Couldn’t Keep a Straight Face (8 Photos vol. 2)

October 10, 2026

By Vidar

Some ideas are impossible to take seriously.

In East Dulwich, the Queen rides a hoverboard with three corgis on leads. In Čačak, a painted old man grabs a real streetlamp and grins. The other six are small jokes on walls, pipes, parking lots and one Oregon hillside.

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👑 Queen Elizabeth II on a Hoverboard — By CATMAN in East Dulwich, London, England 🇬🇧

The Queen, in headscarf and quilted jacket, rolls along on a hoverboard while three corgis pull ahead on their leads. CATMAN first painted her on a Lordship Lane wall for her 90th birthday, after leaving the wall’s owners a letter asking for permission, Southwark News reported. In 2022 she returned on a new wall by a coffee shop on Frogley Road, just off Lordship Lane, repainted with help from Dulwich Street Art in time for the Platinum Jubilee, as the organizer posted on the East Dulwich Forum. Photo by Paul Davies.

💡 Royal Fact: The corgis are not random extras. The Royal Collection Trust says Princess Elizabeth was given a corgi named Susan for her 18th birthday in 1944, and every corgi she bred after that descended from Susan.

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🐭 Just Around the Corner — Kalamata, Greece 🇬🇷

On one side of a wall corner, a black cat strolls along. On the other side, a mouse waits with something big and heavy raised over its head. Neither can see the other yet. Photo by George Venios.

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✨ “The Light Is All Around” — By Endo in Čačak, Serbia 🇷🇸

An old man in thick glasses grins from the side of a building and holds a real streetlamp like his own torch. Endo painted him around the lamp in 2015, so after dark the bulb lights up his face. Street Art Cities lists the mural as The light is all around.

💡 Mural Fact: Čačak has earned the nickname City of Murals. According to the DUK festival, the city now has more than 120 murals by 93 international muralists.

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💪 Hulk Breaks Through — By Pappas Pärlor

A pixel Hulk made of fuse beads punches his way up through a parking lot, with chunks of broken asphalt all around him.

💡 Artist Fact: Pappas Pärlor is Johan Karlgren from Motala, Sweden. The regional museum in his home county, Östergötlands museum, gave his bead art a whole exhibition: The Legend of Pappas Pärlor.

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🐻 “Lord Gumi” — By Price Goodman in Phoenix, Arizona, USA 🇺🇸

A see-through red gummy bear stands in full samurai armor, sword in hand, on a wall in downtown Phoenix. Goodman painted the candy so light seems to shine through it, while the armor stays solid metal. Photo by With the Flicks.

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🌲 The Smiley Face Forest — Grand Ronde, Oregon, USA 🇺🇸

Every fall, a giant yellow smiley face appears in a dark green Oregon forest. Forester Dennis Creel and Hampton Lumber co-owner David Hampton planted it in 2011 while replanting the hillside, Fox Weather explains. It is about 300 feet across, so most people only see it from the air.

💡 Forest Fact: The face is larch, a conifer that turns yellow before it drops its needles. The eyes and mouth are evergreen Douglas fir, so the smile only shows in fall. Full Fact checked the viral photos and confirmed they are real.

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🍺 Beer on Tap — By Pappas Pärlor

A white drainpipe bends over like a tap and pours a long stream of yellow beads into a pixel beer mug, foam and all. Only the beer is beads. The pipe did the rest.

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❤️ “Heart Attack (Kill Them With Kindness)” — By TABBY in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹

Two soldiers work a mortar on a white brick wall, but the ammunition is red hearts. TABBY lists the 2017 piece on the artist’s website as Heart Attack – Kill them with kindness.

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