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

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 in 2016, after leaving the wall’s owners a letter asking for permission. 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. 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, and every corgi she bred after that descended from Susan.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsQueen Elizabeth II on a HoverboardCATMAN · 2022 · Frogley Road, East Dulwich, LondonFirst painted May 2016Repainted for the JubileeThree corgis on leads1According to Southwark News, CATMAN first painted her on Lordship Lane for the Queen’s 90th birthday, after leaving the wall’s owners a letter.Southwark News2After vandals reportedly damaged that wall, a local street art guide found this one on Frogley Road and invited him back for the 2022 Jubilee.East Dulwich Forum201619 MayFirst wall, Lordship Lane20224 JunBack, on Frogley Road202513 AprPhoto in London Now guideRead the full file →

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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. George Venios photographed it in Kalamata in August 2015.

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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. It is on Trg Narodnog ustanka in Čačak.

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

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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. It is about 300 feet across, big enough to see from Highway 18.

💡 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.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsThe Smiley Face ForestDavid Hampton and Dennis Creel (Hampton Lumber) · 2011 · Highway 18 near Grand Ronde, OregonLarch among Douglas firsAbout 300 feet acrossGold every autumn1Planted in 2011 by Hampton Lumber co-owner David Hampton and then timberland manager Dennis Creel.KOIN 62Larch needles turn yellow and drop each autumn, while Douglas firs form the eyes and mouth.OSU Landscape Plants202111 NovFull Fact: the photo is real20218 DecBeaver’s Digest report202226 OctFox Weather report202315 SepKOIN 6: back for fall20247 NovFilmed from the air (KOIN 6)202611 FebIFLScience reportRead the full file →

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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 made it in 2017. The Vienna-based stencil artist usually adds a twist of humor.

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