Your current favorite manhole fact: they’re round that allows you to’t fall within the manhole, even once they’re turned sideways. Your new favorite manhole fact: in Japan, they serve as canvasses for hundreds of gorgeous, vibrant artworks:
Photographer Remo Camerota catalogs the circular works in his new book Drainspotting , which recently took the award for Best Art Book at the NY Book Festival. There’s also an accompanying iPad app.
The manhole covers feature a diversity of subjects, though firemen figure inside the scenes with disproportionate frequency. Another, slightly more personal manhole cover fact: I totally am considering you boring, unadorned U.S. manhole covers underachievers. [ Drainspotting via Core 77 ]
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