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My brain hurts now.

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that's awesome

That's SO cool! I love trompe l'oeil artwork.

i love that!!!!!!!! how the hell did they do that?

with some of them i had to double and triple take to make sure i new what it was.

wish we had side walk art here like that... all we got is shitty old graffitti (some of which is good but nothing like that... most of it is just tags and shit like that though)

those are very cool... great thread!

... the first pic i had to do a double double take to let my eyes "figure it out"... really neat stuff. :)

talk about haveing wwaaaayyyyyy to much time on your hands.....but they do look awsome

Very nice. Great work finding those.

Wow that is really cool. That first one threw me for a loop too, until I started figuring it out. Neat stuff.

I think we used all of their bandwidth and got the site shut down... oops

For some websites, it seems that bandwidth is like a good dinner: once it's gone, it's gone for good.

I saved the pics though, will put them somewhere else.

The artists name is Kurt Wenner and his work is simply stunning. here is his site, I'll link to some images here:

http://www.dodger.com/wenner/images/pic-muses2.jpg

http://www.dodger.com/wenner/images/pic-infern.jpg

http://www.dodger.com/wenner/images/pic-dies-irae2.jpg

http://www.dodger.com/wenner/images/pic-absolute.jpg

Seen from the right angle, the images seem to distort reality and the subjects appear to pop right out of the ground. Wenner is a master of perspective, no doubt.

Wow, those are amazing, the most awesome, bad-ass red x's I've ever seen.

Just kidding...

Yeah, those are great, to bad they only work from one angle.

Wow. Talk about perspective. It's terriblely hard to figure out.

Simply Fantastic...

wow.. thass cool.. I remember the fake window with light coming out in the main lobby in NY's Grand Central.. too bad its gone now.. that was cool

Am I the only moron who thought he was looking at a picture of a real pool? :-p

Wow that is amazing. Very cool.

that is the best i have ever seen, i love three dimensional art.
makes me want to paint.

THat is in the top ten list of best artist i've ever seen.

Hell, top 3.

my roomate says "that's kind of cool... that's really cool, actually"
I agree... though, I think he should of actually painted that stuff on the sidewalk... it looks like photochopped into photos, 'eh?

That's amazing, that's all I can think of to say about it.
On a side note...has anyone else ever seen these pieces from a different angle? I'll bet it looks quite a bit different.

Makes me dizzy!

Beautiful stuff. To think that someone's mind could "see" and then produce such things is pretty humbling. That takes quite a bit of talent.

Excellent excellent work! I wonder why I never heard of the artist and his work until now...

Kudos to the artist!

Why would people be trying to be part of the picture if there were no actual picture painted on the ground. The very first pic (which at the moment is rexxed) is a very good example.

cool!
i didnt figure out till the 3rd pic

Holy Cow!!!
Gotta show some people this stuff cause it blew me away!

Double, triple takes to get that in my head. I think I would actually have trouble walking across some of those, eyes lying to your brain.

Those are all really amazing. I see those in London once in a blue moon, would be excellent to see them more often.

I was thinking the same thing myself!

What amazing pictures! A few of them had me doing a few double takes to make sure I was seeing right!

Amazing. Am I the only one who noticed the anomoly in the second pic that BermuDa posted? People were posed so they stand exactly on the rocks at the top of the picture. One woman is actually straddling between two rocks with a very unnatural pose. I would loke to try walking across one just to see what kind of vertigo I feel.

Wow, those are absoluelty incredible! Like other people here, it took me a minute to figure out just what I was looking at. Very cool, thanks for sharing! :)

In the first picture, the beer bottle and mug on the left are real!

Those are awesome. I can't even imagine how long it would take to paint one of those.

I don't know what to say. These images are just incredible. Kind of like pianists who never had music lessons or play by ear. It's a gift, not something that was learned or taught.

Those are awesome...

There's a guy at the local mall around here that does things like that on a smaller scale. Usually just hands them out for donations and such. Very cool.

thats bad ass.. would love to have that talent

Very cool, that first one had me not sure what was real and what was painted.

Nice find.

Damn...Nice freaking pics :) The things they can do nowadays

that is some skill to do that. love the way the angle makes it 3D like.

That's simply amazing. People, if you have any talent for drawing what so ever, use it!

I had to look hard to tell that the guy on the right in the first picture is real.

That is so awesome

very cool...

Learn something new every day.

That is reallly cool, the first one is still throwing me off a little bit.

Most Excellent.

Those would be the only murals I would allow, as Supreme Ruler.

amazing what some people can do

They are stunning. It really looks like that guys leg is going in the pool.

That is really cool, but it only works at that one position and angle.

A freind sent these to me today and i couldn't remember where i saw them....well by gosh by golly i saw them on the TFP first.
this place is way ahead of the game.

mr b

holy hell some of those Wenners are creepy. thanks for sharing those

Nice post.....Giving people flashbacks. :eek:

Ha, in the first picture the fake glass and bottle look more realistic than then real ones! On the other hand, the fly seemed too fake to me..

I can't even image wrapping my head around the perspective to produce the image.

That is absolutely incredible.

wow, i've never seen any art like that awesome stuff.

Im finding it hard to imagine what they would look like from the otherside of those paintings. I guess the image just wouldnt make sense, because your brain wouldnt be fooled at looking at something 3d, rather just colours on a 2d surface, while you'd be struggling to picture the depth. eh, what am i saying...

ok, it kinda reminds me of those sponsor logos they have in football and cricket matches which are painted to look like the logo only from the main camera box, but from everywhere else it just looks like warped shite :p

freakin' amazing............

that dude is an awesome artist..........

Those pictures are brilliant. At first I thought that was a real notebook on the sidewalk...

I wonder how much he would charge to do a ceiling.

damn, those pictures are amazin, must be some talented artists

Yes, and I think the guy on the right is real. It's my guess the artist drew the character on the left and had his photograph taken as the guy on the right.

The guy has a terrific sense of perspective and whimsy. Something we need a lot more of.

I can't imagine how long it takes to become proficient in this artform. Simply incredible, even on the second look.

That is absolutely amazing. Just imagine the skill involved. I want to see what they look like from other angles...

that is just hella amazing. Really awesome. I gotta show this to people... I actually had to look at that top one with the two guys on the sidewalk drawing, wondering what was so "mind blowing" about it, only to realize that the guy on the left was just a drawing on the ground. really cool!

Very very cool!

That is too cool!
the attention to detail is incredible!

excellent temp art!

That’s really cool. I takes a lot of talent to make those look so real.

Does anyone know where these are generally painted?

Is it in America, or Europe?

Has anyone seen one of these in person? I'd imagine it would be very impressive to witness.

They look like european locales. I would also enjoy seeing some of his work up close.

Those are awesome. Wish I had that talent or better yet the artisit's to do my walls and ceilings with sences like those.

wow that first one was crazy had to look at it a few times!!

wow, that is cool! Where's that at? NY?

I've seen these before, but they still amaze me when I see them. I love the one with the seal.

those are some amazing images, takes some serious talent to paint/draw those. i wonder if he was busking or was paid for it?

Stunning pics. When I was in Paris a few years ago, I remember seeing one of these paintings being done. The guy was about a third of the way done when I was there. It still looked awesome. Some of the tourists were asking him questions. The artists said that it takes him the better part of the day. He tries to do it when it isn't going to rain for a few days. He applies a clear sealant to try to preserve it as long as possible. He had a box for donations. I through in a couple of francs. I didn't have a chance to go back and see it done. I would have loved to see if finished.


Glad

Amazing artwork... simply mind-bending!

Amazing!

I saw this in an email not too long ago, this guy is simply amazing, If i had 1/4 this guys artistic talent I would be set.

http://www.dodger.com/wenner/images/pic-dies-irae2.jpg

This is just so awesome, I wish I had this kind of talent.

Now that is real art!

One of my goals in life now is to see an example of this first hand.

so its all actually 2d ?

wow thats so cool, i wouldnt even walk over those how could you

Wow, that is really impressive. Is that done with chalk as well?

mindblowing is correct. WOW

wow...

...the juxtaposition of two realities - the esthetic and the quotidian - is always significant. These are some of the best, are they not?

I am impressed. those are definately awsome

What's even more fun is that the artist works in chalk -- or, something like chalk only tougher. So these wonderful pieces of art are not permanent. They'll eventually wear away, some in just a few days and some in a few months; depends on the environment and how much they're walked on/driven over.

How in the world does someone come up with something like that, seriously i mean, is it just like. ......I gotta make a picture that looks like its sticking out of the ground with nothing but a crayon and a can of goo....

The stuff is amazing, at first I thought it was real..

this stuff is amazing.....when i first saw the pictures i didnt believe it was real....i couldnt understand how it was possible! :)

Very amazing... The depth with which each rendering seems to have is incredible.

awesome

Wow. Just, wow.

Someday I'll have a 1/10th as much talent as that...

thats just amazing i thought the first were dummy dolls, but i finally got the massage. that is some great work and he deserves to be known as one of the few greats of the 21st century in my book.