the chimney stacks of this heating plant in bagnolet, paris, weretransformed over a period of 2 months in 2007 by trompe l’oeilspecialist frederic garcia.the largest of the water drops are 1.1m in diameter and to ensure theaccuracy required he was guided by an assistant at ground level using awalkie talkie.the skill and patience needed to do something of this scale,successfully, is incredible. but then when you spend your life doingjust that i suppose the practice goes some way towards easing thepressure. when i saw this photo a couple of weeks ago it instantlybrought jean marie pierret to mind, a guy i could’ve sworn i wrote apost about last year {a post which seems to have slipped from this siteentirely. if you can find it i’ll be impressed}, and a guy who, alongwith the help of 8 mountain climbers, was responsible for decoratingthe enormous tignes dam in france with a gigantic and awesome pictureof hercules…if the sight of that painting doesn’t impress you, bear in mind thatthe dam’s wall measures 181m in height, that’s taller than theblackpool tower {never thought i’d use that structure as a comparison}.pierret was also responsible for painting one of the cooling towers at cruas power station, france in 1991.pierret was helped by 9 people {one of whom i think was frederic gracia} to paint ‘aquarius’ on the tower, a feat which required 4´000 litres of acrylic paint.oh, just out of curiosity, does anyone know whether the followingadvert was actually painted onto the hoover dam? i suspect not butthere’s an outside chance.
deputy-dog.com/2008/06/25/how-to-disguise-an-industrial-eyesore/