Forced perspective involves playing with the way our eyes perceive distance and, in turn, making things seem smaller or bigger than they actually are. It’s one of my favorite types of optical illusions because there’s just so much you could do with the technique. This picture by Alexandre Duarte shows how a simple vacation photo [...]

Photoshop has made it so that anyone can take a mediocre photograph, upload it to the computer and end up with a great shot after a little editing. While it’s a great step forward for photographers and amateurs alike, it has led to a lot of “professional” photographers who don’t really know what it takes [...]

This 3D anamorphic pencil illustration of Newton’s Cradle was sent to us by reader Joshua Stacy. The shading effect on the artwork is so realistic, I almost expect to see the balls clacking together. In fact, if you’re reading this Joshua, I think it would be amazing if you created a few similar drawings that [...]

Today I’m gonna show you an illusion, I only recently managed to “decode”. Titled Romeo and Juliet, this marvelous painting (created by Octavio Ocampo) managed to fool me for quite some time. What at first appears as profile of both Romeo and Juliet about to kiss, also depicts this famous couple in their early years. [...]

Sam Saxton has a bit of a gift, he can not only visualize how to make just about any word into an ambigram, meaning it can be read right side up or upside down, he also knows how to draw people with that same technique. The result is a series of celebrities, historical figures, even [...]

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I know this question seems a bit arbitrary, but if you had to choose, which of these shapes below should be called a Bouba and which should be called a Kiki? If you’re like 98% of people, you said the pointy one on the left is a Kiki and the blobish one on the right [...]

There was so much going on for the last few days I don’t know where to begin from. After waves upon waves of new visitors “flooding” our site, the server almost exploded. So I made the decision and implemented cache technology into our web headquarters. The server load went down, yet our “Random button” stopped [...]