Upside Down Faces
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.
Author: Rex Whistler (thanks GreatAssGoblin)
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- cjsavvy2009-02-16 16:29:38
Fucking creepy stuff!
- bonez5652009-02-16 20:06:18
Awesome and talented artwork that takes an impressive level of skill in order to make the face make sense in both orientations.
- Jessica2009-02-16 20:31:12
I love them!!
- GreatAssGoblin2009-02-16 20:38:36
These are all done by Rex Whistler. I don't think there is an official online source for his work.
- agghtea2009-02-17 11:32:12
@GreatAssGoblin (!) Hardley Google Magic for these: 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!
- David Sisley2009-02-17 17:28:48
Awesome, Impressive, This level of work takes a great deal of skill in order to make the faces make sense in both orientations.
- d3NieD2009-02-17 18:51:38
Genius... These drawings are amazing :0) Well done !
- tmtnsc2009-02-17 19:26:17
god! damn it! they are amazing, i wish i got a chance to take a look other pictures of whoever drew those
- ryan2009-02-17 23:05:05
I love pictures and paintings like those. The skill it takes to create the perspectives in mind boggling.
- wawawewa2009-02-18 08:17:25
SHOPPED!!
- Trent2009-02-18 09:43:27
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.
- ferdek2009-02-18 10:24:21
poryte
- Guffin Mopes2009-02-18 16:30:51
Very cool stuff, I've only ever seen the one popular "optical illusion" one before. Bookmarked and stumbled.
- juanma2009-02-18 22:55:45
There is more than one repeated.
- MaX2009-02-20 11:27:43
lol, Nice job
- Newsbreaker2009-02-20 17:08:05
This is obviously photoshopped. any amateur who has used photoshop can see that the shades are all wrong
- Brogol2009-02-23 03:05:36
I love the concept. :D Here my modest work on a Upside Down Face: Upside here and down here
- blah2009-02-23 20:22:07
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.
- Jeff2009-02-24 00:50:27
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".
- Clubit.tv2009-02-25 15:32:10
Amazing! very amazing
- fish tank aquariums2009-02-26 07:21:20
I've always been very impressed by the people who come up with this art.
- short&stout2009-02-27 22:53:54
Shut your spout !
- Alex2009-02-28 04:17:14
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!
- Dennis2009-03-14 08:01:29
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.
- Mike2009-07-25 08:09:03
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!
- Tony ArtFanatic2009-08-31 18:29:32
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!
- Theotherwhistler2009-10-30 17:00:16
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.
- Jordan2009-11-13 18:55:43
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.
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- meneame.net2009-02-18 17:30:58
Como los ambigramas, pero con caras... Un ambigrama es una palabra que admite dos lecturas distintas en función de si uno la lee al derecho o al revés. Si hacemos lo mismo con las caras, el resultado es algo parecido a esta colección de "ambicaras". Los dibujos son obra de Rex ...
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