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optical illusions
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Amazing Optical Trick
Instructions: 1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds. 2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall). 3. Blink repeatedly and quickly. 4. WTF!
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Accidental Optical Illusion
This hurts my brain. Anyone else keep switching between seeing it and unseeing it?
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Video: Creative Variation Of A Classic Illusion
Get the stakes ready Internet, we've got a witch to burn.
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Video: This Motorcycle Is Not What It Seems
I hate when people show off their new things. Even if they are awesome. (via viralviralvideos.com)
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Mind-Blowingly Realistic Miniatures
Wait a minute… I see what you did there. (via laughingsquid.com)
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Image: This Is Not A GIF
Can't. Stop. Looking. The apparent movement in this static image is called the Fraser-Wilcox Illusion, and you can see more examples of it here. (via reddit.com)
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15 Things That Look Dirty But Aren’t
Culture Buzz This post is 100 percent safe for work. Technically. I guess if you're trying to explain to your boss that the large vagina-looking thing on your screen is actually just some dude's armpit, you've already kind of lost the battle. But anyway.
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Video: Mind Your Step
An unreal piece of street art, “Mind Your Step” was created by Erik Johansson in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Video: 2011 Best Optical Illusion Of The Year
This illusion is called “Silencing awareness of change by background motion” and it was dubbed 2011's Best Illusion of the Year. Personally, I think they should have just called it “Spinning Dot Mind Fuck.”
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Image: Stars
I've been staring at this for about 20 minutes now and it's still interesting. If I were a cat this would be my laser pointer. Sort of…
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17 Incredible Pictures That Are Not Photoshopped
Culture Buzz Believe it or not, none of these pictures are Photoshopped. Some are the work of artists specializing in illusion, and others are simply the result of excellent timing.
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25 Creative Examples Of Forced Perspective
Culture Buzz Forced perspective is a technique in photography that skews the viewer's perception of the relative distance of objects to create an optical illusion. Kind of like when people pretend they are holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, except, like, better than that. Hopefully. Here are some good ones.
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Video: Floating Cube Will Work Only Once
Once you know how this works… it'll never work for you again. Your brain falls for the trick once but not twice.
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Live Optical Illusions
i'm going to have a headache after this… [Ed. note: These aren't the fun kind that you can trick your friends with. They take hours to set up.]
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Video: Awesome Anti-Gravity Ramps
This little ICP miracle (how the f@#% does it work?) was in the top 10 finalists of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010. (via Boing Boing.)
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Image: Spartan Golf Club Logo
If the Spartan Golf Club wants to live up to their image, they need a Magic Eye book on every coffee table. Anything less would be false advertising.
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Video: Candle Illusion
400 candles, lit and arranged very precisely to create surprising results. Wait for it, wait for it.
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Where’s The Ball?
Culture Buzz Amazing optical illusion in this video! [Ed Note: Jesus, you guys. It all makes sense now. There is no spoon.] (Via.)]
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Image: Man Sort Of Pulls Off Optical Illusion
This is coolish. [Ed Note: FAKE!!1 Somebody call the fake police!!! He's clearly being held up by strings.]
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Video: Nuts Illusion
Nothing to see here. Unless you want to have your mind blown by a crazy optical illusion! And really, who doesn't want that in these trying times? (Via.)
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Link: Amazing ‘Melty’ Optical Illusion
Check out this amazing optical illusion that makes you feel like you're traveling back (or forward) in time! Unless you have epilepsy. In that case, you really should know better.
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Image: OMG! It’s Coming Right For Us
You know how they write ambulance backwards so you can read it in your rear view mirror? This is sort of like that but not really. OK, nothing like that, but it may cause a short stint of panic.
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