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[–] ug01x@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is cool, but also makes me feeling like we poured asphalt over a masterpiece.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean we paved over cities to make room for cars, so not wrong

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Don’t it always seem to go, thatchcya don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.

[–] root@precious.net 0 points 2 years ago

We didn't really though. Even the Romans built roads, we've always needed a way to move food and goods.

[–] Acester47@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like we built on-top of an ancient civilization

[–] ug01x@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Exactly! Makes me think of things I have heard and read about historical sites getting worn down by visitors or people finding artifacts while digging in their garden.

[–] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Even cooler

[–] sixapples@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Until the weather becomes slightly warmer or colder or something drives over it.

[–] LChitman@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago

Art doesn't have to be perfect or permanent though

[–] BionicHippo@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even if the artwork starts to crack, that sounds better than just sitting there being a pothole.

[–] AshLassay@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Or untill it rains and people slip and fall

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Yep, then it starts to crack.

[–] ccckt13@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it looks so cool when things are repaired in a different style like this

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 7 points 2 years ago

You are going to love this Wikipedia rabbit hole, friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

[–] ki77erb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is probably not an easy way to do that on the spot. Do you think the artist traces out the dimensions and then makes the piece at home and brings it back?

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

No they just pour in the mortar and then put the pieces in. The ones that do pictures like a cat or a bird or something premake the picture part and then fill in the pattern surrounding the picture afterwards. This particular french artist does it anonymously in the middle of the night.

Here in the UK people spray paint giant dicks on the floor around the potholes. A slightly alternative way of annoying the council into taking action.

[–] DulceMaria@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

An artist in Rouen, France also filled the stone courthouse’s WWII shelling holes with Lego’s.

[–] density@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Beaneath the pavement, a bathroom

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that considered legal? If someone makes a graffiti is illegal in most places. Would the police stop him ?

[–] dedale@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

They'll stop anything out of the ordinary.

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