Mighty Optical Illusions » Paris

Smokin’ Hot Optical Illusion

Vurdlak — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:05:04 +0000

Thanks to our loyal and investigative audience, “together” we’ve managed to locate more photos of the anamorphosis work by François Abelanet, and learned how it can be found exhibited at Paris town hall. Be sure to check the mentioned post for more updates. Today’s featured illusion is somewhat easy to see, and chances are slim there wasn’t any digital manipulation going on with it. Still, someone has seamlessly integrated my old time favorite – “Lady in Smoke” into a real life photograph focused at the lit cigarette. As much as I’m against smoking, I really loved this one!

Chupa-Chups Missing Pieces

Vurdlak — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:28:02 +0000

Just came back from Paris yesterday evening. Can’t say I enjoyed much. Apart from marvelous architecture and breath-taking historic sights and museums, it felt like any other European metropolis. Perhaps I expected too much, thus was little bit disappointed. I enjoyed seeing Napoleon’s resting place at Les Invalides, and Louvre museum the most. There were so much tourists, I couldn’t stop feeling like one. Perhaps if I had some local friends, they could help me experience local life (and point me where I could eat some good food), ultimately making the trip much more interesting…

Sorry for such a long intro, just wanted to inform you I’m back now (and how last few posts were set to automatically appear each day, and were written few days ago ;). It’s also why it took so much time to get your comments approved. Now that I have charged my batteries once again, let me roll up my sleeves and continue sharing some good stuff! For today I bring you two posters that feature Missing Pieces illusion we featured some time ago. Seems that Chupa-Chups company jumped the optical illusion billboard wagon as well!

Paris Mural

Vurdlak — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:43:00 +0000

“London-based Frenchman” Xavier Kreiss sent me this after/before photo of a Paris building mural. When you see the first photo, you probably won’t notice anything strange with it. Now when you jumped inside, and saw second photo… Bam! It hits you. Can you believe this whole building was almost-flat wall before artistic painting? Really awesome! Dozens of other cool murals like this one can be found if you browse murals category. Murals like this one, are called Trompe L’Oeil (French for “fool the eye”), and are in tight connection with 3D paintings that appear all over this site!