Creative Street Repair

Kind of a partial eclipse of the street.

Just when i thought the traffic marks on our roads were complicated. Deeply impressed by the fact that right after the repairs they painted the lines on the new asphalt. Here it would take centuries for that.

Sometimes I think I am losing my memory and like now, I seem to have a sense of deja vu with this image. In any event, it is a fascinating one because of the lines and the perceptual depth. If I was a driver or pedestrian I would be totally confused by these lines and my instinct would be to speedily vacate this area before I involuntarily break some regulation.  

 

Adding to my confusion is how the new repair was achieved re the painted lines.

 

All the best on a very fine image.

Good observation Jack, at first this throws you off, then we get used to it and find that it is fine 

Nice balance and leading lines.

Well done, Jack!

Jack,

  Wonderful b/w image with great composition.  Take care, Patsy

Jack, this one has your distinctive b&w japanese street trademark. I'm sure that somewhere there's a cultural entity that would be interesting in exposing these interpretations of Japan.

Regards,

ricardo

Jack, this one has amazing tricks to it -- that they repainted the missing parts of the stripes quite carefully, but that the paint didn't perform, slightly unreal.  The scene receding is reminiscent of some of the early perspective experiments in Italian art. Another simple complex winner! S

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I'm very puzzled by how those lines were done, but I want to congratulate them for getting it right--and you, Jack, for getting the shot.  It really is quite good.

 

--Lannie

Thanks for taking the time to comment on this picture. One of the advantages of living as an expat is that things that the locals accept as a matter of course seem decidedly odd to me - and I guess to many of you as well. The Japanese don't like disruptions though God knows there are enough of them in a city like Osaka. They do their best to carry on, business as usual, despite the constant building up, knocking down and the endless tearing up and repaving of street for one reason or another. Here the street lines have been carefully hand painted in but of course the slight rounding of the new asphalt kind of warps the space continuum. So it goes.