Field guide No. 1210
The cinched telephone booth
Please hold, tightly.
A glass phone booth in a dry plain is pinched at the waist by its own coiled black cord, leaving it hourglass-shaped. The line is busy, and so is the cord.
Field noteIts own coiled cord pinches the booth into an hourglass. The line is busy, and so is the glass.
Also possible, also breaking physics
An elephant leaves square footprintsEach print behind the elephant is a neat square. Round was considered and declined.
A horizontal hourglass defies gravityHourglasses stop when laid flat; this one pours sideways and even leaks a trickle past the glass.
Dunes defying gravityLoose sand slumps to its angle of repose. These walls ignore the angle entirely.
Sardine whale in an empty warehouseSardines shoaling in the air of a warehouse, in a whale’s outline. Plenty of room, no water at all.