Friday, September 28, 2007

Face Illusions - Everywhere Around Us

Yup, that's right, if you just take a look around you, I'm sure you'll find them... they're all around us, all the time. Have you ever found yourself staring at one spot for more than 10 seconds? And noticed how that certain "something" you were staring at doesn't look so usual as it used to before? If you haven't, just try to use your imagination, the way you used to when you were a child and, yeah, you don't really have to be a child to find them ;) To prove I'm right, I'll show you how some real grown ups did it. We could call this some sort of coincidence, illusions and imagination mix.

























































(source of pictures: Flickr)

*Note: as mentioned before, all pictures were randomly collected from Flickr.com; if you want to see all pictures of people who made these incredible photos, please visit their personal galleries:

23 comments:

Watch TV Online said...

Great post
That house with the red roof was the scariest to me, it was almost too obvious as if it was planned that way.

Anonymous said...

its because we have a part of our brain dedicated to face recition.

Klaus said...

I *like* it. Does make me feel a bit like a kid again, despite being an old fart ;)

I especially like the house roof - never really seen it in this way...

Anonymous said...

The human brain has a huge amount of volume dedicated to recognizing faces, so pretty much anything we look at we try to frame as a face.

-Agronqui

Anonymous said...

So true. I've got curtain full of demon heads, which no one but me can see. Cheers

Anonymous said...

haha sweet man thats so true i do that all the time

Anonymous said...

the first thing the human brain tries to see is a human face that is why so many things appear as a face, if something looks vaugly like a face then that is the first thing you will see

Jack said...

What are these supposed to be pictures of? I saw an iron and some plugs...?

Anonymous said...

Man that roof gave me a salvia flashback.

Sly from Slyvisions.com said...

That was a very nice post! Those pictures really made me laugh for some reason.

Samuel gurudas said...

I think you would have seen everything as faces when you are compiling these images...

faces-22.jpg is awesome !

Thë Là¢ke¥ said...

OMG!! They're watching us!!

BuildAndSucceed said...

That's awesome. Thanks for the images. :)

Anonymous said...

the last one, the ash tray.
we have those at my college.

we (or I) refer to them as "Barry the Robot".

Barry? why?

because you put smokes out in his eyes. Bad News Bears.

bears, barry, nvrmnd.

TrinaryOuroboros said...

awesome, great work!

Eric said...

From looking at the photos on Flickr they are retain copywrite. if your going to use someones work you need to request permission and attribute the work to them not the site that they host their work on.

Chris said...

the bath image is great, really sad eyes...reminds me of A.I.

Lawsy said...

That house looks so sleepy, ha ha. This post really started my day off well! Thanks! :)

Anonymous said...

noooo loco flashie con toda la carita vo

Anonymous said...

I can't think of a single vertibrate on earch that doesn't have a face with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth below. Common ancestry?

Anonymous said...

I noticed this in my bathtub some years ago. Between the drain and the faucet is the spot for taking up water to prevent it from overflowing. The metal plate at the right angle, looked exactly like a face. I yellow spray painted the plate, and used black spray paint on the screws. It now looks like a smiley face.

Anonymous said...

Fascinating! I thought I was the only one who saw these kinds of things. I have a couple shots of my own in this category; I'd post them somewhere and give you a link if I could find them. :-p One of them is on my cell phone with no way to get it off 'cause I don't have Picture Mail... :-(

Anonymous said...

totally cool