The Escherian Stairwell

in blurtlife •  3 years ago 

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When I first watched this video many months ago, I believe it was true and only in researching a bit more in order to write this post, I'm actually quite disappointed that it isn't.

The Escherian Stairwell is a viral video based on the Penrose stairs illusion. The video, filmed at Rochester Institute of Technology by Michael Lacanilao, was edited to create a seemingly cyclic stairwell such that if someone walks in either direction, they will end up where they started. The video claims that the stairwell, whose name evokes M.C. Escher's impossible objects, was built in the 1960s by the fictitious architect Rafael Nelson Aboganda. The video was revealed to be an Internet hoax, as individuals have travelled to Rochester Institute of Technology to view the staircase. Source

Which puts a massive downer on my writing of this post.

You can't trust anybody these days 😢

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