We’ve already seen murals and graffiti turned into a moving image with a simple, stop-motion animation. From Blu’s elaborate 7-minute video “Muto” (Silent) to INSA’s captivating graphic based “gif-ffiti” series, featured here on our blog, the idea of bringing life to walls has been a challenging one that street artists have enjoyed for years. What we haven’t seen yet is a photo-realistic mural turning into animation, and Croatian artist Lonac did just that as an early Valentine’s day treat. The artist recently spent a couple of days at an unknown building location in his hometown of Zagreb, working on an impressive piece showing a beating human heart. Known for creating realistically rendered murals, his piece titled “Heartbeats” has been lauded as one of the first “animated murals” done in this style with a level of excruciating detail and anatomical accuracy, where each frame of his animation shows the heart “pumping” blood. Utilizing the actual piping found in the building, Lonac created this unique effect by painting the blood to appear to rush from one image to another. Showing all the little veins, shading, and smooth movement of this important organ, his piece is also the first one of an upcoming series of similar works planned by Lonac for this year.
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Minsk, the capital of Belarus, was recently taken over by street art festival Urban Myths. For this festival, artists had to explore the city for three days, plunge into the city’s atmosphere and then create original paintings based on urban folklore. After studying the locals and their traditions, British-Australian artist 
Interesni Kazki detail While the collectors were busy at the fairs during Miami Art Week, street artists descended upon the Wynwood neighborhood to add new murals to the urban landscape, with thousands of eager tourists with cameras at the ready following not far behind. While many murals from past years have been preserved, we spotted new additions by the likes of Interesni Kazki, Nychos (who painted five separate walls), Faith47, Alexis Diaz, Swoon, Cleon Peterson, and many others. Colorful new pieces spilled out of the designated