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Surreal World: 14 Reality-Bending Mirror Art Installations

Cabins vanish into the landscape like a mirage, tiny rooms filled with stars somehow go on forever and treetops float in mid-air in these reality-distorting illusions made using mirrors. With ...

Invisible Borders: Mirrored Picket Fence Blurs the Lines

Mirrors typically represent a way of facing reality, but depending on where they're placed, they can bend it to the point of surreality instead. Take, for example, this invisible fence, a ...

Adventures of Double-Faced Girl: Surreal Photography Series

It's amazing what a few strokes of a black eyeliner can do - like create an unsettling optical illusion that makes it seem as if a girl has two faces. The 'Doublefaced' project by Sebastian ...

Pencil vs. Camera: Illusion Drawings Pop Off the Page

You might think artist Ben Heine has Photoshopped himself into his own pencil drawings, but he's actually standing on top of them. Much like the mind-bending optical illusions produced in chalk ...

Trick of the Light: 12 Shining Works of Holographic Art

Holograms suggest a depth and dimension that isn't really there, an illusion of matter in space that can range from a low-tech flickering image in a children's book to ghostly computer-generated ...

2D or Not 2D? Body Paint Illusion Makes Faces Look Flat

Three-dimensional human bodies are transformed to look like paintings on a flat surface in this curious collaboration between a makeup artist, a photographer and a retoucher. In his series Art of ...

Lenticular Street Art: Trick Graffiti Works only at Angles

You know what a lenticular image is, even if you've never heard the word. Applied to a rippled surface in a certain way, a lenticular image shifts in and out of focus depending on the angle you ...

Mind Your Step: Dizzying 3D Street Art Mural [Pics & Vids]

Pedestrians walking across a public square in Stockholm between June 7th-12th, 2011 dangled dangerously into a triangular sinkhole - or at least, it appeared that way, depending on where you were ...

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