Felice Varini - Anamorphic Paintings

Swiss artist Felice Varini creates amazing optical illusions with his anamorphic paintings which cover buildings and even entire villages!

"At first they appear to simply be gigantic swooping shapes painted across buildings around the world… but find the correct focal point and they pop into astounding geometric forms." 

 To make his pieces, Varini first finds a location where people can interact with the space for his point of observation. He then projects his images on to the location and traces the shapes with paint.

You can see more of Felice Varini's work on his website.
http://www.varini.org/02indc/indgen.html 

 Photographs below:
1. “Encerclement à dix,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Thouars, France – 1999
2. “Orangerie du cha‰teau de Versailles” – 2006
3. “Archi e Corone” – 2003

River Rehin

I have always been in love with France and forever talking about going there, but never considered how beautiful Germany is. I found these photographs by W. Munro on Lune Vintage blog. The photos are just stunning, the architecture and castles look magical, I can see why a lot of fairytales were based on German buildings. Definitely considering a trip to Germany some time. Have a look at more photos on this post on the Lune blog http://lunevintage.blogspot.com/2011/10/down-rehin-river.html#comment-form