Monday, June 25, 2012

Street Art @ Gurney Plaza - 2012

I've always been facinated by street art, typically the ones that people painted on the floor and resembled something 3D. 
I had the chance to witness this first hand today. 
The painting is now on displayed at the entrace of Gurney Plaza (the one facing sea side). 
To get the best viewing angle to simulate the 3D picture, stand in front of the painting facing into the entrance. There's 1 X marked on the floor, just stand there, position yourself in such a way that the "wall" with the window that the boy is looking out, is horizontally straight to you. 
If you see it correctly, it will simulate that the entrance floor leading to the plaza is actually an apartment and Spiderman is crawling out from it on the left. 
Very very nifty!
Bravo to the painter(s)!


This is the best view that I can capture so far. Notice the wall of the apartment window is facing you straight? this is needed for the illusion to work. =) I loved the nice touch that Spiderman's fingers are reaching out to grab the ledge of the floor, I mean roof.

The view from right

Another view from left, see Spidey is all but distorted...

A view at the back of the piece... looks like pyramid to me
If something, these interesting 3D street art showed us 1 thing. Things can appeared differently if you look at them from a different perspective.

Cheers and have a nice day ahead. =)

P/S: Credits go to the 30 fine students from The One Academy who put up this absolutely amazing piece for our eyes... hopefully more to come in the famous landmarks across Penang. :)
Good job guys!!!

2 comments:

WQian said...

Hi, I'm speaking on behalf for our college The One Academy Penang who did this and I'm also one of the students from the illustration team of 30 that took part in this project. =D We would be very glad if you can credit us because you really wrote a great blog entry on it. Thank you very much. ^^

Kit Keat Bar said...

hi Qian,

Thank you for visiting my humble blog. I've no idea about this and thanks for sharing the info.

I have put up a short mention in the bottom of the post.

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