August 13, 2009 by Vurdlak with 118 Comments
I’m still not hundred percent certain why I kept this optical illusion private, but somehow I never gained enough courage to share it with you – my audience. Probably because the topic was somehow edgy, and balanced between SFW (safe for work) and NSFW. Anyhow, here it goes… The picture you see below circled the internet few months ago, and was more than popular in those days. Apparently the lamp pictured inside the photo could be understood in more than one way. Not only was it funny – it was extremely sexy too! But wait… there’s more! If this was the whole story I wouldn’t make so much fuss about it. More interesting part is what happened afterwards. The real twist came month later, when the “original author” published the second photo which revealed the truth. You can see it below the first one, but I hid it inside the expandable box so I don’t ruin the effect. Be sure to check it out, but only after reading this text and figuring the previous image first. Theory about second twist exists as well, but it relies on Photoshop theory – which (in this case) isn’t important at all.
There is something extremely sexy about this lamp! What if the pic was turned upside down...?
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Damn it! Y____Y I was in love with this lamp…
Now its just a girl…
the “the lamp is a lie” picture is actually a fake. it indeed is, only a lamp :)
http://thelampisalie.com/itisalie.html
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Huh. Interesting how our minds work
its a fricken butt and thong! upsidedown! with a tatooooo1 on the left cheek!EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWY! that grody!
HI
AWESOME,I WANT THE LAMP IN BED ROOM
:P
:S
http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/thelampisalieisalie.jpg
“the lamp is a lie” is a lie!!
Sorry, but I think these images count as tricks or a hoax rather than as illusions. Clearly they have ALL been photoshopped to mislead the viewer into believing they are seeing things that never were. If someone used an image editor to fabricate an image of a UFO landed on the White House lawn, would you consider that to be an illusion or just a hoax?
On final reflection, I consider these images to belong to a category that I would call “fake illusions”.
the fruit and vegetable things on the right are like a man obeying the lamp. anyone noticed that? i saw the face when i looked upside down, even though the face isnt! weird…
This picture originated at deviantart.com.
It IS a lamp.
the ‘tattoo’ is actually a teddy bear on a shelf.
The photographer isn’t exactly thrilled that no one is giving her credit.
i have seriously one of the most perverted minds and me and my cousin argued for like an hour because she could just not see the thong in it and i could judt not see the lamp that it truely is and btw those of you who have seen the image and think its actualy a thong are wrong it was just a verry well photoshoped picture
It would’ve taken me a day or two to see this,but I look at the answer…But I still couldn’t see it!Well,it’s better then not seeing the lamp…
has anyone else noticed hat the thing on the side looks like two teddy bears?
I think the first picture is actually a lamp!! :) No idea what the tat is of though….
http://lupinbebop.viperslayer.net/Motivators/The%20Lamp%20motivator.jpg
From closer up its defiantly a lamp but from far away it seems more suggestive
I knew it