Forward Ever Forward

Submitted by: Justin (Salt Lake City, Utah)

The whole time singing “keep on rockin in the free world”

New sidewalk chalk art from Julian Beever–He is amazing!

Julian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his anamorphic art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium.

Beever gives an amazing illusion to his drawings, so that the objects appear to be three dimensional rather than flat as they actually are.

Work in progress

Work completed

Hard to believe that the little boy is standing flat on the pavement!
Julian admits that some people see his work as graffiti, and don’t feel it has a place on public streets.  Happily, he says, he mostly receives a positive reaction and people like and enjoy his art.

Did you spot tiny Julian Beever on the Top of the Bottle?
The 3D aspect to his work came much later while he was working in Brussels, ‘I decided to get into 3D after seeing the effect of tiles being removed from the street, and later trying to recreate the sense of depth in a drawing.’

People avoid the hole.

Hosing down the street

Everything is fake, even the hose and water!

Rafting

Watch out!

Land Use

There is no hole in this pavement.

Politicians get sucked into a pit.

Who will save them?
‘Once I realized you could make things go down, I realized you could make them appear to go up and I began experimenting.’

Make Poverty History – side view is 40 ft long

Make Poverty History – front view

Amazing!

Art for the people.
‘My art is for anybody, it’s for people who wouldn’t go into an art gallery.
It’s art for the people.’
‘Art shouldn’t be locked away in  galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.’

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Julian works in chalk, so his art, which takes up to 3 days to complete, is there only as long as the elements allow,
‘If it rains it means I’ve done a lot of hard work for nothing, but I usually manage to avoid that.’
Visit with Santa

The important thing for me is to get a photo of it at the end.
For me, I’m working towards building a photograph as my end result, and if I get that I’m happy.’

‘The secret is to set up a camera on a tripod and keep it in one spot and check every mark you make.  It’s really just playing with perspective to make it appear different to what it really is.’

Julian Beever – Self Portrait

Recently, in large French city, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym.

It said:

THIS SUMMER DO YOU WANT TO BE A MERMAID OR A WHALE?

A middle aged woman, whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman on the poster, responded publicly to the question posed by the gym.

To Whom It May Concern:

Whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, sea lions, curious humans).  They have an active sex life, they get pregnant and have adorable baby whales.  They have a wonderful time with dolphins stuffing themselves with shrimp.  They play and swim in the seas, seeing wonderful places like Patagonia, the Barren Sea and the coral reefs of Polynesia. Whales are wonderful singers and have even recorded CDs..  They are incredible creatures and virtually have no predators other than humans.  They are loved, protected and admired by almost everyone in the world.

Mermaids don’t exist.  If they did exist, they would be lining up outside the offices of Argentinean psychoanalysts due to identity crisis.  Fish or human?  They don’t have a sex life because they kill men who get close to them not to mention how could they have sex?  Therefore they don’t have kids either.  Not to mention who wants to get close to a girl who smells like a fish store?

The choice is perfectly clear to me; I want to be a whale.

P.S. We are in an age when media puts into our heads the idea that only skinny people are beautiful, but I prefer to enjoy an ice cream with my kids, a good dinner with a man who makes me shiver and a coffee with my friends.  With time we gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room it distributes out to the rest of our bodies.  So we aren’t heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated and happy.  Beginning today, when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think,Good gosh, look how smart I am……..

He lived at Rose Haven Nursing Home (Roseburg, OR) for years. Paul Smith,the man with extraordinary talent was born in Philadelphia on September 21, 1921 with severe cerebral palsy. Not only had Paul beaten the odds of a life with spastic cerebral palsy, a disability that impeded his speech and mobility but also taught himself to become a master artist as well as a terrific chess player even after being devoid of a formal education as a child.

“When typing, Paul used his left hand to steady his right one. Since he couldn’t press two keys at the same time, he almost always locked the shift key down and made his pictures using the symbols at the top of the number keys. In other words, his pictures were based on these characters ….. @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ . Across seven decades, Paul created hundreds of pictures. He often gave the originals away. Sometimes, but not always, he kept or received a copy for his own records. As his mastery of the typewriter grew, he developed techniques to create shadings, colors, and textures that made his work resemble pencil or charcoal drawings.”

This great man passed away on June 25, 2007, but left behind a collection of his amazing artwork that will be an inspiration for many..

(These pictures are unbelievable. Strange we should just now be hearing about him. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.)

Check out Paul Smith’s site

Can you believe that this art was created using a typewriter?

“Success is not  the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to  success. If you love what you are doing, you  will be successful.”

-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

-You use 200 muscles to take one step.

-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.

-A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.

-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.

-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.

-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.

-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

At this very moment I know well you are putting this last fact to the test…
..now remove your thumb from your nose and pass this on to the friends you think might be interested in comparing their thumbs to their noses as well. .

What do you do when you find a dirty car?

(a) Write WASH ME?
(b) Do a pretty drawing?

Met SCOTT WADE.

Check out what he does with the dirty cars by carefully and artfully removing portions of the dirt. According to his web site, he lives real close to a dirt road in San Marcos , Texas …

I don’t know about you, but I know this would slow me down!
I can see myself slowing down, trying to “straddle” the hole, then breathing again when I cleared it without hitting it!

This is actually a speed control device.  Scroll down and look at all three pictures!