Last year, a group of artists/cyclists dumped 500 litres of water-based, environmentally-friendly paint in the busy intersection of Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin. Over 2000 cars served as brushes in this guerilla project and the asphalt canvas quickly became a huge work of colourful street art. I had seen photos of this intriguing event but never the video until this morning when awesome plenty of colour reader Kendra kindly sent me the link. It is fascinating to watch the colour spread and inject joy into a usually boring part of urban life (a favourite theme of mine!). There are probably plenty of civic issues with projects like this but as long as the paint is environmentally-friendly and biodegradable, I personally hope to see this idea pop up again. Hmm. Time to google “organic paint”…

(thanks for the inspiration Kendra!)

(photographs via street files and happy pixels)