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Upside Down Faces

February 16, 2009 - 72,643 views

We got this by email a while ago and we never got around to publishing it. These are some very funny and pretty unusual pictures – two faces in one. I’m presuming these are quite old.

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Author: Rex Whistler (thanks GreatAssGoblin)

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51 Responses to “Upside Down Faces”

  1. cjsavvy on February 16th, 2009 4:29 pm

    Fucking creepy stuff!

  2. bonez565 on February 16th, 2009 8:06 pm

    Awesome and talented artwork that takes an impressive level of skill in order to make the face make sense in both orientations.

  3. Jessica on February 16th, 2009 8:31 pm

    I love them!!

  4. GreatAssGoblin on February 16th, 2009 8:38 pm

    These are all done by Rex Whistler. I don’t think there is an official online source for his work.

  5. Timmy on February 17th, 2009 12:41 am

    …The third and last ones are duplicates…

  6. Jokesboy on February 17th, 2009 10:40 am

    The second and the 8th one are perfect, others don’t look perfect faces.

  7. agghtea on February 17th, 2009 11:32 am

    @GreatAssGoblin (!)

    Hardley Google Magic for these:
    http://www.rexwhistler.com/

    and (obviously…):

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Whistler

    I know wiki is cheating but it has links to Creative Commons books which you can get hold of!

  8. David Sisley on February 17th, 2009 5:28 pm

    Awesome, Impressive, This level of work takes a great deal of skill in order to make the faces make sense in both orientations.

  9. d3NieD on February 17th, 2009 6:51 pm

    Genius… These drawings are amazing :0) Well done !

  10. tmtnsc on February 17th, 2009 7:26 pm

    god! damn it! they are amazing, i wish i got a chance to take a look other pictures of whoever drew those

  11. ryan on February 17th, 2009 11:05 pm

    I love pictures and paintings like those. The skill it takes to create the perspectives in mind boggling.

  12. wawawewa on February 18th, 2009 8:17 am

    SHOPPED!!

  13. Trent on February 18th, 2009 9:43 am

    wawawewa, enlighten me and tell me how someone would photoshop something like that? I had an artist come into my call once and show us one he’d done. Sure, it wasn’t as amazing as these, but it was the same thing. Are you saying he shopped it too? And woo! Congrats to the person who made these! It must take a lot of work, time and imagination to do this.

  14. ferdek on February 18th, 2009 10:24 am

    poryte

  15. Guffin Mopes on February 18th, 2009 4:30 pm

    Very cool stuff, I’ve only ever seen the one popular “optical illusion” one before.

    Bookmarked and stumbled.

  16. juanma on February 18th, 2009 10:55 pm

    There is more than one repeated.

  17. MaX on February 20th, 2009 11:27 am

    lol, Nice job

  18. Newsbreaker on February 20th, 2009 5:08 pm

    This is obviously photoshopped. any amateur who has used photoshop can see that the shades are all wrong

  19. Content Writing on February 21st, 2009 8:44 am

    great images thanks for sharing!!!

  20. Brogol on February 23rd, 2009 3:05 am

    I love the concept. :D
    Here my modest work on a Upside Down Face:
    Upside here
    and down here

  21. blah on February 23rd, 2009 8:22 pm

    These are very cool, but I wanted to let you know that the lame-ass comments about more that one being repeated have been repeated.

  22. Jeff on February 24th, 2009 12:50 am

    It appears to me that some “children” commenting on these have never actually picked up a pencil and tried to draw something on actual paper. Put down the xbox controller and turn off the computer and actually try to teach yourselves how to do something creative, there is a whole other world out there that’s called “reality”.

  23. Clubit.tv on February 25th, 2009 3:32 pm

    Amazing! very amazing

  24. fish tank aquariums on February 26th, 2009 7:21 am

    I’ve always been very impressed by the people who come up with this art.

  25. short&stout on February 27th, 2009 10:53 pm

    Shut your spout !

  26. Alex on February 28th, 2009 4:17 am

    Thank you thank you thank you GreatAssGoblin!!!! my grandfather gave me an illustration art book more than 2 decades ago when I was very little, due its bad condition there was no info about the authors so It was always a mystery for me who drew those pictures. Again Thank you!

  27. sir jorge on March 14th, 2009 5:39 am

    those are incredible, wow, those are just cool

  28. Dennis on March 14th, 2009 8:01 am

    Funny, the third face (first on the second panel) looks just like a friend of mine down the road from my place. I will have to show him.

  29. MegaFill on May 11th, 2009 5:11 pm

    Oh, My child love this picture! I bought him 3 book like this ;)

  30. Jordan on June 10th, 2009 9:39 pm

    Wow, this is really cool!

  31. Креатив on June 20th, 2009 3:34 pm

    lol) We wont more pic!

  32. Amy on July 9th, 2009 1:05 am

    Pretty wicked upside down faces! :)

  33. Mike on July 25th, 2009 8:09 am

    This type of art is so creative. It takes a special kind of person that can look at things just a little differently then the rest of us. Carry on, good job!

  34. Tony ArtFanatic on August 31st, 2009 6:29 pm

    Hi all, just thought I’d bring it to your attention these photos are not hand drawn. Every artist who is up to date ‘on the scene’ can tell you these have been photoshopped by computer programs running experiments on human face recognition and also symmetries. The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Federal Institute of Technology pioneered the work where the only coding the computers had were designed to adapt and rewrite itself to improve symmetric relationships between images it was shown and this is what it came up with!

  35. Theotherwhistler on October 30th, 2009 5:00 pm

    It’s great that you like this work (I was brought up on the upside-down faces!) but I’m afraid all these images are still in copyright, controlled by DACS. http://www.dacs.org.uk/

    I laughed at Tony ArtFanatic’s message. Just because The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Federal Institute of Technology has caught on doesn’t mean an artist couldn’t have done it without them! There are ways and ways of being ‘on the scene’, and one of them is to check your facts.

  36. Jordan on November 13th, 2009 6:55 pm

    I swear i had to bend over backwards to see some of these. This is just great! The minds eye that created them is so sophisticated.

  37. Руслан Соколов on February 6th, 2010 8:57 am

    Отличный сайт! Если необходимо убить пару-тройку часов – вам сюда :)

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