These are a couple videos of artist Leandro Erlich’s ‘Seeing Is Not Believing’ exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. This particular piece involves a building facade the ground, with a giant mirror tilted above it at a 45-degree angle, so, when viewed in the mirror, visitors

This is an optical illusion of a ball appearing to roll up a little slide. Of course it isn’t actually rolling up a slide because it isn’t magic, it’s just a clever perspective trick (revealed in video). Me? I love playing tricks on my eyes. I also love playing tricks

This is a video of a little girl demonstrating some mind blowingly impressive hand dancing optical illusions. It took me several views to understand just what the hell was going on, and even then my mind was blown, but, FULL DISCLOSURE: that doesn’t take much. “I’ve had to block him

This is a video of ‘Stairway To Heaven’, a collaboration between South African artist Strijdom van der Merwe and Taiwanese artist Chou Sheng-hsien. From just the right angle, it looks like a three dimensional stairway reaching ever skyward. From almost every other angle, it looks like a flat ladder rising

To test whether cats can perceive optical illusions, this is a video of Scottish Shorthair cat Horisco interacting with a rug that appears to be a hole. So, can cats perceive optical illusions? Based on this video, not in the slightest. Granted this wasn’t the most scientific of all experiments,

This is a curved digital billboard above Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station that will display a giant cat optical illusion through the day, because that’s exactly what the world needs more of. I swear, Japan is always ahead of the curve. Some more info: According to TimeOut, “the cat will have its

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

The exact couch you don’t want to see when you have the spins, this is the Adaptation Sofa designed by Fabio Novembre for purveyor of luxury furniture Cappellini. It looks like it’s leaning but the actual seat cushions are flat across. Obviously, I call the far right seat with maximum