February 2009

Weird Fish With Transparent Head

With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.

-http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/photo2.html

Jesus on the Driveway Illusion

What do a Virginia driveway and the Shroud of Turin have in common? Both are said to have an image of Jesus Christ. Of course the shroud is priceless; the driveway image, on the other hand, fetched more than $1,500 on eBay.

Double Meaning Illusions

Good/Evil

Teach/Learn

Optical/Illusion

Funny Dental Implant Insurance Ad

Karstadt Quelle Insurance is making the best use of bowling lanes by advertising its dental coverage. When a bowling ball hits the pins it look like teeth being knocked out.

Artwork With Pencils - 2

Checkout the previous Artwork With Pencils-1

The Operating Table illusion

Most people will see that the top platform tilts down to the right side . In reality, both the rectangles are completely horizontal . The diagonal lines fool our eyes.

Green Heart Optical Illusion

Just re-posted this heart illusion for this valentine's.Checkout its amazing.

Stare steadily at the dot in the heart for 30 seconds, then look at a piece of white paper. A faint Red heart surrounded by a bluish outline should mysteriously appear on the paper.

This is called an aftereffect. Staring at the heart overstimulates your eyes' photoreceptors, which are what absorb the light that stimulates vision. So even after you look away from the image, your brain is still receiving messages about it. What you end up seeing are called complementary colors. Red and blue are complementary colors of green and yellow.
- Al Seckel

Transparent PSP Billboards

We've seen the transparent laptop display, now check out a host of creative PSP billboards created using the same editing technique. Surprisingly, these were not made by Sony, but rather a PSP fan

The Michelin Man Cloud Illusion

Bibendum (The Michelin Man) Photographed over Esbjerg, Denmark.

-Eve of Melbourne.

Disappearing Color Box Illusion

Keep staring at the black dot in the middle of the image for sometime and you will see the light blue colored box getting disappeared and getting mixed up with the Gray Part.Please post the detailed reason on this,i'll be thankful.

Obama's Duplicate

Now this is not an illusion (O.o),Ilham Anas is a 34-year-old photographer who has become famous for looking like Barack Obama, the new president of the United States of America.

Ilham Anas has become quite a celebrity in his home country of Indonesia and he now makes most of his money from appearing on various TV shows and posing as Barack Obama.