Blu

The dilapidated walls of Berlin,  kindle the surreal work of Italian street artist Blu.  His art seems so perfectly in tune with the energy of the city, that I assumed his work was a tale from the very streets it illuminates. 

It was in typical Berlin fashion I learnt of his origins, in the circus tent at bar 25. Hunched on a wet sofa at a time in the morning when although full daylight is an unavoidable clue, you don't want to look at your watch for fear of witnessing the destruction you have caused the rest of your weekend.

Sat sandwiched  between an Aussie -  who we later embarassingly realised was called Alex, not Shane,  and a German dude. Shane proceeded to show me and my equally inebriated visiting friends a video on his IPhone,  of the animated work Muto by Blu. It was created on the walls of Buenos Aires and the somewhat less intriguing sounding, and not to mention less fun to pronounce, Baden,  South Germany. 

Halfway through the video, which was drawing appreciative gurgles from its British viewers, the German dude piped in that he knew Blu. He then told us he would tell his "Blu Italiano friend," we watched the video for the first time "right herr' in zee circus tent baaa tventy five!"

That was the only funny thing the German dude said. I spent the next tventy minutes trying to get away as he discharged wank stories about his own art career and how he was also a DJ and really into "mixing African drums and crazy shits over Balkan beats." 

Now, enjoy the genius of Moto.

Both these clips are fantastic keyhole insights into a fervent, relentless imagination, that appears unquenchable until exhaustion.  Below are his creations scattered across the globe.

Sao Paulo,Brazil    

Kreuzberg, Berlin

Wroclaw, Poland

Tate Modern, London

Arhus, Denmark

Wroclaw, Poland

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Where do I sign?

A room advertised on Craigslist.de. I have a feeling he won't be inundated with offers...

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EUR150 living room to rent out (trendiest part of berlin)

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Reply to: hous-2bwqq ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}
Date: 2009-07-16, 2:12PM CEST

fold out couch available for E20 a night or E150 a month, no worries mates! There is a baby chihuahua that needs to be taken care of and basically there is a ton of other stuff but first come and check it out! 

• Location: trendiest part of berlin
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

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...stomp, window, or toilet?

Fifteen-topping Spud in Turkish Berlin

A fifteen topping house speciality baked potato.  I knew on ordering it was going to be disgusting. But who could turn down a potato carrying tikka massala, raw mushrooms, jalapenos, coronation chicken, sweetcorn, tuna, red cabbage, sourcream, sauerkraut, olives, couscous,  aubergines.....three short. "Didn't he do well?"