OT (slightly) - Comic Book Heros & Sidewalk Chalk

[MrBedrock]

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.

Okay...for now.

[EvilAsh]

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

 

Exactly, here is one shown from the "sweet spot" as well as the opposite angle:

 

 

[EvilAsh]

Here are some more for you guys to enjoy

 

 

 

[EvilAsh]

A few more (thumbs u

 

[EvilAsh]

and the rest I have

 

 

 

[Ringfinger]

Very cool stuff!

[OldGuy]

Google "sidewalk art" and you can see more of these then you ever wanted to.

 

I know, I know, google takes all of the fun out of the internet........

[ant]

there is some bug pics that from the angle look like they are walking on the ground like giants. that is awsome stuff. didnt they get there start from the car comercial? well get known that is.

[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.

 

 

 

 

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I posted this over the weekend I think, now I see there is an identical thread running here posted earlier.

Is it customary for the majority of members not to read new members posts?

 

Just asking so I know the score, altho' I do feel if I had duplicated a post I would have been advised.

If the protocol is to largely ignore threads posted by new members until a certain post count is reached please advise so I don't tread on anyones toes. (thumbs u

 

Cheers

 

Luke

[Mephisto]

Actually in the past year these images have been posted in about 5 other threads.

[esquirecomics]

Now this is what I call slabbing...

 

I posted this over the weekend I think, now I see there is an identical thread running here posted earlier.

Is it customary for the majority of members not to read new members posts?

 

Just asking so I know the score, altho' I do feel if I had duplicated a post I would have been advised.

If the protocol is to largely ignore threads posted by new members until a certain post count is reached please advise so I don't tread on anyones toes. (thumbs u

 

Cheers

 

Luke

 

Sorry Luke, don't take it personal my friend.

 

I barely have time to post on the boards given my work load much less read through all the threads. It all depends on timing. If the title is interesting enough and I happen to see it, I'll read it. If I had seen yours I certainly would not have posted a duplicate thread.

 

Get back to posting and soon enough you won't be a new member any longer.