{"id":13759,"date":"2004-12-29T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/29\/masters-of-deception\/"},"modified":"2004-12-29T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T15:38:00","slug":"masters-of-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/29\/masters-of-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters Of Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neuro.caltech.edu\/~seckel\/mod\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Masters of Deception\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/mastersofdeception.jpg\" \/><\/a>Al Seckel&rsquo;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005JMJG\/andrewchorney\" title=\"amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Masters Of Deception: Escher, Dali &amp; the Artists of Optical Illusion<\/i><\/a> showcases the &ldquo;visual trickery&rdquo; employed by twenty artists well-known for their innovative use of optical illusion and perspective.  This in itself sounds very cool, but what&rsquo;s even cooler is the <a href=\"http:\/\/neuro.caltech.edu\/~seckel\/mod\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> he created to accompany the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are a number of incredible artistic works featured in     <i>Masters of Deception<\/i>, which require movement to appreciate their full impact.  Additionally, I had in my possession various interviews with some of the book&rsquo;s featured artists that I wanted to share with my readership.  Unfortunately, the publisher was unwilling to produce a CD to accompany the book. I have created this web site, therefore, to augment and enhance the reader&rsquo;s experience by presenting those works and interviews that I could not present in book form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The website has dozens of QuickTime videos available for viewing that show that artists at work as well as highlight some important works of art.  Definitely check it out&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenhead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Screenhead<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110429219796841019?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Seckel&rsquo;s book Masters Of Deception: Escher, Dali &amp; the Artists of Optical Illusion showcases the &ldquo;visual trickery&rdquo; employed by twenty artists well-known for their innovative use of optical illusion and perspective. This in itself sounds very cool, but what&rsquo;s even cooler is the website he created to accompany the book: There are a number &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/29\/masters-of-deception\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Masters Of Deception&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}