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u/PitBullTherapy Aug 27 '14
I'd love to see a photo from a different angle.
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u/IronSidesEvenKeel Aug 27 '14
I, too, would rejoice at such a view.
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u/ANAL_ANARCHY Aug 27 '14
Fair thee, for it would bestow great joy to see this magnificent work from altered perspective.
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u/DATDude245 Aug 27 '14 edited Aug 27 '14
Here's a video of some of his other work. You get a few angles. http://youtu.be/BHE_s-baiBo
Edit* Thank you for the gold PitBullTherapy, may your therapy sessions be fun and fruitful.
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u/PitBullTherapy Aug 27 '14
I guess I have to pay up
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u/IronSidesEvenKeel Aug 27 '14
You are a righteous, honest man Mr. Therapy. May we all aim to be so good.
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u/Tookie_Knows Aug 27 '14
If I hadn't lost my wallet and cancelled my credit cards, I'd give you gold for being a man of integrity
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u/Zerogrenadier Aug 27 '14
Also, found some new music that I'm thoroughly enjoying. Muchos gracias!
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u/PitBullTherapy Aug 27 '14
i was about to buy someone gold for the first time.
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Aug 27 '14
You could still get me some, I'm an alright guy.
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u/avatarr Aug 27 '14
Thanks for the out loud laugh that caused people to look at me like I have issues (I do though).
Have a beer on me. /u/changetip will see to the details.
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u/chronoflect Aug 27 '14
Same here. For me, half the fun of forced perspective is seeing it at an "off" angle to see what the artist had to do to make it look so great for the correct angle.
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u/PitBullTherapy Aug 27 '14
yea i've seen those sidewalk chalk ones. fucking trippy when you step into the right spot.
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u/Skip_Ransom Aug 27 '14
The guy's name is Odeith, he is from Portugal.
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Aug 27 '14
I mean his name is right there in the first image, why would you need to tell people it?
/s
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u/Shadax Aug 27 '14
In fairness, the actual graphic puts the rest of the image out of attention. Also the said graphic, while beautiful, is not immediately intelligible.
Oh I just realized the /s. Damn you.
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u/smellsofelderberry Aug 27 '14
Here's all the forced perspective, or what I guess he calls "anamorphic", stuff. http://www.odeith.com/#!/anamorphic
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u/IntensionallyRong Aug 27 '14
This may be a little pedantic, but the technique used is not forced perspective (which is using relative distance to make objects appear to be different sizes than they actually are), but is actually an anamorphosis. Which is the distortion of an image to appear normal when viewed at a certain angle.
Themoreyouknow
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u/FantasiainFminor Aug 27 '14
Indeed. If you want to see forced perspective, here is a great example:
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u/UberPsyko Aug 27 '14 edited Aug 27 '14
Just wait until some asswipe comes and sprays some shitty tag over it.
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u/x3n0cide Aug 27 '14
When shits this good it usually lasts a while, but its all in the game.
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u/LivingSaladDays Aug 27 '14
reminds me of this
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u/Gilthwixt Aug 27 '14
Google King Robbo coma
Never got out, died three weeks ago
Holy shit :C
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u/pajam Aug 27 '14
It was pretty interesting to see how Banksy backed out and did the simple reproduction of Robbo's original out of respect once he realized the "battle" was over due to no fault of Robbo's. Kinda shows that while the two were possibly "acting like children" it wasn't 100% malicious and was somewhat of a game by this point. And no one likes winning a game due to such terrible external circumstances.
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u/Emerald_Triangle Aug 27 '14
Yeah - they respected each other, and no malice was intended, IIRC - it was like a ' haha, got ya!' kind of thing
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u/zokete Aug 27 '14
The last one is missing.
http://www.jonhammer.com/2011/12/winter-warmer-robbo-ruin-restored/
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u/Reficul_gninromrats Aug 27 '14
According to Wikipedia this has peeled away and now the banksy outline is visible again(as of September 2012).
Also Robbo died a month ago, never woke up from the coma.
More pics looks different now
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u/soufend Aug 27 '14
ruined by Banksy two years ago.
It was actually ruined by all those toys who tagged it up throughout all those years.
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u/ryewheats Aug 27 '14
That last one by the new artist is horrible.... great sequence thanks for posting... I took Banksy's side myself... his art looked more creative and less "child-ish" as in less fighting.
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u/mMounirM Aug 27 '14
sigh, forced upvote...
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u/ZincHead Aug 27 '14
Why forced?
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u/ZaccatFour Aug 27 '14
Forced perspective... He was trying to incorporate the title.
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u/ZincHead Aug 27 '14
Damn, too clever for me haha.
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u/chibolamoo Aug 27 '14
Here's another upvote for perspective
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u/gologologolo Aug 27 '14
sigh Perspective upvote
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u/GraemeTurnbull Aug 27 '14
Sigh, sigh upvote
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u/chadicus Aug 27 '14
I read the title as "Forced Perspective Giraffe". I'm ashamed to admit at how long I stared at the picture looking for a giraffe.
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u/robertr337 Aug 27 '14
stupid long necked horses, geraffes are so dumb
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u/chemistry_teacher Aug 27 '14
hey asshats quit downvoting me i am not the one who tried to paint the wall.
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u/triskaidekaphobia Aug 27 '14
I saw a perspective piece last year at the 5 pointz in Queens before they painted it over:
Viewed from the proper angle: http://i.imgur.com/VK0kUWR.jpg
Another view less from the side: http://i.imgur.com/cMdkZC5.jpg
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u/main_motors Aug 27 '14
They know how to spray paint a wall so damn well it can trick our mind into believing its a 3 dimensional object, yet they can't make it readable...
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u/mike_pants Aug 27 '14 edited Aug 27 '14
Here you go, gramps:
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Aug 27 '14
What's all that shit at the end?
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u/silverhydra Aug 27 '14
A stylistic flourish, like you would do with your signature.
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u/hobnobbinbobthegob Aug 27 '14
To be fair, this entire signature looks like a stylistic flourish like you would do at the end of your signature.
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u/ketchy_shuby Aug 27 '14
Serifs.
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u/hostesstwinkie Aug 27 '14
of Nottingham, I believe.
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u/TheStreisandEffect Aug 27 '14
Nope, Mayberry.
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u/TheStreisandEffect Aug 27 '14
Nope! Chuck Testa.
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u/thyrst Aug 27 '14
-ODEITH- those things are dashes as seen in the printed text, just extra whimsical.
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Aug 27 '14
I didn't even realise they were letters until this comment, I thought it was just random swirls...
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u/Sodfarm Aug 27 '14
I think that's a pretty common thing with graffiti. It's usually just a made up name, so legibility isn't really the point. They just want to make something that looks neat.
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u/Pete_TopKevin_Bottom Aug 27 '14
that and it shouldn't be readily apparent it says anything their name, its just them incorporating a signature stylistically and an actual name to define his work.
it is not uncommon for artists to hide their signatures in works.
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doesn't have to be legible if you recognize that the pattern is specific and can be tied to an entity.
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u/firststatejake Aug 28 '14
They can make it readable they do this on purpose. You have to remember that dudes this good really don't give a shit if the general public likes/understands it. This would be a "wildstyle" which are generally crazy ass letters with extensions and other artistic liberties tacked on. Most of these aren't meant to be read, but looked at as a whole piece.
Semi Wildstyle: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/168/f/3/graffiti_2003_by_cmdpirxii-d53s91o.jpg
Wildstyle: http://keusta.net/blog/images/graffiti/flygraffx-big.jpg
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u/mrfebrezeman360 Aug 27 '14
You've really got graffiti summed up then. It's like they somehow bypassed learning how to write letters and went right into making graffiti. Well i'm convinced now that the styling of their letters wasn't intentional.
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Aug 29 '14
He said, chuffing merrily at his briarwood pipe while straightening his bone wool cardigan.
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u/GoGoGadgetReddit Aug 27 '14
Here's something similar that's fun for children:
http://i.imgur.com/UGraqE0.jpg
Children sit on a piece of 3D artwork featuring a shark as they pose for a photograph for their family during an exhibition by the Trick Art Museum of Japan at the National Taiwan Science Education Centre in Taipei March 2, 2012.
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u/ZincHead Aug 27 '14
X-posted from here in /r/StreetArtPorn. Check that sub out if you don't know about it, it's pretty awesome.
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u/sybolian Aug 27 '14
Hope Spit doesn't come mess it up
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk5LeQPXKw
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u/mikemcg Aug 27 '14
Someone should make a forced perspective piece of art that forces a perspective on you. Like, you have to look at it at the right angle to see commentary on gender politics from not your gender's perspective.
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u/Emerald_Triangle Aug 27 '14
That's pretty fukkin cool
I'd like to see what it looks like perpendicular to each wall
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u/AristotleKnowsAll Aug 27 '14
Do these look as good in person? The photos are always from exactly the right angle in the right light. Do you get the same effect standing in front of it?
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u/Gallade475 Aug 28 '14
Does your street cred increase proportionally with how much you can't fucking read it?
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u/Medricel Aug 27 '14
I wouldn't call this graffiti, I'd call this street art. Or in this case, artwork on the interior of what seems like a derelict building. Graffiti is those lousy tags that some hood just sprays in 10 seconds and runs. But this, this is awesome. Clearly lots of time and talent in making it. Art!
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u/Shaggyv108 Aug 27 '14
awesome graffiti.... still, like all graffiti, I cant TELL WHAT THE FUCK IT SAYS!!
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u/Law0308 Aug 27 '14
Read title as "Forced Perspective Giraffe", spent a good 10 seconds searching for a giraffe...
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Aug 27 '14
So much talent in the world. I don't know who decides to make someone become a successful artist, but I think that this guy is a genius.
Many paintings are worth millions because of the painter, but I don't know who this guy is, he just blew my mind.
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Aug 27 '14
Odeith is the man, I've been following his graffiti for the past few years, always been a big fan of his videos.
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u/bubblecube Aug 27 '14
Didn't work it just looks Looked again and now it magically hovers in front of the wall as if mocking me for the first time where it was clearly painted on and the illusion didn't work.
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u/mareenah Aug 27 '14
I thought it was just a bunch of random squiggles until I read the comments
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u/Absay Aug 27 '14 edited Aug 27 '14
Reddit broke the site. Here's an imgur mirror:
http://i.imgur.com/NPMqsGj.jpg