point. At all other angles, it is obvious that the ramps slope downward.
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