Big Bang Big Boom by Blue1

I’m a huge fan of Blu, the modern Italian graffiti master who is to street art what Leonardo Da Vinci is to portraits of average looking women named Mona. His niche is to create impressive stop motion graffiti works on a huge scale, across buildings and sprawling urban environments. His previous works can be seen here and here but I have to say, if you’re going to spend time watching anything check out the above, his latest work.

This is the story of life as we know it, starting at the big bang we work all the way through the history of life ending up with man’s own destruction. It’s a story that has been told time and time again but never, NEVER, has it been told like this. Scrawling images that cover buildings, integrating mundane industrial waste in a way that is so inventive and so beautiful that it quite simply takes your breath away.

To create a film like this that lasted 1 or 2 minutes would be a feat. To put together a film that is just shy of 10 minutes is nothing short of a masterpiece. The fact that within a week this 10 minute short film has been seen by over half a million people is testament to its greatness. Words don’t do Big Bang Big Boom justice.

A couple of highlights to watch out for. I loved the bit where the crab scuttled out into the road only to pick up a bucket as a shell and carry on scuttling. The lizard which is eaten by the van is another highlight. There’s also subtle references to high-brow sentiments such as the chance involved in evolution and life on earth when he creates and rolls a dice that is made out of an air vent like device, it’s touches like this that take this film beyond merely being ‘cool’ and into the territory of sublime.

Obviously some of the most standout moments are those where the scale is at its largest. The huge dinosaurs fighting one another on the side of a 10 story building. The massive rocket that signifies the end of life as we know it or the large group of fishes eating one another.

All in all this is as good as it gets when it comes to perfectly executing a creative concept. One question I have though is how did he get permission to paint all these buildings? And who paid for all the paint? (ok it was 2 questions). If you have the answer let me know in the comments.