By Vurdlak on August 13, 2009, with 132 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...?
(65 votes)
nice but obviously photoshoped
No it is not.
I’m surprised no one’s commented on this already. When I first saw this illusion, I was instantly repulsed. My mind must be dirty. :P
After a while of staring at it, I decided that it must be a lamp. How could it not? Then I saw the twist, and realized that my first assumptions were correct.
Quite an illusion.
The thong is a lie. The lamp is real.
I can’t believe anyone actually believed it was a thong. It’s a nice image manipulation, but it is still clearly just a lamp.
woah!! I thought it was really a lamp. I was studying what looks like the stand of the lamp and i thought it was really a lamp!! so cool!!
Thank you Nestor for that link!
The first time I saw this pic I was like, “Omg a thong!”
Then I got the joke and was like, “Oh, I get it.. it was just a lamp! Duh!”
Then I saw the second picture and thought, “Wow, it really was a thong! Although it might be photoshopped..”
Then saw YOUR link and thought, “So it IS photoshopped!!”
I like how it’s a combination of the thong & the lamp in the photoshopped pic xD. So which came first?
Rawr @ all the twists & turns.. It really is a good illusion, though. Thanks for clearing it up!
Ok, so my question is why a woman would get a tattoo of a teddy bear wearing a santa hat next to something else, possibly another animal in a winter hat, UPSIDE DOWN on her butt??? I think this is just the perversion of the lamp that makes the horny people see perverse dreamings. ;) (And I went to the link to see if I could be misinterpreting the tattoo thingie, nope. It is a teddy bear in a santa hat upside down.)
wait a second, the other picture, her legs r too skinny. she is bow legged, or photoshop
This is way older than just a few months. The lamp has been around for years. The thong is a lie, it’s so obviously a photoshop manip of a thong’ed girl and the lamp (as per link above in comments).
The photoshop pic has a couple of very telling errors: 1. There’s no crease between the butt and the thigh, which only would happen if she were very flat back there. 2. The tattoo is in a very awkward position, again, where the crease of the thigh/butt would be. It’ wouldn’t lie flat like that. 3. The ‘crotch’ area looks too distented, that yould only happen if she were pregnant and carrying low or was overweight with a low hanging belly (which is obviously not the case).
The first pic (of the lamp) is a cool illusion, if an old one. The second pic is a lie, not an illusion at all.
Er… it’s obviously a lamp because you can see the curvature of both the lampshade and the stand around the edges, and the stand is perfectly rounded.
This is actually a cup of sorts sitting underneath the sun… I’m guessing that the other thing is a statue… or that it’s been photoshopped onto a womans body….
WOAH!!! I was wrong!!!!
pathetic…but ridiculous
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you have to have a horrifically dirty mind to see anything sexy in this.
its a lamp bikinis dont look like that…
If you look at the pic of the lamp… it looks like teddy bears wearing christmas hats.
Nice, I’ve got that exact lamp in my living-room. Get it cheap from IKEA. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10139879
there is no way that the lamp is actually underwear in the original pic there’s teddy bears to the side… now why would a girl have upside down dingy teddy bears (in christmas hats) tattooed on her bottom?? and if anyone know anything about the female anatomy… then they’d know that her … um.. ‘parts’ wouldn’t be located that low (from that view). she looks pretty thin, so her ‘parts’ wouldn’t be so low and wide like that. and anyone notice the pancake-flatness of the cheeks? gosh there is no way to explain it without being diry. but yeah… it’s just someone being a weirdo.
but it could be real if the girl has a 2-dimensional butt, upside down christmas bears on her bottom, and a strangely glowing private area…
photoshopped
and the cake is the true lie
ITS A LIE!!!!!!!! D:
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”.
umm yeah, this is an illusion, an illusion that tricks our minds to think something else, and things wasnt photo shoppedd
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
@subbylimation u idiot the text says READ THE TEXT before clicking that picture – its not fake the text says there has been used photoshop a bit too u idiot
From closer up its defiantly a lamp but from far away it seems more suggestive
I knew it
omfg ive been showing the first part to mates for years now calling them a dirty git for mistaking it. now this!
i knew about this
Its acctuly a sunset with a glass covering the bottem because the glass is right next to the lens of the camera :)
LOL! So It Was Actually The Other Way Around Than What We Thought! XD
If you used zooooooom like me, the ‘tattoo’ is a shelf, a Teddy bear, and a potted plant.
Ugh. Thats so disturbing. I’m 11 and I saw this in an ad. I was super sure it was a freakin’ lamp but eww…
i want that lamp during winter season it makes me HOT as in HOTTTTTTTTTT
oh my freak… the tattoo is the grinch with his bag of presents… look and you see the santa hat first, then the grinches eyebrows and the bag. WHOA.
I don’t understand why anyone gives a
F F about this anyway. It’s more boring than baseball.
All I see is, well, a lamp.
Actually, the lamp is not a lie. I own one. they were sold at IKEA.