Made You Laugh And Smile (12 Photos)
By Vidar
A chalk beaver beside a fallen tree. Ringo at the drums.
Homer naps in a bent railing, and a bollard becomes a UFO. These 12 street artworks turn familiar objects and characters into jokes.
🍩 The Doughnut Wheel — By HIJACK
HIJACK gives a caveman’s stone wheel pink icing and dark sprinkles. A paint tin sits beside the wheel.
💡 Nerd Fact: In 2001, Australian lawyer John Keogh obtained a patent for a wheel. He submitted the application to demonstrate a flaw in a newly introduced patent system.
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🔋 Hopefully I Don’t Get Charged — By JPS in Triefenstein, Germany 🇩🇪
A copper top and black body make this concrete post look like a giant Duracell battery. The person beside it shows its size. JPS says he and his wife painted it in just ten minutes.
💡 Nerd Fact: Duracell is short for “durable cell”. The brand name dates to the 1960s; the black-and-copper color scheme followed in the 1970s.
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⛲ A Fountain With Legs — By Levalet in Paris, France 🇫🇷
A green metal fountain face becomes the center of a black-and-white figure with outstretched arms and bent legs. Water runs from its mouth into the drain below. Photographed by lepublicnme on September 3, 2015.
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🛸 UFO Attack — By Oakoak in Dresden, Germany 🇩🇪
Oakoak created UFO Attack in Dresden in September 2016. The bollard’s rounded cap becomes a flying saucer, while its yellow shaft forms a beam lifting a small cow.
💡 Nerd Fact: Oakoak’s first stencil depicted the actress Louise Brooks. In a 2015 interview, he also named The Simpsons, Futurama and Calvin and Hobbes among his childhood influences.
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🍩 Homer — By Oakoak in Saint-Étienne, France 🇫🇷
In this March 2015 piece in Saint-Étienne, Homer lies in a hammock made from a bent railing, with pink doughnuts on his belly and one dangling from his hand.
💡 Nerd Fact: Homer shares his first name with Matt Groening’s father. In a 2012 Smithsonian interview, Groening said his father was not particularly fond of doughnuts; the food he and Homer Simpson both loved was ice cream.
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👊 Hulk is angryyyyy — By Oakoak in Loire, France 🇫🇷
Two green fists seem to punch through a damaged wall, with broken plaster around them. Oakoak created Hulk is angryyyyy in Loire, France, in July 2015.
💡 Nerd Fact: The Hulk debuted with gray skin in The Incredible Hulk #1 in 1962. Problems reproducing the color consistently led Stan Lee to switch him to green.
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🐸 Sebastian’s Nervous Grin — By David Zinn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸
Sebastian sits on the pavement with a wide, toothy grin and his hands clasped in front of him. In Zinn’s original post, the nervous frog hopes someone will tell him if he has flies in his teeth.
💡 Nerd Fact: Frogs that have teeth use them to hold prey, and the teeth are usually less than a millimeter long. A Florida Museum study found that frogs have independently lost their teeth more than 20 times during evolution.
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🎩 Heavy-Hat McGee — By David Zinn in Berkley, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸
Created at Berkley Street Art Fest, Heavy-Hat McGee tips a real metal cap as though it were a hat. The chalk figure wears a suit and holds a cane across his body.
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🦫 Roger’s Productive Weekend — By David Zinn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸
A fallen tree blocks the path behind Roger, a chalk beaver standing with his paws clasped together. Zinn’s caption credits him with “a very productive weekend.” The artist also shared a making-of video of the drawing.
💡 Nerd Fact: A beaver’s front teeth keep growing throughout its life. Daily gnawing wears them down; if they become too long, they can prevent the back teeth from meeting properly to grind food.
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🔨 Jackhammer Jitters — By Tom Bob
Drawn motion lines make this cartoon worker appear to shake as he grips real utility equipment like a jackhammer. Tom Bob shared the work from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in May 2018.
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🎳 Strike! — By Tom Bob in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼
At Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, a manhole cover becomes a bowling ball, while an electrical box and its cables form the bowler’s torso and legs. Painted pins lie scattered across the pavement. Tom Bob shared the work as Strike! in April 2018.
💡 Nerd Fact: Pier-2’s abandoned harbor warehouses were rediscovered by organizers searching for a fireworks site in 2000. Artists formed the Pier-2 Artistic Development Association the following year, helping turn the site into an arts district.
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🥁 Ringo at the drums — By Tom Bob
A concrete cylinder becomes a drum bearing The Beatles’ name, while two narrow posts become drumsticks. Behind them, Tom Bob paints Ringo Starr with a long nose and a mop of hair. He shared the work to celebrate Ringo’s 77th birthday in July 2017.
💡 Nerd Fact: According to drum historian Gary Astridge, sign painter Eddie Stokes was paid £5 to paint the Beatles’ first “drop-T” logo onto Ringo’s bass drum in 1963. Astridge identifies Stokes’s 1966 tour version as the one that later became the band’s official trademark.
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