Someone Had Fun (10 Photos vol. 3)

By Vidar
Split image: painted paper promises to protect scissors on a door in a gabion wall, beside a wind turbine holding a mop against a concrete wall.

Ten times an artist looked at something ordinary and decided to play

A car gets a movie villain’s stare, a weed becomes armpit hair, and two painted elephants borrow real pine trees for their trunks. Each piece here starts with something that was already on the street and adds just enough to make you laugh.


Two painted elephants dangling on a low wall in Cape Town, their trunks lined up with two real pine tree trunks above the wall, so they seem to hang from the trees.

🐘 Elephant Twinning — By Falko Fantastic in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦

Falko Fantastic paints two elephants on a low wall, dangling from the trunks of two real pine trees that their own trunks run straight up into. The trees finish the animals, and the elephants look like they are hanging on for dear life.

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A black-and-white cutout of a small wind turbine standing by a rough concrete wall, holding a mop, with yellow petals on the ground.

🌬️ Clean Energy — By TABBY

A small wind turbine stands by the wall with a mop in hand. TABBY’s own archive lists Clean Energy as a cutout wooden canvas panel. Clean energy, taken literally.

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A door set in a wall of stone-filled wire gabions, painted with a pair of scissors standing next to a sheet of paper with legs; the paper says “Don’t worry, I’ll protect you.”

✂️ Don’t Worry, I’ll Protect You — By Oakoak

A door in a wall made of caged rocks gets a pair of scissors and a sheet of paper. The paper stands next to the scissors and promises to protect them. Anyone who has played rock, paper, scissors knows why.

💡 Artist Fact: Urban Nation describes Oakoak’s method as playing with the city’s mundane flaws and geek references “to poeticize the urban environment.”

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The back of a red Corvette where the two square tail lights sit in a Terminator face sticker, so the lights become the robot’s glowing red eyes.

🚗 Terminator Tail Lights — By Rudy Willingham in Seattle, USA 🇺🇸

Two square tail lights on a red Corvette turn into the Terminator’s glowing red eyes. Rudy Willingham works with removable stickers around Seattle that turn everyday objects into quick jokes, then leaves them for neighbors to find.

💡 Film Fact: The Library of Congress added The Terminator to the National Film Registry in 2008, so this parked car is borrowing a stare that is officially preserved as American film history.

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A chalk drawing by David Zinn of a small brown bear sitting on the pavement in fluffy pink slippers, at the edge of a bed of wood chips.

🐻 John’s Slippers — By David Zinn

A small chalk bear sits on the pavement in fluffy pink slippers, feet out in front of him. Zinn’s caption explains it: “John’s morning was rattled by the realization that he had left the house in his slippers.”

💡 Artist Fact: Before the sidewalk creatures, Zinn spent years on commissions. His official biography lists landfill murals, environmental superheroes and hand-painted dump trucks among them.

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A painted figure with a raised arm stretching across a wall and the pavement below it, where a real tuft of grass growing from the seam between wall and pavement forms the armpit hair.

🌾 “L’aisselle / The Armpit” — By Sandrine Estrade Boulet

A tuft of grass growing where the wall meets the pavement becomes the armpit hair of a painted figure stretching her arm. The artist’s portfolio lists the piece as L’aisselle / The Armpit. Next summer the weed decides how hairy it gets.

💡 Artist Fact: Boulet calls herself a “hallucinartiste.” Her own biography builds her work on pareidolia, the habit of recognizing familiar shapes in the things around us.

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A small horned chalk creature in blue shorts by David Zinn standing on a schoolyard surface among colorful chalk faces and figures drawn by children.

🖍️ Schoolyard Friends — By David Zinn

David Zinn drew one of his creatures on a schoolyard, where it ended up surrounded by children’s chalk monsters. He captioned it: “One nice thing about being drawn in a schoolyard is that you always make some friends.”

💡 Chalk Fact: Zinn does not mind when the weather wins. In his own FAQ he explains that the work is not meant to last, so wind and rain wiping it away is part of the plan.

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Four cartoon prisoners in striped uniforms painted around a broken concrete column, standing on each other’s shoulders, with the top brother’s hair formed by the broken top of the column and chunks of concrete piled at its base, in Cherbourg, France.

🪏 The Dalton Brothers Escape — By Blesea in Cherbourg, France 🇫🇷

A broken concrete column becomes the escape route for the four Dalton brothers from the Lucky Luke comics, standing on each other’s shoulders in their striped prison clothes, the top one’s hair made from the broken concrete itself. Blesea uses the damage as if it had been the plan all along.

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A smiling painted face with closed eyes on a low wall, where the real green foliage growing above it forms a full head of hair.

😄 Green Smile — By Xanoy

Xanoy paints a face with closed eyes and a wide grin and leaves the hair to the plants growing over the wall. The hairstyle changes with the season, and nobody needs to book a haircut.

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Tiny model figures in white forensic suits examining a discarded cigarette butt on the ground, one kneeling beside a small black case while another stands and watches.

🚬 Crime Scene — By Slinkachu

A discarded cigarette butt gets a full forensic team in white suits, a case of equipment and one investigator who just stands there looking at it. Slinkachu places tiny figures like these in the street and photographs them.

💡 Miniature Fact: Most of Slinkachu’s little people start as model railway figures. His FAQ says most are made by the German company Preiser, and he often cuts and repaints them before they go outside.

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