check out these awesome sidewalk chalk drawings . . .

[OneBlueSky]

apparently some guy in London . . . incredible stuff . . .

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bouncechrissy/155638.html

[arwalden]

1. Wow!!! That's So Cool!!!

Outstanding!

-- Allen

[pfitz59]

2. Where's that hit of Acid...

when I need it! Too cool....

[mmm]

3. Who is that guy? He's great.

[brainwashed_youth]

4. holy shit

that is awesome

[Insider]

5. that was fun

thanks for the latenight smile

[ironflange]

6. Those are unbefrigginglievable!

[LastKnight]

7. woah...

if i saw that hole in the ground one, it would probably take a second look to actuially see that it wasnt a hole... jeez.

-LK

[bubblesby2002]

8. Absolutely unbelievable

The two boys look so real. This guy is amazing.

[Hand]

10. Wow...

Until you mentioned it, I assumed that it was a photo of the guys doing the drawings! This IS amazing!

Historical note: There's a long tradition of sidewalk chalk art in Britain--it's called "screeving". George Orwell writes a lot about screevers in London in "Down and Out in Paris and London".

[Hand]

11. Aha...

In the first photo, the guy on the right is real. Just to mess with our heads even further, the beer on the LEFT is real. Man! This is genius of a rare sort!!!

:toast:

[lotteandollie]

9. Thank you.

I enjoyed that.

[Hand]

12. Here's information on the artist...

Kurt Wenner--he's actually quite well known, apparently. And rightly so!

Kurt Wenner

[silverlib]

13. Here are some more... on edit - didn't work

with no link. I hope this works - I've never posted pictures before, but I love this type of art!

[roguevalley]

14. I used to stand and watch them do that in London. Art school students

usually trying to earn money. Tremendous town for the
oddity, London. I remember going all the way down to the
tube platform in Charing Cross and walking around a
corner. A girl in a formal gown was sitting and playing
a 12' Welsh harp. Astonishing.

[Wonk]

15. I found a use for one in a fark.com photoshop contest (kinda silly)

in case anyone is interested. I posted the link to the originals there as well, and it gives me an excuse to kick this thread back to page one ;-)

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=795047

[patdem]

16. It is hard to impossible to tell what is painted and what is real

Is that Tony Blair looking painted in such a perspective that his face is on the far planter wall? or does the far planter wall even exist? or Is it a person with a Tony Blair looking mask...but his bottom looks a bit distorted...not that noticable...but just maybe???