I've seen this before... it's uncanny. And the shots are all taken with fisheye lenses and at angles because that's how he designs the images - to be seen as you're walking up to them. If you were to look down on them, they'd be elongated.
I can't comprehend how he does this.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Erm... what's a fisheye lens?
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Edit to add: That's so freaking cool. Does he use common every day sidewalk chalk or is there some kind of special fancy kind?
[ August 03, 2004, 04:07 PM: Message edited by: Bob the Lawyer ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
WOW!!
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
That is so cool. And to think that I thought the huge T-Rex that Boy Opera drew on the driveway was awesome.
space opera
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Well, regular sidewalk chalk doesn't have any colors darker than "misty blue" or something like that.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:A lens with an extremely wide angle of view (as much as 180°) and considerable barrel distortion (straight lines at the edges of a scene appear-pear to curve around the center of the image).
It's basically the effect you would get by looking through a fishbowl, the effect you see here.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I'm guessing he uses an art chalk if he's getting that kind of color range.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
The artist is Kurt Wenner. www.kurtwenner.com Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Thanks kat! I'm going to have a lot of fun exploring that site today.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Th same way the make writing on the roads. In a bike lane, there is a picture of a bike only it is very distorted. But for a passing car, it looks like a normal bike. Well except that it is in all white and has a stick figure on it.
Posted by Numb (Member # 6748) on :
Wow. Those are amazing.
:Allison:
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Reading through the site kat linked to, I came across the following:
quote:Q: What kind of chalks are you using?
A: My “chalks” are actually handmade pastels which are stronger and more permanent than commercial products. When I first started street painting I used commercial chalks and pastels. I soon found the chalks to be too dusty and constantly blowing away on the street. The pastels were more permanent, but very costly as I would use a couple hundred sticks per picture. It didn't take long before I began experimenting and making my own pastels with pure pigments and binder.