OT (slightly) - Comic Book Heros & Sidewalk Chalk

[Goonchild-migration]

Now this is what I call slabbing...

 

 

And for those interested, here's the Lowdown on this amazing piece of street art.

 

 

Hanging from a rope, Batman and Robin clamber up the wall of a burning building to save a victim from the flames.

 

Police watch their heroics from below and crowds of onlookers are held back by patrol cars.

 

This was the scene in a London street yesterday as an ingenious combination of reality and art had passers-by doing double and triple takes.

 

The caped crusaders and their backdrop are sketched in chalk. The stunning 3D effect is an illusion, as the canvas is the flat surface of the pavement.

 

The artist himself, Julian Beever, poses against a wall, perched on the ledge he has drawn into his masterpiece - and suddenly becomes an integral part of the scene.

 

Beever, 46, known as the Pavement Picasso, has created a series of similar mind- blowing images in everyday locations around the world.

 

He uses a camera lens trained on his work surface to help him visualise and conceive an idea. Then he goes to work, drawing in incredible detail and playing tricks with the way our minds 'read' perspective to create an impression of depth on the flat surface of the paving stones.

 

His sketches, viewed from a particular point, give a convincing illusion of a 3D scene below the street surface, leaving onlookers bemused and incredulous.

 

Beever, from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, is a former Punch and Judy showman who discovered his talent as a street artist in the 1980s and turned to 3D scenes after working in Belgium.

 

He is now based in that country but has chalked pictures in England, Australia, America, France, and Germany.

 

His other works have included a swimming pool chalked on the street so realistically that shoppers swerved to avoid it and Coca-Cola bottles and sunbathing women which appear to spring out of the ground, ready to trip you up.

 

 

 

[Silver Surfer]

Never get tired of seeing that, the guys work is incredible.

[Goonchild-migration]

Has that been posted before?

If so, I apologise for repeating.

 

Luke

[Silver Surfer]

No need to apologize, I saw a similar post about a year ago but its well worth seeing again.

[CAP Freak]

Wow Amazing very Trippy

Hope you stick around the boards Goonchild. Welcome.

[Goonchild-migration]

Thankyou for that

[500Club]

Nice Beever! (thumbs u

[esquirecomics]

Someone recently sent me a group of photographs that deserve being further disseminated and I thought they were worthwhile to post here.

 

Apparently the artist is Julian Beever, an Englishman, who's famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. Amazing 3D illusions.

 

Some examples:

 

 

 

There is NO hole in the street.

 

People are actually walking around the "art" so as not to fall in!

 

 

 

[esquirecomics]

And what, pray tell (no religious connotation of course!), do these have to do with comic book superheroes?

 

Just this:

 

 

 

ENJOY!!!

[swapto]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

thanks for sharing.

[Ebel 1911]

 

[font:Comic Sans MS]That is simply incredible![/font]

[Fazybones]

:applause:

 

 

Thanks Mark, those were incredible. I really liked the Batman

and Robin with the crowd down below.

 

 

 

[Calamerica]

[Anfield Fox]

There is one that looks like a swimming pool that is so realistic that people swirve out of the way to avoid it thinking their going to fall in.

[chromium]

There is one that looks like a swimming pool that is so realistic that people swirve out of the way to avoid it thinking their going to fall in.

 

you scousers drink too much

[Monkeyman]

This kind of optical illusion only works from one specific spot, based on how the perspective is set up. They wouldn't look realistic from any other angle. I doubt people are worried about falling in the hole as much as they just don't want to mess up the drawing. They are amazing, however, from the point the picture is taken and I'd like to check them out in person.

 

Mike

[MrBedrock]

There is NO hole in the street.

There are no people!

 

 

What is real...what isn't?

Am I loosing my marbles?

(Don't answer that!)

 

 

Cool pics, Mark.

[DrWatson]

Did you ever have any marbles? I thought they were just rocks.

[MrBedrock]

Did you ever have any marbles? I thought they were just rocks.

I thought I said not to answer that.

 

[DrWatson]

Did you ever have any marbles? I thought they were just rocks.

I thought I said not to answer that.

Technically, that wasn't an answer. It was a question followed by a quizzical statement.