Pretty pictures:
- Artist Draws ‘Clean’ Graffiti from Dirty Walls:
A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels — sometimes for money when the images are used as advertising. But some authorities call it vandalism.
- Presidential Doodles:
Perhaps this is why doodles are so compelling. If they are significant, it is not because they are great art or the products of great men. It is because they are ordinary, and historians have fought to preserve open-access laws so that presidential doodles can be so ordinary. Anyone can view them—they belong to us. And when we view them, we see that they resemble our own words and our own idle lines. The drawing or scrawled comment on a yellow pad is like an ancient cave painting: a familiar image, but from an unimaginable distance of time and situation. [via]
- A step-by-step behind-the-scenes look at how the comic For Better or For Worse is created. [via] Revealing the creation process behind something like Garfield, on the other hand, would probably be difficult. Those big factories are usually off-limits, and Satan is notoriously camera-shy.