View From The Porch: Under the bridge...

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Your l'œil just got tromped.

Robb Allen said...: When I was taking art courses in College (my programming career started off with the desire to write things like Photoshop. Figured 'color theory' might be useful), there was a class that was working on trompe-l'œil. One guy did a light-switch, which he place on the wall.

The number of people who tried to use it was amusing.; 9:34 AM, September 24, 2013
og said...: Watch out. Road runner will be zooming out of there in a few seconds.; 9:39 AM, September 24, 2013
BGMiller said...: It's not the roadrunner that's the concern.

How much tax money is being spent for somebody to come by and peel the coyote off of there with a paint scraper?

BGM; 9:46 AM, September 24, 2013
Ken said...: Ceci n'estpas une pipe?; 12:04 PM, September 24, 2013
NotClauswitz said...: We did a lot of painting like that in Theater, one had to be careful that the Actors didn't try to open painted-on cupboards or trip over painted-on floorboards...; 3:48 PM, September 24, 2013
CGHill said...: Greatest. Caption. Ever.; 9:08 PM, September 24, 2013
Will said...: Palo Alto CA, has quite a few things like that scattered around the town retail area. They are well done, and maintained by the city, IIRC.; 3:41 PM, September 25, 2013