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The Invisible Man: Dragon Series

Vurdlak — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:40:32 +0000

Thanks to Andreas P. now we have whole new series of Liu Bolin and his “Invisible Man” – Dragon Series installation to showcase. If you lived under the rock for the past year or so, you missed some incredible camouflage body-paintings from mentioned artist. As we already stated once – Liu Bolin, (a master of camouflage) hopes to portray the richness of Chinese culture and history through his work. He achieved some pretty unbelievable results with this one, if you ask me…

You’ve probably seen most of Liu’s camouflage installations, but just in case you missed some – click on the image below and browse our #Liu Bolin archive:

Alicia Martin’s “Biographies”

Vurdlak — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:58:40 +0000

Creative artist Alicia Martin has been “constructing” amazing installations using nothing but mere books. What we have here today is part of the collection called ‘Biographies‘. One particular photographs was pointed out to me as being illusive. Apparently, the books in it are sorted in such way to give an illusion of peel-of wall corner. Unfortunately, after inspecting the image further I found no evidence in favor of the illusion, but I’m gonna leave this one for you to decide! If the illusion is genuine, then it really is awesome! Much like fake door opening was!

Black & White Anagram/Ambigram

Vurdlak — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:20:58 +0000

I’ve asked you on numerous occasions, and you explained it to me even more times than I asked, yet I can’t seem to remember if this type of illusion belongs to anagram or ambigram section. I remember the difference between these two, yet can’t distinguish which one does what. I’m sure many of you will ask why don’t you simply google it?, but as I explained many times – I prefer reading your comments, giving me opportunity to enjoy different-angled comments and somehow makes me feel more connected to you guys. Anyway, check out the anagram/ambigram below, and see what you can come up with!

“Front Around The Clock”

Vurdlak — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:25:58 +0000

In the Porro showroom in Via Durini 15, Milan, the Italian manufacturer is currently presenting this new optical-illusion-inspired wall clock, designed by the Swedish designer quartet Front. The piece you see on your left is entitled: “Front around the clock”, and is made from a metal disk with a diameter of 55 cm. The 12 hours are applied perpendicularly to the base and are only legible by their shadows cast on the white surface.

When people first notice the clock hanging from a wall (example photo inside this post), they don’t seem to notice what’s so different about it. Yet inspecting it from lesser distance, made them smile and whisper “ah!”. Why I am not so sure about this one, is because you probably need to apply special care to where sun light or other artificial light beams will be coming from.

Can You Believe These are Wall Paintings?

Vurdlak — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:20:14 +0000

Opposite to our recent Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Paintings done by Alexa Meade, where she applied acrylic paints on her subjects in such a way to make them appear to be part of a painting, this time we have something completely opposite! Not much words needed, as the title says; can you force your mind to understand these aren’t real people, but wall paintings instead? Looking forward to hear your comments!

BTW, many thanks for your logo submissions (here). Some of them are really creative. I just hope we’ll receive many more ideas and examples, before we make the final decision. Another news is that now you can follow whats new behind this site on Twitter. Previously I used Twitter only to syndicate posts, but only now I realized how useful can the service be. For example, if our site goes down or has problems, I can update you there what’s been going on or similar! Hope you recognize the usefulness of the service… This is why I recommend you follow us there, just in case of emergencies.

Door Opening Optical Illusion

Vurdlak — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:37:17 +0000

What you see below is a great find by Neatorama blog. It looks as if there are doors in a concrete wall, but actually – there aren’t any. The doors are in fact a flat mirror designed by Sarah Dayo that creates the optical illusion of wall opening. The only problem with today’s post, is that once you spot the illusion there is no going back. Sarah writes:

Sometimes we cannot help but to try and catch a glimpse of the other side. Passing through the everyday spaces we inhibit, the door half opened always stirs up a sense of seduction and curiosity within us. Inspired by these ordinary yet inexplicable moments in our daily lives, I designed a mirror that gives an illusion of a door opening on any given surface.

House Beside the Lake, erm… Wall

Vurdlak — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:41:09 +0000

Now here’s a good one; apparently the photo you are seeing came from a set of pictures provided by the owner of a house to some people who were looking to rent it for the weekend. They saw this picture and thought it was a lake, so were all excited and looking forward to boating and jet skiing and stuff. When they asked the owner about it, the lady emailed them back and said: “unfortunately that is not a lake, it is a wall“. Hehe, good one Katriana! Thanks for sharing…

Liu Bolin’s Brick Wall Camouflage

Vurdlak — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:40:49 +0000

“Camouflage myself as a brick wall?! Sure, I could done that. No problem!” This is exactly what Liu Bolin thought to himself when this latest idea came to his mind. Check out the outcome of Liu’s newest camouflage set. At least it’s new for us; am not really positive when these photos were actually taken. Anywayz, try and spot Liu in each of the photos presented. Which one is the best, and which one do you think hasn’t turned out so nicely? Majority decides!

Ultimate Mural Gallery

Vurdlak — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:44:29 +0000

I’ve been collecting all kinds of 3d chalk drawings and murals for long as I can remember, and over the time this collection really grew big. Currently there are more than dozen murals I never got time to share with you. So today I bring you the biggest mural collection up to date. Beneath first two examples, you may find attached gallery with dozen of 3D wall paintings that are so incredible, you will have a really hard time believing they are not real. Which one is your favorite? I picked the beneath Mural as the most astonishing one, because only after seeing the second photo (which shows us how the wall looked before it was painted), only then my brain could process the first image as a flat painting. I still have trouble understanding how such a realistic result could ever been achieved. Simply amazing!

Believe it or not, everything you see is a painting on a flat wall!

This is exact same wall before the Mural was painted on it