sidewalk arts festival

every year, scad sponsors the sidewalk arts festival. students and others compete in chalk drawing on the sidewalks throughout forsyth park. the festival was actually yesterday, but jessica and i both forgot our cameras. but that's actually not a bad thing. the festival was terribly crowded with people trying to look and see what everyone was chalking. but the art is on the sidewalk, so everyone was walking in between the art. it was so crowded, we never would have been able to get any decent pictures anyway. so i went back today and took pictures of the art all done. here are some of my favorites.

i think this one was the best work i saw there.


cute! goldfish and koi were a popular theme.


the ubiquitous obama...


finding nemo was playing in forsyth park that night, so i think this was pretty creative. it might have made some children cry :)


nice juxtaposition of a cartoon geisha next to the girl with a pearl earring.


also, while i was riding around the park, i noticed some people in civil war dress. it seems that the monument in the middle of forsyth park is the confederate soldiers memorial. so all these women were dressed in black hoop-skirt dresses (and it was quite warm for that today!) and there were also soldiers and cannons in the park. oh, and plenty of rebel flags. can't forget those. but here's some pictures of the crowd milling around.

it's been beautiful this weekend, although yesterday was far too hot for me. i really wanted to go to the beach, but that fell through. i have no way of getting there, and the person who was going to go with me to visit her parents out there changed her plans. that's okay. maybe another day. it will sure be hot enough here for it until the day i leave!