20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind [W/PICTURES] | truthseekerdaily.com (TruthSeekerDaily) Viewer discretion advised! Do not scroll down unless your brain is made of steel and your nerves are made of teflon! Enjoy: The Warped Chair by Ibride Source: Dezeen Rubik’s tricky cube Source: brusspup A trippy non animated classic Source: Internet Waving beans Based upon the work of A. Optical illusion wallpaper Source: Krycha182 Rotating snakes Another trippy classic: Rollers Source: A. Anomalous motion illusion Source: A. A floating cube Source: brusspup An eye or a sink draining? Source: Redditor Liammm Which way is the wheel turning? Source: foto-jennic.com Peripheral vision turns stars into monsters Source: mbthompson.com Stare at the center of the image for 20 seconds, then look up at someone’s face Four circles. Cover the middle of the corridor and the animation speeds up; cover the sides and it slows down Our favorite optical trick from last year Animation is born on transparencies Source: brusspup This image won’t stop Source: BuzzFeed Do not smoke Source: greeenpro2009
Art as Therapy: Alain de Botton on the 7 Psychological Functions of Art by Maria Popova “Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.” The question of what art is has occupied humanity since the dawn of recorded history. For Tolstoy, the purpose of art was to provide a bridge of empathy between us and others, and for Anaïs Nin, a way to exorcise our emotional excess. But the highest achievement of art might be something that reconciles the two: a channel of empathy into our own psychology that lets us both exorcise and better understand our emotions — in other words, a form of therapy. In Art as Therapy (public library), philosopher Alain de Botton — who has previously examined such diverse and provocative subjects as why work doesn’t work, what education and the arts can learn from religion, and how to think more about sex — teams up with art historian John Armstrong to examine art’s most intimate purpose: its ability to mediate our psychological shortcomings and assuage our anxieties about imperfection. But these worries, they argue, are misguided.
A Different Reality “I’ve been drawing for as long as I remember myself. Both graphic design and digital art attract me, but recently I tend to commit to digital art more than anything else.” Alex Andreyev is an young artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. His artworks are surreal, very creative, inspiring and captivating. You can admire these amazing examples here, but do not forget to visit Alex’s website. ↑ Back to top Andre Amador's Playa Paintings are Sandy Works of Art If you live in San Francisco, California, then you may be lucky enough to come across the art of Andres Amador. He doesn't paint or sculpt. He prefers a medium that is temporary but absolutely beautiful: a sandy beach at low tide. He uses a rake to create works of art that can be bigger than 100,000 sq. ft. He spends hours creating these intricate masterpieces, knowing that the tide will soon come in and wash away his work forever. For Andres, his art is "more about the process and less about the result." He knows that it will all be temporary. While making his beach mural explorations, he uses a rope as a guide so that he can make the geometric patterns. When asked WHY he does it, Andre gives the best answer... "The unanswerable question! Consider yourself lucky if you happen to stumble across one of his playa paintings, because it won't be there long. By raking up the wet sand at low tide, he is able to make contrasting sand colors. He even offers his services, helping people propose.
Too beautiful to be real? 16 surreal landscapes found on Earth These bizarre locations may seem like a series of elaborate movie sets, but they are real destinations that you might want to see for yourself. Photo: Greg Mote/Flickr The Wave, Arizona, U.S. Photo: Shutterstock Travertines, Pamukkale, Turkey Photo: Shutterstock Photo: Shutterstock Red beach, Panjin, China Photo: Shutterstock Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia Photo: HopeHill/Flickr Dragon's blood trees, Socotra, Yemen Photo: Shutterstock Sossusvlei, Namibia Photo: Shutterstock Rice terraces, Bali, Indonesia Photo: Shutterstock Cappadocia, Anatolia, Turkey Photo: Tormod Sandtorv/Flickr Photo: Wenxiang Zheng/Flickr Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland, U.K. Photo: kobaken/Flickr Hitachi Seaside Park, Hitachinaka, Japan Photo: Shutterstock Giant Buddha, Leshan, China Photo: Shutterstock Tunnel of Love, Klevan, Ukraine Photo: Shutterstock Antelope Canyon, Arizona, U.S. Photo: Shutterstock Odle Mountains, Italy
Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish Welcome to rural Sweden, sometime in the late '80s. Citizens go about their mundane lives and children explore the countryside. But something isn't quite right. This is the world that exists in artist Simon Stålenhag's mind, and it's only accessible through his paintings. The artwork is impactful as a result of this juxtaposition between the harsh realities of life and the sci-fi technologies of our dreams. Simon Stålenhag used a Wacom tablet and pen to digitally paint the works below.
The Great Banyan Tree 20 Animated Gifs that Explain How Things Work If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an animated gif must be priceless! Below you will find a collection of simple and elegant animations that explain how various things work. From geometry to mechanics and everything in between, these animations help educate and explain how the world around us functions. Through these animations I hope you will have a greater appreciation for the ingenuity of humans and a newfound respect for the great thinkers and inventors throughout history. 1. 2. 3. A tablet press is a mechanical device that compresses powder into tablets of uniform size and weight. 4. The Walschaerts valve gear is a type of valve gear invented by Belgian railway mechanical engineer Egide Walschaerts in 1844 used to regulate the flow of steam to the pistons in Steam Engines. 5. In geometry, the tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron or cubic prism, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. 6. 7.
What Happens When You Zap Instant Film With 15,000 Volts | Wired Design Phillip Stearns is an artist who sees beauty where others see computer bugs. Phillip Stearns He collects images of artful computer abnormalities on his blog and has transformed images from fried cameras into tasteful home furnishings, but for his latest project called High Voltage, Stearns is experimenting with electricity and chemistry. Each image in this series is created by zapping Fujifilm instant color film with electricity produced by a transformer used to power neon signs. Stearns' process isn't exposing the film per se. The light from the sparks accounts for some of the bluish colors in the background of the shots, but the electrical "tree" structures, technically called Lichtenberg figures, are created when the electricity vaporizes the silver halides embedded in the film. He adds to the image by pouring liquids—bleach, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol—onto the film and arcing electricity through them which which adds chemical coloration. "Plasma.
Architecture and water Combine concrete structure with water are one of favorite tricks of many architects. Water Gardens and Fort Worth, United States Spillway of the reservoir in Armenia Aquarium in Berlin “Scientific barge” on the Hudson River in New York New Zealand House-cloud, Switzerland Fountain, France Cinema on the water, China Restaurant at the Villa Escudero Resort in San – Pablo, Philippines Hydropower plant in Germany