Live-Action MC Escher Waterfall

We've all seen the MC Escher drawing:


I can't figure out how this guy did it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2xnl6LwJE"]YouTube - Waterfall

 

I thought so too. I've spent lots of time trying to figure out how he made it work. I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the angle of the camera or something, and the shadows he casts make it look like the structure is a lot bigger than it appears. I'm thoroughly perplexed

 

That just blew my mind.

 

decent.....

 

Sweet. I was gonna say that its the angle of the camera too, and that its slanted downhill anyways, but damn that fall looks pretty damn high.
This is my favorite artist btw. I wonder if mc Escher could have made a real one, or he'd be very impressed by this mabey.

 

I think he'd be hella impressed too, as well as flattered.

 

Not too sure he'd be that flattered. He already knows how much of a badass mofucker he is

 

lol That's true.

 

after blowing the video up 10times. Ive come to the conclusion this is sitting in one them locations natural made phenomenons where the water runs uphill..

I could be wrong.

 

No wayy orison, you're always right

 

sorry bout the run on sentence. lol. I was distracted..

 

There's no way of knowing for sure, but it's cool as shit.

 

maybe at the start he was mixing lsd into the water.

 

I think skip might be right. I actually am dissapointed in myself I didn't think of that.

 

I don't think it's a pump: but it could be the angle of the structure that we can't make out... I wondered too if the water is magnetized with some metal in it: thus the blue. But of course that would be there just so the flow is more easily seen.

That's pretty fucking awesome.

 

Lol you can just generate computer graphics into it to look loke that.

 

Ok after looking and watching a million times I realized what we all should have realized immediately.

Forget the water. How the water gets to the top is irrelevant.

It's Still Mc Eshers famous impossible shape.

Starting from the wheel there are four corners going up to the top.
the second corner appears to be directly under the third corner.

imagine trying to build that. It doesn't work. The pegs running top to bottom appear to be straight. as if one long piece. they are not, and they do not match up. they just appear to from our angle. :sultan:

see how the box is thickest at the bottom and thinnest at the top? i atribute the water flow to that.

Not sure how the wheel works but that could be any number of camera tricks

THis was AWSOME!

 

I think he might have tilted the ground in his garage too.