This Is Clever (11 Photos, vol. 2)

The city supplied the missing pieces

Three utility meters become wristwatches, two vents become an owl’s eyes, and missing plaster becomes an elephant. Elsewhere, a real chain completes a film character’s weapon and a wooden fence turns into a forest.

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⌚ “Psst!! Wanna Buy Some Time?” — By Tom Bob in Long Beach, California, USA 🇺🇸

Tom Bob turns three electricity meters into watch faces by adding straps, buckles, and a trench-coated seller. In his January 21, 2018 post, he called the work “PSST!! WANNA BUY SOME TIME?” and placed it in the alley at Solana Court and West La Reina Way in Long Beach. The three real meters remain visible as the watch faces.

💡 Meter Fact: Electric utilities use meters to record how much electricity customers consume, generally measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh). Tom Bob turns those meters into watches. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

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🐘 Elephant Friend — By Golsa Golchini in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

A small painted girl in a striped dress touches the elephant’s trunk. Golsa Golchini uses a large patch of missing plaster for most of the animal’s body, then paints the head, trunk, legs, and outline around it. The damaged wall supplies the elephant’s size and rough texture.

💡 Nerd Fact: An elephant’s trunk is a fusion of its nose and upper lip and contains no bones. Smithsonian’s National Zoo says it contains about 150,000 muscle units and tendons, giving it both strength and fine control.

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🛢️ “Jackpot” — By Vlek in Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴

Painted in April 2026 at Banevigsgata 5 in Stavanger, Jackpot shows one child digging while another holds up a selfie stick beneath a black oil gusher. Visit Region Stavanger documented the work as it was painted on April 15, 2026 and described it as a comment on Stavanger’s status as an oil-and-gas capital. Ferdinand Feys photographed it on May 6, 2026.

💡 Nerd Fact: On June 14, 1972, the Storting chose Stavanger as the location for both the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and the new state oil company. Stavanger received 75 votes, ahead of Trondheim’s 49 and Bergen’s 20.

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🦉 Owl With Vent Eyes — By CAL, Dessins & Co in Lyon, France 🇫🇷

Two circular wall vents form the owl’s oversized eyes. CAL, Dessins & Co painted a small gray body around them, with an orange beak and feet. In a November 21, 2020 post, CAL said the owl was painted on the wall of the artist’s own home in Lyon and that several others had been made elsewhere.

💡 Nerd Fact: Owl eyes have very limited movement within their sockets. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology explains that 14 neck vertebrae allow an owl’s head to turn as much as 270 degrees.

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🌳 “Let’s Make Earth Green Again” — By HIJACK in Los Angeles, California, USA 🇺🇸

A grayscale worker appears to paste a green forest across a wooden fence, with the real plants above continuing the scene. Le Parisien identifies the Los Angeles work as dating to April 22, 2020 and captions it Let’s Make Earth Green Again. It appears in the newspaper’s report on street art made in response to COVID-19.

💡 Nerd Fact: April 22, 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The first Earth Day had been held on the same date in 1970.

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🤖 “Robot Band” — By Damon Belanger in Redwood City, California, USA 🇺🇸

Damon Belanger calls the piece Robot Band. A row of four circular bicycle racks stands beside painted pavement shadows shaped like robot musicians. The racks remain unchanged; the band is painted on the concrete beside them.

💡 City Fact: Redwood City says its Sidewalk & Shadow Art Project installed 20 stencils downtown. It locates the bicycle-rack works on Middlefield Road near Courthouse Square. Source: City of Redwood City

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⛓️ Gogo Yubari — By JPS in Weston-super-Mare, England, UK 🇬🇧

JPS painted this Gogo Yubari stencil in 2015 on Greenfield Place in Weston-super-Mare. Somerset Live records the location and year, while the artist later described it as “now long gone”. He added a real chain to the wall and lined it up with the Kill Bill character’s painted hand, making the physical prop part of her weapon.

💡 Nerd Fact: Quentin Tarantino’s first Kill Bill draft gave Gogo a twin sister named Yuki. She missed the House of Blue Leaves fight because she had a cold. The abandoned chapter remained unfilmed for more than 20 years before becoming The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge in 2025. Source: Variety’s interview with Tarantino

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🌫️ Motion on Black — By Shaday Gomez in Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴

The same figure appears in several positions across the curved black wall. One is sharp; the others are pale and blurred. The source post credits the Bogotá mural to Shaday Gomez and the photograph to Alkaptura.

💡 Motion Fact: Étienne-Jules Marey analyzed movement through multiple exposures on a single photographic plate. The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates this chronophotograph to 1894.

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🎷 “Lisa Plays Sax in the Street” — By EFIX in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷

EFIX calls the work “Lisa plays Sax in the street.” He places Lisa Simpson beside a real wall pipe painted gold. Her hands line up with the pipe, which becomes her saxophone. EFIX’s official street-art archive includes the same Montpellier image.

💡 Nerd Fact: Lisa nearly played a tuba. Animator David Silverman told The Associated Press that he proposed a tuba for her part in the opening sequence. James L. Brooks changed it to a baritone saxophone and used her skill to establish Lisa as the family’s unappreciated genius.

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🧵 “Zipper” — By Roadsworth in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦

Roadsworth adds a yellow zipper slider to two white road lines, making them look as if they are unzipping the asphalt. The street markings supply almost the entire image.

💡 Street Fact: Roadsworth’s official archive places the zipper images among his 2001–2005 street works. Quartier des Spectacles says his early interventions began with a desire for more bike lanes and a challenge to car culture.

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🫖 “Shattering” — By Leon Keer in Helsingborg, Sweden 🇸🇪

At Södergatan 11D, a stack of porcelain cups tips down a 15-by-7.5-metre wall. ArtStreetHbg describes Shattering as a climate-change mural. Each Rörstrand-style cup shows a different scenario, and Keer’s app makes the cups break apart through augmented reality. Keer’s official project page credits Massina as assistant and Joost Spek of 3Dpicnic for the augmented reality. Photo: Leon Keer.

💡 Design Fact: The cups reference Rörstrand porcelain. The Swedish company was founded in 1726 and marks its 300th anniversary in 2026. Source: Visit Sweden

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