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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first! saw the image but did’nt regognise any villans
I did not regonise anyone, but i saw the images. Who are they?
I think the first one is Bush
the others i can see but i dont know them.
First Comment again Baby!!!
I saw Osama Bin in the second picture.
Bush should to be there too.
Crazy man..
i can see some people, but im not sure who they are…
First is Bush (Not a villian and that is insulting that he is up here) Second is Teh president of Iran, Third is The Leader of N. Korea, Fourth is the president of Russia and the last one I am not sure
I think the last one is Hugo Chavez. I too am offended to see Bush lumped in with these people.
The last one is not Chavez, i am from Venezuela, and i know that.
Offended?!?!?!?!?! he’s the worst of them all!!
Offended?!?!?!?! Hes the worst of them all!!!!
I am an American, and am NOT offended to see Bush up there. I beleive he is unfit to be President of this country, and am personally counting the days until he is out of office.
Bush, Akmadinijad (spelling?), Kim Jong Il (spelling?), Putin, and I don’t know the last one… although it could be Chavez… I feel like he’s the real odd one out. Not that he does no wrong, he just doesn’t fit with the others.
Erm….the word villians conjours up names like Hitler, Stalin etc….and although the illusions themselves are very clever it’s slightly disconcerting to find that Amnesty International consider Bush a priority ……
I am not. I think he is a villian because he’s killing innocent people in Iraq.
Am I the only one who sees Rolf Harris in the last one?
i totally agree that Bush deserves to be in this group!
Ugh,these freak me out i saw all the people but hadnt recognized any of them
I actually think the 2nd one is chuck norris for some reason, its weird but swear it looks exactly like him
LOL @ #6
BUSH IS THE BIGGEST VILLIAN OF THEM ALL.
Calling our president a villain is highly unpatriotic. No matter how much you despise his political or social views, to dishonor him to such an extreme is appalling and should be so to all Americans. If you want to live here, at least have some respect for the president.
You all are right. Bush shouldn’t be there. He isn’t as smart as any of the other evil dictators. It’s an insult to them.
The last one is actually, Myanmar’s junta leader Than Shwe and the rest of them, i think are the same as what the blogger number 6 said.
Bush=evil, indeed.
haha you stupid Americans!!
Anonymous is correct, however, I wouldn’t be so insulted that Bush is on there; frankly, I think he deserves to be right there at the TOP of the list!
I dont understand how this is an illusion isnt this just faces?
cool illusions, but i must say that i have to agree with those who dont like seeing bush there.
many may not like him, but he is our president and certainly does not belong in this group.
Yeah, I’ve enjoyed coming here the past year or so every day, but I’m pretty sure I’m done if you’re going to promote such a backwards @ss organization as amnesty international. They claim to be for “human rights”. They are basically like the peta for humans. Their intentions are good, but their ideas are way too idealistic and over the top. Once you realize how insane/imbalanced they are it makes you want to go the opposite direction of whatever they are promoting. Too bad I’ll have to find another illusions site now.
Meh, these are okay but not too good but i guess as they’re billboards it makes them, actually, better but… okay
Just invert the colours of the images in paint to see them. :)
And howcome you are offended, that they are all placed within a group called “World Leaders” ? 0_o… You’re making the wrong connection between them :P
The first one is Bush and that is BS. Screw you.
Yeah Bush isnt evil – just really really stoopid.
pssh i recognized them all! I did do the first one though, bush. But the others I could tell just by looking at them.
nice though. =)
I recognized everyone of them…
and i think bush is an asshole
I just find it amusing that of course it’s the Bush supporters that take it upon themselves to be offended by a picture by Amnesty International. Who gets offended by a charity?
Offended to see Bush lumped in with these people? Do you read the paper, watch the news? Why do you think the WORLD (cuz it isn’t just U.S. anymore) is in the state it’s in? I’m glad to Bush as #1. Amnesty International, you’ve done well.
i like it, but these guys aren’t necessarily evil… maybe kim-jong il and ahmadinejad, but how is putin evil?
Hey, it’s amnesty international. Their hatred of Bush is not surprising.
offended to see Bush in there? oh ok let’s jsut put the whole of his backroom bored made up of daddies friends on there…. He is the face that we all get to see dealing out the misgivings of US of A. and if you truly believe that he is not a villain, you are a brainwashed chump.
Is the first one Bush? That’s what I thought too but I had to look it over a second time. I too am offended/ashamed that he is posted next to these men.
YAY! THIS IS NOT THE FIRST COMMENT!
I see dead people.
Obviously photoshopped …
:)
Bush is being tried for murder in Delaware as soon as his presidency is over- I kid you not. And quite frankly he deserves to rot in cell.
I want to look back at thesed in ten years with a historical perspective. Then we’ll know who really is evil and who was just wierd.
I am very happy to see the most evil president the USA has ever had in this group.
He has destroyed our countries reputation around the world, he has destroyed our constitution. If the rest of the world had any guts, he would be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity at the Hague.
1. Bush (not offended) 2. Akhmadenajhad (not sure of spelling) 3. Kim Jong Ill? 4. Putin 5. Chavez?
Bush definately deserves to be up there.
Okay. A few things to say.
You are right. Bush does not deserve to be here. He deserves to be in hell.
And, to all of you that have Macs, here is a way to cheat: press control, option, command, and then after that, 8. Same thing to get it back.
If you’re using a Mac, you can use a simple keyboard shortcut to see after-image illusions. Just press Command-Option-8 to invert the colors on the screen. Press the same combination to set the colors back to normal.
Offended to see Bush up there?
He’s the biggest villain of them all.
Come on folks, open your eyes.
bush’s some kinda villain too
The last one is actually Myanmar’s junta leader Than Shwe. I think the rest of them are the same as the ones mentioned by the anonymous blogger # 6
Ok, I think I’ve got them. I’m not positive about the first one, but here goes….
1. Richard Nixon
2. Ahmadinejad
3. Kim Jong Il
4. Vladimir Putin
5. Hu Jintao
Oddly enough, I saw Michael Jackson in the third picture..
Nice one though.
Have you people, saying that Bush shouldnt be up there, been living under a rock?
Have no Problem with Bush there. What about Guantanamo and human rights? What about invading privacy in the name of “homeland security”? What about not teaching birth control in schools and high rate of teenage pregnancies.
Bush the person may not be evil, but his politics are.
I tend to agree, Bush isn’t evil. Stupid? Yes. Incompetent? Of course. An utter waste of DNA? Without a doubt.
But not evil. Evil requires too much thought.
Don’t worry America, Obama will save you. :)
What’s the issue with Bush being there?
bush is the worst!
Isn’t the last one Donald Rumsfeld?
First, the biggest evil in the whole world, G.W. Bush
#2, M. Ahmadineyad, president of Iran (a good guy too)
#3, Kim Jong Il, president of North Korea, a democratic boy
#4, Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, a pacific kid
#5, Hu Jintao, president of China, a great defender of human rights
Bush not only deserves to be there, he owns the first place…
Is it possible that you americans are the only people who don’t see the threat that USA’s foreign politics represents for the rest of the world???
USA is the biggest “war creator”. ¿Wtf are you doing in Irak? ¿In Afganistan? ¿In Grenada? ¿In Vietnam? ¿In Korea? don’t know, but these countries did not represent a threat for you ’til your army attacked ‘em…
Excuses for the political expression, but the illusion and the other comments made me did it
I fail to see why anyone’s offended by Bush’s presence on this campain. His administration has eroded civil liberties, seen people interred illegally in offshore prisons, endorsed and sponsored the practice of renditioning, and declared war on countries under false pretences.
Villain? Yes. But if you’re truly offended, visit Amnesty International’s website to find out why you shouldn’t be.
1 = George Walker Bush
2 = Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3 = Kim Jong-il
4 = Vladimir Putin?
5 = Colonel Sanders? Haha.
I’d be offended NOT to see Bush there.
last one’s David Suzuki. :P Anyways, why teh hell are you offended? Bush started this whole world war 3 thing and the others are just scape-goats for bush so he can feel like a big man for blowing up foreign countries.
lol thats funny:D
and u can copy and paste the pic on paint then just invert colors that’s way easier than staring at them
OK you guys are not getting the whole ‘after image’ thing. It’s not about the image you see immediately but the image that is hidden within it. If you look closely at the image and focus on the red cross in the middle for a minute, then look away at a poorly lit area and blink rapidly you will see.
Just so you know, in my opinion to call Bush evil is a little strong. To call him an incompitent, led by a cabinet that has a very different moral standard to my own, is fair. Guantanamo Bay is a monstrosity and must be stopped. All I can say is, NOT IN MY NAME.
So having Bush is insulting but “the president of Russia”, whose name is by the way Putin, is fine? Because of course everyone else is evil except of course the president of the USA who is always obivously right and there is no chance at all that he could be a prick. Nixon was a cool one too, wasn’t he? Pathetic.
:Lol: at all the people who find the inclusion of Bush insulting.
I would say that the inclusion of Hugo Chavez should be considered far more insulting.
Go check out the Oscar-winning documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side” and tell me you still think Bush shouldn’t be up there. His administration basically changed the definition of torture so that they could torture detainees who never stood trial at Guantanamo and Abu Grhaib. At least 37 people have died there due to mistreatment (that we know of).
Why are you people so offended by Bush being there? He has performed criminalistic acts onto the American people and other people around the world. Look up some info about him and educate yourself instead of just believing what just he and the government says.
Get information from unbiases sources on the internet and other places and inform yourself of the truth. He is just as much of a criminal as most of the other people in these illusions.
http://www.zeitgeist.com
By the way, great illusions….
I have to agree, this is no place to make a political statement, you could have simply said something like, ‘see if you recognize these famous faces’
however I will admit it was a cool illusion
Bush is in exactly the right place, top of the list of villains…
i hate to see these people lumped in with bush
The LAST one is MR Meogy
I like how the original design of this was jesus. now villians
haha
BUSH
FUCK BUSH,
both of em
The people who have made these images are Amnesty International and by Bush invading Iraq makes him evil.
I thought the 1st person was Lincoln at first, lol
As much as I don’t agree with George W. I too agree that he shouldn’t be lumped in with the rest of these A-Holes
If you have a mac and want to see them easily then just hit Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+8. On a PC just copy them in to paint and hit Ctrl+I.
um….how is bush not a villian? Are you saying he’s a hero?
Btw, great illusions! Love this site!
For you people that are offended that Bush might be there, just think that Russians could be offended that you are mentioning that Poutine is up there. Look at who is currently involved in the most wars and who has been seen mistreating their prisoners. Amnesty international , if i’m not mistaken is to protect the rights of anyone, even the ones the US see as enemies , when in fact they are not. FYI the guy in the picture that might look like Bush seems to have a beard or a gothi of some sort so stop being so proud of the “worst” american president in history …btw it’s americans that are saying that he’s the worst.
these are amazing!
i’m so glad to see george w bush in here as well.
i’m glad amnesty international can recognise GWB as a man whose leadership has lead to the countless death of thousands and who supports torture of people who haven’t yet stood fair trial and who, as governor of texas, agreed to the execution of more indivuduals than any other US leader.
thank you for posting this.