Small world: Tilt-shift photography is a technique that makes reality, when photographed from a great height, look like a detailed model train layout. Fake tilt-shift photography is a Photoshop technique that achieves the same result—making a huge USAF Super Guppy cargo aircraft from Google Earth look like an adorable toy you want to pick up and make whooshing noises with. This Flickr pool contains thousands of home-brew fake tilt-shift images, some of which are really astonishing, and make you wonder who has time to build such detailed little dioramas, until you realize it’s actually real life at www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/.

Nude illusion: Live on stage at Just for Laughs, this sexy blonde magician strips down to her birthday suit courtesy of a mysteriously disappearing silk hankie, which then reappears from an unexpected place for the big pay-off. Not safe for work, and not appropriate for the kiddies, but your grandma will probably still get a thrill out of this bump ’n’ grind at www.uselessjunk.com/article_full.php?id=7801.

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