Design
Let's Pray This Doesn't Catch On: Blood-Based Graffiti
You might never look at red graffiti the same way again.
Does the sight of blood or the thought of needles make you squirm? Then boy oh boy, do I have a horrible present for you!
A group of German street artists called We Are Visual has found a way of really putting themselves in the public eye – literally, tiny little bits of themselves. It starts in a shadowy room where the artists get their biceps tied to find a vein. Then, they stick in a syringe with a tube attached and extract several vials of warm vital fluid. These they pour into a plastic graffiti marker and take to the underground in Hamburg, where they scrawl letters on the wall in shiny, red bio-paint like aspiring Charlie Mansons. They call the project, fittingly enough, "DNA."