Comments on: parking spots

parking spots

iconomy — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 19:50:51 -0800

You take a toy car, and hold it in such a way so that it looks like it's a real car parked between other real cars, or driving in traffic with real cars. Then you take a picture of it. That's the sublimely simple concept of Parking Spots.

By: blindcarboncopy

blindcarboncopy — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:01:58 -0800

But... why?

By: cinderful

cinderful — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:03:27 -0800

cute

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:04:07 -0800

But...why? Because they can. Cute time-waster. Harmless fun.

By: machaus

machaus — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:09:52 -0800

Great link. How'd they do this? Photoshop?

By: 10sball

10sball — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:12:00 -0800

because this is the world wide web... and some of us like it to have some personality. I say yay for a good find iconomy!

By: brownpau

brownpau — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:22:15 -0800

Ah, what I wouldn't give to have my old Star Wars landspeeder bac right now so I could "park" it here in Baltimore. Or even a classic USS Enterprise.

By: aine42

aine42 — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:37:14 -0800

Good find, Iconomy. I'm eyeing up my boyfriend's collection of Hot Wheels that's in the other room. I think it's picture time.

By: jmccorm

jmccorm — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:38:34 -0800

Wow! That's about the most amazing God-awful crap I've seen all week. Thanks!

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:54:33 -0800

I keep mumbling "I'm crushing your car. I'm crush crush crushing your car, you flatcar."

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:08:23 -0800

Wolfie, I was thinking the same thing. "I'm crushing your head, I'm crushing your head!" When I first saw that Kids in the Hall skit, I almost burst all my internal organs from laughing so hard.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:18:23 -0800

Whimsical, fun stuff, iconomy - thanks! Did you say something about car crushing, WolfDaddy? (link nsfw)

By: riffola

riffola — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:23:49 -0800

I used to do this when I was a kid, but never clicked pictures of it. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:39:51 -0800

Get Fuzzy's version of doing this.

By: marvin

marvin — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 23:08:06 -0800

Bonsai car wrecks. Model cars again, but no PhotoShop: http://www.crashbonsai.com/ (sorry, no 'link' button in my browser)

By: kevspace

kevspace — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 23:52:56 -0800

Oh man. I used to try to make the cars jump over the other cars.

By: crapemyrtle

crapemyrtle — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 23:56:23 -0800

I love that. I'm going to park a dreamcar in my driveway.

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 02:50:27 -0800

Did you say something about car crushing, WolfDaddy? (link nsfw) Thats NSFW?? Strict... Anyway, cool link - perspective is fun

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 04:25:46 -0800

i remember seeing quite a clever video on tv where someone had used a perspective trick in order for it to appear that a toy car was parked in a row of real cars. it wasn't until someone scoops in and picks up the toy car that you realise it's in the foreground. in fact the first thing you see is the giant hand picking a car up until the rational side of your brain takes over. i think it would be better if more of these pictures used those kinds of tricks without the hand being needed to achieve the shot. A stick achieves a neater result than a hand. I quite like the trick of dwarfing a real car by using perspective tricks to make it appear as though you're holding it between your fingers. Some people don't seem to get it, though.

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 05:32:56 -0800

I love the pics, but would it have killed them to include "Next" and "Previous" links at the bottom of each page?

By: ODiV

ODiV — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 05:53:43 -0800

kevspace: I should get a monster truck out and do that. Too bad I grew out of all my cars :(

By: kayjay

kayjay — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 09:09:35 -0800

(sorry, no 'link' button in my browser) "Link Button"? You're kidding, right? You must know...oh, whatever. This one's "parked" across a driveway. Tsk tsk tsk.

By: Dick Paris

Dick Paris — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 09:36:59 -0800

That's some good clean fun; not that I have any problem with dirty fun. Thanks, Icon. (The site navigation could use a little tweaking.)

By: Dick Paris

Dick Paris — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 09:49:42 -0800

My favorite. Very subtle.

By: pheideaux

pheideaux — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 10:25:06 -0800

What an awesome link. Right after I saw those pictures I went out armed with my digital camera and a 2-inch Nissan Z. Great fun.

By: MUD

MUD — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:53:48 -0800

Good stuff - the range of quality on offer is particularly endearing. Made me think of Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These are very small; those are far away...

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:24:32 -0800

The newest batch (uploaded today) is my favorite - the little girl parking the mini is adorable.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:24:18 -0800

Yep, those are cuter than the average. And nthdegx, you'll be glad to see they've taken you up on the stick concept.

By: jennyb

jennyb — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:42:07 -0800

I clicked and thought, "This is the stupidest website ever." Then I looked at every single photo and sent the link to six friends.