xhiller was out of the inner city and the last thing you'd expect to see is some beautiful guerrilla knitting so far out in the boondocks. But here it is - proof in pudding. A lamppost near Wannsee in Berlin, Germany gets a warm covering. Full Wool Jacket!

xhiller visits the Spree on a cold, sunny day. The colors of the graffiti are echoed in the colors of the river itself and the new buildings on the opposite shore. The banks to the Spree are more often than not an abandoned-looking jumble of garbage, old ruins from some building long gone, and ungroomed Continue Reading

A gift from the heavens! Yellow rays piercing through the wall of gray.  Magnificent blue skies swiping at the winter doldrums. Dare we hope for Spring? Berlin, it's time to crawl out of hiding and take a look around. If you know the inner city here particularly well, you might know exactly where xhiller snapped Continue Reading

One of realeyz.tv’s translators asked me to look for work by ALIAS. Hmmm. OK. Then, really and truly purely by chance, I ran into a stencil work at Mariannenplatz next to the Bethanien’s new little skateboard set-up. Seems that Kunstraum Kreuzberg will be featuring skater films. Sounds right up our alley! ALIAS - very dramatic Continue Reading

There is so much graffiti in Berlin. So many tags, stickers, stenciled and sprayed artworks. Why did I choose this image? First of all the Giacometti-like figures in black caught my attention. Just a few lines build these evocative figures. What are they looking at - and why are they doing it in tandem? The Continue Reading

Looking down at my feet  (highly advisable in Berlin, where dogs have undisciplined owners…) I noticed that the heavy rains had sprouted a bouquet of vevelty mushroom - right tight against the crumbly brick wall - with some lush dandylions as next door neighbors.

All in all a peaceful coexistance.

Xhiller is dedicated to the preservation of Continue Reading

Guerrilla Knitting, like Guerrilla Gardening, is a new fad that is catching on quickly. As one blogger put it: Guerrilla Knitting is stealing graffiti artists the show. This bridge improvement project was spotted in Berlin’s Görlitzer Park. It’s not just the color, it’s the texture. The impulse to touch it. And perhaps best of all Continue Reading

If the sun won’t shine, there’s always a sunflower! Snapped this beauty in the parking lot of our realeyz.tv offices. Guerrilla gardening bears fruit! Try it. Just throw some seeds into the ground. Eventually, something will grow. In the sand box behind our building, there were a whole bunch of sunflower seedlings growing straight and Continue Reading

Just in time - xhiller’s got the weekend sound track of chilled beats from Berlin by Scott Hobbs and Soulmind! And to accompany this soundblending work of art, I offer you a pic snapped in the immediate neighborhood: it’s 1UP, folks!

I have often asked myself: what does all this 1UP graffiti mean? I see it Continue Reading

Berlin in the summer - the air warmed by the day’s sun and fragrant with the perfume of countless blossoms. And sunsets after 10 pm!  Berlin - laguna on the Spree at Treptower Park.

Films for this mood: Pupa’s Garden. Garden of Eden in the middle of wasteland.