Midnight Media Cafe: Impossible Motion

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Magnet Slopes

Koukichi Sugihara of the Meiji Institute in Japan won
the 2010 Vision Sciences Society's Best Illusion of the Year
with this creation, a series of ramps that achieve an impossible effect.


In a packed concert hall, Kokichi Sugihara wields a pickaxe and mimes a blow to the stage. "I am a miner, and I have a secret," Sugihara says, adjusting his hard hat and headlamp. "I have discovered a new super-magnet."

A screen behind Sugihara begins playing a video....

I'm not going to describe what happens next. Watch the video. It will MESS WITH YOUR BRAIN.

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Okay, so is anyone else sick to death of the pseudo-word "veggie"? What is with this propensity for adults to talk like little kids? "Baby-daddy" is another one that makes me ill. "Mommy" is yet another, when used by anyone except children. Why does American culture enshrine the infantilization of language these days? What in the world could possibly be desirable about this??

Fucking HELL, I just want to slap the shit out of people sometimes.

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