A picture of a strawberry tart has got the internet talking, because whilst it might look reasonably normal, things aren't quite as they seem.
At first glance it looks like a poorly taken photo, or maybe one with far too many filters on it. But what is actually in front of you is a picture with absolutely no red pixels. The red colour of the strawberries is merely your mind playing tricks on you because of the blue background. Things look different under, for example, fluorescent office lighting than they do in softer, lounge lighting so our brain makes an adjustment to make sure that we still see strawberries as red, regardless of where we're eating them. Source - BBC This is a beautiful revolving pattern by the very talented Teja Krasek. But if you stare at the centre until the end of the animation it apears to revolve slightly in the opposite direction.
Tom Hanks or Bill Murray? Bill Hanks, Tom Murray? Bill? Tom? Tom/Bill? It's a question that the internet has been wrestling with for days.
The truth is we've known the correct answer since 2013, when it was originally posted on the Reasons My Son is Crying Facebook page. But that hasn't stopped people arguing about it all over again. It's definitely NOT Tom HanksWe contacted Laura DiMichele-Ross - the woman whose wailing son is the true star of this photo - in the hope of clearing the whole thing up once and for all. "It's definitely Bill," is her answer. Image copyright Laura DiMichele-Ross The picture was taken by her husband Adam at the Alfred Dunhill Links golf competition at St Andrews in October 2012. |
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