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I know we have all had moments when we just feel like nothing is inspiring and maybe a bit sluggish. I get that way even when I am doing a hundred tasks and juggling life "stuff". I get this feeling as if I'm clogged up inside and forcing whatever energy I can to keep me afloat- tending to my daily commitments. I don't like this forced sense of duty.

So I do a little check in. And I do this more often now than ever before; why? Because I am the busiest that I have ever been in my life! There's more people in my life, more classes and events, more need for generating art, graphics and program design than EVER before. So you'd think that I'd find less time to do these simple little things, but no! These "little things" are what allows me to keep fresh, clear and focused. It's amazing what happens to my energy and creativity when I don't do them.

I call this the crazy train because I feel as though I am training my brain, body and whole self to be "crazy" and move through it. Thinking outside the box just isn't enough! ACTING OUTSIDE THE BOX is running on the crazy train....training yourself to let the crazy OUT!

In more recent years, I've become a bonafide street art enthusiast. I find myself avidly seeking out street art when visiting a new city. Hunting for street art is now on par with seeing the mainstream tourist attractions. While in Belgrade, I was served and then some with a crazy medley of street art! I was in Belgrade for only two days but I was astounded at how much street art I came across in such a short amount of time.

Is graffiti in Belgrade viewed as an acceptable form of artistic expression? A necessary outlet born from years of Soviet oppression? Or, is it a constant nuisance? I don't have the answer. All I can say is that the city seems to embrace this unique art form in some neighborhoods such as Savamala.

Stay open and observant in your everyday life, and you will see lots funny situations! When you come across one, take a note of it in a little diary or your phone (I use the Evernote app). Soon you will have plenty of funny material to use in your drawings. ?

John Potter spent years as the newsroom artist for the Billings Gazette in Montana, USA. He is now a traditional landscape artist, but his cartooning skills are admirable. Here is his take on the excuses that artists use (and how not to need them).

It was my recent experience on Whidbey Island that prompts me to say this. I met a lot of successful artists there. They were successful on every count. They were doing exactly the art they wanted, and they were making decent money.

I look at the crazy ones with their messes and incomplete projects compared to the order of the power studios; I look at the nervous smiles of poor sellers compared completely natural engagement of the big sellers, and I know.

Of course my drawing is not the best, but you get the idea.I would like the arrow to have varying amplitudes and frequencies to show that the path from node A to node B is quite rough.Is there a way to do this using tikz? (or a better crazy arrow, more symmetric and periodic?)

TikZ has a path decoration called random steps. You should be able to get sufficiently crazy paths by adjusting the segment length and amplitude values. For something periodic (and much less crazy), you can use the snake decoration, which has similar adjustable parameters. See section 24 in the TikZ documentation.

I was about eight when someone showed me how to draw this. Itstarted with two sets of three parallel lines that were joined diagonally left to right, then capped off at the top and bottom with pointy bits. It was a fierce, beautiful "S," and drawing it was addictive.

It seems the "S" has appeared throughout all of North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Australia. Some people think it's a 90s thing; others report seeing it as early as the 1960s. There were theories that it was the symbol of some 80s hair-metal band. Other people thought it was the original emblem for the clothing brand Stussy. Others thought it was an incarnation of the Superman logo. No one was sure.

"That's the Superman 'S,'" mused Ben, our in-house graphics guy. I asked him if that meant it was actually from Superman, but he said it wasn't. "No, I think it's just what kids think when they're drawing it. They really just draw it because it's cool."

I got on the phone to DC Comics to find out if they knew anything. According to Benjamin LeClear, who manages the comics library at their studio in Burbank, California, the "S" has nothing to do with Superman.

LeClear told me he'd become intrigued and, like me, launched his own mini investigation on the web only to turn up nothing. "I didn't realize what a crazy urban myth and mystery this pointy 'S' thing is," he said. "I would love for this to be Superman-related, but I don't think it is. Though Superman has the most famous 'S' symbol of all time."

"It's the Stussy 'S,'" exclaimed Ramona, one of our producers. Like Ben's guess, she didn't think it was actually an emblem associated with Stussy, but refused to believe it had any other name. "It's definitely called the Stussy 'S,'" she said, then drew her own version that wasn't as good as mine.

"No, this is not an original Stussy Logo," stated Emmy Coates, who has worked alongside Shawn Stussy since 1985. "I personally get asked this a lot, but people have been drawing this 'S' long before Stussy was established. People have just assumed it was Stussy, and it's sort of spread from there. It's actually quite amusing."

"The reason kids go through this is probably because it's a Moebius strip," he said, referring to the sort of looped one-surface shapes M. C. Escher was fond of drawing. "It can't be drawn continuously, but it does have a perpetual flow."

I think he was onto something. Most nine-year-olds can't draw, so when someone hands them a magical recipe to create something fairly cool on demand, that'll go viral. Especially when the shape has the sophisticated, mathematical lineage of a Moebius strip. Yes I'd learned the term ten minutes earlier, but whatever. Moebius strip.

Nora Mosrie is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with many years of professional experience in both the visual and performing arts. Her artwork includes acrylic paintings, drawings, sculpture and fiber art. Nora is dedicated to sharing her enthusiasm for the arts with intergenerational audiences through a variety of community venues such as special events, art exhibitions, music, theatre and educational programs. Nora studied art at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia and obtained a BA in Art Education and an MA in Studio Art with a concentration in painting, drawing and design.

Henry Adams does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

The 77 drawings in the book record warfare and horse stealing on the plains; 11 show the protagonist killing, wounding, or striking a US Soldier or civilian, often with uniforms or guns that are rendered so precisely that we can date the drawing to its conception. Most of the drawings are clearly autobiographical, showing diary-like depictions of day-to-day warrior life.

Could artist D be Crazy Horse? The episode shows the death of a US army officer and sergeant, which precisely corresponds with a December 1866 skirmish in which Crazy Horse killed Lieutenant Horatio S. Bingham and Sergeant Gideon R. Bowers.

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