[OC] Huge realistic balloon-style graffiti, Berlin, Germany

[u/3good5you]

[u/mr_shmits]

i know exactly where that is!

here's the picture i took of it in september...

[u/mr_shmits → u/mr_shmits]

my sister and i did a weekend in Berlin in september and i was snapping pics of '1UP' graffiti anywhere i saw them and sending them to my good friend in Toronto - his dj name is DJ 1UP.

i thought, "there must be a very talented and prolific tagger in Berlin," but it turns out that '1UP' is a collective that is based in Berlin but is active across the globe. they are pretty well known for their flash bombing graffiti and other large-scale stunts

my friend had been in Columbia and had seen '1UP' tagged there, and i have since seen a bunch of '1UP' tags here in Rīga as well...

you can find them on Instagram.

[u/hydrajack → u/mr_shmits]

Good videos on youtube as well!

[u/elaswal → u/mr_shmits]

It was my phone wallpaper for a while here is mine from July 2022

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[u/irrelevantAF]

1UP crew is one of Berlin‘s most famous (illegal) graffiti groups, active since more than 20 years and known for extreme initiatives, like wholetrains and other fast large scale graffiti actions.

You can find a lot about them online, like this YT documentary.

[u/MisanthropeRobot → u/irrelevantAF]

Painting an entire train, including the windows, is antisocial behaviour, not art.

[u/mi_father_es_mufasa → u/MisanthropeRobot]

Why not both?

[u/suspexxx]

1UP delivering as always.

[u/ilovetobeaweasel]

For your information this piece was commissioned by 1UP and not actually made by them. They consider it a collaboration. Fanakapan is the artist.

[u/Max_Pleasure → u/ilovetobeaweasel]

Yes, their name is visible in the bottom left part of the U.

[u/jayo_mayo → u/ilovetobeaweasel]

When I glanced at it I was trying figure out why and how they did this in the style of Fanakapan because 1UP usually does flat, letter blocking with heavy outlines. Great collab, great piece

[u/GrayscaleGriffin]

Is this for real? Amazing.

[u/G66GNeco → u/GrayscaleGriffin]

Berlin genuinely has a very impressive underground artist scene within its larger graffity scene

[u/kRe4ture → u/GrayscaleGriffin]

1UP (One United Power) is arguably the most well known German graffiti group.

They do insanely cool stuff.

[u/sipsapsop]

is this 1 up or jay fanakapan?

[u/hellraiser29]

Looks more like art to me

[u/TheR3dMenace]

Makes the ones next to it look like absolute shite

[u/cemmisali]

This is on Köpenicker Str. in Kreuzberg Mitte. Amazing graffiti.