Sunday, July 16, 2006

ADVENTURES IN THE THIRD DIMENSION!!!

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OK, these are kinda incredible! My old friend Dee Babe sent me these; she's resides over there on the Northwest coast of the country. Now, that's not really a gigantic Cola bottle; it's a 3-dimensional chalk drawing (you know, just like Dick Van Dyke drew in Mary Poppins, dudes). The artist is Julian Beever: he's English but is known for his incredible 3-D chalk drawings all over Europe. Photobucket - Video and Image HostingHere he's sailing his little boat. . .but not really; it's just a chalk drawing. He employs a technique in his 3-D drawings in which the drawing appears distorted unless you look at it from a certain angle; then it looks freakin' 3-dimensional!!! Here's an example: Photobucket - Video and Image Hostingthis picture of the nice lady in the swimming pool looks like Julian is actually dipping his toes in the pool (keep in mind that both of his feet are actually touching the pavement). Now, here's the same drawing from the opposite angle; Photobucket - Video and Image Hostingthat huge pink long thang (watch it, you pervs) is her leg. Coolness! Here comes Spider-Man to the rescue where it looks like Julian is balancing on a stack of Jenga bricks!Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting And down there is a really incredible Batman and Robin in which Julian looks like he's actually perched up on a ledge of a building looking down at the caped crusaders!

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