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Let's Pray This Doesn't Catch On: Blood-Based Graffiti

You might never look at red graffiti the same way again.
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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."