Vintage and Ambiguous

Ambiguous,Hidden Objects 23 May 2012 2 Comments

Vintage and Ambiguous

Today’s illusion is from the late 19th century.  It originally appeared in a magazine called Strand in 1899.  It addition to being very old, it also happens to be quite ambiguous.  What do you see? Do you see a bearded man’s face or a pair of lovers?

Percolator Mosaics

Composite 18 May 2012 0 Comments

Percolated Image #1 by Where The Art Is

Percolator is an app available for the iPad and iPhone that allows anyone to transform photographs into multicolor mosaics.  Where The Art Is, a London-based artist, used this app on his iPhone to create several dazzling images.  One such example below depicts a very famous woman.  Do you recognize her? Continue reading this post to […]

The Inverted Faces of Rex Whistler

Upside Down 19 April 2012 0 Comments

Rex Whistler Inverted Faces #1

Rex Whistler was a British artist and illustrator who among other things designed a series of faces that could be inverted to reveal an entirely new face.  In the example below, an officer of some sort is presented on the left wearing a hat with a badge on it, a collar with a series of […]