Matt's Waste of Your Time » art http://www.magicspatula.com/blog Matt Casey's Blog Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:25:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Blu http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/2011/05/22/blu/ http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/2011/05/22/blu/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 02:23:33 +0000 Matt http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/?p=3544 I like a lot of the street art by the Italian artist Blu. A couple that I found particularly clever:

Bogota, Columbia

(photo by plaxyvictoria on flickr)

Berlin, Germany

(photo by wallsoffame on flickr)

Buzzfeed has some more, as does Blu’s website.

You may recognized this style from the video MUTO that was also made by Blu in Argentina:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4)

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My second favorite:

You can see the whole series here

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Not sure why I didn’t hear of this earlier- it would have been awesome to see live.

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Here’s the trailer:

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(click for full size)

It says “PREZ” on his ring.

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