{"id":434,"date":"2026-04-28T05:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/?p=434"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:34:52","slug":"tell-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/tell-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/illusion.jpg\" alt=\"A scene showing a chair, stacked boxes, and clutter on the floor, with a human subject holding a measuring tape posing as if gravity direction was sideways rather than down.\" class=\"wp-image-436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/illusion.jpg 468w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/illusion-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">50mm, 1\/60, F3.5, ISO 1000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this photograph, I wanted to appear that I am magically floating sideways over a scene with a chair and some clutter. To make this, I stacked a chair sideways on top of two boxes next to a wall, and taped some random objects to that same wall to make the wall appear like a floor. Then, I sat down on the actual floor holding a measuring tape, giving the illusion that I am unaffected by gravity. Bright light sources some distance behind me provide illumination from &#8220;above&#8221; toward the &#8220;floor&#8221;, creating highlights and shadows that add to the illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this photograph, I wanted to appear that I am magically floating sideways over a scene with a chair and some clutter. To make this, I stacked a chair sideways on top of two boxes next to a wall, and taped some random objects to that same wall to make the wall appear like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}