ThreeDOrNotThreeD

January 17, 2004 7:04 PM

Sidewalk Chalk Drawings.
posted by srboisvert (8 comments total)

see also
posted by srboisvert at 7:06 PM on January 17, 2004

I wonder what they look like from other angles?

If I was mayor of some city I would pay the guy a salary just to wander around drawing those every day. Imagine how cool that would be.
posted by Hildago at 7:17 PM on January 17, 2004

I got this in my mail a few days ago. Pretty damn cool shit - I'm still marvelling at it.
posted by ashbury at 8:03 PM on January 17, 2004

These are very cool. Thanks very much.
posted by synecdoche at 9:24 PM on January 17, 2004

That's awesome. What makes the photos even better is that they're all taken at a time of day so that the angle the light hits the real word at is the same as the angle of the light source used in the drawings, making them look extra real.
posted by tomorama at 10:13 PM on January 17, 2004

Am I the only one who finds the Sony laptop one a bit creepy? Not horror-movie creepy, but ad-creep creepy, that is. I wouldn't care if it was some generic laptop, but somehow the brand-logo desktop sets it off just the wrong way.

Then again, I would have said the same thing about Warhol's soup cans in the '60s.

Then again, Warhol would've been the first to call himself a sell-out.
posted by arto at 1:34 AM on January 18, 2004

I hope this girl can give credit to the artist who painted these works. It's a shame to credit him as "this English guy."

At least we know that Kurt Wenner did the paintings in the middle of the page, though.
posted by jennak at 5:56 AM on January 18, 2004

Amazing stuff.
posted by carter at 7:03 AM on January 18, 2004