Comments on: Matchstick Men Optical Illusion

By: connie :)

connie :) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:26:18 +0000

yeah, i saw this last yeah in London at the British museum, i was REALLY freaked out. i thought it was discusting, my friend was nearly sick.

By: I Am Someone

I Am Someone — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:56:00 +0000

Woah.. you need to open it up to this size to see it clearly though. Death image from Dead Objects :P

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:45:34 +0000

It was the British Museum, my fiance and I saw it in December last year also, its made with the bones and skin/fur of dead animals.

Took a little while for us to realise what it was.

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:40:18 +0000

Nooo, it’s not fake at all – I saw it in London December last year!

I think it was the British museum, a exhibition of selected modern art pieces set among various ancient statues. Even more striking in reality than the photo suggests.

By: SMV

SMV — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:04:18 +0000

You don’t even need to look that close to tell that it is fake! PLEASE ONLY POST NON DIGITALLY ENHANCED PICTURES!!

By: Ella

Ella — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:17:48 +0000

HA! I like it

By: Pauly

Pauly — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:21:50 +0000

well…if you look closer…you will see that it’s FAKE! it’s a Adobe Photoshop work.
you’re welcome!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:37:57 +0000

Amazing! One of the best!

By: Travalgar

Travalgar — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:17:45 +0000

It’s good. Reminds me of the Spartans, or the ancient Dracul.

By: Spider

Spider — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:34:49 +0000

Yeah, that’s right, these are shadows of entirely different objects off screen. Actually, you can’t see that there are two real human heads cut off and stuck bleeding to the floor on a pair of bamboo sticks.

LMFAO!!! Morons!

This is called “shadow” sculpture because what’s sculpted is the shadow, not the real object. While the real object might (would, to be exact) look like crap, it’s arranged creatively in a way that the shadow would look good. What you see millimeters apart side by side on the flat shadow might be rather far and might not even touch one another as the object occupies a three dimensional space.

And the angle of the light is OBVIOUSLY from a low angle as you see the shadow to be higher than the object. So whatever you see on the object that you don’t see on the shadow, it’s because that thing is not on the edge of the object if you see it from the angle of the light source, so the light doesn’t catch it and project it to the wall to make any particular shape. Get it? What you see as a “tail” on the object? It’s actually just a jumble of things in the middle of the object if you see it from the light source angle, and consequently make up the opaque black in the middle of the shadow.

It’s real.
And it’s beautiful.