tutmondigo: jilllian: sanctasapientia: girlvswild: apidae: “Last week a group of cyclists dumped 13 gallons of paint on the road at Berlin’s busy Rosenthaler Platz, creating a series of colourful lines as cars drove through. The various colours of paint were dumped onto the road in large puddles at different locations throughout the intersection. As traffic drove through, the paint was spread around creating lots of colourful lines. The whole action took only a few seconds: bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerilla public art piece.The creators of the project posted signs on post nearby explaining that the paint wasn’t harmful and would simply wash off with water.” (via Abitare - international design magazine  » Guerilla Paint Action in Berlin) OH. So they do it and it’s art…. I do it and it’s comical? I was driving on a rural five lane highway many years ago, topped a small hill, and saw a small bucket lying in the middle of my lane. I was going seventy. I had a split-second decision: swerve or hope you can straddle it? It looked small, I opted to straddle it. Turns out it was not THAT small. I hit it, and it busted, its white contents flooding the front of my car up the windshield. I was a quarter mile from the town car wash, so I pulled in there and rinsed off my car. It was some kind of primer or something because it ate freckles into my car’s paint. The white splat and trail I left on that highway stayed for years. When I went to have that car’s oil changed at a lube place, at least one guy would come up from below, laughing, and ask what and when I had hit. *sigh* If I was at the town lube place, he’d come up and point west and say, “That white spot down a quarter mile yonder… that was you!?” The difference being that they did it on purpose. The other differenceS being that they used puddles of paint already poured onto the street, and that the paint was water-soluble. Your tires would be colored for a little while, but if the paint they used washed off with water I’m betting they used chalk paint.

tutmondigo:

jilllian:

sanctasapientia:

girlvswild:

apidae:

“Last week a group of cyclists dumped 13 gallons of paint on the road at Berlin’s busy Rosenthaler Platz, creating a series of colourful lines as cars drove through. The various colours of paint were dumped onto the road in large puddles at different locations throughout the intersection. As traffic drove through, the paint was spread around creating lots of colourful lines. The whole action took only a few seconds: bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerilla public art piece.The creators of the project posted signs on post nearby explaining that the paint wasn’t harmful and would simply wash off with water.”

(via Abitare - international design magazine  » Guerilla Paint Action in Berlin)

OH. So they do it and it’s art…. I do it and it’s comical? I was driving on a rural five lane highway many years ago, topped a small hill, and saw a small bucket lying in the middle of my lane. I was going seventy. I had a split-second decision: swerve or hope you can straddle it? It looked small, I opted to straddle it. Turns out it was not THAT small. I hit it, and it busted, its white contents flooding the front of my car up the windshield. I was a quarter mile from the town car wash, so I pulled in there and rinsed off my car. It was some kind of primer or something because it ate freckles into my car’s paint. The white splat and trail I left on that highway stayed for years. When I went to have that car’s oil changed at a lube place, at least one guy would come up from below, laughing, and ask what and when I had hit. *sigh* If I was at the town lube place, he’d come up and point west and say, “That white spot down a quarter mile yonder… that was you!?”

The difference being that they did it on purpose.

The other differenceS being that they used puddles of paint already poured onto the street, and that the paint was water-soluble. Your tires would be colored for a little while, but if the paint they used washed off with water I’m betting they used chalk paint.