 Visionary
illusionist, skeptic and magician, Jerry Andrus astounds
the world with his illusions and special effects. At home in
Oregon, which he calls "The Castle of Chaos," Andrus
fashions the mind boggling illusions which he exhibits all
over the world. The world renowned magician continues to perform,
invent, write and occasionally lectures on the subject of cognitive
science.
"I
can fool you because you're a human," says
Andrus, "You have a wonderful human mind that
works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't
made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason."
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Andrus was the first to use a unique rotating spiral design to
generate a powerful illusion called the Spiral
Aftereffect. This effect is based on a naturally occurring
illusion called the "waterfall effect." The illusion
was named by the Greek scholar Aristotle, who noticed the effect
as he sat gazing at a waterfall in 350 BC. |
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(Left)
Jerry Andrus posing in front of one of his amazing 3D constructs
from a recent museum exhibit. If you look closely at the model
you will notice that the pencil actually "skewers" the
two large hex-nuts at an impossible angle. A normal pencil could
not possibly bend in this way. How'd
he do that? |
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