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[2013] A Brick Facade Appears to Melt Off of an Apartment Building in Margate
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slothrop lemmy.ca slothrop@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-07-03
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Link: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/building-alex-chinneck/
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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

Mildly infuriating:
It looks like the brick wall is sliding on wet cement, a brick wall cannot melt FFS. 😋

Edit:
How can it look like something that is impossible?
I wonder how the brain even works for somebody that think this looks like melting?
Yes stone can melt too, but it wouldn't look anything like that if it did.
And I know perfectly well it's an art piece, I've seen that article many times.
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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.world SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-09
#3 · Quote Reply
Buffalox wrote:
Mildly infuriating: It looks like the brick wall is sliding on wet cement, a brick wall cannot melt FFS. 😋 Edit: How can it look like something that is impossible? I wonder how the brain even works for somebody that think this looks like melting? Yes stone can melt too, but it wouldn't look anything like that if it did. And I know perfectly well it's an art piece, I've seen that article many times.

Red bricks melt between 1,800f and 2,200f.
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slothrop lemmy.ca slothrop@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-07-03
#4 · Quote Reply
SatansMaggotyCumFart wrote:
Red bricks melt between 1,800f and 2,200f.

This guy knows heat.
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betterdeadthanreddit lemmy.world betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-06
#5 · Quote Reply

This heat wave situation is really getting out of hand.
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WhyIHateTheInternet lemmy.world WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-17
#6 · Quote Reply
slothrop wrote:
This guy knows heat.

And maggoty cum farts
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DarkSirrush piefed.ca DarkSirrush@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
#7 · Quote Reply
Buffalox wrote:
Mildly infuriating: It looks like the brick wall is sliding on wet cement, a brick wall cannot melt FFS. 😋 Edit: How can it look like something that is impossible? I wonder how the brain even works for somebody that think this looks like melting? Yes stone can melt too, but it wouldn't look anything like that if it did. And I know perfectly well it's an art piece, I've seen that article many times.

This is a decade old art installation... So it isn't doing that either
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s1ndr0m3 lemmy.world s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-03
#8 · Quote Reply
Buffalox wrote:
Mildly infuriating: It looks like the brick wall is sliding on wet cement, a brick wall cannot melt FFS. 😋 Edit: How can it look like something that is impossible? I wonder how the brain even works for somebody that think this looks like melting? Yes stone can melt too, but it wouldn't look anything like that if it did. And I know perfectly well it's an art piece, I've seen that article many times.

The article literally says in the opening sentence that it is an art installation. The article is also from 2013. They just decided to use a click bait headline.
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comador lemmy.world comador@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#9 · Quote Reply

The front fell off...
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Talaraine fedia.io Talaraine@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-06
#10 · Quote Reply

2013... gosh that brings me back. I remember the doom and gloom predictions that 2012 was the end of the world. 2012 and 2013 were the best damn days of my life
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FluidBeef quokk.au FluidBeef@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-08-12
#11 · Quote Reply
Talaraine wrote:
2013... gosh that brings me back. I remember the doom and gloom predictions that 2012 was the end of the world. 2012 and 2013 were the best damn days of my life

It turns out the Mayan calendar just cycles when it reaches the end. Also the world ended for them much longer ago than 2012..
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corsicanguppy lemmy.ca corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-12
#12 · Quote Reply

I can barely see the bricks for the blocks.
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almost1337 lemmy.zip almost1337@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
#13 · Quote Reply
comador wrote:
The front fell off...

That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#14 · Quote Reply
s1ndr0m3 wrote:
The article literally says in the opening sentence that it is an art installation. The article is also from 2013. They just decided to use a click bait headline.

What, yes I can perfectly well see that, and yes I have seen the article before, this is not the first time.
What's your point?
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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#15 · Quote Reply
DarkSirrush wrote:
This is a decade old art installation... So it isn't doing that either

Obviously it isn't, I write WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!
How frigging hard is that to get?
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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#16 · Quote Reply
SatansMaggotyCumFart wrote:
Red bricks melt between 1,800f and 2,200f.

Sorry I don't do Flaffenfeit.
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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#17 · Quote Reply
slothrop wrote:
This guy knows heat.

No he doesn't, if he did he would use centigrade.
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slothrop lemmy.ca slothrop@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-07-03
#18 · Quote Reply
Buffalox wrote:
No he doesn't, if he did he would use centigrade.

He speaks in many tongues, including celsius.
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SpatchyIsOnline lemmy.world SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-07
#19 · Quote Reply
Buffalox wrote:
Mildly infuriating: It looks like the brick wall is sliding on wet cement, a brick wall cannot melt FFS. 😋 Edit: How can it look like something that is impossible? I wonder how the brain even works for somebody that think this looks like melting? Yes stone can melt too, but it wouldn't look anything like that if it did. And I know perfectly well it's an art piece, I've seen that article many times.

HoW cAn iT lOoK lIkE sOmEtHiNg tHaT iS iMpOsSiBlE?

My brother in pedantic fuckery, may I introduce you to ART
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bluesheep sh.itjust.works bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-30
#20 · Quote Reply
almost1337 wrote:
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

Well some of them are built so the front doesn't fall off at all
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Bluefruit lemmy.world Bluefruit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#21 · Quote Reply

Tony hawk pro skater IRL, let's go
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