By Vurdlak on October 8, 2008, with 151 Comments
Amnesty International, whose clever ideas we’ve already posted on this site before (dozen of times), released another brave campaign under the title: “See no Evil”. Billboards they printed, show afterimage optical illusions. When you first look at the seemingly unrelated black shape, you probably won’t recognize anything interesting. But if you know how afterimages work, then you’ll immediately see some of the worlds most notorious villains. Concentrate at the red cross at the center of each image, and after a minute, move your eyes and look at some white surface (wall, paper, ceiling… ). After few seconds you’ll be able to see negative of the black shape, which will form face of the very familiar “celebrity”. There are 5 different posters inside this article, can you recognize all the villains they picture? This campaign greatly reminds me of Veja Magazine’s promotional posters (part I, part II, part III).
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i am so confused! i dont see anything other than guys… where does the “see no evil?” come into play??
Offended??? Bush is Satan!!!
I recognised bush and Kim Jong il
or su not sure who it is lol
Tbh i think its pretty just that bush is up there!
Who was it who went to war on faulse accusations?
Sorry if you were offended by Bush being a villain but he is absolutely a villain. I think it was great that he is also at the top of the list. To bad they didn't put Cheney with him. If you don't see it, you have been blinded by 8 years of misinformation & lies. He has lied (and badly) about everything he has & is currently doing. His solution to bringing peace is by bombing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians to catch a few. PLAIN AND SIMPLE!! Please go back to your hole & rot forever because of people like you we are in the situation we are in now. I hope one day the world will look at Americans as they once did with honor but the direction he & his administration has put us in there will probably not be an America left, Thanks Bush & Company!!!
Amnesty international uses the URL adress http://www.amnestyinternational.ORG. I don’t know where this is coming from, but it’s not from them… Watch your sources!
The first one looks nothing like Bush.
I’m pretty sure the last one is Hu Jintao the President of the People’s Republic of China.
The last image is the president of China, Hu Jintao.
I’m positive it’s him.
I guess I’ll be the 1st to say this I am THRILLED to see Bush lumped in here. To say someone who turned this country in to a major tail spin into the toilet cant be called anything but evil.
2nd to last is hitler
I am not at all offended that Bush is on this list–torture and condoning torture qualifies as villainous behaviour in my book.
Of course Bush should be up there, he’s probably the worst one. A man who went to war just for oil and to settle a family feud. He’s a war mongering idiot.
cant you really not recognize any of them??
the first one i think is huge chaves from venezuela . i dont know why he is vilain.
the second is the iranian president.. with a veeery difficult name. ahmadinejad i think.
the two asiatic lookin ppl i dont know. the second last is putin from russia
and i dont see bush though i should and i hoped some ngo’s would say the truth from time to time
It’s not so much Bush but how much Bush looks like Ted Bundy.
the last is the chinese president…i think
I think it quite appropriate that bush is in here (if it is indeed he). He has created the illusion that he knows what he’s doing and is liked by america. The rest of the world see him for what he is, a chimp with the gaul to try and push other countries around. Now there’s an illusion worthy of david copperfield
last one could be mao
i think this inspired. all of them.
Bush is to stupid to be classed as a villian.
He is however far from a good man. Too bad the rest of you ‘offended’ Americans can’t see it.
Anyone offended to see Bush lumped in with these people is clearly unaware of what Amnesty International does, and how human rights under Bush’s administration have been so thoroughly trounced. Instead of getting offended, get educated. Go to http://www.amnesty.org and read what they have got to say and then decide if you are offended.
One thing I find weird about this whole thing is that Amnesty International’s website is not http://www.amnesty.com so why would they put that on their adds.
AHHHH!
Second image is like see myself on a mirror!!!
I think it’s odd that you consider it unfair that Bush is included in this list. Yet, I’m guessing you are perfectly okay with the other 4 people being included. While I don’t necessarily think Bush is a “villain,” I’m sure there are plenty of people who think that the other people should not be included in the list. There are people all over the world who HATE George Bush, and as this is an International campaign, it is only fair that he be included as well.
the last one looks like Colonel Saunders
‘These people’? Why SHOULDN’T Bush be lumped in with ‘these people’? Bush himself is not exactly a saint…what has/hasn’t he done to make him any better than the rest?Theyre all similarly struggling to run their country….
haha…for once the person who said ‘first’ IS first =D
interesting after images…
i thought the first one was JFK.
I think you guys are missing the point… the reason Bush is lumped in with these people isn’t just because he’s become an international symbol of American arrogance due to his decisions in the Middle East. I think the “See No Evil” phrase invites you to see *beyond* what these people represent and how they are perceived by the media and by you and your neighbors. Think about the causes and the complex machinery behind the symbolic figurehead. Calling someone “evil” is an oversimplification — we should all be thinking more critically.
The last one is obviously Colonel Sanders, he who hath unleashed evil, evil fried chicken upon the world.
*burp*
Wow! i can’t believe that some of you guys think the last one is Chavez. I’m not Venezuelan and know that is not Hugo Chavez.That guy on the picture is obviously Asian. duh!
i thnik the fist one is bush and the second one chuck noriis
the last one looks like Mao je Tung (Chinese leader during WW2), but I’m not sure he’s a villain
Mao and his acolytes killed multiple tens of millions of his own countrymen in his communist revolution and subsequent attempts to wipe out opposition and reform China into a communist utopia.
From top to bottom…
Geogre W Bush
Osama Bin Laden
and I don’t see the evil of…
Vladimal Putin (anti-russian?)
And Hu Jintao (probably by anti-communist practioners and sinophobic people…)
1.Bush?Not so Evil
2.Osama bin Laden?Evil
3.Kim Sung ill!Not that evil but more evil than Bush
4.Putin?I don’t see evil in his eyes…
5.Hu jintao?Evil? Just because his communist doesn’t make him evil!
I thought the third one looked like Robert Mugabe and is the last one Chairman Mao?
Is the first one George W. Bush? I don’t mean to be mean or anything, but he is slightly evil, but not in a T.V show villan way. Just an annoying neighbor way. :)
your all fighting for nothing its not Bush in the first one ITS NIXON
Richard Nixon
Osama is not the second but the rest are all right
oh nixon?!?!? me happy now… ;)
the second one is osama just without the beard
Once again, the second one is Ahmajinedad, the President of Iran. The first one is definitely Bush. Still not sure on the last one… definitely looks Asian though…
This is dumb can they just tell us who they r without them telling us i mite think the 2nd last one is the dalai lama which i almost did but then i thought of putin
1/ W
2/ B Laden
3/ ? Asian
4/ Poutine
5/ ? Asian
if you want to know who they are and if you have a mac, then just press ctrl alt command 8 at the same time and the colors will be negative
They should have Obama in here too….
1 – George Walker Bush
2 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3 – Kim Jong-II
4 – Valadimir Putin
5 – Hu Jintao
Dude, Anonymous has some issues to work out. Think the Col. Sanders comment was hilarious! …as well as Chuck Norris. Clever. :)
The Birthers and “Obama is Evil” crowd don’t seem to realize that life is an intelligence test. A test that they FAILED miserably. Ask them about the newspaper birth announcement; you’ll just get hemming, hawing and “yes, but.”
LOSERS. Stupid ones at that. The typical response to a post like this? “I know you are, but what am I?!”
The future of the Republican party is a bunch of dufuses that believe in bigfoot and Rush Limbaugh. Hey! Maybe Rush IS bigfoot!
liar!!
2nd last must be Adolf Hitler.
I was like WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? when I looked at the first. I stared for 30 secs to save a bit of time so the image came for about 3 secs. I doubted what i saw was true, What i think i saw was Elvis O_o
Nobody considers him a villian…. MJ was like Elvis…
The second one is Ahmadinnejad.
who’s the second one, chuck norris?
i thought the top one was elvis! :L
I thought that the first one was Elvis :) but he wasn’t evil so I read the comments to see who the person was :D
That’s wierd cuz the other Aimee also thought that he was Elvis.
The last one is: Li Pang Fei the commie bastard that ordered the Tianamin Massacre in China
1. Richard Nixon
2. Abe Lincoln
3. Kim Jong Il
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. Morgan freeman or Colonel Sanders
No villans here.
i love how most of you (at least the comments i see) are defending obama and saying bush really is a villain. :) even though i see nixon in the first one, those comments just made me smile :) i agree with sarah tho: bush isnt really like a tv villain or anything, just the annoying neighbor kind. :)
the last one looks more of the young Andal Ampatuan of the Maguindanao massacre.
uh guys copy+paste into paint -> ctrl+i
1st not sure maybe nixon
2nd ahmadinejad
3rd kim jong-il
4th putin
5th hu jintao
am i the only one who can see the pictures without doing anything..?
who cares if you can see the afterimages when they’re plain as day in yellow?
This is dumb as hell
they were the best illusion ive ever saw
its not dumb!
if you look at the red thing in any photo for 30 seconds then look at blank wall,it will be a pic of the person!
being a 13 year old I can honestly say that i don’t know who half of these people are
can someone explain them to me?
1. G.W.Bush no reason though
2. Saddam Husein!
3. Kim Jong Il
4. Vladimir Putin
5. Colonel Sanders?
bush should not be on there… he was the best thing this contery had.. at least he didn’t make a mess like obama is doing! i may be 12 but i still know right and wrong!
spell check: country
Honestly, I got lazy and just turned my phone camera onto negative.
I DONT WANT TO SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT BUTTTT……who are they in order