By Vurdlak on September 16, 2006, with 42 Comments
Catalina sent in this graffiti/building illusion. It’s located somwhere on the streets of Madrid, Spain. Don’t know what the illusions actually is? Be sure to jump inside this article for second photo, and then you’ll understand :)
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wow!
some people just have WAY too much free time…
@scott
You idiot. You say that they have too much free time while you wile time away on the internet. Drawing and doing designs like this is much less a waste of time than doing this. I realize i’m being a hypocrite, however, it seems stupid to me to even comment something like that when you are the one staring at a computer screen and wasting much more time than they are.
I hate it when people write “somebody had too much free time…” just because you use your free time getting friendly with your right hand doesent mean that humanity should stop producing art. A significant part of human progress is due to the fact that people “waste” their free time on creating/inventing/expressing themselves. This illusion is pretty cool it is one of the better building mural ones I’ve seen. It’s too bad about the grafitti at the bottom.
I can´t see exactly the illusion…Is it a painted panel between buidings?
Wow, thats really impressive!
i still don’t get it
Wonderful! What a shame that someone had to do graffiti on it (or is that the artist’s signature?).
I disagree with ZegreS, I think that if you have a enough money and time to make something like that you ought to use it for some think more productive. It’s still pretty cool.
Too much free time for art? Awww, you’re just jealous
Its brilliant ideas like these that give me a small ray of hope that art wont end up as a scribble on a piece of paper that represents ‘the way in which people sabotage their own relationships through bad oral hygiene contrasted against the lesser known dark side of a donut’…i await that day with fear…
ZegreS: You have WAY too much time on your hands…just kidding.
Amazing piece! Any clue as to who?
Damn, He didn’t say they wasted their time
Very nice illusion though, i used to have stuff like that in a town i used to live in.
I’m confused with this one. What’s it painted on?
wll dis mayb dere hobbie nd dey myt lyk doin al dis paintin on da wall nd stuff so u cnt really sy dey hve too mch free tym dey myt evn gt paid fr dis sht.
bt its stll coooool tho.
O nd Red it ain painted on anyfng its called MAGIC!!!!!!
These comments are far more disconcerting than any illusion
I agree, can’t we just talk about the illusion? One of the best murals I’v seen on this site, great job!
I think that people *commenting on blogs* saying “some people just have WAY too much free time” *must* be being ironic… even if they don’t realise it.
Building on left is out further than the one on the right and there is no space between them, mural is on the side of building to the left. Bob, cool your Asperger’s
yeah… commenting on blogs indicates free time. :)
and bob, can you please spell the words correctly? it’s kinda hard to read.
props tah ZegreS. this is way cool. im super impressed that someone had this much talent and commitment to finish this.
dont you mean the bilding on the right is out more ?????
I got that when looking at the first pic! YAY! I kind of agree with scott, but then again, I wish I had that kind of time and talent with art.
“wll dis mayb dere hobbie nd dey myt lyk doin al dis paintin on da wall nd stuff so u cnt really sy dey hve too mch free tym dey myt evn gt paid fr dis sht.
bt its stll coooool tho.
O nd Red it ain painted on anyfng its called MAGIC!!!!!!”
HOLY CRAP BOB. Speak English.
I sooooo don’t get it….. i read the top too, and still don’t get it :O(
hardcore
Sorry!!!! Don’t Get It!!!! Someone please explain!!!!!
They actually have something like this in disneyland (or was it disney world, which-ever is in Florida).
For shauzia, huh?, and all the other people who dont get it, what the camera is actually taking a picture of is flat, not 3D like a real city.
BTW: The pic. may actually be taken in the disney-place in Florida which means he may not have painted it instead he just went on vacation.
are you serious …free time? This is someones job or passion its not that they have free time, they use their time to do what they love to do…
Hey, what a nice surprise, it’s Madrid, I think it’s at Montera street, near the 0 Km point at the “Puerta del Sol”. I’ve walked and enjoyed this painting many times! In Spain is said: “The world is a handkerchief” (you may laugh but its true), meaning that we are all neighbours despite of the distance. May be you are abroad, at New York, or at London, anywhere, but for a moment we have been together in this small corner of Madrid. Greetings for everybody!
P.D.: Once upon a time there was a caveman with much free time, so he discovered fire, and another one discovered iron, and another one discovered steel, another enjoyed learning to build silly things with wood… Should I carry on? Creativity is a good way to use spare time, history and progress demonstrates it, and is possibly as better as jumping and shouting when your team scores a goal, or heating a sofa watching an empty of content tv… Respect.
I think I would end up trying to walk between the buildings to get to the other side and end up smacking into the wall.
cool
we have a lot of this building murals in Madrid. They are called “trampantojos” because they really cheat your eyes.
Really?!?! We get none of them here where I am…. All the way here people have no taste for any form of art whatsoever. If somebody puts up something like that, somebody’s bound to put graffiti over it in no time.
It´s very commun in Belo Horizonte / Brazil
This is so awesome! In Quebec, Canada they take people who get caught doing graffitti, and send them to art school to do this for a living, so screw you “some people just have way too much free time” I think it’s beautiful, and people need beauty to go on living, or else everything is the same pale grey. I’m also going to Madrid on a school trip in a about a month, so I can’t wait to go see this in person. It’s so great that someone shared this with us.
nice
i don’t get it, is it 1 big building?
the people who have too much free time are the people who have nothing better to do but critiscize.
smart
thats in disney world orlando i have seen it
WOW! it’s painted onto the building! and the first picture is actually a paintong of the sky but it’s painted onto the roof!
btw peoplec who sit here writing huge paragraphs of how people have to much time are the people with too much time!