Hy everybody! I wish you all a happy New Year 2008! I’m writing this from Sarajevo, BiH from where we celebrated New Year’s eve. I hope you all won’t take it against me for not posting for the last few days. It’s just that holly days are coming one after another. Let’s jump into new year with fresh illusions and best wishes to everyone. Carl Betz sent in this photo that appeared on the front page of USA Today a few years ago. Apparently there was no photoshop involved, but I’m not exactly sure how the illusion was obtained. Either they found some really small horses, or they created big stools and tables. What do you think? If you like to guess this kind of stuff please take a look at the relative sizes category. Enjoy! I’ll arrive back home tomorrow, and write more detailed posts about our trip.
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Cute n all but I don’t see vary many shadows anywhere! Its like they were taken away in the most importat places.
While it’s a funny picture, I think you need to look up the word “illusion” in the dictionary. Most of your pictures are not illusions at all. If the table is big or the horses are small, it’s not an illusion, just a funny picture.
It’s Giant Furniture – a similar art installation was displayed on London’s Hampstead Heath a few years ago.
See here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4120000/newsid_4120300/4120396.stm
They’d have to have some very large chairs because there’s no way an actual horse could fit under a chair like that unless they’re some realistic toys.
I’m inclined to say really big table and chairs, but where are the shadows?!?!?! that makes no sense!!!
Big table and chairs. But what a waste of time to build something so ridiculous.
They made very large tables and chairs, you can tell because the “tablecloth” is not flowing in the wind, as you would expect it to be, and also, the red lines on it are a little crooked. Also, the brushes might be a little to long.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Happy new year 2008!
I did some research and it turns out that the picture listed above is niether photoshoped, made with big chairs or even with little horses. It is actualy a wall murel that was made for the youngest child in a ranch estate, after it was done the dad took a picture of it and sent it in. It looks realistic, but its not. another way to tell is that, while done very well, saving this picture to your desktop and opening it so that you can zoom in to full extent will show you that there are pixles, about 100 every square cm. :( sorry to burst your bubble. HAPPY NEWYEARS! EAT SOME BLACK EYE’D PEAS TONIGHT!
I think the tables are closer and the horses are far away.
Yay first post!
I’ve actually seen something like this in person before, being born in horse country and all. It’s really big chairs and tables.
Hahaha, that’s original!
I think there was photoshop involved. The chairs and table don’t have shadows.
cool illusion.great start to the new year.1st comment?yea ha
Looks like they built some giant tables and chairs, and probably used Shetland ponies to create this amusing picture.
i’ve seen these before, you take a picture of a table really close to tha camra and in front of horses that are far away
still really cool though
The “furniture” is obviously fake as is the “table cloth” and “flowers”. Someone has built large scale items just to make an optical illusion and catch the attention of passersby.
they created big tables and chairs because there is no way you can get a horse so small.
I am thinking very large tables and chairs…but who knows…other people think differently…so let me know…first to post I think…w00t!
I think it is really big table and chairs and what not…I am the first to post so I am sure people will agree and disagree with me too…I just want to see what other people think…>_<
there was a giant chair, similar to those two, in a park here in rome some time ago: i think it’s in britain now.
The flowers are fake so I’m guessing the setup with the tables and chair were made much bigger than normal. Much easier to make a big chair than to find or create that many dwarf horses.. Still its funny
That tablecloth looks too straight and perfect. It really looks like it was edited to me, especially around the edges of the horses. Not only that, but those horses seem suspiciously familiar to me. I may be wrong, if I am I’d also like to know how this was done.
Omg! I love it. Mabey i love horses? ;)
I have no idea how they did that?! Maybe it’s a camera trick, I don’t know. I’m not good with this kind of stuff!
Good illusion :) ♥
those cant be real horses, or photo shop, eather one works
Everything is real – the chairs and table etc are made from fence posts.
Those are not real horses they have a plastic kind of tint. They should be called tables and toys.
Hey that’s great…!
Happy New Year everyone!!
Where is the shadows? Had to be cut and paste. Still a tricky little picture.
These are scaled pieces and definitely not Photoshopped. I can tell by the legs of the chairs and table, they’re too thin to be real. They would brake very easily.
Assumig that there was no photo manipulation (photoshop, etc) involved, it must have been a really big table… Actually, looking at the table legs, that has to be the case.
no photoshoped? c’mon! thats the epitome of photoshop alterated pictures!!!
hmmm, they look like pretty regular horses to me. Judging by the size of the fence in the background, I’d say somebody’s put a little too much time into making that dining setting. Anyone know if there was a point to it?
just look at the brackets they used in the chairs. there is no practical use for those, less it is a monster set…
i think the table and chairs are really huge, or there was some freestanding poles already in the field that they used to help put a full image together. either way, its a pretty interesting photo…
It looks as though it may have been created using toy horses to make it seem as though the furniture is much greater than what it actually is.
has to be photo-shopped, or someone made some giant furniture.
Well, just a really big Table….
Yesterday on Galileo (German TV) they showed how some guys created the largest chair in Germany…
Judging by the size of the fences in the background – I would tend to say that the table and chairs were specially built at that size
Fiiiiirst
I guess they created really big chairs with a matching table. The wooden flowers are too undefined for a smaller work and the horses seem really familar with the shady furniture.
*Christina*
its the furniture that’s huge, it was on the news here in the UK a while ago.
Are you guys serious? It’s been photoshopped, obviously. How hard is it to come to that conclusion???
At first i thought the table was just closer to the camera but there are horses in front of the table so that’s wrong!!! My guess is that they’re fake horses!!
OMG Its so annoying
Many of ya are saying the horses are far and furniture is close, but its not like that, because, in case you havent noticed, the horses are covering up parts of the legs of both the tables and chairs. So my guess is that the props are oversized.
Did all of you fail to notice the utensils in the barrel on the table? There is a shovel, rake, broom, etc. Bet the table and chairs are just really BIG!!!
I think this is great.
To those of you who pick on the guy who does this website: If all you can do is be smart@*s’s, then why don’t you just save your energy for something else. Like getting a hobbie, other than bothering other people because you are miserable.
I think the most obvious solution is the correct one.
Obviously they have grown very tiny horses with the help of genetic enginering.
I mean, how else could this be done?
1 of the horses is in front of 1 of the table legs