Urban River by Henk Hofstra - Neatorama

Dutch artist Henk Hofstra turned a 1000 m (0.6 mi) stretch of road in Drachten, the Netherlands into an "urban river" by painting it blue!

Link | Henk's website [in Dutch] - via Stunned

Artist Florentijn Hofman has done similar things in the past, including painting roads yellow
http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/index.php?page=projects&id=12

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Meanwhile, people are starving in Ethiopia...

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Mmmm... NL... it's usually raining there.
ever tried to brake on a wet and painted road?

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And what the author of these roads is aiming to prove?

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Looking at Google Maps, the end of the "river" is at the end of a brook: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=53.105896,6.081952&spn=0.004689,0.009377&t=h&z=17&om=1 - the roundabout is also seen on the top Wooster Collective photo.

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the road used to be a canal, and will be dug up in the near future,this is done to get used to it.

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"urban river", huh? You should have put "artist" in quotes as well.

I think that 2 year old ketchup-smearer is a better artist.

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wow, so imaginative! what's next? GREEN? :o

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That road is set to be turned into a canal sometime in the near future, so the city thought it would be clever to paint the road blue to get everybody excited about the project. There's also a sculpture of a sinking car somewhere along that stretch of road.

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Interesting, though that street is going to be BLINDING when it gets really sunny.

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