By Vurdlak on July 10, 2010, with 158 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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simple, but nice.
very cool. it took me a second to realize that the girl on the bottom is sitting with her back on the ground and her feet up on the wall. very clever and a great shot. good illusion.
First wooh
she is laying on her back with her legs against the wall, nice
got it! the guy is sitting down and its a downward angle shot!
She is just laying on the floor with her legs against the wall.
Great shot, athlete sitting on the mat and the gymnast is on her back with her feet against the wall. Photographer is in the rafters :-)
she’s obviously lying on her back and her legs are up against a wall.
p s. :) first????
Please realize that you have female fans.
Categorizing this an illusion as “involving chicks” is insulting to women and serves only to incite stupid, lascivious male responses.
howd they get a camera up the wall? or is it a partition before seats or summet lol
nice illusion though
girls are not “chicks.” i find that pretty degrading.
but nice illusion…
I don’t see anything special…
mmmm… not sure about this one. I prefer the other gymnast illusions better.
its too noticeable cause of the line near gymnove
The girl at the bottom of the picture is lying on her back with her feet and legs against the wall.
How did they take that shot? Wall mount the camera and use a remote trigger?
The girl sat down at the bottom of the picture is actually lying down with her back to the blue floor. Her legs are placed on the wall with the camera man taking the picture from the stop looking down.
Cool…she’s on her back on the floor…the floor is painted to look like the sky…very cool!
It took me a while… but I finally realized the girl in pink is stretching against the wall.
yesah figured right away, but it made you think for a sec.
Wow! That’s a really neat picture! Thanks for sharing it!! Very artistic, indeed!
i saw through the illusion right away… It was too simple
Good thing I’m not into gymnastics.
Took me a few seconds to figure out, the girl in pink is lying on the floor with her feet up against the wall. Cool picture.
Biggest problem for me: Somehow it seems the upper athlet is only computer generated..isn’t his/her body a bit to angular for a real one?
Anyway: Still awesome =D
how can u say boring in a nice way?
or how about simply:
BORING!
GIVE ME A B! GIVE A AN O! GIVE ME A R! etc.
I saw it the first moment.
Girls are not chicks. We are women, ladies or girls. It is sexist and degrading to call us that and my good opinion (as well as several other female friends of mine) has been tarnished by that negative term. Please change it. Good illusion though.
At first, for a few seconds, i didn’t even see what was wrong i was too busy thinking how UNLIKE water the blue looked like (as if the illusion was that it was water) but then i realised that that wasn’t it…
But anyway, then when i saw it:- lol i was looking tooo deeply into it looking for a more complicated illusion solution, but then i got it after about 15 seconds :)
Very nice i like it! :)
she isnt sitting down
shes lying on the floor with her legs on the wall
her back is on the floor her legs on wall
Get a life girls, chicks are cute and cuddly…honey, you can call me a chick anytime! And I love the illusion! I thought the girl was sitting on the floor with a tarp draped behind her and the guy was a projection on the wall….guess I totally missed that one. Keep up the great work!
Yes, great artistic shot. Took me a couple of minutes to see it. A very good optical illusion! Keep the good stuff coming!
I think I first saw this very picture in the olympic games of 2008, but I’m not sure.
SMPLE ONE THETHE CAMERA ANGLE IS TAKEN FROM ABOVE THE GYMNAST THAT IS LYING ON THE BLUE MAT HER LEGS ARE SIMLY LEANINGAGAIN THE GREY WALL WHILE SHE IS LYING ON THE BLUE MAT THE CAMERA SHOT IS TAKEN ABOVE THE PINK GYMNIST AND THE OTHER GYMIST IS SITTING DOWN THE CAMERA SHOT IS TAKEN ABOVE EASY ONE NOT PHOTOSHOPPED LIKE THE GYNIST IN PINK IS NJUST LYING DOWN AND HER LEGS ARE PROPPED AGAINST THE GREY WALL FOR SUPPORT THE CAMERA IS TAKEN ABOVE HER ITS JUST ALL ABOUT ANGLES AND NO PHOTOSHOPPED NICE ONE EASSY ONE TO DETECT IF OYU AHVE KEEN EYES LIKE ME NADIA HAVE A NICE SUMMER MR. V.
Beautiful!!
The use of the word “chicks” to describe women bothered me too. At first I thought the word was a hint some how connected to the illusion. I don’t usually notice things like this…or care! This one struck me odd, maybe because the use of the word “chicks” seemed so out of character for the site.
illusions with chicks?? you ARE aware that females see this too….right? I think that the word “chicks”, referring to a female, should not be used. please change this. it sort of annoys me.
It took me a while to spot all the chicks in the picture. Apparently they jump out when you least expect it and suddenly Vurdlak is the character with his back against the wall…
She’s sitting on the ground, and the wall is painted to look like a top-down shot. Look at the texture of the blue mat and the bottom edge, it shows the imperfections in the concrete. Plus, she isn’t making any imprint in the mat. The illusion is the wall, not the gymnast.
seriously?? women saying that “chicks” is a degrading term against women?? you realize that its the 21st century and women are often being called “bitches”, “hoes” and other way degrading names and you’re saying that “chicks” is degrading? Get a damn life!
wow, this is the best
I didnt get it at all until I read solution :DDD
Inf act its a nice but very easy illusion,
girl is in fact stretching legs to wards the roof.
Riccardo is damn right you CHICKS need to get a life
I’ve read a lot of complaining about the term “chick” but nobody has bothered to explain why this might be offensive to this website’s creator and owner; to whom English is a second language.
Perhaps some of you that find offence could take the time to explain why you personally find offence at the term?
Allow me to explain it as I see it; women in the west have had to fight to gain their freedom to; vote, to work in traditionally male jobs and to make equal pay for equal work. While not offensive in and of themselves, words like Chick, Fox, doll and others have served as an obvious example of inequality in our society.
For example, no man would ever call another male co-worker by a nickname. Instead it is considered professional to use his proper name. That women where not afforded this same common courtesy is seen as condescending and patronizing because it verbally reduces women to the level of animal or even worse, an object of desire – not even human nor worthy of a proper name and nothing more.
Think of it this way; putting a label like this on a person, attempts to put limits who they are. In the west, that’s a big no no.
I recommend you only use these terms of endearment in the company of close friends who know and understand your intentions and do not find them offensive.
I am of the opinion.
Your WEBSITE your WORDS. If some readers don’t like your posts then that should go somewhere else.
Don’t waste your time trying to please everyone, it is a impossible and pointless task!
A superb piece of photography
well thats not so exciting…but a simple thing to watch…
you can totally tell that the one in the pink just has her legs straight up the wall.., but that’s still a pretty good idea. :) (it tricked me for a split second)
i agree with u guys i will never call girls ‘chicks’ anymore
I ‘ll call them “BITCHES” instead
hehe
RIGHT-ON DUNCAN! That was a perfect definition about the use of the word “chicks” to American women. Now I understand why it was used since, in this case, English is the 2nd language. I wish I was so gifted as to have a second language. Thanks
its just a girl sitting infront of a painting on a wall
Hint: The girl isn’t really sitting.
which one? I think that the girl in pink is leaning on the floor and putting her feet on the wall, while the other girl is just sitting normally on a platform
umm look at floor where the lights are its easy. the girl in pink just has her feet up. plus CUTE girls ^_^
the painting is not perfect the far right of the sceen is the attention point….the thing the girl with the ice pack is sitting on is imperfect in shape the near the metal chain on the right is the platform/foam is elongated past where it should be.. the artist is amasing but not perfect
no shit
I think that the girl is in a position where her legs are up on the wall, and her body laying on the floor. And the comera guy took the shot above the girl on the gray wall to make it look like she was sitting and the blue floored area was the ceiling
Wait…people think this is an optical illusion? Jesus Christ on a cracker.
Cool pic =)
wow this is so obvious, wheres the illusion? It’s a view from the top, the woman in pink is just leaning her legs against a wall. Who would fall for this?
She isn’t sitting with her legs up on the wall, thats the optical allusion, she is sitting against a giant painting.
lol! your the idiot! she isnt sitting on a giant painting. she is laying on the floor with her legs up on the wall. geez if you even had an ounce of intelligence in you, you would have noticed that
Hey, just because someone doesn’t see it right away doesn’t mean anyone’s an idiot. I was wondering if it was a painting too at first, but I just couldn’t buy into that because of the fact that the metal looked too 3D to actually be a painting. There’s a difference, and in that picture the metal, in comparison to the woman, does not look 2D, it looks 3D, in which case, unless it’s photo shoped.
I honestly could not figure out what I was looking at until I read what Kevin said, that she wasn’t sitting. Then it dawned on me that it was a shot from above, and then seeing how the girl’s back and head were so aligned and flat against the floor and that I could tell that he thing above her was 3D, it made perfect sense that it was a shot from above. No one, not even the most balanced has such a straight solid alignment when setting back against a wall. However, when laying back against the wall, gravity makes it the back more aligned.
She’s stretching, lying on her back with legs up parallel to the wall. The girl on the mat is just sitting normally.
I don’t see what’s offensive about the word “chick” to describe a female is either. I AM a female and I find nothing insulting about it. It’s just a modern slang term for “girl”. I would say the equivalent in male is “dude”. I think people have too much time to sit and nitpick about things that really don’t matter. :-P
As far as the illusion. It may be easy to figure out, but it is still a pretty cool picture!
I don’t really care about his use of it too much,except I wonder who in the world invented the slang,”Chick.”I like the illusion though.
well, not only is calling a girl chick “slang” but its shortened from spanish. Chica and chico means boy, and girl.
I bet whoever it was that invented the word “chick,” was a farmer brought up raising chickens. It was probably a term that caught on rapidly in the farming community because chicks are cute little baby birds and anyone can see how a farming community might relate their kids developing a puppy-love for some classmate or neighbor to cute little baby chicken running around.
Anyhow it probably caught on in the south first in a large farming area.
I don’t know, but it’s as good a guess as any.
Actually what Alexvv is suggesting makes the most sense out of all of these responses. I mean it’s infinitely more likely that such a recent term developed from a term used by another language, especially since it became so wide-spread in this nation that gets most of it’s newer common terms from other languages.
I fell for it. Because I saw the pink gymnast first I though she was sitting against a very large advertising photo on a wall. Was impressed when scrolled down and set straight.
This isn’t an optical illusion, this is use of perspective in photography. Good try, but way to fail
she is on the wall.
yes
omg!! the guy who sits on the mat is from Chile.. nice
That took me like 3 secs to figure out lol
Worst illusion ever.
I think the chick is sitting on the wall by the use of massive amounts of super glue. You can clearly see that the red device is chained to the wall and holding the green, the shoe is stapled to the wall, and the chick in pink dress is clearly holding her breath, maybe because she recently passed wind, indicated by her blushing and her gaze. I think this was a studio photo created for an Ad-campaign for Gymnova.
This is the obvious explaination using Occhams Eraser.
“Chick” is the short form of “chickhead”, the female equivalent of dickhead which obviously would not apply to a person of the fairer gender. The use of the word Chicks is only an annoyance for females with a lower than average degree of attractiveness and self esteem. I, myself – whenever addressed “Dickhead” – typically interpret it as a sign of lacking verbal eloquence on part of the addressor, and take no notice of it.
God bless the chicks.
Dr. Vious
PLEASE tell me you’re kidding?
He’s not kidding, he’s just plain tupid.
As far as chicks, the originak origin was in the early fifties during the age of rock and roll when guy’s would just hang out wherever a lot of ladies would pass by. It took on new life in the sixties when the Brits started using the term chickies to refer to young, cute females. It resurged in America with the Austin Powers movies, even more than when the British Pop musicians began touring here.
Take it from me, that term will never die now.
I’ve been around for all of it, and am fascinated by the different terms people use to refer to the opposite sex. I even accidentally tossed a Brit down 3 flights of stairs because of the offensive term he used while talking about the lady I was dancing with.
Hmm, who knows who’s actually right. Did it come about as a lame come-back at girls that would call a man a derogatory term or did it come about due to the adorability and overall cuteness of baby chickens that was later translated by the English to be a slang term for the young cute adolescent/adult girls, or are both ideas completely wrong.
Who will ever know? Maybe a PH D in modern language might. As for the rest of us, it like the number of licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop, it will always be a mystery.
i think its a picture above were she is sitting
Easy it’s a wall mounted camera and the women is on her back with his legs up on the wall
She is not a she!!!!!! Guys! thats the illusion
its not reall
nice illusion! :)
I think the girl is leaning (her back) against the painting on the wall
Wow its so beautiful and amazing.
just a guy sittin and a girl laing on her back w/ feet on wall camera pic taken from the wall :P
this one really isnt tht hard figure out…ones sitting on the mat, and the other one is laying on the floor wth her legs on the wall
wow great illusion!
It’s a pretty cool picture. I love the people who act like they took one look at it and got it instantly. The picture is taken in such a way that it manipulates your way of thinking (if only for a few seconds)because 99.9% of our lives, we are accustomed to seeing things from a straight on viewpoint. Instead of looking directly down on something. If you must try and impress us by saying that “this picture is stupid. I took one look and got it immediately” You are 2 things. A liar, and an idiot.
That really is’nt much of an optical illusion. THe ugly pink one is back to floor and legs to wall. And the red on eis sitting normally.
There is a camera hanging above the wall. The girl in the pink is sitting with her legs against the wall so her shoulders and stomach look pressed down. The other girl is just sitting there.
It’s really obvious that the girl in the pink just has her legs against the wall, and the picture is taken from above…
Anyone who can’t realize that from first sight is an idiot.
My brain refuses to understand why you use Alicia Sacramone’s picture to draw interweb users to this slightly lame picture.