I am a big fan of upside down art and here are three of my favourites….
turns into this….
Number two….
turns into….
Number three….
turns into….
What do you think? Which is your favourite?
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I am a big fan of upside down art and here are three of my favourites….
turns into this….
Number two….
turns into….
Number three….
turns into….
What do you think? Which is your favourite?
October 27, 2010 at 5:37 am |
NUMBER 2 IS A LIE
Flip it over! It looks nothing like that!
October 29, 2010 at 11:37 am
No. 2 is mirrored in stead of rotated.
October 29, 2010 at 11:37 am
And number 3 is very good!
October 27, 2010 at 5:38 am |
How is number two upside down? It looks like the eyes may have been there but the mouth and nose were drawn on after it was flipped. Not that impressive.
October 27, 2010 at 5:38 am |
That middle one is wrong.
October 27, 2010 at 5:38 am |
No. 2 isn’t right…?
October 27, 2010 at 5:39 am |
The is something very suspicious about number two. Those are definitely not upside-down versions of each other. The eyes have been flipped, but the mouth and nose are not the same.
October 27, 2010 at 5:40 am |
Ya, What they said…
October 27, 2010 at 5:41 am |
Number 2 is not the same drawing being turned over.
October 27, 2010 at 5:54 am |
*points up* What they all said.
#1 is my favourite.
October 27, 2010 at 6:05 am |
Both # 2 pictures can certainly be turned upside down and will still be men, but they are not the same picture. Drawn by the same artist and very close to being the same picture if put side by side the same way. The frown in both their foreheads becoming a mouth and the smile or mustache becoming a patch of hair on the forehead.
October 27, 2010 at 6:10 am |
So I’m not the only one who got suspicious about #2… Was that a test?
October 27, 2010 at 6:11 am |
This is so much easier in my iPhone than IT was on my desk top.
October 27, 2010 at 6:18 am |
Number 2 is fake. I like third one.
October 27, 2010 at 6:18 am |
Well I like brainteasers and puzzles. Whoever creates them surely has a master mind . That kind of art is what I really admire .
The above 3 pictures are amazing . I wonder how the artist could create such images !
http://www.iqtestexperts.com/puzzles.php
October 27, 2010 at 6:20 am |
i agree,number 2 does not work….its just flipped
October 27, 2010 at 6:21 am |
No. 2 is by far my favourite. A perfect example of this type of art!
*Waits for Dr. Wiseman to do a do a double-take.*
October 27, 2010 at 6:26 am |
What they said – no 2′s a fake.
October 27, 2010 at 6:38 am |
The third one’s my favourite. Like others, I spotted the false no. 2.
October 27, 2010 at 6:39 am |
My favourite is no 3.
October 27, 2010 at 6:44 am |
No. 1′s my favourite.
October 27, 2010 at 6:45 am |
Number 2 corrected!
October 27, 2010 at 6:49 am |
Number 2 is different on the RSS-feed compared to the website: the facial figures on the front (that turn into the mouth and nose when looked at upside down) are missing on the RSS but are present on the webside.
But I still like Number 3 more
October 27, 2010 at 6:50 am |
Sorry – Richard wiseman was faster than I was.
So now they are identical
October 27, 2010 at 7:15 am |
My favorite is No.3 , It looks like Indian.
October 27, 2010 at 7:44 am |
Last one is my favorite
October 27, 2010 at 7:54 am |
Haha, read all the comments about #2 and couldn’t figure out what was wrong until I saw that it had been changed. What was it like originally?
October 27, 2010 at 7:59 am |
No 2, I believe, displays reflected symmetry and not rotational as it should be. Easy mistake with most image manipulation software.
Not a fake as such, although I could be wrong… I have work to do so I cannot ‘save image’ and attempt it myself.
No 3 is brilliant. Lord Melchart from Blackadder, both ways up!
October 27, 2010 at 11:46 am
Same as 3rd one. It’s been mirrored instead of rotated. I just don’t know why everybody says that the 2nd one is fake! Ok, it’s been mirrored, but if you rotate it, it still works.
October 27, 2010 at 8:36 am |
I like number 1 best; is it meant to be Stalin turning into some old Russian tsar? Also, can someone post the fake number 2 on a web page, for us curious types? (It sounds like Banachek saved them and turned one of them upside down?)
October 27, 2010 at 11:45 pm
The first was created in Italy for the cover of this old book:
http://bit.ly/94lRMF
The cover says:
“ON THE POP(ULAR) FR(ONT)
Support the democratic front?
Turn upside and you’ll see the fraud.”
One side shows Giuseppe Garibaldi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi
the other side shows Stalin.
It was meant to show that Garibaldi’s political party was hiding a strongly communist ideology.
October 27, 2010 at 9:50 am |
The last one is most pleasing.
October 27, 2010 at 10:42 am |
I read some of the earlier comments and thought I was going mad…I couldn’t see any difference between the two images. Then I read that Richard had fixed it. Now I am curious as to what the original image looked like.
Anyway, number 3 is my favourite. It really does work as a face both ways.
October 27, 2010 at 11:18 am
My reaction was exactly the same as stickinsect’s.
October 27, 2010 at 11:40 am |
Number 3 is my favorite. Reading the comments i wondered for a while why number 2 was a fake, but it already was corrected….
October 27, 2010 at 12:02 pm |
Number three is my favourite because it has so much more detail than the rest rather than just spuriously adding lines to a face to make it look right both ways.
October 27, 2010 at 12:24 pm |
Number 3 is my favourite, I think both pictures look more like normal faces than 1 or 2.
October 27, 2010 at 1:18 pm |
Sorry but if I’m looking at them properly then #1 is the only real upside-down. #2 & #3 are both flips or mirrors depending on the definition.
But the #2 & #3 are good and #1 is not that great, it is too ‘busy’ with all the lines.
October 27, 2010 at 2:21 pm |
The Princess that turns into an old lady is better then these
October 27, 2010 at 3:14 pm |
Did any other commuters spot Richard in this morning’s London Metro?
October 27, 2010 at 4:37 pm |
Pointless, and a little insulting.
October 27, 2010 at 4:42 pm
huh?!
October 27, 2010 at 5:32 pm |
the last one is my favorite
October 27, 2010 at 6:53 pm |
I like the third one best because it parses the best both ways.
Also apparently writing a comment in umop-apisdn speak ends up getting flagged as spam, or something.
October 27, 2010 at 8:46 pm |
I like one and three most because the eyes on the faces are in different parts of the picture depending on which way you look at it. Number 2 has the same pair of eyes either way up.
I think it’s clever how the artist has hidden an extra pair of eyes in 1 and 3 that you really have to look for.
October 28, 2010 at 2:02 am
I like number 2 for the same reason, on with noses. In 1 and 3, the nose is the same bit in each. With 2, the nose is cleverly hidden.
October 28, 2010 at 12:25 am |
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October 28, 2010 at 2:42 am |
Like number three the most.
October 28, 2010 at 1:05 pm |
Number one didn’t work for me. I just see an upside-down Stalin.
October 28, 2010 at 2:26 pm |
I wish my face was like this, so that when I did a handstand, I’d still have a facial expression.
October 28, 2010 at 2:42 pm |
Check this out!
Upside down to the max: Gustave Verbeek’s “The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo”
October 28, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Sry for replying to my own post, but found this site concerning Gustave Verbeek:
http://www.barnaclepress.com/list.php?directory=OldManMuffaroo
The intellectual challenges here are huge. Not only can you flip the page and continue to read on, the storyline continues flawless.
October 31, 2010 at 4:16 pm |
I love these
November 6, 2010 at 8:39 pm |
I think the third pair’s second photo’s eyes are more realistic…
November 26, 2010 at 2:20 pm |
Number three. Definitely.
December 15, 2010 at 5:01 pm |
See the fantastic Upside-Down Artwork of L. R. Emerson II at http://www.e4fineart.com.
Emerson has been creating upside-down works for over 25 years and was recetly recognized by acclaimed artist Georg Baselitz who remarked “inspiring” about Emerson’s art. Emerson’s work was shared with major Museums and Galleries accross the globe in 2005.