This Is So Cool

Maybe they just don't want to walk on the pretty drawings.


They're really good though, for sure.

Those are incredible. Isn't it amazing that someone can make works of art like this that just wash away with the next rain or when people do start walking on them. At least he can share his art through photos but I would love to see one in person. I should take pictures of my sidewalk chalk art. It's not nearly as impressive.

Maybe they just don't want to walk on the pretty drawings.

Keyword: "seems." From the direction most of the people in the picture are walking they wouldn't see the 3-D effect anyway. Them seeming to step around it is almost as much of an illusion as the artwork. Look at how the second guy from the right's foot looks as if he just stepped around or over an impediment. And the guy nearest it on the left looks as if he's looking down into a hole. Fantastic.

I love illusions.



Can you imagine how much work that is looking down on it from above and calculating exactly how to get the perspective right so when seen at an angle it gives that illusion of depth? It's one thing for us to look at the two dimensional pictures, that's kind of like approaching a piece of blank paper; we already have the proper perspective. But to actually step into a three dimensional space and be able to pull that off on a horizontal surface? Wow. Bravo.

Isn't it amazing that someone can make works of art like this that just wash away with the next rain or when people do start walking on them.

I know! I think I'd find the impermanence heartbreaking. (Though I have occasionally done that -- put a lot of work into something I knew would soon disappear or be destroyed, just for the sheer pleasure of creating.) It's like people who make ice sculptures or elaborate sand sculptures.

Ultimately everything is transitory, they just have the balls to face up to it better and laugh in the face of all-corrupting time.

Fekkin' awesome. Thanks for sharing that link, Gene. Wow.

I've always enjoyed this guy's work. I posted this a while back, last year maybe?

He's great.

I've always enjoyed this guy's work. I posted this a while back, last year maybe?

Sorry about that, Mason. I missed it.

Like making a sculpture of Garth Brooks out of butter.

These really are amazing.  I have seen them numerous times, all over the net.  Yet they never cease to amaze me and I love looking at them every time.  Thanks for the link.

Well it's not like I hold the copyright on the stuff Just mentioned it as an aside, not a criticism.

You know, what I would really like to see, though, is these from different angles.  Let's see some from overhead, from the left, right, etc.  It would be interesting to see how they distort at different angles.

Fekkin' awesome. Thanks for sharing that link, Gene. Wow.

I saw those and ran right off to type up an article.

Like making a sculpture of Garth Brooks out of butter.

I thought Garth Brooks was made of butter.

Yet they never cease to amaze me and I love looking at them every time.  Thanks for the link.

Someone commented at the linked article that they could stare at these all day. I agree. There's something fascinatingly zen-like about them.

You know, what I would really like to see, though, is these from different angles.  Let's see some from overhead, from the left, right, etc.  It would be interesting to see how they distort at different angles.

You're right, that would be fascinating. It would be especially instructive for anyone wishing to recreate the effect for themselves. (Maybe that's why we're not seeing those pictures?)

I think it would make the work all the more impressive if we could see it as the artist sees it and know more fully what they go through, how they have to envision it, to get those end results.

Just mentioned it as an aside, not a criticism.

Oh, I know. I just try not to duplicate what anyone else has already done. I knew there was a chance someone had probably blogged about this work before, but I decided to go for it anyway.