Walking Men Worldwide
Artist Maya Barkai assembled a collection of pedestrian traffic signals from around the world: Walking Men Worldwide.
I love all of these little people. The Warsaw one reminds me somewhat of Rocky from Project Hail Mary. Some of the ones from smaller places have more personality, but I feel like the New York and Boston ones are my favorites aesthetically. Weirdly, the iconic German Ampelmännchen isn’t among the crowd here.
A screenprint of the collected pedestrian people is available on the Walking Men Worldwide website. (via @jessicabrillhart)
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Cannes — and to a lesser degree, Chicago — strikes me as a mime leaning into an imaginary wind. I love it.
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My wife and I used to live in Chicago and always thought it looked like a person shooting pool. ;-)
Just came back from Taipei where they have the cutest animated walking man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaol%C3%BCren
I saw something very similar in Cancun. The figure walked faster and faster with time.
I promise you that Mexico City does not have only one style of walking man! I've spotted at least three different ones in the wild
Was always partial to the signals in Vienna Austria myself
@kottke https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/viking-traffic-lights
@kottke here’s one from Trafalgar Square, London (there’s also a gay one)
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