Odds are you're still pretty tired from a raging Fourth of July weekend on the beach and the last thing you want to do is get back to the daily grind. We feel your pain, so to aid you in a little innocent workplace procrastination, we found "Muto," a crazy beautiful short film from an Italian street artist living in Argentina known as Blu.

The reason this new work is so exciting and has been spreading across the internets faster than bad pictures of Britney Spears? Using stop-motion video techiques Blu takes graffiti to a new level, covering the walls and sidewalks of Buenos Aires and Baden with large-scale and completely surreal creepy animated characters (they're one part monster, one part Greek mythology character, living in a world that's totally Dante's Inferno). And what's more, he had to shoot this tour-de-force frame by frame. Translation: once an image was captured on film, the work was then destroyed. Can you imagine?

"The way Matta-Clark used the building as a sculpture; it's something I try to imitate when I paint," he had said, and we hear it took months to paint and shoot this entire project—and the editing process was even more labor-intensive fun. If you happen to be heading to London anytime soon, be sure to check out more of his work at the Tate Modern where he's one of six international street artists featured in their new exhibition.

For more information or to purchase a print online, please visit www.blublu.org.

- Caroline Stanley

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