Violet Hour 'Deer' mural gets a timelapse

December 05, 2013|By Mick Swasko, @swasko | RedEye

<p>That was fast. </p><p>If you've been to the Violet Hour in the past few months, you've probably noticed the mural of a leaping deer in a forest on the outside of the 1520 N. Damen Ave. bar in Wicker Park. <a href="http://www.seemaxwork.com/aboutmax">In a video posted last week by @seemax</a>, a time lapse of the entire spray-painting process is shown, and it tells us two things. Artist <span>Benjamin Oakley Wilson is awesome, and that October--when the video was shot--was really warm, judging by the clothes passers-by are wearing. </span></p></div></div><div class="float" style="clear:both;height:1px;line-height:1px;"><img src="/images/pixel.gif" height="1" width="1" alt="" /></div><div id="mod-ctr-lt-in-top" class="mod-adcpc"><script type="text/javascript"> var adSkipCounter = 0; </script><iframe id="mod-ctr-lt-in-top-frame" src='javascript:(function() {document.open();document.write("<style>body{margin:0px;}</style><script>google_ad_client=\"ca-pub-8415620659137418\";google_ad_slot=\"1721011884\";google_ad_width=\"614\";google_ad_height=\"160\";google_ad_channel=\"1184458283,1000001868,1000000121\";google_adtest=\"off\";google_safe=\"high\";google_hints=\"violet hour time lapse mural spray\";google_max_num_ads=\"4\";google_override_format=true;google_page_url=\"http://articles.redeyechicago.com/2013-12-05/news/44822876_1_violet-hour-mural-time-lapse\";</script><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\"></script>");document.close();})();' frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="614" height="160">

Also, the music--a cover of The Sugar Hill Gang's "Apache" by The Incredible Bongo Band--is fantastic.

It isn't the first time Wilson has painted up the front of Violet Hour. A time lapse of a Whale mural from May 2012 is below.

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Watch the Violet Hour 'Deer' mural get spray painted in minutes