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Dang!

I envy such artistic talent.

Pretty awesome.

Just fantastic.

Simply marvelous.

Excellently excellent.

Amazing. I am envious of this mans understanding of perspective. It just floors me.

He and the guy who does the sidewalk art should really, really get together on a project. Or many projects.

Very impressive!

ZenMonkey said:

He and the guy who does the sidewalk art should really, really get together on a project. Or many projects.

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Absolutely! I think the guy who does sidewalk art uses chalk, though. Not sure if the medium would make it more difficult for him (since you wouldn't want it to wash away).

I wonder how many people walk into walls every day because of this guy?

Krisken said:

Absolutely! I think the guy who does sidewalk art uses chalk, though. Not sure if the medium would make it more difficult for him (since you wouldn't want it to wash away).

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I was thinking that, but I bet he either works in other media or could learn, or at least they could collaborate on sketches and such.

WOW. Unbelievable stuff.

Wow...

Good lord...absolutely fantastic.

Wow.... That is just pure awesome.......

*in total awe*

More... MORE...

Gurpel said:

I wonder how many people walk into walls every day because of this guy?

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Exactly what I thought.

I'm not sure how much of it is just putting the camera in EXACTLY the right place, though. I've seen this one below in the flesh, and it's very obviously a mural, and not a room with a funny statue.

Well, of course. The same goes for that other guy with the crayons.

But it's pretty amazing nonetheless.

Gurpel said:

I wonder how many people walk into walls every day because of this guy?

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I doubt there's many if any:

Those pictures were taken from the ideal angle at the ideal time of the day with the ideal weather circumstances. Take the picture from another angle and when it's darker and it would be very easy to see it's fake. Also, when you move (which you'd need to do if you were to run into the wall), your brain would immediately tell you "hold on, something's wrong here!" because the perspective wouldn't change. But most of all: NONE of these paintings would look convincing the moment you're only a few feet away so unless you're reading a paper and not looking where you're going, it's doubtful.

If I ever have the money (and big enough walls), I want this guy to work on my walls and ceilings.

Icarus said:

Gurpel said:

I wonder how many people walk into walls every day because of this guy?

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I doubt there's many if any:

Those pictures were taken from the ideal angle at the ideal time of the day with the ideal weather circumstances. Take the picture from another angle and when it's darker and it would be very easy to see it's fake. Also, when you move (which you'd need to do if you were to run into the wall), your brain would immediately tell you "hold on, something's wrong here!" because the perspective wouldn't change. But most of all: NONE of these paintings would look convincing the moment you're only a few feet away so unless you're reading a paper and not looking where you're going, it's doubtful.

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That said, it is possible to do Trompe D'oeil (the name of this particular art style) very effectively by not doing rooms. In the same town as the room with the spherical statue, there's a building whose side got the Trompe D'oeil treatment to turn it from a drab, boring side of a building to something exciting and interesting. Go to Google Maps and streetview 1978 Main St, Sarasota, FL, United States and look at the gray building with the obviously painted-on arch. Would it surprise you to find out that most of those windows aren't real? None of the balconies are. Neither are the columns set into the wall, the string courses, egret, the monkey, or the window-cleaners, few of whom really show up in the Google street view pictures. You have to really scrutinize that damn wall if you want to realize that anything above the string course (the line running across the tops of the columns) is fake. If it weren't for the window-washers, I might have never noticed it myself.