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In October I posted about Graziano Cecchini , who dyed the Trevi Fountain red in an effort to protest the Rome FIlm Festival. Recently Cecchini struck again, sending “half a million multi-colored plastic balls” down Rome's Spanish Steps.

In an article on the Reuters' website about the recent incident , Cecchini explains his intentions behind the gesture: “[It was] an artistic operation which shows, through art, the problems we have here in Italy. [...] The colors of the balls weren’t chosen by accident. In fact, the majority are red - I wanted people to remember the Trevi fountain”. Onlookers had different responses. Some found the incident pointless and the massive cleanup a waste of taxpayers’ money; others found it to be a beautiful work of art.