CaliforniaMama Saturday Aug 11 01:38 PMAugust 11, 2012 - Cartoon from Space?
Imagine you are hiking along, headed up a hill and
when you look up you see a gigantic tissue floating
to the ground.
You close your eyes and shake your head, but when you
open them again it is still there, floating . . .
Wait, this can't be real. It certainly doesn't look real.
It looks like a drawing. How can a drawing be sitting
at top of the hill?
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As you approach, you realize it is made of metal.
It's a sculpture, made of welded and painted steel that
looks like a two dimensional cartoon drawing of a three
dimensional piece of paper ... that is three dimensional
if you get close, but looks two dimensional if you stay
at the bottom of the hill...
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Well, wasn't that a nice little mind trip?
Thanks to ZenGum for sharing this post from NPR's Krulwich Wonders blog.
Images and info taken from The Art of the Illusion which
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Presents over two hundred optical illusions that defy reality, featuring works by M.C. Escher, as well as pieces from Octavio Ocampo, Rob Gonsalves, and Andre Martins de Barros.
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DanaC Saturday Aug 11 01:50 PMThat's fucking brilliant.
Griff Saturday Aug 11 02:03 PMNice brain bender 3D as 2D.
SPUCK Sunday Aug 12 05:56 AMThat tears it..
Sundae Sunday Aug 12 11:20 AMJust FTR - this is in New Zealand.
Also known as that little place close to Australia where Lord of the Rings was filmed.
SPUCK Monday Aug 13 06:37 AMLord of what?
Griff Monday Aug 13 01:08 PM
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