perspective

The world isn't always straight forward. Sometimes you're looking at it from the side, or some other angle that obscures your view of someone's face. It's these illusions of eye-defying double-takery that can make us go "waaahhh" while trying to figure out if that's a dog or a boat. Foreground be damned, doubletake inducing photos of skewed perspective are here to stay.

In St. Louis, lawyers Mark and Particia McCloskey found themselves once again a viral couple on the internet, but this time for slightly different reasons. Last time, people were amazed by their meticulous restoration of their mansion to it's former glory. This time, during nationwide protests seeking significant change, the couple caught the ire of Twitter and the internet overall. It spawned both an intense discourse, and a lot of great memes.

Further videos showed the protesters entered a private community without permission, so the situation is not all that it seems. In the context of what happened, it is more understandable that these homeowners, who spent years restoring their house to it's former glory, might overreact. 

What do you think should have happened? Who is in the right here? 

One internet artist gave us a real perspective at what the planets would look like if they were as close as the moon. Can you imagine taking a selfie with Saturn in the background? Or taking a SpaceX weekend ride to Pluto? Whatever the case these visuals are simply incredible.

Life is pretty easy for a lot of us netizens. These daft first world problems may be helpful in bringing some perspective to your charmed little lives. Maybe seeing how ridiculous our anxieties are will help you next time you find yourself sweating when your phone dips to 20%. 

It turns out your brain is dumber than you thought.

These mind-bending optical illusions were chanced upon when someone was at the right place at the right time.

"Take me down, to double-take city where the grass looks weird and the trees are itty bitty."  

Anyway, make sure to do some brain push-ups and eye stretches so they can be fully prepared for these real-life optical illusions.

Warm up your eye muscles and mix up some pre-workout. It's not photoshop, it all might see impossible, but it's all perspective. You may find yourself double-taking all over the place while looking at these real-life optical illusions. And if your in the mood to strain your eyeballs some more, then check out these pics over here.

What exactly are we looking at here? Is that a cow or a pancake? Holy crap it's a couch.

Nothing is exactly as it seems. Stuff blending into other stuff, stuff looking out of proportion, and other stuff that just seems...wrong. Navigating the off-ness, is like push-ups for your eyes. If you wanna see more pics of skewed perspective, then check these out.

Keep your eyes sharp or you'll be double-taking all over the place on account of these real life optical illusions.

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