Another Anti-Gravity Illusion

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Found this image on flickr, it was originally taken by user called mrettig. This one really bugs me! How was it done? Is it some anti gravity spot just like "Mystery Spot" was? Or is it some cheap, low-life trick you can do by taking photo with camera that isn't horizontally ligned with floor? I for one, seriously don't know.






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  1. Anonymous anonEmouse 

    for a hint - look at the trees in the background

  2. Anonymous Dave Goodman 

    The road is on an incline (it's a hill), but the camera was tilted to match the slope of the road. People take funny shots like this all the time on Lombard St in San Francisco.

  3. Anonymous rick 

    It seems like he is on a slope due to the angle of the trees in the background.

  4. Anonymous maddy 

    really amazing

  5. Anonymous Tim 

    Either that or someone skewed the picture using paint (or possibly a combination of sloped road and skew)

  6. Anonymous ThatBozGuy 

    It is simply a freeway bridge underpasss slope and he is standing on it, the bridge point and embankment meet to his left and the roadbed is to his right. Nothing to see here move along....

  7. Anonymous bogdan 

    You can see that all the trees and the fence is the same direction as the man

  8. Anonymous Annie 

    I loved your site - especially the picture of the Pope.

  9. Anonymous MrBill 

    The underpass and slope idea seem right, but how do you account for the angle of his body relative to the postion of his shoes? He's not standing straight up so he must be leaning against the pull of gravity or otherwise he'd fall over. Really like the site!

  10. Anonymous niceboy 

    I assume he has ankle joints.

  11. Anonymous Crissy 

    that's some steep hill.... i don't know, look at his feet, they look inorganic to the rest of the photo- the picture definitly was tampered with, but like Tim said, it could be a combination of skew and hill

  12. Anonymous jay 

    its just crap

  13. Anonymous freebird 

    theres a house where the floor is inclined like this in ottawa and you feel so drunk when you just stand in it. funny

  14. Anonymous ~*NIQUE*~ 

    BORING!!!!

  15. Anonymous Hai 

    im confused

  16. Anonymous Hai^is^so^dumb 

    Hai shut up. U dont noe sh^t about shi^

  17. Anonymous ALeX 

    Well duh its a bridge. Have you ever seen grafitti on the ground before?

  18. Anonymous me 

    wtf? u can see his feet r on the floor and there is graffitti on the floor ! wot r u on alex

  19. Anonymous Rayne 

    I've seen grafitti on the ground many times.

  20. Anonymous Tony 

    Derr...

    It is obvious that this is an incline with the camera tilted to match. The slant of the trees and fence....the slant of the persons (looks like a Pat or a Chris) feet. Nice looking illusion but simple to decipher. Not rocket science...or a "haunted creepy place"

  21. Anonymous momo 

    TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THE TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!*^_^*

  22. Anonymous Mumbaikar 

    anyone can do this trick with a cell phone camera. get into a fast vehilce and grab a photo of something nearby, abt 5-7 feet from you. it'll give you same illusion. i have phots of this. can anyone tell me how to post them here as the proof?

  23. Anonymous Pandas 

    nope, sry Mumbaikar. you can get a special cable thingy, but they're not cheap

  24. Anonymous john Shaw 

    His center of gravity has to be above his feet. Hence gravity is not acting straight down, but rather pointing at about 5 o'clock. Hence he is on a slope.

  25. Anonymous dingleberry59er 

    it is a cut out and a dude is behind the cut out dude and he is like crouching... indeed.. look at it the light man ...its a picture man ... a big cut out picture of an ugly dude!

  26. Anonymous what the leg 

    my question is how one leg is longer than the other ;)

  27. Anonymous wata wata 

    ha ha he fall ovea

  28. Anonymous ANNA RODEWYK 

    HAHA AWSUM I ONLI JUZ GOT IT VERY FUNNY JOKE

  29. Anonymous confused 

    hes leaning up against a volleyball net

  30. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Ok,
    this has been taken, or cropted at an angle. They guy is standing upright and the trees are growing upright. He is standing a significantly sloping surface. The thing that makes this illusion work better than normal for these, generally cheep tricks, is that the fence behind him as been built at the same slope as the hill on which he stands. In this case both the floor and the fence have now become horizontal, making the illusion more effective. As a previous observer mentioned however, look at the trees.

  31. Anonymous Tony The Tiger 

    . . . very stupid

  32. Anonymous Fernando 

    i think he's superman. :D

  33. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Even though the trees are not straight, trees do grow squew and the fence is straight!

  34. Anonymous Captain Obvius 

    That fence isn't strait, What are you on? Look at the poles on the end or middle of the fence.

    And another thing, You are all crazy! This type of illusion is very simple. I would guess that the camera is parrelel to the floor and he is just standing up strait. It is just that simple.

  35. Blogger guitarking 

    I agree w/ Tony.

  36. Blogger Royce 

    This is a video of Criss Angel. That old guy might have done this, but doing it backwords

    http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=8uxfpssqzr

  37. Anonymous WeeNee =O] 

    Hi...eaRTHLiNGS...

    aNYHooSe, eR, DoeS aNYoNe HaVe DiReCTioNS FRoM HeRe To MaRS?????

    heh...just a joke. sorry, i'm bored.

    cool "illusion."

    (^0^)

  38. Anonymous Anonymous 

    hes on a skate ramp???

  39. Anonymous cvxbskj 

    Hahahahaha... its pretty obvious when you look at the trees and the fence. Especially the fence.

  40. Anonymous Anonymous 

    if u notice the tag on the bottem of his bag it isnt falling directly down(from his angle). so he must have been standing correctly up straight when this happened.
    James Mcardle

  41. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i think the guy is just falling down and the person with the camera shot at the right moment.

  42. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I think it's under a bridge.

  43. Anonymous Mr.E 

    trees are ant-geotrpic meaning they grow away from the force of gavity (exept the roots) so the trees are pointing up

  44. Anonymous Anonymous 

    ahhhh yes but look at the fence it is normal

  45. Anonymous nikki 

    well probably some kind of hill and everything and the person were standing up towards the sky but the person taking the picture was aligned with the hill

  46. Blogger Sarah 

    Um why is everyone saying the same answer over and over again

  47. Anonymous Hahaha 

    YAY 'NICEBOY'!!!

    I have one thing to say- LOL!!!! Normally I hate 'lol' and never use it but you actually made me laugh out loud- Bravo!!

  48. Anonymous Airton 

    More :
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalog/1297823016/




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