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An Artist in Lyon Known as “the Pavement Surgeon” Repairs the City’s Sidewalks using Colorful Mosaics (lemmy.world)
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[–] 22 points 3 years ago (3 children)

This is cool, but also makes me feeling like we poured asphalt over a masterpiece.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I mean we paved over cities to make room for cars, so not wrong

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    • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Until the weather becomes slightly warmer or colder or something drives over it.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think it looks so cool when things are repaired in a different style like this

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There is probably not an easy way to do that on the spot. Do you think the artist traces out the dimensions and then makes the piece at home and brings it back?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    No they just pour in the mortar and then put the pieces in. The ones that do pictures like a cat or a bird or something premake the picture part and then fill in the pattern surrounding the picture afterwards. This particular french artist does it anonymously in the middle of the night.

    Here in the UK people spray paint giant dicks on the floor around the potholes. A slightly alternative way of annoying the council into taking action.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    An artist in Rouen, France also filled the stone courthouse’s WWII shelling holes with Lego’s.

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Beaneath the pavement, a bathroom

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is that considered legal? If someone makes a graffiti is illegal in most places. Would the police stop him ?

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