Marseille was definitely dirtier than the other cities we’ve been to, but it also had some of the coolest street art. Here’s a photo dump of some of the things we saw.

Murals

I like captain pickle in the middle

Fishmongerzilla

It’s cool, but I wish it wasn’t so “urine-y”

Bird man is so fat, when he lies around the house, he lies around the house. Get it?

Thematically Appropriate Shutter Art

A number of stores had sweet mural art that reflected the services they provided.

This worked. Now I really want some orange chucks.

Droopy never got enough airtime

What’s up indeed

High Fidelity Graffiti

Most of these are executed like murals, just smaller scale.

It’s the graffiti equivalent of angry birds

Animal on acid; you should hear him play the drums

The incredible adventures of hungry panda and necro-rooster

Low Fidelity Graffiti

Not all graffiti artists are doing crazy full-color work with shading. But they still make some cool stuff.

Sort of Fraggle Rock-ish

It’s Totoro! I just wish the artist had been better

The Missfits

Ontologies are hard. These ones didn’t shake out cleanly into another category.

This might just be an ad. I have no idea.

Not technically graffiiti, but I love the little pigs.

This Pink Panther was actually in Paris.

We’ve previously established that we love musuems. The Centre de la Vieille Charite was no exception. Here are a few favorites from the collection.

Dried Dead Things

Some ancient Egyptians dressed up a little bird like a person and mummified it. I love it.

He looks like a little bird buttler

This next one looks straight out of a certain Tool video from the 90s (Parental Advisory: contains images of disturbing claymation, shitty music).

So metal.

I picture some Egyptian taxidermists, or mumifiers, or whatever you call them, sitting by the Nile on a hot day.

Egyptian 1: “So, what are we gonna do now? We’re at the top of our game. We mummified that bird, embalmed the goat; what could possibly be a challenge worthy of our talents?”
Egyptian 2: “How about, I dunno, A FREAKING CROCODILE!”
Egyptian 1 and Egyptian 2 fist bump. A legend is born.

#1 on the list of things I hope never come back from the dead

Hatception

This is a hat that is the head of a man wearing a hat that is a stool with another man sitting on it. That other man is also wearing a hat.

It’s hats all the way down.

Skulls

I think these speak for themselves.

I’ve already asked Tiara to bury me with sweet goggles.

Tron Pit

I think this effect is just accomplished with a series of mirrors. Either that, or it’s a portal straight to the ENCOM mainframe.

Let me just grab my light cycle, and I’m ready to go.

Artception!

A few weeks ago I was fascinated by some Google researcher’s post on how they took computer networks trained to recognize images and tweaked them to generate/morph images instead. It’s fascinating, and worth a read even if you’re not hip to the computer science.

On my todo list is to get their code running on my computer, but in the meantime someone saved me the work and made a website for transforming  photos. You can try it yourself at https://dreamscopeapp.com/

I picked an already trippy picture from Marseille, and it came out looking pretty neat. Here’s the original:

Just about equally trippy, actually.

Here’s another transformed version for your nightmares: