Born in Moscow in 1989, Danila Shmelev, better known as Shozy, began painting graffiti in the early 2000s. He studied graphic design at the Moscow Art and Industrial Institute and trained in classical drawing and painting before moving from three-dimensional letterforms to large-scale anamorphic murals.
The “openings” match the color of the sky – he uses reflective paint.
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[Found here; more photos with descriptions of Shozy’s work here.]
An apartment is left exposed where a corner of the residential building collapsed in the Bronx borough of New York, on Dec. 11, 2023. Yuki Iwamura/Associated Press.
Built in 1927, an inspection in 2020 found cracked brick and loose, damaged mortar on the seven story building’s facade; repairs were underway prior to the collapse. All residents survived.
[Image with story found here. The photo also appears in a Russian website photo collection titled “Everyday Life In The USA“.
Right-click the top image and open in a new tab to view full size.]
[Found here.]
[Undoctored image from Google Maps Street View.]
[Photo by Frank Kunert found here.]
This is the 800th edition of the .Gif Friday Post, and that means there are approximately 2.4K embedded .gif animations in The Archives. It all began with this:
Some of the old .gifs stutter or freeze and no longer animate properly and I blame WordPress. Perhaps I’ll suss out the problem some day.
Or not.
Tacky Raccoons 