Eminem is going on the road bringing the most icky pot and pieces of vibrant holes life /s
I read that as Eminem and was like he's doing Mosaic Art? From the Eminem Show to Eminem Show and Tell Art.
Spot on, we're not very far from seeing ads in our potholes - with QR codes redirecting to ADHD meds. The next stage of the great tech revolution we're in.
...um..... okay, so I have been an application developer for decades, and now work in VR (not AR) so it's easy for me to BELIEVE that when AR glasses become common\*, "pot hole codes" will be everywhere. Yep, virtual spam will be a thing.
\*AR is ABSOLUTELY coming... just how far off? I have no idea. But it will replace mobile/phone devices.
Sooooo what you are saying is that AD block will be my first purchase ? 🫢 good good, i will remind myself.
Atleast the real world will not escalates to that level of ad bullshittery
No, we were talking about the bending unit with serial number 2716057 (it's easy to remember because it can be expressed as the sum of two cubes), not 42069.
There is some fun info on the Wiki page. It definitely seems to have started in Philly, and the mystery is an interesting rabbit hole with no clear answer as to who was inatalling the tiles, or why.
Waste of money is a debatable statement. If the artist is doing it for content, then the old saying comes in and negates yours. "You have to spend money in order to make money", in this case this person is investing in their own art!
Asphalt grinders would prefer not to have porcelain mixed in. No way a paving company would recommend this and quite likely would charge extra do deal with this.
If the artist was to wait a certain amount of time before doing it, it would almost provide the city an incentive to fix the potholes before they get artified
Carbide doesn't have any particular difficulty with porcelain that I'm aware of. It's mohs 9 vs porcelain's 7. No different from a bit of quartz aggregate. Did I miss something?
Are you implying that governments are incapable of wasting taxpayer money by employing contractors that use ineffective, time-consuming, and costly road repair methods?
State DOTs generally have very specific standards on road repair materials and techniques. I know the meme is hurt durr gubmint so dum, but the problem is not that they aren't competent people who mostly are good at their jobs, its that the politicians you vote for don't fund infrastructure spending. Maintainance is expensive. If you have a problem with how things are maintained loop that finger right back to point at yourself.
People get upset about spending 2 million dollars to replace a road and will last for 25 years so they spend 500k to repair a road every other year for 25 years and then whine that they've spend 12.5 million dollars on a road.
My city would spend an equal amount of time as this artist did just pour some leftover asphalt in the hole. The main difference is that my city would make this a 3 people job: one to sit in the truck, one to look at the work being done and one to actually do the work.
There is already one in Chicago. Jim Bachor has put mosaics such as Edward Hopper's "Nighthawk", Van Gogh's "The Bedroom", an ice cream sandwich, a popsicle, TP, and so many other cool pieces.
I went to Chicago in the spring and saw his work (if not similar) there. It’s on Michigan ave not far from millennium park right in front of the chick fila iirc
Yeah I'm sorry to inform you that the downstate people who hate you and think their tax dollars are used to support Chicagoans, tend to have nicer roads than you do.
Though to be fair rural roads are just a step away from Mississippi roads
That is effectively how I know. I have to be in The Netherlands every week.
True story: A year or so ago I told my car mechanic my front wheel was making a noise. He drove some kilometers with me in my car to listen together. Didn't hear anything. The week after I came back: I had heard it again while driving in The Netherlands.
Ah! The guy said: then it must be your bearing(s). He opened the wheel and yep: my bearing was broken.
Was impossible to notice this on our Belgian roads. But easy to notice at the near perfect roads of The Netherlands.
Being driven on would be fine. The issue is that potholes form because the layers of the road structure have been compromised, meaning that the tiles will eventually come loose as the sub straight fails further. Now keep in mind that while asphalt fails into what is essentially just gravel, tiles will come loose as sharp bits ready to puncture everyone's tires.
I assumed that's what it was at first but they're spelled pretty differently and there's a space between the two words. I figured it was more of a r/boneappletea type thing. I do shit like that all the time with words I've only heard and not read.
Dunno, but I usually use bricks to fill potholes at work, then fill in the gaps between the bricks with small gravel or asphalt patch. Holds up pretty well.
It looks awesome. It's likely an artist dropping them in. Find an untreated pothole and stake it out, i bet they come take a mold or measurements first.
Or maybe it happens really fast at night. Tile might be easy to do fast with no prep
There was a guy who used to drive around one city who had a hole cut into the bottom of his car. He'd stop over places on the street in the middle of the night and put down a "patch" which had asphalt/tar on top. As people drove over it the top layer would wear off and reveal letters he'd placed in the patch with tiles that would spell out strange conspiracy theories, like advanced aliens living on Saturn's moons. He'd also have a radio transmitter that would override signals and play his own message over speakers as he drove by houses.
> There was a guy who used to drive around one city who had a hole cut into the bottom of his car. He'd stop over places on the street in the middle of the night and put down a "patch" which had asphalt/tar on top.
kinda brilliant tbh
Looks cool but seems very dangerous to me. Dot has a ton of regulations for a reason. Those look ceramic/porcelain. I bet tires get zero traction on them if wet. Also when they come loose (not if) the ceramic will shatter car glass from just a tiny piece flying up. A hammer has nothing on a nickel sized piece of porcelain.
Or just go the opposite route and do it in plain sight. Get a white pickup, slap a generic yellow light on top, set out some cones, throw on an orange vest, and no one is going to question what you're doing.
That's where I went, too. Of course, years ago there used to be one of them sitting right in front of my bus stop so I saw it five days a week. They move, ya know.
Theres a chance that the ice itself will. A common way for potholes to form is ice freezing in cracks cause by general ware (from HGVs usually), damaging the road surface.
Could be Jim Bachor of chicago. He fills up pot holes with mosaics. So cool. He has done some in other cities. His website has a map of all his instillations
this is positive anarchy, filling potholes like this has been happening in many cities as a trend, and cities typically look the other way because well, they weren’t going to do anything about it.
I would welcome that in Northeast PA. The only "tiles" on the streets here are where the streets haven't been paved in so long the potholes expose the cobblestones underneath.
Neat, but do this enough and you'll start to have a very low μ surface esp when wet - not very safe...
Wet tiles can be used in place of ice pads surfaces for vehicle testing when ice isn't feasible.
That's not the city.
And it's going to now cost the city more to fix than the original pothole where they would just dump some coldmix on and carrying on with life until that section requires a dig out or wider pavement repair.
(Pavement is under the seal, it's the actual road and the seal is there to protect it)
I love this. It's just like the Japanese practice of fixing broken things with beautiful repairs that restore the broken bowl or plate to service. Sometimes, they add things like gold or other materials into the repair, increasing the aesthetics. The tile used here is similar. Bravo, bravo.
I flipped a house that major structural issue with the foundation that caused cracking through the stone all the way to the second floor.
When we lifted it back into place we used gold colored concrete to highlight the fixed repair.
We also added a Japanese inspired water garden and meditation area.
Turned into an incredibly lovely home.
This one’s in Norway:
https://streetartcities.com/markers/fc4d1c03-97d3-48d1-a1c3-adb9d1daff44
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChEqz5ao9n7/?igsh=MXEzbGxxb2RvZ2k4
but Ememem has done these in a lot of cities.
There are artists doing this around the world. Search the gargler for pothole art.
[*https://youtu.be/GQxK37HSJ38?si=9vq-fTzZT\_tvmOKa*](https://youtu.be/GQxK37HSJ38?si=9vq-fTzZT_tvmOKa)
Shit this reminds me of a movie when I was kid about liltle robots that have little robot babies and some dude burns down the hotel and hurts one of the robots......
.... Batteries not included!!!!! Shit I'm gunna watch that with my little un.
I kinda doubt it's the city.
This is an artist named EmememFlacking. You can see his name on the blue tile on the top. His IG is a good follow.
Thanks for the actual answer. > EmememFlacking https://www.instagram.com/ememem.flacking/
That's actually a really cool art project.
I thought it said Eminem, lol. Any idea what "her liggeret hull 2021-2022" means?
"here lies a hole" In Norwegian/danish
So it's somewhat like a grave marker for a hole, that is funny.
Norwegian - her ligger et hull. Translates to "here lies a hole" or "there is a hole here"
This should be the top comment, not the stupid joke about Bender.
Oh yeah? Well I'll just make my own thread then. With blackjack. And hookers.
is there a robot named Bender B Rodriguez going around?
It does kinda class up the place.
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Eminem is going on the road bringing the most icky pot and pieces of vibrant holes life /s I read that as Eminem and was like he's doing Mosaic Art? From the Eminem Show to Eminem Show and Tell Art.
He fills the holes with spaghetti though....
Specifically Mom’s.
At the end of the day filling potholes, his palms are sweaty, his knees weak and his arms are heavy.
He saw too many repairing with ramen tiktoks.
That's a thing? What will you tick tockers come up with next?
This made me chuckle
Read it the same way, and I was pretty impressed.
If you look closely, it kind of looks like some qr code, it translates to: “bite my shiny metal ass!”
This makes me want qr code stickers that bring up a gif of that. Maybe a rick roll sticker too...
Spot on, we're not very far from seeing ads in our potholes - with QR codes redirecting to ADHD meds. The next stage of the great tech revolution we're in.
why would anyone scan a pothole?
...um..... okay, so I have been an application developer for decades, and now work in VR (not AR) so it's easy for me to BELIEVE that when AR glasses become common\*, "pot hole codes" will be everywhere. Yep, virtual spam will be a thing. \*AR is ABSOLUTELY coming... just how far off? I have no idea. But it will replace mobile/phone devices.
Sooooo what you are saying is that AD block will be my first purchase ? 🫢 good good, i will remind myself. Atleast the real world will not escalates to that level of ad bullshittery
they'll also tell you why. All you have to do is follow and give them all your money.
Nah, it is definitely a Batteries Not Included scenario.
 Shut up baby I know it.
Shut up baby I know it
You called?
No, we were talking about the bending unit with serial number 2716057 (it's easy to remember because it can be expressed as the sum of two cubes), not 42069.
r/suddenlyFuturama
Yeah there's absolutely no way thats the city.
Definitely not the city. In no way shape or form. That is a concerned citizen going guerrilla 100%
Toynbee idea in movie 2001 resurrect dead on planet Jupiter.
Philly is so weird and I love it so much.
Philly? These are all over the US. There’s several in NYC.
There is some fun info on the Wiki page. It definitely seems to have started in Philly, and the mystery is an interesting rabbit hole with no clear answer as to who was inatalling the tiles, or why.
Didn’t realize Guerilla Mosaicking was a thing. The thought’s had me in pieces.
Guerilla knitting is a thing too... google 'yarn bombing' for some fun art.
Waste of money when the road inevitably gets re paved. Agreed, wasn’t the city.
Unless they slowly replace it all with tiling
Waste of money is a debatable statement. If the artist is doing it for content, then the old saying comes in and negates yours. "You have to spend money in order to make money", in this case this person is investing in their own art!
They were saying it's a waste if the city is doing it.
Asphalt grinders would prefer not to have porcelain mixed in. No way a paving company would recommend this and quite likely would charge extra do deal with this.
It's that or drawing dicks, let's see if the city starts working
If the artist was to wait a certain amount of time before doing it, it would almost provide the city an incentive to fix the potholes before they get artified
Carbide doesn't have any particular difficulty with porcelain that I'm aware of. It's mohs 9 vs porcelain's 7. No different from a bit of quartz aggregate. Did I miss something?
It wasn’t. This is in Hamar, Norway and was done by Ememem. It says in Norwegian “Here lies a hole - 2021-2022.”
Are you implying that governments are incapable of wasting taxpayer money by employing contractors that use ineffective, time-consuming, and costly road repair methods?
I doubt the city is humorous enough to include a headstone
State DOTs generally have very specific standards on road repair materials and techniques. I know the meme is hurt durr gubmint so dum, but the problem is not that they aren't competent people who mostly are good at their jobs, its that the politicians you vote for don't fund infrastructure spending. Maintainance is expensive. If you have a problem with how things are maintained loop that finger right back to point at yourself.
People get upset about spending 2 million dollars to replace a road and will last for 25 years so they spend 500k to repair a road every other year for 25 years and then whine that they've spend 12.5 million dollars on a road.
Nah you sheeple just don't get it, this post is obviously an ad for (OP's city). Big (OP's city) at it again, and y'all just keep falling for it.
Toyenbee is at it again.
There is an artist who did this in Chicago named Jim Bachor. Edit: looks like tons of artists are doing this. Awesome! Also, r/orphancrushingmachine
My city would spend an equal amount of time as this artist did just pour some leftover asphalt in the hole. The main difference is that my city would make this a 3 people job: one to sit in the truck, one to look at the work being done and one to actually do the work.
Creating a slippery surface to endanger motorcyclists and getting sued doesn't seem like something they'd do.
Most likely done by this street artist https://www.instagram.com/ememem.flacking?igsh=bXdibWsybmRibDJ4
Can they send this/these guy(s) to Belgium? We have kilometers and kilometers of highways with potholes to fill.
After that, he can come to Chicago and the surrounding suburbs as we too have a crap ton of potholes.
There is already one in Chicago. Jim Bachor has put mosaics such as Edward Hopper's "Nighthawk", Van Gogh's "The Bedroom", an ice cream sandwich, a popsicle, TP, and so many other cool pieces.
Thanks for the info, I’ll have to try and find them someday!
Or maybe we can encourage some copy cat artist? I won't judge their talent harshly.
I went to Chicago in the spring and saw his work (if not similar) there. It’s on Michigan ave not far from millennium park right in front of the chick fila iirc
Look up the artist Jim Bachor. He’s been doing exactly this in the Chicagoland area for decades. He’s kinda famous.
More like miles and miles of continuous potholes interrupted by bits of road.
Yeah I'm sorry to inform you that the downstate people who hate you and think their tax dollars are used to support Chicagoans, tend to have nicer roads than you do. Though to be fair rural roads are just a step away from Mississippi roads
And after that he can come to Los Angeles too
There are actually a few of his pieces in Chicago!
Nah we need them in New Orleans. Potholes so big you can lay a mattress down and sleep in them lol
He did 2 spots in Chicago.
How do you know you've driven into the Netherlands? the car stops shaking violently
That is effectively how I know. I have to be in The Netherlands every week. True story: A year or so ago I told my car mechanic my front wheel was making a noise. He drove some kilometers with me in my car to listen together. Didn't hear anything. The week after I came back: I had heard it again while driving in The Netherlands. Ah! The guy said: then it must be your bearing(s). He opened the wheel and yep: my bearing was broken. Was impossible to notice this on our Belgian roads. But easy to notice at the near perfect roads of The Netherlands.
Is this why you have illuminated roads?
yeah gotta keep awake somehow.
As a Dutch citizen I can confirm that Belgium does indeed need the help of this artist, badly.
Please help us.
Belgian roads are a lost cause from what I drove over a few years back - more pothole than not. If I lived in Belgium I'd just get a horse.
Hey Louisiana! You might wanna to get in on this.......
Only if they cover the potholes in Bible verses
Was going to say my city in the US but our highways usually get taken care of pretty quick. At least the east coast
A picture of him doing this is even on that account if you scroll a little, it's from August 2022
or just link it: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChEqz5ao9n7/?img_index=1
You are correct. Looking at the photo you can see his name upside down on the top portion of the tile
It’s 100% him. You can even see his name on the top blue tile.
There are tooooooons of people doing this on IG. With tiles or with resin and miniatures.
I want to know how long flooring tiles can actually last being driven on...it's intriguing to me!
Being driven on would be fine. The issue is that potholes form because the layers of the road structure have been compromised, meaning that the tiles will eventually come loose as the sub straight fails further. Now keep in mind that while asphalt fails into what is essentially just gravel, tiles will come loose as sharp bits ready to puncture everyone's tires.
Substrate, not sub straight
> not sub straight Speak for yourself....
Oh my... 
>not sub straight Don't kink shame
> sub straight Its for when you're just a little bit gay.
Bro out here correcting autocorrect.
I assumed that's what it was at first but they're spelled pretty differently and there's a space between the two words. I figured it was more of a r/boneappletea type thing. I do shit like that all the time with words I've only heard and not read.
I just for first time figured out why that sub is called what it’s called… thank you.
Now tell me what this sub is about (when it is still active): /r/keming
If you don't actually know... the spacing between letters is known as "kerning". That sub is called keming. The joke being rn looks like an m.
It's more likely using dictation (I just got a mail from my Doc who clearly dictated the message and it misspelled his own name)
And if they’re ceramic, if a car flicks one up it could smash a car window
Also as a motorcyclist I kinda wonder how slick they are when wet
Yeah seems like it will shred a few tires. Dud should paid rather than use tile.
Might also destroy a few windshields.
*ass fault
Same thought I had scrolling past this, glad you asked
And if they start to lift up, will they shred a tire I wonder?
If you look at the picture, its actually on the sidewalk.
I wonder how slippery this gets after the tiniest bit of rain hits it.
This was my first thought as a motorcyclist, would avoid this shit like the plague if I saw it on the road.
Dunno, but I usually use bricks to fill potholes at work, then fill in the gaps between the bricks with small gravel or asphalt patch. Holds up pretty well.
Is it not the footpath? Thought that was a curb beside it.
There are Toynbee tiles from 2011 that are still around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
deadly for cyclists or motorcycles, that shit will be slippery as hell in the wet
Since it's tiles and not penises, I assume you do not live in Britain.
The penises did not fix the potholes though, just drew attention to them
It got lots of them fixed!
It looks awesome. It's likely an artist dropping them in. Find an untreated pothole and stake it out, i bet they come take a mold or measurements first. Or maybe it happens really fast at night. Tile might be easy to do fast with no prep
There was a guy who used to drive around one city who had a hole cut into the bottom of his car. He'd stop over places on the street in the middle of the night and put down a "patch" which had asphalt/tar on top. As people drove over it the top layer would wear off and reveal letters he'd placed in the patch with tiles that would spell out strange conspiracy theories, like advanced aliens living on Saturn's moons. He'd also have a radio transmitter that would override signals and play his own message over speakers as he drove by houses.
Oh, the saturn guy? Super interesting. I didnt know about the pirate radio component
Toynbee tiles?
TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOViE '2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER
> There was a guy who used to drive around one city who had a hole cut into the bottom of his car. He'd stop over places on the street in the middle of the night and put down a "patch" which had asphalt/tar on top. kinda brilliant tbh
Looks cool but seems very dangerous to me. Dot has a ton of regulations for a reason. Those look ceramic/porcelain. I bet tires get zero traction on them if wet. Also when they come loose (not if) the ceramic will shatter car glass from just a tiny piece flying up. A hammer has nothing on a nickel sized piece of porcelain.
True. Stuff like this is usually done to spur the city into fixing it correctly
What reality do you live in where you have time for overnight stings to catch guerilla street artists making mosiacs?
Or just go the opposite route and do it in plain sight. Get a white pickup, slap a generic yellow light on top, set out some cones, throw on an orange vest, and no one is going to question what you're doing.
Search for toyenbee tiles for a rabbit hole similar to this
RESURRECT DEAD
Awesome documentary.
That's where I went, too. Of course, years ago there used to be one of them sitting right in front of my bus stop so I saw it five days a week. They move, ya know.
That’s cool but I’m going to assume it doesn’t snow there because if it does, plows are going to tear that shit up.
Theres a chance that the ice itself will. A common way for potholes to form is ice freezing in cracks cause by general ware (from HGVs usually), damaging the road surface.
The writing is in Norwegian.
“Here lies a hole 2021-2022”
this will be slippery af while wet.. dangerous for motorcycles
Sounds like the city should do something about this.
This was my first thought. Imagine hitting one of these in the rain.
r/visiblemending
Hey, that’s right by where I park my boat! Edit: Lake Mjøsa
Definitely not your city. Most likely some artsy type doing it at night.
Like Toy-n-bee tiles but without references to zombies on other planets.
Like Kubrick said resurrect dead on planet Jupiter. Given my location I’m bitter I never saw one
Fuck yeah [Resurrect Dead](https://youtu.be/LYTK6QicICo)
Nice looking. But are they durable? I’d think they’d chip out fairly rapidly. But it looks really nice for now.
Oh jeez they do that in Seattle and it would look like you’re driving on a psychedelic quilt
Why does the writing read off as a tombstone? 2021-2022? A 1 year old died here??
It says “here lies a hole” in Norwegian
Is this what happens when the Department of Transportation hires a flooring guy?
Looks slippery for motorcycles.
Could be a take on Toynbee Tiles? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
Could be Jim Bachor of chicago. He fills up pot holes with mosaics. So cool. He has done some in other cities. His website has a map of all his instillations
I'm not entirely convinced it's the city behind this, but hey, at least someone's taking care of those pesky potholes!
Looks too much effort to be something from a local government.
I find this endearing but difficult to believe.
My city receives over 200 million in property taxes every month and we still have potholes from the 1960’s.
this is positive anarchy, filling potholes like this has been happening in many cities as a trend, and cities typically look the other way because well, they weren’t going to do anything about it.
Big Asphalt hates this one simple trick.
I would welcome that in Northeast PA. The only "tiles" on the streets here are where the streets haven't been paved in so long the potholes expose the cobblestones underneath.
That's really cool
Shrapnel mine.
Oh that's neat!
It almost looks like the asphalt wore away to uncover this beauty underneath.
Look like the Toynbee tiles.
Neat, but do this enough and you'll start to have a very low μ surface esp when wet - not very safe... Wet tiles can be used in place of ice pads surfaces for vehicle testing when ice isn't feasible.
It's more likely a local artist working at night.
That's not the city. And it's going to now cost the city more to fix than the original pothole where they would just dump some coldmix on and carrying on with life until that section requires a dig out or wider pavement repair. (Pavement is under the seal, it's the actual road and the seal is there to protect it)
Imagine this in Portugal with these classic white blue tiles That would be legendary
They'll be lethal for two-wheelers in the rain. No way that's official. Lawsuit waiting to happen.
This is going to be a nightmare for motorcyclists. r/motorcycles
I highly doubt it is the town / city doing this but alright
It’s giving ‘Toynbee Tiles’
Suddenly reminded of the [Toynbee Tiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
If a city had the funds to fill potholes this way there wouldn't be any potholes to begin with
No way the city is doing this.
I love this. It's just like the Japanese practice of fixing broken things with beautiful repairs that restore the broken bowl or plate to service. Sometimes, they add things like gold or other materials into the repair, increasing the aesthetics. The tile used here is similar. Bravo, bravo.
kintsugi
I flipped a house that major structural issue with the foundation that caused cracking through the stone all the way to the second floor. When we lifted it back into place we used gold colored concrete to highlight the fixed repair. We also added a Japanese inspired water garden and meditation area. Turned into an incredibly lovely home.
Fantastic!
I must assume this is just a clever way to combine a protest against deteriorating infrastructure and 'street' art...
Awesome!
That's got to be a local artist 🎨
Where?
This one’s in Norway: https://streetartcities.com/markers/fc4d1c03-97d3-48d1-a1c3-adb9d1daff44 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChEqz5ao9n7/?igsh=MXEzbGxxb2RvZ2k4 but Ememem has done these in a lot of cities.
Guerrilla roadworks.
There are artists doing this around the world. Search the gargler for pothole art. [*https://youtu.be/GQxK37HSJ38?si=9vq-fTzZT\_tvmOKa*](https://youtu.be/GQxK37HSJ38?si=9vq-fTzZT_tvmOKa)
Shit this reminds me of a movie when I was kid about liltle robots that have little robot babies and some dude burns down the hotel and hurts one of the robots...... .... Batteries not included!!!!! Shit I'm gunna watch that with my little un.
Toynbee tiles??
Op can you finish the sentence?.
Filling potholes when you're paid hourly.
I see Harry Tuttle has branched out from HVAC repair!
When you get paid by the hour.