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I Wish All Streets Had Lego Minifigs Painted On Them

6:00AM November 8, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This street 3D painting was created at the Sarasota Chalk Festival last week: a Lego minifig terracota army, inspired by the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses commissioned for the burial of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. More »


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A Portal On The Footpath That You Can’t Jump Through

1:45PM June 29, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Here’s a chalk portal created by an unknown artist in an unknown city of an unknown state. Despite all the unknowns, the footpath drawing is absolutely fantastic. [9Gag via NerdApproved] More »


Just Imagine What Chalk Dust Does To The iPhone’s Internals

9:20PM November 17, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

I would hope that should the blackboard iPhone case ever go into production, you’d be cleverer than the sod who scrawled “hello LOL iBoard black board on iPhone” on the one here. [Kalomix via GadgetReview via OhGizmo]


Japanese Chalk Is Dustless, Day-Glo, Uses Scallop Shell Waste

8:26PM August 10, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Dustless chalk has been around for a while, but Nihon Rikagaku’s developed a new kind of chalk made from crushed-up scallop shells which reduces dust but manages to maximise the intensity of the colours. They’re positively day-glo, now. More »


Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan)

12:00AM April 27, 2009 | Jack Loftus

What is best in life? To crush other browsers, see their worm-ridden code driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their fanboys.

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Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point

11:20PM March 18, 2009 | Mark Wilson

I consider myself a toy gun aficionado—one who is versed in the latest non-lethal, non-painful weaponry. But I’d never heard of chalk guns before.

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