Internet Meme of the Week: 'MUTO' by Blu

A single, white brick in a wall seems to fall away, leaving behind an empty space from which several white arms begin to reach out. Soon, a torso-less, multi-limbed creature with an eyeball for a head emerges and proceeds to walk across the wall. This is not an alien takeover or a freak lab accident, but the 2008 time-lapse graffiti short film "MUTO" by the avant-garde Italian graffiti artist Blu. "MUTO," which the artist's web site BluBlu.org describes as "an ambiguous animation painted on public walls" in Buenos Aires and Baden, Germany, features a cast of outlandish characters, including disembodied teeth that scurry across the sidewalk and a bald head attached to nothing but jumping feet. Blu puts a fascinating twist on animation by photographing his graffitti and painting over them in white to create this stop-motion wonder. - Sophia Archibald