Edgar Mueller painted this extraordinary piece of street art in Moscow in 2010. It is part of a series of paintings called “Unconditional Love”. Speaking about this project, Mueller notes that: Some years ago I was in Moscow for a purely commercially-based project, now I was looking forward to having the option of creating a […]
While this video from Apple is probably a tad bit too long, it does feature some pretty good anamorphic optical illusion tricks. The video is captured from a single camera moving around a sterile white room in what appears to be a single take. The style of this commercial is reminiscent of Ok Go’s recent […]
While watching the Michigan State vs. Purdue football game this past weekend (Michigan State won 45-31), a commercial for the insurance company Pacific Life came on during one of the breaks. It took me about half way through the commercial before I realized that the subject matter of the advertisement was a three dimensional anamorphic […]
Measuring 900 square meters (approximately 9,700 square feet), this anamorphic chalk art on a field in Utrecht, Holland has the appearance of being three-dimensional. The artist, Leon Keer, used environmental friendly (and harmless) chalk for this ephemeral piece of land art. Most of the time, you see this type of art on pavement, so seeing […]
This is essentially an anamorphic illusion from Victoria Skye and was a finalist at the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest. The photograph in the center marked ‘Original Photo’ is a normal, unaltered photograph of a young boy. The photograph is then tilted forward (far left) and backward (far right) to present slightly different […]
There are a number of talented artists creating anamorphic drawings on pavement and sidewalks, we see their work all over the Internet. New Zealand artist Jame Harkins creates his three-dimensional drawings on a different surface – in the sand at the beach. In his drawing shown here, a tall skinny ladder leads up to a […]
OK Go is an American band known for their unusually quirky videos. For their latest effort promoting their new single The Writing’s on the Wall, from the forthcoming album titled Hungry Ghosts, they decided to dive head first into the realm of optical illusions. What they came up with is an entertaining music video featuring […]
