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Underwater Sculpture Park

January 14, 2008 admin 5 comments

This Underwater Sculpture Park in simply amazing, these pieces were all created on land and taken down about 4-6m to their underwater resting place divers and snorkelers to see. This is a creative twist on an art gallery! Jason Taylor is the master mind behind these under water sculptures. Jason has gained international recognition for his art work in using it to help build an artificial underwater reef. I hope to visit these in person some time, I just got my Diving certification last summer! Aside from being side tracked enjoy this magnificent underwater art gallery!

Underwater statue office worker, poor guys is typing at his desk till the bitter end!

Underwater statue of an office worker at his desk

Statue before it is taken down to its underwater resting place

artwork underwater

Underwater lady statue surrounded by fish

Underwater Face sculpture

Statue of Women laying on the ocean floor

Underwater statues laying on the ocean floor

Underwater circle of children

Underwater children statues

underwater art faces

Underwater Mask art

14 Perfect Shot Photography Illusions

January 13, 2008 admin 3 comments

14 Perfect Shot Photography Illusions is a collections of some of the most creative shots on the internet, some photographs were planned while others were just the right spot at the right time. Manny of these make great optical illusions, or at least get a second take. In this photography optical illusion gallery timing is everything! Enjoy this spectacular gallery, and be sure to keep on submitting!

Talk about stretch armstrong, that soccer player has to have the worlds longest arm.

Everybody Legs up! now this is kinda of a crazy coincident, even the dogs are joining in!

Headless ice figure skater, just the right angle to catch this show, the poor girl is headless.

Headless man and statue, now this is one is a another crazy coincident, not just that the man is headless in those but the statue is as well!

Headless Mirror Man, kind of a neat shot,the mirror is a nice touch to make it looks like both hands are out there.

Now we have all seen the commercials of the lamp heads, this is proof they do exist!

That is one tall man, this is a perfectly light up reflection of the bottom half of another man at just the right second to line the two up.

Awe such a pretty picture, they got the perfect shot of her in that magazine!

This man is Kicking over the leaning tower of pizza!

Sniper cat, this is one cat you don
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4 Feet from Death!

January 12, 2008 admin 3 comments

4 Feet from Death is a Floating In Air optical Illusion is some pretty Incredible Photography. Have you ever seen such a crazy picture, the guy is levitating inches above the street, or captured as they fall to their death! This is also known as freeze frame photography, the photo is taken at a super fast shutter speed that freezes motion in time. Each one of these artists took a slightly different approach to the shot, using still freeze frames as well as video; In the end they all turned out spectacular!!

Free Fall in Paris Optical Illusion
The above photo was shot in Paris, I’m not sure about the others.

Free Fall Freeze Frame Photography

Falling off a building freeze frame optical illusion

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Walking Under Water Optical Illusion

January 11, 2008 admin 3 comments

This is a neat Walking Under Water Optical Illusion, its been a fantasy of most people to be able to walk under water and be able to hang out with the fish and the dolphins. The people in the pictures below dont have weights on there feet and hidden scuba tanks 😛
This Under Water illusion was created by having a large sheet of glass with a few feet of water on top of it, from the surface it looks like its a pool full of water. On the under side there is a tunnel leading to the dry open area for people to freely wonder with out risk of drowning! Its a neat effect no matter what side of the water you are on.

Walking Under Water Optical Illusion

Standing Under Water

Under Water Looking up

under water optical illusion

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Miniature City Optical Illusion

January 8, 2008 admin 3 comments

This is a very cool camera effect. The pictures below appear to be a city built of miniatures or replica models. In fact they are all real pictures of the actual places. The first one is the Roman Colosseum, the second is the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, followed by a Soccer filed, , Colosseum, tanker boat, and a shot of Hover Dam. This Effect is done by using a tilt-frame camera, this normally allows wide angle views to be captured in normal perspective; when used incorrectly it creates this miniature optical illusion. We see this a miniatures due to the fact of how the eye focus on close up items, the camera gives the same effect as the eye would perceive if the images were close ups. These amazing photos were taken by Olivo Barbieri.

Rome Colosseum Illusion

Luxor Hotel Las Vegas Optical Illusion

Tiny tanker boar optical illusion

Miniature skyscraper optical illusion
Miniature Highway Illusion

Miniature Colosseum
Miniature Soccer Filed Optical Illusion

Rome Aqueducts Illusion

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Painted Electrical Box Optical Illusion

January 2, 2008 admin Leave a comment

These Painted Electrical Boxes are a great Optical Illusion. They are much nicer to look at then a big grey electrical box. The first is of a book shelve with the shadows it looks quite real from a distance. The second is a cute little cat chasing a butterfly through a window. The third is a giant fish tank! Little Nemo would be proud! The last is Birds on a wire through some sort of a window, for the most part that birds look somewhat real except for the last guy on the right.. he looks fairly cartoonish. In the end They are alot nicer then a regular gray electrical box.

Book Shelve Painted Electrical Box

Book Shelve Painted Electrical Box Illusion

Book Shelve Painted onto an Electrical Box
Cat in window painted onto Electricl Box

Cat in window painted onto Electricl Box illusion

Fish Tank Painted Electrical Box

Painted Fish on Electrical Box

Painted Birds on Electrical Box

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Hollow Face Optical Illusion

December 26, 2007 admin 2 comments

The Hollow Face illusion is created by taking a inverted mold of a sculpture. The faces appear to be pushed out but are actually concave. When you look at it, it would be like looking into a mask except with this illusion it appears to be always facing you. The shadows shift in the mold as you move around it giving it a 3d appearance and its appears to follow you as you move around the room. It can be kinda creepy how it is always staring directly at you no matter where you are.
The first image was taken from an art show in Berlin Germany
Hollow Face Optical Illusion

The second is a mask of a swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg, this one is located in Uppsala University, Sweden.
Hollow Face Illusion

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3D Room Optical Illusion

December 25, 2007 admin 4 comments

These 3D Room Optical Illusions are a very cool effect. When viewed from the right angle they produce amazing visual effects. These designs are generally created using light to portray the image across the many surfaces. They can then be painted using the light/shadows as a guideline of where to paint.

These are spectacular illusions and can be done on any surface in and any area. I have seen them on harbors, rooms, city blocks ect. Enjoy

3D room 9

3D room 8

3D room 10
3D room 13

Rotating Building Illusion

December 19, 2007 admin 4 comments

The Rotating Building Illusion is a spectacular piece of artwork created by Richard Wilson, One of the top sculptures in Britain. His latest work is called Turning the place over, This project is a section of a building cut out and rotated on a pivot. This piece of art was not cheap at a cost of

Rotating Building Illusion

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10 Amazing Tree Optical Illusions

December 8, 2007 admin 12 comments

These 10 Amazing Tree Optical Illusions are some of the coolest trees I have ever seen! Every once in a while you see tress with an anomalies that make it grow in a strange manner. Some of these anomalies are influenced by man while others are just spectacular artworks of nature. Tree brances can be altered by applying a force and causing it go grow around something, or by directing the light source; Trees always grow towards the light.

Either 10 tress are nothing less than amazing, mother nature is just giving us all a little eye candy.

The first tree has a bike through the middle of it, this would of been cause over many years from a as the tree grew around the bicycle.

Amazing Bike Tree optical illusion
This Tree has grown as a giant column with a very interesting intricate design through the stump.

Amazing Column Tree Optical Illusion

This Split tree has to be one of the most amazing ones i have ever seen, it hast to been influenced by man, the arms are to perfectly equal, and for it to connect back up with it self.. super neat though!
Amazing Split Tree Optical Illusion