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Follow the link and the directions there. This is crazy!
Follow the link and the directions there. This is crazy!
Coolest Illusion I've Ever Seen!
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Wow, that was neat!
I really enjoy these mind teasers.
While on a summer trip to Martha's Vineyard I met an artist who creates these things. What amazed me was how he was able to have the vision in his mind and bring it to everyone else through his hands.
After talking for a while he asked if my girlfriend and I would be interested in having dinner at his house. His house is on my top ten list of the most beautiful houses I have ever been in. It is also number one on my list of the most unique houses I have ever visited.
He built this house himself over a 10 year period at a cost of nearly 15 million dollars. In the center of the house was a spiral stair case four stories tall up to his studio overlooking the ocean. The hand rail for the stair case was ONE solid piece of oak steamed and twisted to fit perfectly. He steamed and bent the wood over a Five year period and screwed it down through the skylight opening at the top of the stairwell. Every inch of this guys house had this type of hands on attention to detail.
The entire dinning room floor is made from 3 inch sections of tree trunks or branches right down to a millimeter in diameter. All set on end to reveal the rings in the wood. He then sanded them smooth and epoxy coated the entire floor. Very impressive even if they were randomly set, but each section of the floor had some sort of innuendo. For instance one section had a large cherry trunk piece about 18 inches in diameter with a small crack in it. All around it was smaller sperm shaped limbs in maple which appeared to be swimming in the epoxy towards the cherry trunk piece. Amazing!
In his studio hung many of his original pieces covering every inch of all four walls where there wasn't any glass. Looking at any wall straight on the art would appear stationary and one dimensional, BUT both walls in my peripheral vision the art work would be sliding, tumbling, or moving in some manner. When I shifted my vision to the moving art work it would stop and the art work in my new peripheral vision would start to move. What a mind screw!!
While on a summer trip to Martha's Vineyard I met an artist who creates these things. What amazed me was how he was able to have the vision in his mind and bring it to everyone else through his hands.
After talking for a while he asked if my girlfriend and I would be interested in having dinner at his house. His house is on my top ten list of the most beautiful houses I have ever been in. It is also number one on my list of the most unique houses I have ever visited.
He built this house himself over a 10 year period at a cost of nearly 15 million dollars. In the center of the house was a spiral stair case four stories tall up to his studio overlooking the ocean. The hand rail for the stair case was ONE solid piece of oak steamed and twisted to fit perfectly. He steamed and bent the wood over a Five year period and screwed it down through the skylight opening at the top of the stairwell. Every inch of this guys house had this type of hands on attention to detail.
The entire dinning room floor is made from 3 inch sections of tree trunks or branches right down to a millimeter in diameter. All set on end to reveal the rings in the wood. He then sanded them smooth and epoxy coated the entire floor. Very impressive even if they were randomly set, but each section of the floor had some sort of innuendo. For instance one section had a large cherry trunk piece about 18 inches in diameter with a small crack in it. All around it was smaller sperm shaped limbs in maple which appeared to be swimming in the epoxy towards the cherry trunk piece. Amazing!
In his studio hung many of his original pieces covering every inch of all four walls where there wasn't any glass. Looking at any wall straight on the art would appear stationary and one dimensional, BUT both walls in my peripheral vision the art work would be sliding, tumbling, or moving in some manner. When I shifted my vision to the moving art work it would stop and the art work in my new peripheral vision would start to move. What a mind screw!!
Steveny, that guys house would be a nightmare to be drunk in! Imagine trying to regain focus and balance and then you have pictures in your peripheral vision flying all over the place! :biggrin:
Sounds very cool though!
Sounds very cool though!
splitz said:
They spend too much time in front of a computer all day. :wink:
It is VERY cool.
Mark
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White92 said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
I like that one.. that was fun.. i tried staring REALLY hard... and some how when i broke my concentration i started seeing a trail of green circles past the pink circle... i think i may have damaged the brain.. 
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splitz said:
I would have guess Art students with too much spare time...
