2010 Illusion of the year contest

This year I was asked to participate in the Illusion of the year contest and it was a blast! There were a bunch of great illusions and I had no idea who was going to win it until the votes were counted. There's even some great video of me acting in one of the presentations. Anyway here's a video of one of the contestants using me - can you guess who I am?

Keep reading for a video of the 1st place winner and links for the 2nd and 3rd place winners!

Here's the first place illusion:

And 2nd Place and 3rd Place. Both totally worth watching on neuralcorrelates.org.

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