By Vurdlak on September 27, 2011, with 112 Comments
Seeing our latest illusion, I was immediately reminded of Hal 9000 and his memorable voice addressing Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I won’t talk about how great this movie really was, and how it marked the whole era, I’d rather see what you think of the illusion attached below. By now you must have noticed it has something to do with our recent Psycho post. After my initial disappointment (having read your feedback), I learned that my previous pick just didn’t do justice to the whole cinemagraphs story. I learned how I failed in choosing the right representative to start this whole new category with. I just hope today’s sample will change all that. If you have time, feel free to read my thoughts on this from couple of days earlier.
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I really dont get Cinemagraphs, I would just call it a “Video” or a “Movie” Really cant see the illusion in Cinemagraphs.
Although if you realy want to get philosophical, a movie is all one big illusion anyway
Keep up the good work I look forward to new illusions on my desktop everyday
I don’t get it
Why not credit the author? http://iwdrm.tumblr.com
creeped me out the first time i saw it, but i actually think the psycho one is creepier – it really demonstrates his mental condition… fantastic images even if they aren’t what we think of when we think optical illusion…
HELP!!!! I don’t see anything besides his eyes moving and him blinking! I love all the illusions though, it just drives me crazy when I can’t see it.
ow, c;mon u smart furball, can’y ye see its only his pupil that was moving and not his eyebrow , ye who can’t apreciate something llike thiz, better look it without blinking yer eyez..
Seriously… I can move my EYE’S (I’ll assume that’s what you meant since the pupil is the black part in the middle of the eye… NOT the whole eye) without moving my eyebrow’s… I think you’re mistaken.
The reason this is so cool is because it is suppose to be timed to your blinking pattern! For those of us who are self-aware it creeps you simply because you blink at the same interval. Loved it!
eyes are moving!
So…the point of the illusion is it’s a still picture but the eyes move? I’m sorry, but…how is that an illusion. It seems like lazy filmmaking to me.I don’t get it.
DUDE for a second I was like WTF?!?! when he blinked XD I thought it was a picture not an animation
no camera in front of the man? nice
looks like an astronaut? but the reality he is not wearing any astronaut helmet but just staring at the mirror
didnt u realize it blinks scroll down or look at the opposite side of the page it blinks and moves its eyes
Don’t really like this cinemagraph. All the man does is blink, blink, blink.
I found this cinemagraph on google I much prefer, though when I typed the URL, a ‘dirty’ picture came up. Click twice on the right arrow to see the one I want to show you. It’s worth a look.
So sorry for any of you who don’t like what you initially see at first.
This is the URL. Somehow when I typed it in before it disappeared.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/81815386/
This was so scary. He blinked and I was like huh? But then he blinked again I screamed my life out. Hehehe its an animatation
look good all you dum-dum’s, his face is painted with white, to make it look like reflective glass. duh!
His eyes aren’t the only thing moving. Look closer.
uhhh; this does not qualify as an illusion, because I saved it as a gif file, and then examined it as a background / enlargement. Amazing that DAVE Blinks on THIS page, but not when duplicated…..because then it’s a true image without some-type of insert that was placed within the image (before it was Posted)!