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The street art in Berlin, where I’m living, is just amazing, as these photos suggest.
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tessa said | 25 October, 2008

i didn’t know lost at e minor was being written from Berlin also! welcome to kreuzberg.

curiousmoth said | 25 October, 2008

♥ to the first image, so cool!!

john said | 14 April, 2009

we can see the rest of the work from MTO (first photo) on myspace.com/graffmto

john said | 30 April, 2009

The second photo is from “BLU” : http://www.blublu.org

john again said | 6 December, 2009

And me again to say that the third photo is from victor ASH :
http://www.victorash.net/index.htm

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