Thursday, May 31, 2012

Need A Good Painter? This Guy Should Qualify...

Need a good painter?

This guy should qualify!

Before photo: -


A typical concrete & stucco facade



Then the wall starts to take on a
3-dimensional appearance: -


This is Eric, in his element, 30' off the ground.

He does most of the artwork by himself
& researches, paints and designs each project from scratch.

His wife Kathy, also an artist,
serves as project manager.


After photo: -


Finished product


MORE BELOW!

Here are some more examples of Eric's projects: -


Before photo: -


Great American Crossroad - Bucyrus , Ohio


After photo: -


Before photos: -


After photo: -


Liberty Remembers



Hard to believe you're looking
at a flat 2-dimensional wall.


How to dress up a drab Shopping Mall in Niagara , NY state


Before photo: -


After photo: -



Also, look at the close-up of the left side: -


And the middle: -


(I wonder how many birds fly
into this wall on a daily basis?)


Indoor Murals at the Hallway of Miller Brewery...


Before: -


Miller Fermenting Rooms

Past meets Present in the Miller Brewery Fermenting Rooms.

Hooks, clipboards and aprons were added to
the surface of the murals to enhance the illusion...

After photos: -




You're looking at FLAT walls!

Detail view looking down the illusional hallway in the previous mural:




SIMPLY AMAZING, ISN'T IT?


I wonder how many people walk into the walls, while trying to go down a hallway that does not exist!

Photos--from Australia to Zanzibar (and between) AMAZING PICTURES

In case you're unable to visit some of these places in the next few months, just have a look... 
 Airport in the Maldives is located on an artificial  island in the middle of the Indian Ocean

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Balloons in Cappadocia .

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The border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a cafe
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Favelas of Brazil . The boundary between wealth and  poverty.
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In the Chinese province of Shandong is a bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou .
The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes, and is the longest sea bridge in the world.

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The world's highest chained carousel, located in Vienna , at a height of 117 meters.



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Balcony  of floor 103 in Chicago .

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From the outside it looks like this

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In  northwestern Montana , USA .
The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it's very  deep.

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Morning Glory
; kind of clouds observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia

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Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.

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Dubai. The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors).

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And this is the view down

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Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park, New Zealand

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Family photo

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Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.

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Haus Rizzi
Germany .


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Lost paradise in the Indian Ocean . Isle of  Lamu.

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Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea

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This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform.
These phenomena can be observed in several places in China .
This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu .
The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.

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Lighthouse guard in Mare , France must be one of the most courageous people on the planet! 

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Skyscraper-Crescent  Crescent Moon Tower ( Dubai )

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Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid

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Gibraltar Airport is one of the most extraordinary airports around the world

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These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino , Poland .  The cause of the curvature is  unknown

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The river above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge ,  Germany .

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Lena Pillars.  Russia , the Lena River .

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In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon.
This city is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet.
The two opposing tides in this place can not merge because they have different densities.
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Day and night. The monument in Kaunas,  Lithuania

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Twice a year in the Gulf of Mexico rays migrate.
About 10 thousand stingrays swim from the Yucatan   Peninsula to Florida in the spring and back in the fall.
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Photo of storm in Montana , USA , 2010

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Heavy fog in Sydney , which enveloped the whole city

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The longest traffic jam in the world -- recorded in  China .
Its length is 260 kilometers [and that's  161 MILES, folks!]


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Thor
's Well a/k/a "the gates of the dungeon" on Cape  Perpetua , Oregon .
At moderate tide and strong  surf, flowing water creates a fantastic landscape

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View of the sunset from inside the wave.

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Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar . 
Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by  boat.

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An unusual tunnel in California
's Sequoia National  Park