Mirrors

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Jeppe Hein 'Mirror Wall' (2009): A huge mirror is mounted onto a wall. When visitors enter the space the mirror starts moving subtly and wavelike. Visitors facing the mirror will be irritated by the vibrating reflection of themselves and their surrounding. This sensation causes not only a vague feeling of dizziness but also a latent distrust of one’s own eyes and spatial perception. As the mirror displays a different picture of the location, viewers question their position in the room.






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Reindeer breeders in Finland think they may have found a way to prevent their animals from being hit by cars — mirrored antlers. Anne Ollila, head of Finland's Reindeer Herders' Association, told Agence France-Presse they have begun testing reflective sprays on the animals to make them more visible to motorists at night. Around 4,000 Finnish reindeer are killed in traffic accidents every year.

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Nikko Jenkins, a man convicted of four murders, was left with a series of 9s engraved into his face after he attempted to carve "666" into his forehead while looking in the mirror.

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"Reflected" is the first single by the rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1969 from the album Pretties for You. The band also performed the song during a party scene in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970). The song received no chart performance and had no success, but was re-written in 1972 as "Elected", which is the band's second most successful single (the first being "School's Out"). The lyrics and melody of "Reflected" and "Elected" are unmistakably similar.

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‘Penguins Mirror’ lets you be emperor of the penguins – just stand in front of all 450 motorized stuffed animals and they turn their white bellies towards you reflecting your silhouette. The ‘mirror’ is made from small motors, control electronics, a video camera, a microcontroller and special software. Each penguin is supported on a tin base allowing it to rotate in choreographed 360 degree circles.

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26 boys in 17 mirror mazes

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Archimedes, the renowned mathematician, was said to have used a burning glass (or more likely a large number of angled hexagonal mirrors) as a weapon in 212 BC, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcus Claudius Marcellus. The Roman fleet was supposedly incinerated, though eventually the city was taken and Archimedes was slain.

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Daniel Rozin's Peg Mirror comprises 650 circular wooden pieces that are cut on an angle. Casting shadows by twisting and rotating, wooden pegs forming concentric circles surround a small central camera. The mirrored image produced in this work is activated by software authored by Rozin that processes video signals and breaks up imagery geometrically, seemingly pixel by pixel. The silently moving wood components in this piece flicker like jewels or coins in the spotlight, challenging our notions about what constitutes a “digital object”.





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Thwaitesia argentiopunctata spiders, called mirror spiders, are all members of several different species of the thwaitesia genus, which features spiders with reflective silvery patches on their abdomen. The scales look like solid pieces of mirror glued to the spider’s back, but they can actually change size depending on how threatened the spider feels. The reflective scales are composed of reflective guanine, which these and other spiders use to give themselves color.

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Here's a trick that has the potential to creep anyone out. Learn how to write a hidden message on a mirror using anti-fog solution and a q-tip. Just write a secret message on a mirror to scare someone coming out of the shower. You'll have loads of fun with this practical joke.

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Designed by Brazil-born Andreia Chaves and introduced at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week earlier this month, the Invisible Shoes are a feat of cutting-edge technology, their flashy good looks only possible as a result of rapid-prototyping. Chaves designed the shoes in 3D software, then manufactured the outer layers — the mirrored acrylic above and the black space frame below — using the 3D printing services of the Dutch product-design powerhouse Freedom of Creation.

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A four-year-old boy who was horrifically crushed when a 19-stone mirror plummeted onto him at a Hugo Boss shop died in "an accident waiting to happen", a coroner has stated. Youngster Austen Harrison had been playing with a heavy steel-framed fitting room mirror while his father tried on a suit before it toppled on to him causing "devastating head injuries", Oxford Coroner's Court heard.

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Created by London based artist Monica Bonvicini, the Don’t Miss a Sec art installation is a controversial public toilet that tests the boundaries of privacy. The mirrored glass is see-through from the perspective of the squatter, but completely frosted for onlookers.

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Conceptualized by Alpay Kasal, this is a patent pending touch capable mirror. The interactive mirror features proximity sensors, gesturing, and both nearfield and farfield infrared.





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There is a Mirror World that exists in the skies of Dream Land. It is a world where any wish reflected in the mirror will come true. However, one day it only copies evil minds, and rapidly changes into a world of evil. Meta Knight notices this, and flies up to save the Mirror World. Meanwhile, Kirby is taking a walk when Dark Meta Knight appears. Before Kirby can react, Dark Meta Knight slices Kirby in four and Kirby becomes four different colored "Kirbys". They chase after the Dark Meta Knight and enter the Mirror World. The two Meta Knights fight each other and the real Meta Knight is defeated. He is knocked into the mirror, which is then cut into eight fragments by Dark Meta Knight (which are then scattered across the Mirror World), so Kirby must save Meta Knight and the Mirror World. After collecting all eight mirror fragments, Kirby enters the Mirror World and battles Dark Meta Knight. After defeating him, a vortex appears and sucks Kirby in, who is given Meta Knight's sword. Kirby fights 4 bosses before battling the Dark Mind. Upon defeat, the Mirror World is saved.

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Street performer dressed in a costume made from hundreds of mirrors was spotted near Griffith Observatory in downtown Los Angeles.

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When Google Cultural Institute’s Art Project launched in 2011 to take Google Earth-like tours inside the world’s elite museums, its goal was simple: Democratiz[e] who gets to look at art and how. Barcelona-based artist Mario Santamaria is documenting all of these moments in a new Tumblr project. In his latest blog, “The Camera in the Mirror,” Santamaria collects screenshots of Google’s tours when the institute’s camera catches itself in a museum mirror. The result is a series of robot selfies—the camera posing before a gilded museum room surrounded by art.

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2GB USB Flash Drive Then the hold type U dish LED disguise mirror. The product introduces: Give or get an electric shock Xin: The lithium polymer gives or gets an electric shock Xin. Heavy quantity: 45g. Color: he Yong permits purple. the abyss of time silver. gentle and soft powder.

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9 x 3.6 x 0.4m formed mirror polished stainless steel feature entrance wall of MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in Hobart, Tasmania.

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Halloween mirror still malfunctioning





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Artist Alyson Shotz has created a run-of-the-mill picket fence covered entirely by perfectly mirrored surfaces. The visual effect of having a mirrored fence is as weird as it is diverse – in some landscapes, the fence seems to be camouflaged, while in others, it serves as a strange and surreal extension or distortion of the environment around it.

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Carsten Holler 'Mirror Carousel'

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The designer/artist, Phillip K. Smith, has made alternating mirrored slats in the installation to reflect the surrounding desert of sand, bushes and hills. This is contrasted against the contorted and worn wood that makes the framework of the 70-year-old homesteader cabin. But it is at night where the LED technology comes into its own. Lucid Stead is illuminated after dark, its windows and door glowing with LED lights that change their hue over time. Smith explains why he uses a computer to vary the colours slowly in his project description. “The colour of the door and window openings are set at a pace of change where one might question whether they are actually changing colours.” Walk away from the shack and come back a few minutes later, and he says the “blue, red, and yellow” of before might now be “orange, purple, and green.” He uses the LED lights and the shack’s mirrors to induce a delicate transformation, saying “Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert.” If you watch for a long enough period of time, you will see the shifts in the Joshua Tree park as Lucid Stead reflects the light of morning, then midday, then dusk. Over time, the cabin gives off a glow, as it’s lit from within.

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This Mirror Secret Door is crazy! It looks like a regular wall-mounted mirror, but it slides open to reveal a whole other room!

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The Weave Mirror uses 768 individual strips which are woven together into a grid. As passersby walk in front of the work, motors adjust the woven strips to change the greyscale intensity of that particular X/Y coordinate on the grid. When you step back, it forms the illusion of a real-time mirror.





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Back in the early glory days of Disney animation, animators used their own reflection for reference when drawing the faces for some of their most iconic characters.

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Reflect Showered Mirror combines two needs in one and does so in a simple way. Ditch that cheap fogless mirror that always seems to fall in the middle of the night and scare the crap out of you and replace it, and your showerhead, with the Reflect Showerhead Mirror. By storing a cavity of water, the mirror remains condensation free no matter how steam-filled your shower gets.

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Unexplained faces captured by the crew can be seen top right of mirror.

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The Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom recently received a new interactive queue. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. The ride itself has gotten an update in the form of new effects during the famous mirror sequence. Previously, as you passed the mirrors, you would see a ghost riding alongside you in your vehicle. Now, well, just check out the (very dark) ride video below:





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Yayoi Kusama 'I Who Have Arrived In Heaven'

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One way to reflect more sunlight back into space is to increase reflectivity of the world's marine clouds, which cover a quarter of the ocean's surface. John Latham and Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh have proposed wind-powered yachts (pictured) that would spray seawater droplets into the air to produce more clouds. Latham says that about a thousand of these vessels would be needed to make the plan effective, and that they should be deployed in the southern oceans, where most reflective marine stratocumulus clouds are.

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The architecture and design practice of Two Islands is responsible for this impressive work in the heart of the US American city of Flint, Michigan. The reflecting façade is characterized by the various textures it may display. On hot sunny days, the very solid and durable material expands, coating the entire object with creases like that of a cloth. On rainy days, however, the material contracts, enclosing the form of the building tightly and creating a smooth surface. Due to its hygroscopic qualities, the façade material changes, depending on the weather conditions.

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Merging two classic horror genres gets one unforgettable startle scare... the Zombie Asylum Mirror! Get maximum bang for your scare buck with this gothic, ornate, and seemingly innocent mirror that suddenly comes alive with a horrific vision sure to wet the drawers of even the toughest of your haunt visitors.





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The title of the third solo-exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Sam Durant at Praz-Delavallade refers to Amercian artist Robert Smithson’s work Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1969) which was itself a reference to writer John Lloyd Stephen’s book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843). These references to «mirror travels» are then mapped onto particularly nihilistic examples of street graffiti. Each work consists of the reproduction of a graffiti slogan stenciled onto a mirror. Although the slogans are from multiple locations and different years they can be understood as responses to the effects of neoliberalism’s global hegemony. Through his work, Sam Durant addresses what he considers neoliberal economic policy’s main achievement: the restoration of class power to the world’s elites along with the largest upward transfer of wealth in modern history. What has happened to the other 99% percent of the population whose standard of living has been in corresponding decline has not been of much concern to those championing the free market fundamentalism. These mirror works are meant as “signs” from the other 99%.

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This simple mask hides your face behind a one-way mirrored chrome surface, allowing you to see out, but others only to see their own reflections. Makes a noteworthy costume for a Halloween party, especially with a hooded black robe, or just wear it in your everyday life to protect any traces of privacy you may have left in the 21st century.

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