illegal public art at it’s finest
I’m lucky(?) because I get to watch a lot of video on the internet. It’s what I get paid to do, which tends to make me a bit jaded at times. But every so often I come across a video that blows my mind. This video is one of those.
The time it took. The energy. The planning. The foresight. The danger. The vision. This is shear and utter genius (plus some good old fashioned hard work).
Blu, whoever you are, I salute you. Applause all around. You will go far.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
whoa. that must have taken a really long time. i bet some people were upset about him painting over their graffiti…but maybe not.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Wow, so awesome! Thanks for sharing that one.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Wow… that was insanely amazing.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Indeed. You’re welcome!
May 14th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
In-freakin-credible. Wow, man. Thanks for that find. We’re all watching it at the office now.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Holy crap, that was INSANE. *boggles*
That must have taken months and months…and what if someone messed up their work on a wall before they finished that bit? Man.
That thing needs to win an Oscar. Brilliant. Tweeting now.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I wonder what it looked like to walk by the wall every day. Seeing it evolve in pieces would be almost as fascinating as seeing the whole.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hey mark, my wife is going to put this in her Inquirer Blog if that us ok with you, it does not seem to conflict with any of the artist’s wishes.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Go for it, David! It’s licensed under Creative Commons, so you can share away!
May 16th, 2008 at 10:52 am
except “no commercial sites” hmm
May 16th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hmmm. I think blogs land in that quasi-commercial realm. The Inky blog, though, probably trends more to the commercial end of things, true. What’s her blog, anyway?
June 9th, 2008 at 8:25 am
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