#11. What is going on with these pictures?

Quick…

  • What is going on in these 2 pic­tures below?
  • Is there some ele­ment out of place?

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  1. larry vincent on September 13, 2008 at 10:56

    there is just a mir­ror in front of peo­ple which makes a pic­ture of a full train.



  2. Jean on September 14, 2008 at 4:43

    Socks! The peo­ple are only wear­ing socks on their feet in one pic­ture and they’re wear­ing shoes over their sicks in the oth­er picture.

    It took about 3 seconds.



  3. Jean on September 14, 2008 at 4:45

    The peo­ple are wear­ing shoes in one pic­ture and no shoes in the other.

    It took about three sec­onds to see it.



  4. Ed Spradley on September 14, 2008 at 7:36

    The peo­ple appear mir­rored from one side to the oth­er, but the train is not (the posters give it away). Then with clos­er inspec­tion you see the peo­ple are just slight­ly dif­fer­ent from one side to the oth­er. Either the pho­to was tak­en twice and pho­to­shopped togeth­er with the peo­ple switch­ing sides, or this is one pho­to with a bunch of twins. Saw it in prob­a­bly about 6 sec­onds. There is also a woman who is only on one side of the train in both pho­tos. Did­n’t see that until I looked at the pho­to again for a while.



  5. Tevin on September 14, 2008 at 9:03

    in 1st pic­ture there wear­ing shoes in the oth­er pic­ture there not wear­ing shoes



  6. sandy on September 14, 2008 at 11:25

    They’re sets of twins on their way to par­tic­i­pate in sci­en­tif­ic testing…



  7. George on September 14, 2008 at 1:22

    Improv Every­where!

    These are pairs of twins who par­tic­i­pat­ed in an event through Improv Everywhere.



  8. Wendy on September 14, 2008 at 1:35

    at first it looks like a mir­ror image but it must be a train of twins because the train inte­ri­or is not mir­rored and there are some slight vari­ances between the like people…and there is at least one extra per­son with­out a twin. They could be going to a twin con­ven­tion. about 12 seconds



  9. Juanita on September 14, 2008 at 6:43

    It looks like a train of iden­ti­cal twins. In one photo
    one set is stand­ing and in sec­ond pho­to they’re sit­ting. This was just a quick look. I also noticed socks in sec­ond photo.



  10. Juanita on September 14, 2008 at 6:48

    On sec­ond look there are a great deal of differences.
    Newspapers,yellow bags, white tipped toes, ajust­ing of what appears to be ear phones,etc.



  11. aisde on September 14, 2008 at 7:05

    looks like mir­ror image of train car pas­sen­gers, but car is elon­gat­ed and ovoid; woman in coat stand­ing near rear not in iden­ti­cal posi­tion, car is longer than it should be. that’s what i saw in about 30 secs.



  12. V on September 14, 2008 at 8:32

    they peo­ple are mir­rored but the walls of the train are dif­fer­ent 11:32 PM 9/14



  13. Alvaro Fernandez on September 15, 2008 at 11:00

    Ed Spradley and George nailed it!

    1) Sev­er­al cou­ples of twins are fac­ing each oth­er in a real train. 

    2) As part of a prank orga­nized by Improv Every­where. The effect is called a “human mirror”.

    3) There is only one per­son out of place, wear­ing a beret, read­ing a book, who was not part of the prank.



  14. Joe on September 16, 2008 at 12:06

    I’ve seen this on a video before. Lots of iden­ti­cal twins gath­ered to make that joke in wich they would act as if in fron of a mirror.



  15. Jeff Thompson on September 16, 2008 at 9:20

    It took me about 20 sec­onds to sat­is­fy myself that a large mir­ror was not involved. I had thought of the twins angle but dis­missed it as too com­pli­cat­ed. I thought it was two pic­tures ‘pho­to­shopped’ together.



  16. jeanne on September 16, 2008 at 9:23

    rearview mir­ror view from bus­driver’s perspective



  17. Pete on September 16, 2008 at 3:45

    It is clear­ly sets of twins, try­ing to look like a mir­rored image



  18. Howard Cowan on September 16, 2008 at 9:06

    A mir­ror has been placed aligned with the “z” axis of the pho­to (par­al­lel to the length of the sub­way car or bus). This dupli­cates either the left or fight side of the pho­to onto the oppo­site side.



  19. R Howe on September 17, 2008 at 8:13

    pho­tos are mir­rored; each left/right, and top/bottom between the two. Stand­ing female is seat­ed in 2nd pho­to, and stand­ing male insert­ed instead. approx 15 seconds



  20. Richard on September 17, 2008 at 8:56

    These are pho­tos tak­en from oppo­sites sides of a train cab­in. The lady sit­ting in the low­er pho­to is stand­ing in the upper pho­to. And the pho­to is not a mir­ror effect they are all twins insis­de this train



  21. Ray on September 18, 2008 at 5:44

    the man read­ing the news­pa­per and the women with the white top and hand­bag have pinched the seat the cam­er­ap­er­son was aim­ing for. As well as evry­one shuf­fling to the oth­er side and some being mixed up as to place­ment. About 30 secs. Slow typing.



  22. NF on September 19, 2008 at 5:49

    I agree with Ed Spradley and if you take a reeeal­ly good look you will notice a lot more differences.
    At first glance though the trick does work!



  23. muhamamd awais on September 19, 2008 at 8:39

    these are mir­ror images of train from two dif­fer­ent ends.



  24. chukwutem on September 19, 2008 at 9:09

    It is a good teas­er and i enjoyed it very much though i was not able to par­tic­i­pate. Keep up the good work



  25. Bobby Shafto on September 19, 2008 at 7:38

    I could­n’t see where to leave a reply, with­out read­ing pre­vi­ous answers. This should not be ime­di­ate­ly under the ques­tion? Any­way, I thought that there was a mir­ror down the cen­ter of the carriage.



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