Fake 3D crater designed to slow down London cyclists

[DREDIOCK]

Fake 3D crater designed to slow down London cyclists
by Scott Carmichael on Jun 18th 2009 at 11:30AM


When the Islington city council tried to think of a way to slow down cyclists on their famous canalway, they came up with a creative and (hopefully) effective solution.

The way I see it, this piece of "art" may have several unintended consequences:


Cyclists see this thing and panic - causing them to swerve and hit the fence, shooting them into the river
Cyclists see it, know it isn't real and slow down to stare at it, hitting a pedestrian
Cyclists know it is fake, so they speed up to show the council what a waste of money this is

[WilldCrd]

COOL!! i want to get something like that painted on my garage floor

[sluggish]

It only looks real from exactly the angle that the photo was taken from.

[WilldCrd]

It only looks real from exactly the angle that the photo was taken from.

One of the guys i work with has some pics like this. I want something done to the effect of when looking at the floor in my garage you would see a deep hole, some broken water pipes, electrical lines and maybe way way at the bottom a river of LAVA....liquid hot MAGMA lol. If i can get it done while the wife is away so that when she come home and goes to pull into the garage.....PANIC !! 

ofcourse the consequences would be me in the dog house for a lil while but it would be worth it!

[Saxman]

Fake 3D crater designed to slow down London cyclists
by Scott Carmichael on Jun 18th 2009 at 11:30AM


When the Islington city council tried to think of a way to slow down cyclists on their famous canalway, they came up with a creative and (hopefully) effective solution.

The way I see it, this piece of "art" may have several unintended consequences:


Cyclists see this thing and panic - causing them to swerve and hit the fence, shooting them into the river
Cyclists see it, know it isn't real and slow down to stare at it, hitting a pedestrian
Cyclists know it is fake, so they speed up to show the council what a waste of money this is
(Image removed from quote.)

Bad idea to take lessons on traffic control from Wile E. Coyote.

[USRanger]

 

[boxboy28]

Willdcard i love your idea/vision..... i see the lava as i type!      only problem is the pix are ascpect ot view oriented.......from out sode it wopuld freak her out.....if she saw it.....but once your on top it wouldnt be anything unless you had it drawn that way!

[RightF00T]

It only looks real from exactly the angle that the photo was taken from.

Was going to say....seems like faux news

[Captfish]

That guys does art all over the world....I cant find the one I like best but here are some more

[whels]

more of his drawings
http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm