full on saturday:)

been to "eyes, lies & illusions" in Acmi , I've always wanted to go there and today i finally went:) The exhibition is awesome! It reminds a lot of tricks and lil games in my childhood, a simpler trick for a simpler time :)

below are some pictures from the exhibition:


poster of "eyes, lies & illusions"


Seventeenth century scientists invented instruments that made it possible to enhance our ability to see the world. The earliest of these was the camera obscura, or 'dark chamber', which produced fascinating projections of real life. In addition to rare camera obscura, in this chapter you will see rare scientific books devoted to anatomy, microscopy and astronomy as well as early experiements in the science of photography.


The sequential photographs made by Eadweard Muybridge in the nineteenth century pioneered the technology that lay behind the birth of cinema - the grandest of all optical illusions. In this chapter you will see rare filmic devices such as kinetoscopes, mutoscopes and even a flip book or two!




Sight is unreliable and the eye can easily be fooled by optical trickery. This chapter brings together visual puzzles and riddles from the past four centuries, including anthropomorphic images, montage games, visual cryptograms and eye-twisting optical illusions.


The study of light and vision has always intrigued thinkers and scientists. In England, Isaac Newton experimented with prisms, splitting sunlight into separate colours. Other experiments in optics attempted to explain reflection and refraction. This chapter will have you spellbound by prisms, distorting mirrors and kaleidoscopes.


heheh last but not least, the popular alice in wonderland room :P