We thought we had seen it all earlier today with this striped and labeled house in Omaha, but we do believe that this Chariot of Polar Bears takes the proverbial cake. Why keep such fabulous designs on black 80's panel vans, when you could have it on the side of your house instead?
You can find this fabulous house and work of art in Mutters, Austria. It's located near a train station and on display for all to see! Although we had been planning a getaway to other destinations lately, our travel plans might have to change as this visual display just shot to the top of our must see list.
(Image: Flickr Member JP Puerta licensed for use under Creative Commons)
Wow...
view bepsf's profile
Frank Frazetta > you.
view mfpants's profile
I feel sorry for the neighbors.
view slowdown's profile
I love how it doesn't match anything else on the building...
And how his hair is held up by the sword, is it glued to the blade?
view Daniel Poitiers's profile
And the bears aren't attached to the ... uh ... "sleigh" or "motorless Art Nouveau Ski-Doo" ... It actually looks like he's going to run over them, this is cruel!!
view Daniel Poitiers's profile
where's the valkyrie in a metal bikini?
view the polish chick's profile
Simply amazing.
view gregory's profile
This reminds me of the painted houses in southern Germany, along the romantic road. Pretty cool.
view grumbler101's profile
I would black light it at night and rev the 82 firebird out front while blasting Journey on the 8-Track with a Miller Lite in one hand and my crotch in the other all the while kissing my feather-haired self in the mirror.
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thumbs up to swagdujour...
that's really almost as cool as my wolf shirt:
http://www.everythingwolf.com/shop/productdetails.aspx?ProductID=1552
view jessbink's profile
There's a reason why the phrase, "I need some good decorating advice - find me an Austrian!" has never been uttered before.
view Blandwagon's profile
While these murals are obviously nothing new in major cities, the murals on many Paris buildings are particularly amazing.
view muirwoods08's profile
oops...using the trompe l'oeil technique.
view muirwoods08's profile
Freakin' epic!
view molotovnights's profile
OMGWTFPOLARBEAR.
view Elizabeth B's profile
Is it out of one of the Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials" books?
I'm surprised that there isn't a bylaw against this in Austria -- there are usually regulations against just about everything that steps outside of their very strict norms...
view mschatelaine's profile
*bowing to the east* swagdujour, you rock the free world! I may just try that tomorrow myself. But in my 2003 Civic and listening to U2's Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses.
Not the same :-/
view Laughing Tiger's profile
Maybe there's no bylaw because this is the manliest of all manly murals, and to outlaw this kind of art would be stripping the Y from Austria's male population. How dare you.
view LaurelJRyan's profile
Nope, it's not from his dark materials. it is fking awesome though.
view CGfromMN's profile
Awesome
view autobot77's profile
if i could replicate a frazetta on the outside of my house, i would!
i didn't know much about him at all, but my bf put the frazetta movie on the netflix and whoa. not really the type of art i go for but the man himself is an inspiration. after a stroke hampered his ability to paint and draw he relearned with this left hand in order to keep going. highly recommended viewing!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363621/
view saya*'s profile
Well, whatever this is supposed to be, it merely reinforces my impression that Austrians are rather... "odd"...
view mschatelaine's profile
Frazetta is better than an advertisement! I love it.
view MuffinGal's profile
I would not like it on a wall.
I would not like it in a hall.
I would not like it on a van.
I do not like it, Sam-I-Am.
view mirandabee's profile
Many houses would be improved with murals of things that are awesome such as:
Vikings
People with swords
Dragons
Rocketships
Lasers
Or perhaps the most awesome thing: Space vikings riding dragon shaped rocketships with laser swords.
view Max's profile
they should have sent a poet
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