Charlie Chaplin made his name as a comic actor in silent films During his illustrious career, he directed eleven films including hits such as City Lights, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, and The Kid. In this video, Charlie changes it up a bit and plays the role of an optical illusion. A […]
I recently received a copy of a new optical illusion book by Philippe SOCRATE titled Tous les secrets des illusions d’optique (which translates from French to “All the secrets of optical illusions”). The book was published this month by Eyrolles in France. Unfortunately, I do not speak French, so I was unable to read the text […]
We previously featured another piece created by Andrew Myers called An Artist’s Winter. He has traditionally used an very unlikely medium for his artwork – painted screws. That makes this work the first of its kind for Andrew. Myers created this composite portrait using broken recycled wood pieces. He meticulously arranged, painted, attached to steel […]
This oil painting, created by John Langdon more than a decade ago in 2006, features two different interpretations. At first glance, this is a painting of a man’s face with very big ears. If you look closely, you may also see two different words incorporated into this ambiguous painting. The man’s ears and eyes can […]
An ice fisherman named Blake Foster took this photo on Lake Absarraca in Cheyenne, Wyoming on December 10. At the time, he thought that there could perhaps be a body frozen under the ice. While it does look pretty creepy, Cheyenne police investigated and have determined that it is nothing more than an “optical illusion […]
This image was captured on October 8, 2014 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The SDO obverses the sun at all times as it orbits in space and captured this haunting photograph of the sun. The sun flares at this specific time came together to cause the sun to resemble some sort of face. And […]
In honor of Halloween, I thought I would post up something that I find to be a little bit on the creepy side. Some artist (if you know who did this, please let me know and I can add a credit at the bottom of the post) decided to paint a full eye on the […]
