The street performer known as Special Head returned to America’s Got Talent last night in Las Vegas with a brand new levitation stunt. This one was a little different than his previous performance, but still involved him appearing to float above the ground. Instead of levitating by lifting his legs off the ground like he […]
In this work from Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka, each of the four fields appears to expand and move toward you. Like all of these motion illusions, the more you move your eyes around the image, the stronger the effect. Try to hold your eyes still by looking at one location and the movement will cease. Visit […]
Igor Morski is an illustrator and artist from Poland. I only became aware of him a few days ago when I came across some of his deceptive illustrations. The tropical scene below shows a bird perched on the branch of a tree near the water, presumably the ocean. The odd looking foliage on the tree […]
Erik Johansson has a vivid imagination. He also happens to be a very good photographer and a wizard at Adobe Photoshop. He creates photo-manipulations by taking multiple photographs and crafting them into creative and impossible scenes. His work below, created in 2010, shows a very strange intersection that almost has an uneasy feeling when looking […]
Italian sculptor Guido Moretti created the following sculpture titled ‘Impossible Ring to Pillars’. When viewed from one direction, it looks like an impossible ring (or circle) and when viewed from another it looks like impossible pillars. If you stand in between these two viewing angles, it looks like a tangled mass of metal. By rotating […]
Last month, Special Head’s levitation trick on America’s Got Talent created quite a buzz. Special Head was certainly not the first person to perform such a trick and he surely won’t be the last. Performance artist Johan Lorbeer did a slight variation of this stunt by casually leaning against the wall of a building while […]
“I can fool you because you’re a human,” said Jerry Andrus. “You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we’re fooled, the mind hasn’t made a mistake. It’s come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.” During his illustrious life, Jerry Andrus was many things. He […]
