This key scene from Christopher Nolan's 2010 blockbuster Inception inspired one designer to mess with the physics of traditional furniture; producing a spectacular coffee table piece which sees a wooden city bend neatly over itself, creating fascinating edges and illusions in the process.
Not that club and international football is squeaky clean in its morality, but the recent degradations and illusions in the college football universe are more than enough to turn me off and away.
"White Rabbit," in a distorted sense, portrays the confusion and illusion in Vietnam -- everyone in country experienced the chimera that is Vietnam and it is a unique experience.
"There is a lot of trickery and illusion in our show," says Steven Grant Douglas, the actor who portrays Sam on the tour.
Tuzin DF: The Voice of the Tambaran: Truth and Illusion in IlahitaArapesh Religion.
"The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism," by the art historian Denise Blake Oleksijczuk (University of Minnesota Press), and "Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles" (MIT Press), by the media historian Erkki Huhtamo, document how European and American artists scaled steeples and mountains to make their works.
He noted the "intensive level of intuitive concentration" and "a tremulous illusion" in the styles of the painters, notably those of the Tjapaltjarri, Tjupurrula and Tjungurrayi families who later became the best known of the desert painters.
The big draw are covers act the Clone Roses who, from the look of them, are missing a trick if they don't moonlight as Codsabian, and who destroy the illusion in the first 20 seconds of I Wanna Be Adored.
I figured it was time to take my obsession with the well-known ride from my head and into my parents' yard, so I put up a surround-sound system, created a changing portrait much like the one seen in the Mansion's foyer, an axe-wielding bride projection effect, and a Madame Leota illusion in the porch window.
In one shot, it says, "That's film noir, a style of film-making and an illusion" and in the foreground here is someone who knows what that is and is mimicking it but the reality is something different.
