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There's been a lot of new street art popping up in our neighbourhood lately and some of it is really pretty, so I thought I'd share. Maybe Wedding is really becoming the new hip district, like everyone has claimed for years. *lol*

Stadtbad Wedding, a former swimming pool that has recently been transformed into an art/event space. All the art on the front is done with tape!

Someone scrawled all kinds of silly chalk graffiti on the building, including things like "I ♥ digestion." *lol* This one was my favourite:

Then someone painted amazing things on the old industrial buildings along the Panke, like these:

The photos don't really do them justice. For example, this one looks like some sort of cave painting:

There's also your normal, silly graffiti, of course:

This one is in the stairway of our house, painted with either dirt or something I don't want to think about, and it genuinely creeped me out the first time I saw it. (It says "Death is near, amen" - in an environment where 99,9% of graffiti are badly spelled names and notes by the local kids, this was just really weird.)

And some that are not from Wedding, but that I came across in other places:

In fannish news,

shiroi_chi got me to watch "Band of Brothers" (I can't even say why I've not seen it before, considering I love war movies) and I might be a bit in love already. Unfortunate side effect: when I was woken up by a bad thunderstorm this morning, my brain refused to parse the sounds as anything but bombs for a few minutes. /o\ Not a good way to start the day.

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I love the pig and the girls face!

The pig is so much more awesome when you see it "live". I wish photos would do it justice.

I bet 2.000 starbucks-cakes with you that it really *was* Brad Pitt who wrote it! :D

He was in Berlin, it's totally possible! *nods*

Das Bad schaut ja mal echt richtig geil aus im Vergleich zum dem Teil vorher???!!! Echt ne Veränderung zum Positiven! Und da sind jetzt Ausstellungen drin oder wie??

Ja, das ist wohl jetzt so eine "Event-Location", letztens war da eine Ausstellung und es sollen weitere veranstaltet werden, und Parties und so. Guckst du hier. (http://www.iheartberlin.de/de/2009/06/02/art-and-party-at-stadtbad-wedding/) ;)

Als ich das das erste Mal gesehen hab, war ich auch total fasziniert!

the art is so pretty and the silly ones are ♥ someone wrote a paper on Klosprüche and what form of communication they are, I think the same should be done with Graffiti. I think that'd be really interesting. (maybe it's already been done lol)

Oh and I really like the A bit more ♥ On the other hand it's like... Wow Maria is the only girl up there. And she's not even a "real" godess. :I lol (even though, I really ♥ Maria back! lol)

I think the same should be done with Graffiti. I think that'd be really interesting. (maybe it's already been done lol)
I'm pretty sure that's already been done. ;) It IS super interesting, though!

Wow Maria is the only girl up there.
Yeah, true. :-/ But that's major religions for you...

Band of Brothers ♥ Didn't Bambie have a small role in it?

He did! :D But I'm not at that point yet.

(Embarrassing confession: I couldn't remember his name last night. There was a German prisoner who looked like him and I was all "Oh, is that... is that... whatshisname... the Apollo guy from BSG?" Fail.)

I must admit I only found out about it after I had watched it and I couldn't remember who he was at all. *g*

(LOL. It's okay to blank out every now and then.)

Thanks for the pics! That's some amazing art. I'm fascinated by those lizard/slug/worm looking things with the red dots? Really imaginative.

Yeah, I love those as well! :D

"Shiva ♥ you"? How appropriate :D

The art is definitely beautiful! Love it.

*lol* I didn't even notice that!

Ooooh, fabulous photos! I especially love the last one, with the ♥-posters.

Yeah, Diana and I saw that one while randomly walking around and were all ♥_♥ over it.

Wow, that's all tape? So cool!

I love seeing art in unexpected (or even expected) places around cities. :)

It is! And yeah, surprise!art is always awesome. :D

When you say tape, do you mean like, duct tape?

More like gaffer, but yeah, sticky tape that you wouldn't normally use for that kind of thing! :D

Man, I live in the wrong part of Wedding! :D The graffiti around Seestr./Rehberge is not that attractive...

You really do! But if we're going to become the new OMGTRENDY!!1 district, I'm sure you'll get some nicer graffiti as well. ;)

Beautiful and amazing shots, thanks so much for sharing those!

My pleasure! :)

Amazing!
Amazing, amazing, amazing!
Even the boar! :D

ESPECIALLY the boar! :D