Canada’s Incredible Shrinking Mill Optical Illusion
The Shrinking Mill of Port Colborne, in Ontario, Canada, is an intriguing optical illusion that makes a giant grain elevator shrink the closer you get to it. Usually, things tend to appear smaller in the distance and grow in size the closer you get to them, but that rule does not apply to the grain […]
Mirrored Ceiling Makes Bookstore Look Like an Infinite Library
Dujiangyan Zhongshuge, a bookstore in Dujiangyan, China, relies on strategically placed mirrors and gleaming black tile floor to create a stunning illusion that makes the place look like an infinite bookworm’s paradise. The roughly 10,500-square-foot bookshop was designed by Li Xiang, founder of Shanghai-based architecture studio X+Living, and inaugurated in the Fall of 2020. Using […]
Costa Rica’s Turquoise River – A Natural Optical Illusion
Up until four years ago, Rio Celeste, a 14-kilometer river in Costa Rica’s Alajuela province, was a complete mystery to scientists, who could not understand why its waters had an unusual turquoise color. And then they realized that it wasn’t turquoise at all. Theories regarding the turquoise color of Rio Celeste had been circulating in the scientific community […]
Cleverly Designed T-Shirt Can Give Anyone an Ample Bosom
ekoD Works, a Japanese fashion company that specializes in “humorous art and design”, has recently unveiled an optical illusion t-shirt that can give anyone a busty chest. The Illusion Grid t-shirt uses distortion and clever shading to manipulate perspective and make anyone looking at it from the front believe that they are staring at two large, […]
Talented Makeup Artist Turns Model into a Living Painting
A 22-year-old French makeup artist recently caused quite a lot of dropped jaws on Twitter with a set of photos of a “painting” whose protagonist turned out to be a living, breathing model. I don’t know if that opening line made any sense to you (probably not), but what 22-year-old Kenza managed to do is best explained in […]