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Art Student Paints a Car Invisible

A design student made a battered old Skoda "disappear" by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park., including a video for all you sceptics who didn't believe the photo. picked by lkrofct 7 months ago

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11	joeyneut...

7 months ago

An excellent example of projective geometry.

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bingo

7 months ago

http://www.plime.com/l/111398/1/

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31	kerobero...

7 months ago

Like Suckersklub said... where are the how-to images?

Until those can be produced, it's photoshoped...

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37	hoosker

7 months ago

I believe it's real.

but I love the skepticism, I would have probably been the skeptic had you guy not already been the skeptics...now I have to settle for being the Contrarian.

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sofsr

7 months ago

I'd say it's real too. Aside from it being reported by the BBC, the bumper actually looks painted. It's a different color than the rest of the gravel (more bluish), and the yellow lines are much brighter and less faded on the car than off of it. It definitely looks like paint to me.

And I think one of the reasons you don't see it from a different angle is that the illusion probably doesn't hold up from another angle.

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23	bernardb...

7 months ago

I'm sure it is real - it was also used for part of her school exam.

It isn't that hard to do. Similar things have been done before with clothing.

It is an illusion that works from one particular angle with the right lighting.

A nod to the photographer who should be given part of the credit for this effect.

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16	tgkprog

7 months ago

simple idea - very cool. though am sure not simple to execute.

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31	sykeo56

7 months ago

I believe its real, I just want to see a photo of it from a different angle. It's like the guy that does the 3d street art. The photos are almost always from the perfect angle. I want to see how screwed up it looks from any other angle.

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36	suckersk...

7 months ago

« suckersklub : So until someone provides me with a different perspective shot of the car, I'll say "shopped". I'm aware of the fact it is perfectly possible to achieve the effect pictured above by applying a projected perspective view paint (or adhesive film) to the car, but it would be incredibly difficult to work with a complex shape like a car. Furthermore, it would probably take very, very long (painting it as well as applying a print) - long enough to result in significant changes to weather/lighting etc. You'd just have to be too lucky to get conditions matching the original photo you took.
I simply cannot believe that someone would go through all this effort and get that much media coverage without ever taking/leaking a "making of" photo.

Prove me wrong, please. I googled.

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Behold my invisible coffee mug. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic from a different angle. Go figure.

The fact that is has been reported by the BBC doesn't add anything to its credibility. The BBC picked it up because everyone did. Hundreds of websites published the same single shot plus 1 or two variations - all are obviously provided by the artist herself. I stick to my theory that it would have been an extremely difficult task that would have taken incredibly long to complete, and that somebody always takes photos on their cellphone and posts them online - especially if they're a student and get worldwide media coverage. It's a clever self-marketing thing by said student (and you know how f**ked-up art schools are; they'd probably accept the media circus about this students photo for her final thesis or something).

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52	pocksuck...

7 months ago

« suckersklub : The fact that is has been reported by the BBC doesn't add anything to its credibility. The BBC picked it up because everyone did. Hundreds of websites published the same single shot plus 1 or two variations - all are obviously provided by the artist herself. I stick to my theory that it would have been an extremely difficult task that would have taken incredibly long to complete, and that somebody always takes photos on their cellphone and posts them online - especially if they're a student and get worldwide media coverage. It's a clever self-marketing thing by said student (and you know how f**ked-up art schools are; they'd probably accept the media circus about this students photo for her final thesis or something).

You really should click on the link and watch the video.

I know it's patently obvious that no-one who commented (with the possible exceptions of Joeyneutrino and Bingo) actually bothered to look before casting aspersions, but I responded to yours as you'd put the most effort into it.

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21	jhordie

7 months ago

^^ I was about to say the same thing. Pretty much clarifies that it's for real.

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