By Vurdlak on July 10, 2010, with 155 Comments
Now that we’re posting all sorts of real life optical illusions, specially those involving chicks beautiful women, let me show you one of the newest ones floating ’round the net. Can you see what is happening in the photo below? I can assure you there has been no digital manipulation involved. It shouldn’t take you more than a second or two to see what is actually happening. Still, I think it makes one hell of an artistic shot. Agree? Yes or No? Btw, I’ve grouped some gymnastics illusions into one separate group, so be sure to check the #gymnast tag if you’re interested…
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OK! Now, shut up! There is a chick, legs in air, against a wall, chains are cuz the equipment used needs to be secured to the floor, or effin wall, however you wanna look at the pic, but, all you dumb *ucks, CHICK will NEVER offend me, a CHICK in the U.S. of A. is defined as a “newly hatched fowl”, AKA, female, go ahead, try it…A female is refered to as a “chick”, just like “blokes” n “friends” have their “slang”. The effen pic was taken above the CHICK in the pink, looking down at the callouses of her feet. The other CHICK is sitting there with an ice pack on her ankle…..stop with this one, youre ALL DUMBARSES…….
It’s simple. Act as if you have a camera and your standing on a platform looking down at the girls. The girl in the red is actually sitting normally, the girl in blue is laying with her back against the floor and her legs on the wall. The photographer is actually overhead! Duhhhhhh!
That is clearly a picture on a wall. The lighting is totally different.
i study photography and i can tell you that the girl in the pink is sitting on the floor against a reflective tarp with a picture of a chilean girl from an aerial view. it isn’t that hard to figure out, considering the lighting contrasts, the girl in pink is clearly more realistic looking that the other, and i know from experience that gymnasts have muscle. there is no possible way that the chilean girl is a gymnast, she is all skin and bones! a little twig!
Looking at this, I actually believe she is sitting on the ground and it is a painting or a picture behind her. At first, I thought that it was obvious, her legs are up the wall. But then, I took a closer look. Study the background, you can tell it is a picture! It looks natural at first, but if you really study it, you can tell. That, I believe, is the illusion. You can’t tell if it is real or fake. The girl in the pink is obviously real. But the rest is fake. Also, it is really easy to look like your laying on the ground with your legs up, you tilt your head to the side and take a breath and bring up your shoulders and it gives the illusion you’re legs are up.
Okay. Wow! SO much passion generated over two such trivial topics. The photo is so obviously what some of you have hit on: The girl in pink is lying on her back, on the floor, with her legs above her, against the actual wall. The other girl, the equipment, mat, etc, are on the actual floor. I don’t care if you’re a life-long photographer, or if this is the first photo you happened across, the day you got internet access installed in your cave. Never mind the thousands of similar images, all over the W.eird W.ild W.eb, just think back (Those of you that are old enough. And for those of you that aren’t, it’s called Google, kids) to the original Batman & Robin T.V. Live Action series, Starring Adam west, and Burt Ward. Remember one of their “cutting-edge” special effects, where Batman, and his sidekick would walk/climb up the side of a building, using a batarang as a grappling hook, and a long length of bat-rope? Every time they did this gag, they’d invariably pass a window, where the tenant would pop his head out and make a comment. It was cool, when you were twelve, and that really WAS cutting edge SFX, but go look at it now, and it’s so obvious that the brick “wall” they were climbing up, was a brick floor, and that the guy who stuck his head out the window to ask the dynamic duo if they could tell the idiot in 3C to stop playing his cello at 3:AM, was actually climbing a ladder, and popping up through a window built into the stage floor( that’s why they did that did that particular bit so much. They already had this weird set built, so they made sure to get some mileage out of it). Looking back, you’d notice how the heroes capes would “hang” towards the building wall, instead of “down” behind them, and various little things like that. Now, back in the day, it fooled the fans, who’d never seen it done before, and it was really neato! But now, it wouldn’t fool you for a second. They simply took a picture from a perspective you weren’t expecting and didn’t bother to clue you as to HOW to view it. Your brain did what it always does, and tried to make sense of the illogical, and confusingly contradictory input you were feeding it. And the first thing it tries to do, is to decide which way is up. Once it assigned a set of spacial compass points to the picture, it then tried to figure out how the rest of the picture made sense. Failing that, it might start the process from the beginning and try things a different way to get a better fit. Wash, rinse, repeat. In the end, you either figure it out, or throw your hands up in the air, and cry “Man was not meant to have this knowledge! It is a thing of evil, and we must kill it with fire”! Okay. Maybe not. Either way, is it an illusion? Absolutely not. An illusion is when you think you see a thing, that you actually don’t, because it isn’t there, or things are not as they. This picture is an example of an artistic technique called Altered Perspective. Everything in it actually IS there, but you have it given to you in such a way that you’re forced to do a little more math than you’re used to, to make any kind of sense out of it. Oh yeah! I almost forgot. “Chicks”? It did start out right around the rock and roll era, and it was started by the Brits, and very shortly after, the English as well. They had been referring to adult women as “Birds” for around twenty years prior, because they were the “egg layers” they tended the nest, reared and fed the young taught ‘em to fly, and then, put them out of the nest. That’s why women were referred to as birds. But, what left the nest? “Chicks”, of course. A chick was a girl who, while still being young, was now old enough to “leave the nest” (move out of the house), which meant she was old enough to do that, which meant she was 18, and, as the vernacular of the day went, of breeding age. This started another expression, “chicken-hawk” Which was a guy who had a particular preference for girls as young as they could legally be obtained. Unfortunately, they were generally men old enough to, at best, be the chicks father. Present-day, “chicken-hawk” has come to mean something completely different, and is primarily used by homosexuals, more often than not in conjunction with “chicken-head”. Anyway, that’s all I have to say, ’bout that. I never comment in these things, and don’t really think it makes a difference whether I put my two cents in, or not. Everyone already has their own theory, and everybody wants to be right. It just so happens that I am. lol But, it did say “speak your mind”, and I guess I had an opinion. And now you have it. Hope I helped. Enjoy.
Hi.. Harold the reason the person said you are the idiot is because the persons name was idiot so they were using that to they’re advantage!
sorry to break it to ya.
I got the photographic perspective right away. It was just obvious.
Those who didn’t get it right away are bound to claim that most people won’t get it right away. It’s how you convince yourself you’re not a retard…
Ha. for the first half a second, I thought I was looking at a raft on a pool. and before the second was up, I wondered why the lady in pink wasn’t splashing, and since I already had the perspective right, I think I realized it was a gym mat at about the 1.5 second mark, and then I wondered what about the picture was supposed to be an illusion. I never considered that many people thought pinky was seated. My brain just registered it atypically, I suppose.
The girl in pink is sitting against the wall to stretch her legs while the other is simply sitting to relax her feet. This angle was shot from above, and you can see the lights’ reflections on the gym’s floor to determine this. To the untrained eye, it may fool you to believe otherwise and thus is “the illusion”.
It surprises me how dumb some people are, like saying “I’m a professional photographer, she is sitting against a picture”, when she obviously laying down. I’ve seen this picture before, I think it was in TIME, and they even say, it was shot from ABOVE. Her back would NOT be able to be that straight and long if she was sitting up. It’s easy to tell that she is lying down, and the lights also give it away. It amazes me how people refuse to think that she could possibly be laying down. Lol
Swan ….. you WAY overthought this very simple picture. (HINT: It’s not a painting as you claimed.)
The focus, or attention point, is the girls, not the far right of the picture as you said. There SHOULD be nothing at all to even grab your attention over there …. unless an exercise mat laying on the floor intriques you. (HINT: The entire illusion can be figured out by studying the 2 girls. Nothing else in the entire picture is necessary to make the illusion work.)
There is nothing at all wrong with “the thing the girl ……. is siting on”, which is, as mentioned above, an exercise mat. (HINT: Don’t worry about if the “foam is elongated past where it should be”. The mat’s dimension & shape is correct, and wasting time at the far right will only lead to a false explanation, based on something which doesn’t exist (the elongated foam). That will confuse you enough, as it obviously did, so you then can’t see the image content which explains the title of this article.)
I believe there are plenty enough hints above to allow you to figure out what’s REALLY going on here. But if that still fails, then just look back at the several dozen replies made before your “painting is not perfect” & “foam is elongated” claims. The correct explanation had already been posted multiple times before your reply.
Sometimes (rather often actually), the correct answer to some specific question is amazingly simple. Over-thinking this type of deal will almost always form an overly-complicated conclusion which is 180 degrees in the wrong direction from the REAL answer. (HINT: The girl in pink is laying on her back, her legs up against a wall, with a camera looking down from up above her.)
Nothing else in the entire picture is really necessary to figure out whats going on here. See how simple the REAL answer can often be. :) :)
OMG
Argentina’s Valeria Pereyra, bottom center, lying on the floor, stretches her legs against a wall prior to competing in the women’s individual apparatus event at the South American Games in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Are you all daft?! The first thing I noticed was that the “girl” in pink looking sideways IS A GUY!! And the expression “chick” for young woman is just the other side of the British “bird” for young woman. Bird, chick, get it? It’s the same thing but WTH, who cares?
wow i got that the first time i saw it
The guys that thought this was a painting are in fact, idiots. Why would someone paint a picture of that, from above no less? This pic is pretty obvious as to whats going on.
this photo is taken from above. The girl is laying on her back with her feet up the wall in which the photographer is leaning over
wow.. you guys are really stupid.. it’s not a painting, the girl in the pink is laying on the floor with her feet against the wall.
can no one else tell that it was taken from a camera put at an angle up on a wall? >.>
The over head lights reflecting on the blue mat immediately give it away.
I hate duckface…it is the stupidest pose of all time and not attractive…
Botts is a Butt Face everyone should hate Botts for simply hating. Hes just pissed his brain did not get it. Stupid Botts
She’s not making the duckface idiot. She’s simply looking sideways. I know because I make the duck face. I bet you tried it and it just made you look worse so now you’re hating on it.
WOW are all of you really THAT stupid??? Take a good look – the girl on the mat is an avatar.
SHE IS NOT REAL.
neither is the entire mat or the red metal and chains holding it there. All just a computer animation.
I agree that the duckface looks VERY stupid on girls… But with Jimmy…
Thats not a painting… the girl is laying on her back, stretching her legs on the wall. The picture is being taken from an above point of view.
Stupid people on the internet never ceases to amuse me.
This photo rocks, it appears to be a once in a lifetime shot. I got it, a true professional.
Bravo Dan
Correct your grammar before caling others stupid. *”Cease to amaze me”
no the girl on top is a painting thats the illusion
That’s not a painting. That is a girl lying on her back
I agree. Don’t call people stupid if you can’t use the language properly.
You should really proofread!!
Thanks, It’s been a long day. I needed that explanation. LOL
I have to start getting my images from you, I have a funny section but know I may add a Illusion section. Reminds me how i use to just stare at pictures to figure out what it actually is.
The chick is laying on her back. Geez, it’s obvious. You can seen the lines where the mat is pushed down around her.
that’s not a mat she’s laying on that’s a concrete floor painted blue. if you knew anything about laying concrete you would know that the ripples on the edge where it meets the wall are float and trowel marks. the only mat there is the one that the other girl is sitting on. the bars are bolted down to the blue concrete. you can’t bolt down chains to a mat.
Grammar Rocks-2 l’s in the word “calling”. Mkay?
the chick in the bottom is laying down with her legs up
She is sitting upright against a painting/mural on the wall. Floor mats used in gymnastics do not look that hard, nor do they reflect light in such a way. Light reflecting off of a floor mat is much more dull, like a matte finish. If she was lying on a mat, you would also see the mat depress around her.
It’s not a floor mat. Or a painting. Thats just a blue floor, with a mat that the other chick is sitting on. You can easily see the dimensions on the chain and mat. Why would there be a mat on a mat? AND walls don’t reflect that much… you can clearly see the ceiling lights. It’s the floor.
Wow, some of you are real idiots. There is no mural, there is no illusion. She is laying on her back on the ground mat, her legs are against a side wall, and the picture was taken from above. See the lights reflecting off the mat? See the shadows from the other gymnast? This really is not that impressive of a picture…interesting, but not an amazing illusion. Use your common sense.
That’s cool, now come paint my wall!
This photo was taken from above looking down at the floor. The girl in pink is laying on her back with her legs going up the wall — stretching. The person with shoe off is simply sitting on the green mat icing their foot.
What im finding to be so funny is all the people correcting other peoples grammar. Out of all of them none of them had correct spelling. And im not understanding why this wouldnt b considered an illusion. The picture makes a false impression…painting or not its still an illusion.
look at where the supposed “mat” meets the floor and consider it now…its some sort of cement based mural or other structure and she is just resting her back on the wall…you’re supposed to think you smart seeing that she has her back to the ground when in reality she really doesn’t…just pay attention a little
The grl in pink back on ground feet on wall figured tht fast
Look at the edge where the mat meets the wall. The lack of shadows where the mat just touches the wall, and evidence of shadows where the mat is raised or folded convinces me girl is laying on back with legs up against the wall.
those illusions are pretty cool, there’s a guy in new york that paints what look like holes in the ground, and they look soooo real
yall is so dumb she is layn on the floor with her legs up on the wall damn think stay in school people.. there is no painting no nothing just her LAYING ON THE FLOOR WITH HER LEGS UP ON THE WALL
Neither of the two gymnists is closer to the camera. One gymnast has both feet on the blue floor. The other is lying on the blue floor with her legs raised up on a concrete wall. You are looking down on them.. they are at the same level
The blue tarp is down on the floor, the gymnast is laying down with her feet up pointing her toes. The White on the floor is chalk creating the illusion of clouds. The green is the landing mat which is under the uneven bars where they hit after dismounting off of them. The girl in red/black is icing her ankle. The photographer is in the stands or observing area above where most of the parents, spectators and photographers are during practice and a meet. Only the competitors, coaches and such are allowed on the floor. Hence why they were able to get this shot. I have a similar shot from when I was younger with one person standing up and the other (me) laying in the same type pose. Rundown… tarp, landing mat, chalk and good timing.
Wow people, it is clearly a thick green mat glued to the blue wall. The girl icing her ankle has used Velcro to effortlessly stick herself to the mat. Also notice how the equipment is securely attached to the wall with a chain, pulled tight by the weight!
Also to exgymnast above, it is NOT chalk but reflecting white lights!! If it were chalk, it would obviously be all onerous that perfectly clean green mat!!!
I am sorry..I will be good and admit I am DUMB..would somebody explain what I am looking at?? Maybe I need my eyes checked..cuz i do NOT get it
LOL, the chick is laying down on the blue mat with her legs crossed on the wall, as numerous others have pointed out correctly. (The lights have created the illusion of clouds and the other chick icing her ankle is just there). ^.^ Cool shot though…
She has her legs on the wall lieing on the floor and the other is sitting on a normal mat the camra was taken on the roof
To all the people that said its a girl laying down with her feet up against the wall are right…Bravo!! To all the people that said anything else otherwise are all the ones that are stupid…cmon look better. Buy some glasses cause you need them. It was taken from up above them lol.
the girl against the wall has her legs up and is against it upside down. the picture was tooken from above lls duh
I’m sorry. But the ignorance of the people commenting on this is absolutely astounding. The girl at the bottom (wearing the pink) is lying on her back with her legs stretched out on the wall in order to stretch, while the girl wearing the red on top, is just sitting on the mat is just sitting there, looking off in a different direction. There is no “painting” or computer changes of any kind. Just a photographer up top, looking down at the girl in pink. Stop trying to make this more complicated than it needs to be.
the girl is laying or sitting on the wall with her legs on the wall and the guy is sitting on the mat