One word: Gobsmacking.

What you see here is one man's work of 35 years - and around 100.000 toothpicks crafted into one sculpture of San Francisco. Scott Weaver spent more than 3000 hours to assemble the toothpicks that his friends and family collected for him from around the world.

It is not the biggest sculpture made out of these tiny wooden sticks but it is probably the only one that comes with the inbuilt kinetic features. Weaver cleverly constructed little tours into the model on which he sends ping pong balls which pass by places and buildings that are all somehow connected to his life and the city. Watch the video! It's magnificient.

I found the story here on www.thisiscolossal.com

This one I found today wandering in Islington.

This photo really shows you how much the Berlin postering culture was and is thriving. This is a part of one of the many lamp posts in the city centre that during the last 2 decades were used as home for hundreds of posters. Layer after layer after layer. Every one of them telling a story about Berlin's culture. It is a bit like a tree and its tree rings from which you can read its life history.

I went home to Berlin a few weeks back. And although the city is getting cleaned up in many areas to make it all slick and sterile for the New Wannabe Berliners, I was happy to see that there is still a thriving culture of street art, stickering and postering.

And I think that won't change until the Germans decided to install stupid CCTV-cameras in every bloody corner as they did here in the UK - were it is really hard to find good street art.

CCTV = Dead of Street Art.