I’ve seen the video and jaw-dropped at the amount of work that must have gone into it, but seeing in-progress pictures really brings it home. Spotted on It’s Nice That — a photo of BLU working away on this.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UyHTkQS168

I loved the wall animation by Blu, a large-scale project that spanned both indoor and outdoor walls in Germany and Buenos Aires, so I’m glad to see some more work like it. Thanks to my friend Tom Parks for leading me to this one.

Firekites, from Newcastle, is a primarily-acoustic collective. They recently released their debut LP ‘The Bowery,’ referencing not the rowdy stretch of NYC I know but rather an old destination coffeeshop/art space from their hometown.

‘Autumn Story’ comes from this record. Enjoy the song, which reminds me a bit of fellow Aussies Dirty Three (especially with that violin), and the video which is a gentler take on Muto, put together with approximately 1900 frames. No bugs, creepy crawlies, skeletons or cannibalism here. Instead, the animation starts with a little game of telephone. The whispered words then transform into a bird as both song and video take flight.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4 540]

From about a year ago, but new to me. At any rate, this ‘ambiguous animation’ from the artist Blu, which takes place across outdoor/indoor walls across both Buenos Aires and Baden (in southwest Germany), is worth revisiting for its pure, jaw-dropping, how-did-you-DO-that? artistic quality.

It’s tough to explain how cool a piece of street art it is without just POINTING at the clip. I could say, ‘There’s this creature, and he runs 2D across the walls, and turns into bugs, and manages to interact in a 3d environment, and runs through pipes and gets all blobby and pulls off a robot head that runs around like a spider, and…’

But it’s probably best if you just watch the darn thing already.