This is a video of Jack Mack of appropriately named Jack Mack Woodturning producing a walnut bowl that appears to spin clockwise AND counterclockwise simultaneously. The illusion is made possible by adjusting the lathe’s RPM so it matches the frame rate of the camera. That’s cool, but with all those

This is a video detailing how contact lenses are manufactured at the DK Medivision factory. There’s nobody explaining what’s happening at any given moment, so you have to sort of figure it out on your own. You know, CREATE YOUR OWN NARRATIVE. From what I could gather, contacts are actually

This is a video of Youtuber The Avid Creator avidly creating a reproduction of M.C. Escher’s famous ‘Relativity’ lithograph, but in physical form using foam board. I only wish he’d included the human figures in the original image as well. I demand realism! Still, now now my head hurts from

Briefly keeping with the slow motion theme of the last post, this is a short clip of an eye drop being administered to a human eyeball. I bet that was refreshing. Now my own eyes feel all dry and sandpapery. I bet now yours do too. Of course this is

These are several optical illusions created by professor of engineering education and leadership at the University Of Texas, El Paso, David Novick. In each of the illusions all the balls are the same color, but appear not to be because your brain is trash and easily tricked. Now you see

This is a shot from what I assume is a Bed Bath & Beyond or similar store featuring a rack of coffee mugs that are trying to destroy my brain.  I’ve gone shopping for coffee mugs on numerous occasions and never experienced this sort of painful illusion before.  Why is