We’ve seen it in movies, we’ve seen it in sitcoms, we’ve seen it in cartoons. Maybe it’s some poor sop laying concrete or laying bricks and — this is the part that happens in cartoons a lot — someone runs through it or falls into it. A scene or two later, the fall guy is just finishing smoothing it all out, and sure enough, the same thing happens.

I love this because I like to think that happened in real life. Something really plowed into that brick wall, got into its business big time, and then, maybe when the mason was fixing it or maybe sometime later, the same thing happened in the same place. In cartoons, the fall guy usually cries. But I bet this one just said “This is gonna have to do,” put those last bricks in (using what looks like cake frosting), and called it a day.

September 5, 2009. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), Nikon DX 18–105mm lens at 66mm (35mm equivalent: 100mm), f/13, 1/160, ISO 1,250.