A: Is for art with curb appeal

With a lack of new art and theatre premiering in public venues, one artist manages to capture one of the largest audiences around. Julian Beever's virtual gallery is the Internet, where untold numbers at this very moment are seeing - and marveling, and sharing - his three-dimensional pavement drawings. His medium ..... chalk. He is so sought after that cities commission him for the buzz he creates. What he does is called anamorphosis. First he draws his design in miniature. His world has people and things coming out of holes, exploding into life, crawling up walls and a mirad of other activities. The entire process takes three-and-a-half days. Then he draws on the ground, running back and forth to look through a camera, hundreds of times, just to gain perspective. To get the full three-dimensional effect, you have to see Beever's work through a lens. "I think because the camera limits what your brain can do," he said, "it limits the brain's ability to judge distance, it makes you only use one eye. And therefore you can make the brain believe stuff that otherwise it wouldn't believe." After art school, Beever supported himself by making two-dimensional chalk drawings on pavement for pennies from passers-by. He turned to three-dimensional art not by error but by trial, starting with a woman in a swimming pool. Her leg didn't come out quite right. He learned from that mistake and has been wowing people ever since. It doesn't worry Beever at all that this drawing will disappear after a couple of days in the rain, because the final product is the photograph. It's that photograph that goes on the Internet. It will be there forever and that is a F.A.C.T.