Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Kennedy International: Mobiusbiking!


Number Six in the Suzuki comes from in front to overtake the Yamaha and is clearly now behind and can only needs to stay in front to lose the race. Fantastic.

Thanks to anfa!

63 comments:

internalgrip said...

Haha, I'mc confused as well!

internalgrip said...

I'm*

Daniel said...

Wow, how creative to use the "infinite stairway" in this ad!

dow said...

I feel scared. Am I tripping?

robgs said...

What a mess! which bike is meant to be in the front? massive failure...

Judge Jordan said...

disasterous!

Belle Epoque said...

If you stare at it long enough you can see either an old lady or young woman.

Hacker said...

That has to take talent. Kudos to the 'shopper.

wv: anking, laterefi

K-Spin said...

M. C. Escher would be impressed, how didn't he thought in this kind of optical illusion!

leahcharlotte said...

Impressive. WV sums up what I've spent the last 5 minutes doing.

WV: squinten

Joanma Razepe said...

Hahahahahaha how the hell didnt they see that. hahahahahahah

VW: ishan

Susan Cook : Cirien Phoenix said...

Whoa....

Rebecca said...

This is making me nauseous.

tlonista said...

Oh please, my girlfriend can do that.

...what?

amandalikes said...

magic eye. but not.
who needs to take acid i can see into the past and the future and sideways just by looking into this image

Scott said...

its really terrible but also really beautiful at the same time. It so confusing...i bet if you look at it long enough it will turn into something completely different or have some kind of huge meaning...or just make you shake your head and laugh

Orangetiki said...

Forget the two racers, I couldn't get past that awful logo of a motorcycle made with simple vector shapes.

brazinglish said...

I'm with K-Spin here. Escher would be proud

Joe said...

There also seem to be two different suns, in addition to the Suzuki being beside and behind the Yamaha at the same time.

melydia said...

It's really the caption that's cracking me up this time.

Rebekah said...

My brain is broke.

Dino said...

As terrible as the layering/perspective is in this, it's absolutely brilliant!

It really messes with your mind.

Monii said...

AAAAAAAHhhhh..
I can look at this forever...

Can't believe it...

Not even the shadows match...

Ronsonic said...

This may not be a disaster, it may be brilliant. "We want guys racing, but we don't want to see either major sponsor getting beat by the other. You'll work it out."

amusedobserver said...

completely brilliant!

henke said...

I find it much worse that the bikes are obviously from different races. They are totally not a similar model.

Brett said...

I you planed to do this it would take forever

ÜberGroove said...

Whahah....Greetings to Escher

Pim Jager said...

If you would try to get this effect you would be messing around for days.

I'm very impressed. It's kinda nice actually in a very screwed up way.

thingsmymothersaid said...

MY EYES

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Ah, the genius of catastrophe.
They're probably racing around a Mobius strip too.

jimkeller24 said...

Very M.C. Escher-esque! If you look at it for a couple of minutes, you'll get really dizzy, it's kinda fun.

John T. Meche III said...

This thing is really messing with my eyes.

Miranda said...

...what kind of mushrooms were those in my omelet, again? Duuuuuuuuude. lol

Cat said...

My brain doesn't even feel like trying to work it out.

Barrette Plett said...

Obviously this is not a disaster. Let's be realistic here. What is clearly happening is that the #6 bike is winning. The only confusing thing is what appears to be the shadow of this bike behind #200. But that's easily explained. There are no shadows at all, since they are racing in pure multi-source (infinite-source?) light, and it just happens that both cycles are driving over dark patches on the road at this time, leading to this odd illusion.

morgedoid said...

who says he/she tried to comp the bikes? maybe they just wanted to show a couple bikes to give an idea of what goes on at the tracks and the images happened to fall way too close to each other. Yeah I think that's what happened.

wv : ingrac (iate)

morgedoid said...

I think he might have saved the day if he'd switched the bikes. #6 to the left and the other one to the right. That mita done it.

zora said...

that's racing in the restaurant at the end of the universe. it's both in the future AND the past.

Chris Howie said...

The longer I stare at the wheels of the bikes the more nauseated I feel. Literally, this pictures makes my body want to vomit.

Chris Howie said...

picture*

It's also making my brain's spelling part work much more not gooder.

Miq-Tak said...

I believe I have entered a new kind of space time. Thanks a bunch-I had a deadline today.

gabriel said...

Aaaaaaaaargh! It's lite a Necker cube, but with motorcycles! MY EYES!!!!!!!

"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."

kingmonkey said...

This was broadcast last Tuesday of next week, wasn't it?

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Oops, I do apologise for my previous comment- I hadn't noticed the post title.

litteratte said...

"Überholen ohne einzuholen"

Can´t be translated..

ewaffle said...

At first I thought "The more I look at it the worse it gets" but of course the image itself never gets better or worse, just the viewer's ability to process whatever the f*ck it is supposed to be.


VW: ingeste (which one would hope this image was, even tho...)

Mel said...

Now THAT'S a disaster!

Moonbrained Mare said...

My image-processing brain-meats have NO IDEA how to deal with this picture. I'm staring at it and it's just like
RED BIKE IN FRONT
BLACK BIKE IN FRONT
RED BIKE IN FRONT
BLACK BIKE IN FRONT
RED BIKE IN FRONT
And I'm like, brain! Get a grip! Lay off the caps! It can be both, okay? And my brain's like,
RED BIKE IN FRONT
BLACK BIKE IN FRONT
RED BIKE IN FRONT
BLACK BIKE IN FRONT

donovan said...

It's obvious what's going on here. The bottom half of #6 is clearly lagging behind #200, while the top half of #6 is winning.

Denzel said...

Forget the illusion. Where's bikes #7 to #199?

Furor Teutonicus said...

I have ridden and been around motorbikes my whole life. I can assure you I have never been IN a motorbike. ("in a Suzuki" as YOU write)

Should this not be titled "COMMENT on photoshop disaters disasters"?

Von Brandenburg-Preußen.

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Disaters you say?

Anthony le Bourlier said...

Maurits Cornelis Escher is back ...

abitchtarroza said...

wow. an optical illusion - or we're all on lsd.

rybaxs said...

hahaha! wooh.. i think the designer watching the clock, thinking for the deadline.

noordinator said...

MCE lives!

Dr. Superpitagórico said...

i knew escher was still alive

NorsonB said...

Come on, guys...

The pilot is MC Escher...

Gustavo said...

It's like a TRON scene under substance abuse.

Fletcher said...

This is clearly and intentionally and Escher effect. Who's winning? You can look at the photo forever and never know!

Peter said...

I love this one. It's like an
MC Escher.

cinnamongrrrl0 said...

This hurts my head!