Berlin street art
The street art in Berlin, where I’m living, is just amazing, as these photos suggest.
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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
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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.