How This Chalk Artist Creates Illusions on Pavement | Obsessed | WIRED

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"Everything we think is real is, in some way, an illusion." Former NASA illustrator Kurt Wenner makes incredible, brain-busting chalk illusions. His works start with diligent planning, beginning with pencil and paper. Kurt even prototypes by using an iPhone's camera to mimic human sight. He then maps these prototypes onto large street canvases where his ephemeral art can be enjoyed by the public.
Director: Charlie Jordan
Director of Photography: Malcolm Cook
Editor: Joshua Pullar
Talent: Kurt Wenner
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Melissa Cho
Production Manager: Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Audio: Will Miller
Cam Op/Gaffer: Dominik Czaczyk
Production Assistant: Devin Beckwith
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Diego Rentsch
Special Thanks: Additional festival footage by Alessio Cuomo and Sander de Nooij. Filmed at the Sarasota Chalk Festival, courtesy of Denise Kowal. Special audio thanks to Dylan Bergeson.
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  • @buggibii
    @buggibii Жыл бұрын

    People who can... MENTALLY figure this stuff out, let alone actually do it, boggle my mind to unfounded degrees 🤯

  • @lorenzoblum868

    @lorenzoblum868

    Жыл бұрын

    This is what happens when you grow up in good company.

  • @xfg007

    @xfg007

    Жыл бұрын

    He had a good father

  • @jopo7996
    @jopo7996 Жыл бұрын

    I don't know how he does this, but I guess you could chalk it up to his perspective of things.

  • @abdullah-_-.

    @abdullah-_-.

    Жыл бұрын

    Hehehe nice

  • @butter65

    @butter65

    Жыл бұрын

    Hehehe nice

  • @thegoldenjuvi5977

    @thegoldenjuvi5977

    Жыл бұрын

    Hehehe nice

  • @timo4938

    @timo4938

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @godwindamoahmd

    @godwindamoahmd

    Жыл бұрын

    Hehehe nice

  • @leokimvideo
    @leokimvideo Жыл бұрын

    Completely amazing, I saw one that was so real it had people nearly tripping over the illusion

  • @drivethru6155
    @drivethru6155 Жыл бұрын

    These could be great permanent installations too, this art is accessible that almost anyone can appreciate and enjoy. Usually I have no idea what people on about with most art but I can get how beautiful and interactive this is.

  • @stampscapes
    @stampscapes Жыл бұрын

    Amazing. I remember the LA Times had a cover story on him in their magazine, I'm guessing, around 30 years ago. Didn't realize it was him until they showed those old photographs and that Dies Irae piece.

  • @sngray11
    @sngray11 Жыл бұрын

    This man is a legend!

  • @pippa3150
    @pippa3150 Жыл бұрын

    This is without doubt one of the best channels on youtube, and this video adds to the collection quite well. Thank you Wired!!

  • @pippa3150

    @pippa3150

    Жыл бұрын

    Wondering if you all would ever cover cylindrical mirror art? Such a lost art and so amazing.

  • @sherriebrand1771

    @sherriebrand1771

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pippa3150 Just your question here is unfortunately a lost art of sorts (on me) as I've never heard of "what you said."😉 But, thank you! Off now to Google "what the art form is that I questioned over on WIRED's YT channel. . . ."

  • @michellelittle9184
    @michellelittle9184 Жыл бұрын

    He’s absolutely amazing!

  • @divyanshmathur6831
    @divyanshmathur6831 Жыл бұрын

    This is mind boggling!

  • @potatoface4698
    @potatoface4698 Жыл бұрын

    I've always been so captivated by this type of art

  • @juangrandefranco1297
    @juangrandefranco1297 Жыл бұрын

    "What illusion does fundamentally it tells us or reminds us that everything we think is real is, is in some way an illusion" the 60s was a helluva drug.

  • @audioauracle-dsyswpwanl88

    @audioauracle-dsyswpwanl88

    Жыл бұрын

    😂 He worked for NASA, *buhdomtsss!!!*

  • @Bachconcertos
    @Bachconcertos Жыл бұрын

    Out of this world - so amazing - incredible.

  • @spectrum3460
    @spectrum3460 Жыл бұрын

    The amount of chalk this guy has rivals my maths teacher

  • @nerd26373
    @nerd26373 Жыл бұрын

    That looks immensely impressive. Thank you for your consistency. Happy Holidays.

  • @ice-val1539
    @ice-val1539 Жыл бұрын

    😍 Wow! Just amazing how he uses geometry with art! Beautiful! 👍🏼💪🏼🤎

  • @BirdsTheWurd
    @BirdsTheWurd Жыл бұрын

    Those are insane. He's cracked the code to life for sure

  • @markus8222
    @markus8222 Жыл бұрын

    Rain must be this guys nemesis

  • @fidelfajardo5566
    @fidelfajardo5566 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome artist, doing the best amazing 3D illusions.

  • @pentachronic
    @pentachronic10 ай бұрын

    He’s giving the public such a wonderful experience and gift. Bonding, communication and appreciation all rolled into one! Bravo!!!

  • @Joshua-gm5ts
    @Joshua-gm5ts Жыл бұрын

    A master, and it is a pleasure to have worked with him.

  • @MightyCaullie
    @MightyCaullie2 ай бұрын

    3D street art is so fascinating and beautiful to look at like imagine being a rich youtuber and comissioning one of these to be painted in your garden, and then filming a video with you in your garden with your camera at the perfect perspective whilst you you talk to the audience

  • @fireaza
    @fireaza Жыл бұрын

    This guy's art, as with all art, is often a matter of perspective.

  • @berrybestfarmer9614
    @berrybestfarmer9614 Жыл бұрын

    The photography to capture this for generations to come is pretty amazing too.

  • @KimberlyGreen
    @KimberlyGreen Жыл бұрын

    Student: I don't wanna learn math. I'll never use it in real life. Teacher: Oh really?

  • @fran6b
    @fran6b Жыл бұрын

    Those kind of perspectives are called anamorphosis. Since they were a thing in the baroque era in Italy, I'm surprise the artist didn't mention that. But it don't take nothing form him. What an artist! He's amazing!

  • @solochristo65

    @solochristo65

    Жыл бұрын

    I LOVE Baroque music.

  • @janetf23
    @janetf23 Жыл бұрын

    Ephemeral yet endlessly fascinating!👏

  • @kcmsterpce
    @kcmsterpce Жыл бұрын

    Julian Beever comes to mind with these. Mindblowing.

  • @chefhomeboyardee8
    @chefhomeboyardee8 Жыл бұрын

    Perspective is more important than it gets credit for.🤯🤘🙏

  • @ufosrus

    @ufosrus

    Жыл бұрын

    And it's a pain to learn.

  • @markpieexplores
    @markpieexplores Жыл бұрын

    A true genius

  • @junerobertson4389
    @junerobertson4389 Жыл бұрын

    Anyone this talented should be making millions.........

  • @jonbutcher9805
    @jonbutcher9805 Жыл бұрын

    All for the craft. Otherwise how do you make a living with art that fades away as you working on it. Incredible.

  • @ao1778

    @ao1778

    Жыл бұрын

    By photographing it.

  • @totodenis9078
    @totodenis9078 Жыл бұрын

    Hated focal point physics practicals in high school. First time I have found it interesting. Wish I had a physics teacher who was more profound in explaining things

  • @antotheja251
    @antotheja251 Жыл бұрын

    This is so fkn dope

  • @frankd.5695
    @frankd.5695 Жыл бұрын

    I love his art works.

  • @parkerstoops6058
    @parkerstoops6058 Жыл бұрын

    I’d love to see the history or development of this genre of art! Great video though

  • @Coastal_Ace
    @Coastal_Ace Жыл бұрын

    absolutely incredible

  • @andrewdavis6917
    @andrewdavis69177 ай бұрын

    Wonderful to see something like this

  • @smith9808
    @smith9808 Жыл бұрын

    What the human brain is capable of achieving is utterly incredible.

  • @katyakaplan225
    @katyakaplan225 Жыл бұрын

    me watching this, barely able to draw a stick figure 😳

  • @ricanzombie5731
    @ricanzombie573110 ай бұрын

    Its amazing these type of artist r really special

  • @zach_harrison
    @zach_harrison Жыл бұрын

    ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee Жыл бұрын

    Wow! these paintings are absolutely, incredibly, utterly fantastic! he is an Artist. 🌹🌱

  • @waltermattei5994
    @waltermattei5994 Жыл бұрын

    So interesting. When I took art class I didn't invasion mixing squaring off with foreshorting. With 2 point perspective. What an epiphany

  • @terryallen7356
    @terryallen7356 Жыл бұрын

    How complicated. It's amazing!

  • @kerriemills1310
    @kerriemills1310 Жыл бұрын

    Perspective and Technic 💜🎊👏 it’s fantastic! . Thank you so much for showing this older way of practicing and learning how to present, it’s art in its own right the tracing paper, paste board and diagrams to get the view points right, using the phone view, it all was excellent.

  • @scottwyckoff5483
    @scottwyckoff5483 Жыл бұрын

    So creative so cool,your passion and focus is inspiring

  • @TheScapegoat420
    @TheScapegoat420 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @charlescabana7849
    @charlescabana7849 Жыл бұрын

    Bravo! A wonderful talent.

  • @phoenixjim0527
    @phoenixjim0527 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant. Fantastic.

  • @franciscody9622
    @franciscody9622 Жыл бұрын

    Real rare talent.

  • @seekittycat
    @seekittycat Жыл бұрын

    The rendering is so gorgeous and they're so huge 🤯🤯

  • @christianherzog76
    @christianherzog76 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing 👏

  • @laurenf1966
    @laurenf1966 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @greenmantis2158
    @greenmantis2158 Жыл бұрын

    Can't imagine making a temporary masterpiece

  • @boris8787
    @boris8787 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine him drawing the whole village of Chillingbourne in 3D chalk.

  • @dianegerlach2454
    @dianegerlach2454 Жыл бұрын

    Fractals is fascinating

  • @tadiafoster4460
    @tadiafoster446010 ай бұрын

    Brilliant

  • @jeff__w
    @jeff__w Жыл бұрын

    Had Kurt Wenner’s life taken a slightly different turn (or, perhaps, had he been born a few decades earlier), he might be renowned for making matte paintings for the movies.

  • @justsayinfornow5274
    @justsayinfornow52747 ай бұрын

    Awesome!!

  • @clementsunny1170
    @clementsunny1170 Жыл бұрын

    Legendary artist

  • @bradp767
    @bradp767 Жыл бұрын

    Well this style of artwork is not new it is usually done with geometric shapes and sometimes artwork as this guy has done however this dude's talent is almost unbelievable! The idea is not what impresses me the most it's his actual ability to make things so realistic looking! And be interesting to see what else he has created with different mediums

  • @gailjames6489
    @gailjames6489 Жыл бұрын

    Totally way cool.👏👏👏👏

  • @gbresaleking
    @gbresaleking Жыл бұрын

    Man this guy is chalk full of ideas

  • @Frank-Y
    @Frank-Y Жыл бұрын

    So talented.

  • @jorgeley
    @jorgeley Жыл бұрын

    So good

  • @Bachconcertos
    @Bachconcertos Жыл бұрын

    He is a genius.

  • @beccaandcharliesworld5571
    @beccaandcharliesworld5571 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @Canoneosmiami
    @Canoneosmiami Жыл бұрын

    Genius!

  • @PastorKCLiu
    @PastorKCLiu Жыл бұрын

    Amazing content and story!

  • @SevenDeMagnus
    @SevenDeMagnus Жыл бұрын

    Amazing skill, thanks for teaching us. I wish it was permanent, maybe cover with thick gloss, many layers. God bless.

  • @dannylaw7367
    @dannylaw7367 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible artist.

  • @deloradeabel8487
    @deloradeabel8487 Жыл бұрын

    Magical !

  • @KeizerHedorah
    @KeizerHedorah Жыл бұрын

    es magico vato

  • @m_lomby1972
    @m_lomby1972 Жыл бұрын

    Genius.

  • @balatas07
    @balatas07 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible artistic talent with an amazing surreal illusion painting and I can not event draw a beautiful flower.

  • @rheffner3
    @rheffner3 Жыл бұрын

    Cool beans. Unbelievable!

  • @reginaldforthright805
    @reginaldforthright805 Жыл бұрын

    Surely something like this existed back in the renaissance? The method is actually the reverse of how you create the illusion of a flat painting within a painting (you design the painting normally, overlay a rectangular grid, and then match the squares of that grid to a grid in perspective.) Wenner starts with the grid in perspective, draws normally, and then matches the distorted perspective squares to simple geometric squares. It’s simpler than this video makes it out to be.

  • @VinofLV
    @VinofLV Жыл бұрын

    What?!?! Former NASA illustrator. What did he illustrate for NASA? Doubt it was the logo.

  • @Rock_K9
    @Rock_K9 Жыл бұрын

    My God, if I could have 1/1000th of the talent has, I’d be thrilled. Mind-blowing artist.

  • @peacenow4456
    @peacenow4456 Жыл бұрын

    Wow!

  • @christophedevos3760
    @christophedevos3760 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible. Too bad it isn't permanent. Thanks for sharing.

  • @ImchautzuCHAUTZU
    @ImchautzuCHAUTZU6 ай бұрын

    7:50 Bro used Maho-NASA for the bluebrint for his Geometrical Bending Lines. They asked "would you see the picture as it is?" and he said "Nah, I'd distort"

  • @colt10mmsecurity68
    @colt10mmsecurity68 Жыл бұрын

    Man, one must have the patience of a Gaboon Viper to produce these works of magnificent beauty! The Gaboon viper can stay motionless in one position for a week, waiting patiently for its prey. I wouldn’t have 5 minutes of patience trying to come up with an image in my mind.

  • @ssengendonasser6293
    @ssengendonasser6293 Жыл бұрын

    How is this possible. Wow 👌

  • @tonylove6199
    @tonylove6199 Жыл бұрын

    ..PHENOMENAL ARTIST..A TRUE MASTER CLASS OF ARTISTRY BY THIS MAN...ABSOLUTELY BREATH TAKING...WOW..🙏❤🙏

  • @aspekt7631
    @aspekt76319 ай бұрын

    Sick

  • @fastbreak0822
    @fastbreak0822 Жыл бұрын

    Respect

  • @Talk-Hub
    @Talk-Hub Жыл бұрын

    i once did a cube in this crazy perspective in the park when I was 13 didn't look like a perfect cube and the perspective was wonky at best, but I somehow nailed the illusion

  • @lukmanpah55
    @lukmanpah55 Жыл бұрын

    Wow that's amazing this video I like that's

  • @lil----lil
    @lil----lil Жыл бұрын

    Hey A.I. Make me a super 3D sketch same like Kurt Wenner. AI: Ok. Done. Like it or not, it's already HERE.

  • @skullstickersco9866
    @skullstickersco9866 Жыл бұрын

    imagine it rains as hes almost finished but no one saw it yet :0

  • @trishtomlin9431
    @trishtomlin94315 ай бұрын

    Unbelievable! And unbelievably beautiful. It blows my mind how talented some people are. If things were left up to me, we would still be living in a cave and have square wheels. 😂. How truly amazing!

  • @rjlong89
    @rjlong89 Жыл бұрын

    Wild

  • @johncameron4194
    @johncameron4194 Жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @jfuentes9188
    @jfuentes918819 күн бұрын

    When mathematics and art come together!

  • @iamtheprogression
    @iamtheprogression Жыл бұрын

    Guys a genius

  • @happytape307
    @happytape307 Жыл бұрын

    Hop scotch got quite a few upgrades since the 80s 🤯

  • @ninagvasalia
    @ninagvasalia Жыл бұрын

    How cool ))

  • @adamkolendorski9953
    @adamkolendorski9953 Жыл бұрын

    remember we used to have a store called beachcomber

  • @lostasadorespr
    @lostasadorespr Жыл бұрын

    At 0:05 so the artist introduction is him showing the pyramid with the all-seing-eye? Guess he was just revealing he is a freemason.

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