Not that forced perspective is entirely dead, but I can’t imagine anyone building this set anymore.

Reblogged from Geyser of Awesome, who retumbld it from Kuriositas. A good collection.

A mishap at the state’s government television studios appears to have brought out Olympia’s largest and smallest fire fighters.

It has, again, been a while since we’ve had any good FP examples here, so I was initially thrilled to see this link to 99 self-declared “Excellent Examples of Forced Perspective Photography.” When I followed the link, though, I was disappointed to find that while several of the photographs are excellent, very few of them use FP very well, if at all.

Not the usual forced perspective, but I did enjoy it.
(via @The_No_Show)

The article is titled “35 Splendid Examples of Forced Perspective Photography”, but few if any of them are truly splendid. Still, contractually obligated to link to it.

The thinking person’s favorite magician picks up Notre Dame. Teller’s patribiography also includes an FP photo.

Richard Wiseman posted a link to this relatively convincing forced perspective photo.

As you might expect, there’s a Flickr pool.
I mention this in part because Google seems to have decided we’re evil, and I’m hoping to persuade their algorithms otherwise by getting back to our roots.

A video of a forced perspective mechanism devised by Adelbert Ames. Likely to make your head hurt, I found it helpful to focus on the pipe to see that the whole contraption is simply rotating.