Here is a mask of Charlie Chaplin that rotates. Notice that, no matter how hard you try, the hollow and concave rear of the mask eventually becomes a convex golden face that spins counterclockwise. Pretty cool, give it a try:

The puzzle ‘Captured in the Forest‘ (just prior to this post) reminds me somewhat of this earlier brain teaser, ‘A fork in the road

Alcohol’s toxic effect on the brain is readily communicated by this MRI scan comparing a normal brain to that of an alcoholic:

As you can see, the alcoholic brain on the right is massively shrunken due to brain cell loss.

Haven’t done a brain art post in a while, so figured I’d put up some pictures of Felice Varini’s incredible work. Note that these images were not ‘photoshopped’, nor do they use painted glass.

Don’t expect an answer to this puzzle anytime soon….

Just published today on the NASA/JPL website. Kevin Baines, a member of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team, says:

This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides.

Thanks to MARS-1 for allowing me to post his Psychic Wars painting.

(Click on image below to jump to high-resolution version)

From Altariel’s Stumbleupon page:

“A Hole in the Ground” by Seb Przd:

Recently corresponded with Jim Warren, who was not only kind enough to provide the official answer to his “Find the Seven Horses” puzzle posted about a month ago, but also to provide another great brain art picture challenge.

Wow, this optical illusion really messes with your brain.

Hard to believe, but the squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray.

For an explanation and proof, click

In March of 2006, an incredible news story was released about a double helix nebula found near the center of the Milky Way.

From the UCLA website

Crazy as this may seem, those little beans below are not moving!

(found here: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Pages)

Haven’t added a post to the “Brain Art” category for quite some time, so here’s a nice painting by Robert Gonsalves. His works very much remind me of the dream world, where unlikely segments can sometimes fantastically blend into each other.

(Much Thanks for Saper Galleries for permission to display)

Don’t know if I’m the only one getting this kind of spam, but every day my inbox is filled with at least 10 stock alert/quote emails. I’ve gotten pretty decent at avoiding most of them, but once in a while they get me with the false message titles. As far as the content of the email itself: First it was just with plain text, then they added colored text. Next, the info was dr

What’s special about the bands in the picture below?

(picture courtesy of Cliff Pickover & Teja Krasek)

Cliff Pickover has a book

Can you find the hidden image in this stereogram?

Copyright (c) Gary W. Priester-Image used by permission of the artist.

Here are Gary’s recommendations for detecting the hidden image:

Does listening to Mozart make you smarter? According to a landmark neuroscience research study out of the University of California, Mozart’s sonata for two pianos K448 (which you can listen to below) can increase your spatial-temporal IQ scores by 9 points

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Julian Beever does some incredible things with pavement art:

This neat little optical illusion comes courtesy of www.coolopticalillusions.com.

Probalby one of the cooler optical illusions I’ve seen in awhile.

Note that the picture below is not animated!

Here’s a great piece of interactive art that’s worth at least 30 seconds of your time.

You can view the Zoomquilt in Flash, HTML, or even download the screensaver, but I liked the Flash effect the best.