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

“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…

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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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44 Comments

  1. Saddam Mandavi

    December 22, 2022 at 5:24 pm

    NASA illustrator 🧐

  2. Anto theja

    December 22, 2022 at 5:29 pm

    This is so fkn dope

  3. Spectrum

    December 22, 2022 at 5:33 pm

    The amount of chalk this guy has rivals my maths teacher

  4. Carbon and Titanium

    December 22, 2022 at 5:34 pm

    7:18 Artist worked for NASA to create illusions for them

    • María Martínez

      December 22, 2022 at 6:11 pm

      Nope. He created illustrations of things that science studied, like the internal structure of planets; you can see it yourself in the video.
      Think. If an artist draws the human anatomy, as most anatomy books have drawings instead of photos of open bodies, does that make human anatomy an illusion?
      And, if you suspect NASA (or “them”) is somehow deceiving you by employing artists to draw still unexplored exoplanets, shouldn’t “they” have silenced that interesting detail, not only in this video, but totally in the artist’s bio, or even silenced the guy altogether?
      If you are going to believe in conspiracy theories, take them to their ultimate consequences. If NASA lies so much and doesn’t want to get caught, nobody who has ever worked there should be caught alive outside its premises.
      I highly recommend you to check this subject, “artist rendering of exoplanets,” to better understand what artists do at NASA. Good luck. ✌

    • Katya Kaplan

      December 22, 2022 at 9:02 pm

      tell us, how many times in total did the doctor drop you on your head when you were born?

  5. Daniel Williams III

    December 22, 2022 at 5:39 pm

    Oh yeah I just take the square and square the square to make a smaller square then detail that square to make a BIGGER square 🤔, that’s all 😀

    • patricia leonardo

      December 22, 2022 at 5:58 pm

      That sounds like Kamala Harris

  6. Sarah Gray

    December 22, 2022 at 5:44 pm

    This man is a legend!

  7. Mariem ♡

    December 22, 2022 at 5:45 pm

  8. JF

    December 22, 2022 at 5:58 pm

    👏

  9. Kimberly G.

    December 22, 2022 at 6:12 pm

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

  10. buggibii

    December 22, 2022 at 6:33 pm

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

  11. kcmsterpce

    December 22, 2022 at 6:35 pm

    Julian Beever comes to mind with these. Mindblowing.

  12. Markus 82

    December 22, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    Rain must be this guys nemesis

    • purple luffy

      December 23, 2022 at 9:19 am

      Ok

  13. Toto Denis

    December 22, 2022 at 7:17 pm

    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

  14. Christian Herzog

    December 22, 2022 at 7:25 pm

    Amazing 👏

  15. Nina Gvasalia

    December 22, 2022 at 8:13 pm

    How cool ))

  16. Thomas Durant

    December 22, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    Hmm, pyramids involved… Illuminati confirmed!

  17. Katya Kaplan

    December 22, 2022 at 8:59 pm

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

  18. Mateo

    December 22, 2022 at 9:21 pm

    Seems like a waste to use pastels and wash away.

  19. Skull Stickers Co

    December 22, 2022 at 9:30 pm

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

  20. Bird Is The Word

    December 22, 2022 at 9:55 pm

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

  21. Keizer Hedorah

    December 22, 2022 at 10:24 pm

    es magico vato

  22. Janet F

    December 22, 2022 at 10:44 pm

    Ephemeral yet endlessly fascinating!👏

  23. K D

    December 22, 2022 at 11:20 pm

    So hes telling us the Earth is actually flat and he made it look round for NASA. I knew it !

  24. No Face

    December 22, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    This is when math becomes useful and cool! 😎

  25. Justa Youtuber

    December 23, 2022 at 1:15 am

    Chalk this one up to experience.

    • Sherrie Brand

      December 24, 2022 at 11:05 pm

      ba dum tssss x2 (squared).
      😉

  26. Parker stoops

    December 23, 2022 at 1:52 am

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

  27. Michelle Little

    December 23, 2022 at 1:54 am

    He’s absolutely amazing!

  28. Pippa

    December 23, 2022 at 3:01 am

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

    • Pippa

      December 23, 2022 at 3:05 am

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

    • Sherrie Brand

      December 24, 2022 at 11:01 pm

      @Pippa
      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. . . .”

  29. The Progression

    December 23, 2022 at 3:16 am

    Guys a genius

  30. Springer Guy

    December 23, 2022 at 7:02 am

    absolutely incredible

  31. Don Bohn

    December 23, 2022 at 7:47 am

    Putting people into his own little simulations. Incredible artwork.

  32. Kevin Luo

    December 23, 2022 at 8:46 am

    You can do this on paper too. Just have to outline the object on the paper, making sure to stay in one point of view.

  33. Juan Grande Franco

    December 23, 2022 at 8:56 am

    “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.

  34. Artur

    December 23, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    Are we just gonna ignore the obvious illuminati symbolism at 0:05?? Lol

  35. Potato Face

    December 24, 2022 at 2:18 am

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

  36. Sherrie Brand

    December 24, 2022 at 11:12 pm

    Is this The Matrix for graphic artists?

  37. Becca and Charlie's world

    December 27, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    Amazing

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