Berlin is the home of street art and creative graffiti. If you’ve been following my posts, you’ll already have glimpsed the East Side Gallery: though that is planned and curated.
Away from the city centre, street art is so much a part of Berlin life that walking tour companies vie with each other to show visitors the edgiest and grittiest current manifestations of this vibrant art form. Even big companies climb on the band wagon. Back in the early years of this century, Nike paid for this piece.
Somehow, global companies making use of a movement powered from the bottom up seems slightly to be missing the point.
Using spray cans; re-purposed fire extinguishers; transfers from images shot in night clubs, applied to city walls then doused in glitter, street artists come out at dead of night to brighten up favourite haunts. Bands of graffiti artists have thousands of followers on YouTube.
You, like me, can simply be a curious pedestrian in the streets of Berlin. Can you spot the example of yarn bombing?
This is a response to this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge: ‘Pedestrian’.
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What a fantastic gallery of powerful art and images. The art is gritty and vibrant as you say. Being a curious pedestrian on these streets proves to be an excellent response to this week’s photo challenge 🙂
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It was a real voyage of discovery: some dross of course, but such a lot of powerful, witty, or thought-provoking images waiting to be discovered.
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Goodness me, what interesting comments on modern life.
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I think so. It’s quite an eclectic mix.
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The perfect choice for the challenge. I hadn’t heard of yarn bombing, but I suppose it’s the sock?
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Yup. Yarn bombing has even reached rural destinations such as Thirsk, near me, which celebrated both the Tour de France and last Remembrance Day by yarn bombing the town: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14448450.PICTURES__Yarnbombers_cover_Thirsk_in_knitted_creations_to_celebrate_Tour_de_Yorkshire/
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I was smiling at these photos . . . until I saw the one of our president who shall not be named.
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Sadly, we all know who he is ….
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Street art is one of those things that will always amaze me.
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Yes. Hard to ignore, eh?
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This is great! And oh, can I hide somewhere rather than admit I recognize the guy in the YAAM art. My precious nation is quickly becoming the laughing stock of the world.
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Your nation is sadly not alone in having leaders it’s hard to respect.
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I really enjoyed this post. Your images drew me in, especially once I looked at them one at a time, in larger size. Great take on the theme.
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Certainly worth strolling around the city. Political and entertaining. Love the orange caterpillar. Yarn bombing does not to seem to have caught on here in Canada. I expect the city fathers or the rightful right would voice their objections. Great post. Cheers.
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Yarn bombing seems such a gentle form of street art, on the whole. Try this: https://www.visitthirsk.org.uk/pages/yarnbombers.php
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This street art is *very* good.
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Interesting, isn’t it? I hope they don’t try it in Norwich though!
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There is a little street art in the centre of the city but not much.
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Love the idea of yarn bombing – has a vibrant immediacy without a care for permanence. Honestly, the big brands jump on every passing bandwagon. Can’t actually sponsor some authentic street work in case the message isn’t clear – oops looks like that’s what happened! 😉
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And it cost them 40, 000 euros apparently …..
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Wow 😂
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Ah, some great stuff! Well
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Dunno where the well came from in my last comment…
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