I have just recently stumbled upon these chalk drawings, and saved them to share with you when time comes. It appears they were done as an add for a company called HDI (don’t ask me, I have no idea what they’re advertising). Anyway, the artist who painted them appears to be true genius, but I doubt it was Julian Beever who painted this – his style and colors are somewhat different. Hope you still like chalk drawings, and I plan to share more after hearing your thoughts…

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3D Chalk Drawings, Billboards, 3d, Chalk, Optical Illusion, Pavement

(12 votes)

Simplicity and confusion don’t often go hand in hand. Here’s a confusing puzzle, also known as Confuzzle, that can be made in minutes. Although this puzzle  involves simple geometric principles, it is surprising and even baffling for some people. In short, it’s a quick and easy toy you can prepare yourself in minutes, that is tons of fun when assembled and understood.

Most of you will quickly connect this post with our famous Preposterous Puzzle, which goes hand in hand with the original Impossible Triangle. Also, be sure to check Instructables for tutorial on how to create this toy for yourselves. You can see this puzzle in action via embedded video below. Hope you like it!

Toys, Video Illusions, Confuzzle, Illusion, Preposterous, puzzle

(23 votes)

Swimming Fish optical illusion was originally created by Emily Knight and Arthur Shapiro. It was a 2007 Finalist in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest hosted by the Vision Sciences Society. However, there is a guy called Excel Hero, who recreates optical illusion using nothing but Excel. As he explains, the fish appear to wiggle up and down, but this is again just an illusion – all of the little bastards are actually standing still!

Animations, Multiple Meanings, Excel Hero, Fish, Illusion, Swim

(28 votes)

Guys that do marketing for Beans & Beyond created this funny little campaign featuring coffee beans and two mugs, which in the end resemble an owl. If you’re asking yourself what the heck owl has to do with coffee, I think the answer would be owls are awake during the night (as well as their eyes are usually wide open)!

Billboards, Multiple Meanings, Beans and Beyond, Coffee, Illusion, Owl

(19 votes)

Just got back from my summer trip this afternoon, and immediately I went to my office (even though it’s past midnight over here). Just to show you how I’m giving my best to fulfill my promise, as well as keep the best audience in the world (you!) deservedly entertained! As I’ve opened my mailbox and few minutes have passed, an incoming submission appeared – from #Francis Tabary himself! I believe the illusion is self explanatory, but for those who don’t see it, Francis created such ambiguous letters, that when the light is cast upon them (from various angles), the projection it creates shows the very different meaning on each separate wall. No digital manipulation here, just pure art!

Art Installation, Multiple Meanings, Francis Tabary, Optical Illusion, Shadow

(30 votes)

I have some multiple good news for you; a) my vacation ends tomorrow, and we’re returning to our routine of daily fresh illusions, which will be little more original than what you’ve been getting for the last 2 weeks, and b) Sucuri detective team managed to isolate the security hole, so our server is now completely clean, and additionally secured.

I’d like to ask you a little favor, though. Would you be so kind and repeat your ratings for the last dozen of illusions (from August, the 3rd until today)? After we’ve backed up our database, ratings and comments have been lost for dozen of our last posts. For the illusion, it’s a simple anagram (or is it ambigram?)

Multiple Meanings, anagram, Illusion, Learn, Teach

(31 votes)

We finally got the detective team to roll their sleeves, and start an investigation on our properties. I have strong confidence in guys behind Sucuri.net, and believe they will get the job done in no time! We should be back up at full speed anytime now!

If you’ve been wondering what has been happening for the last few hours, (and why do some of the last month’s posts lack comments and ratings), well it’s because we had to do a database backup, and the last proper version available was few weeks old! Bear with me just couple more days, and the website should be more stable than ever! Here’s an illusion, so that we don’t discontinue the trend just talking about technical stuff… p.s. if you notice anything strange with our website, widgets etc, be sure to mail me!

News, Detective, Investigation, Security

(24 votes)

As I consider most of you a truly loyal public (and additionally being influenced by Jeff Jarvis’s book What Would Google Do?), I think the most rightful thing to do, is to keep you updated with the site background, and problem we’ve been encountering the whole day today… Once again hacker script injected malware into our header file (don’t worry, we’ve cleaned it instantly), but we still need to wait for Google and Firefox to update the info, and remove the warning when visiting the site.

First time this happened, few months ago, I have engaged a security company called Sucuri.net after hearing nice things about them. Sadily, their package that includes site monitoring and instant notification to webmaster (when attacks happen) hasn’t functioned like they say it would. I’ve tried to engage them into running an investigation and fixing the security hole, yet I’m still waiting for them to respond… after all, this is what I payed them for in the first place. Hopefully some of you worked with these guys, and can vouch for us so they do something….

News, Outdoor Illusions, Illusion, Security, Update

(11 votes)