Joshua Vides says The Fast and The Furious changed his life. Growing up in San Bernardino, California, he'd always liked cars, but seeing F&F as a 12-year-old in 2001 broadened his horizons.

The effect is even more disorienting in person because you know it's a car, you know it's real, and yet the image of a comic strip dominates your thinking. Vides calls the technique Reality to Idea ...