I'm a big fan of minimal use of images and was wondering if anyone had a tactic (or if it's possible) to create this kind of thing with pure static CSS? 

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahimandahalf/6780397612/>

I'm referring an effect of a line seemingly getting skinnier and fading out and the shadow effect underneath it.

I was thinking it might be possible to do a CSS shape trick with it like the triangles:

<http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-triangle/>

Or perhaps with rotation on box-shadow using 'transform':

zenelements.com/blog/css3-transform/

Any ideas?