The following photograph was captured on the side of  a snow-covered mountain.  Do you see someone hiding in the landscape? For a similar illusion involving a face that can be found in nature, be sure to revisit the Apache Head in the Rocks.

Have you ever seen a sadder looking bathtub?  What exactly would a bathtub have to be sad about anyway?  Seeing faces, or other recognizable images, in inanimate objects is a phenomenon known as pareidolia.  Two additional examples of this are the Apache Head in the Rocks and the Elephant on Mars. I originally came across […]

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 […]

Oleg Shupliak is a talented Ukrainian painter that specializes in double meaning or hidden image paintings.  In the example below, a man paints a scene of a cozy cottage on a canvas as he kneels between two trees.  The entire scene also happens to make up a larger image of a man’s face.  Among other […]

In the early 20th century, psychologist Edgar Rubin developed the figure-ground vase (also known as Rubin’s vase).  This ambiguous figure can be interpreted as either a vase or two faces looking at each other.   Metal Portraits, a company based in Suwanee, Georgia, has taken the figure-ground vase concept to an entirely new level by creating […]

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 […]

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 […]