140pix, Southern California edition

Searching for Twitter pictures from Southern California invariably unearths photos of people in costume for film and television shoots. But a few weeks ago, Will Batts (@hiphopxyz) shared this picture of a city dressed up for the cameras. Los Angeles was made to look like New York for an episode of CSI: NY. You see, Batts is a set designer for the investigative law enforcement TV franchise. Batts also calls himself a “rapper for aliens” and a “virtual graffiti artist.” I’ll be featuring his graff art here tomorrow, but if you want to hear the alien hip hop, you’ll have to visit his MySpace page.

If the saying is true and idle hands really are the devil’s workshop, then San Diego graphic designer Bryant Wieczorek (@IamNotaMachine) has nothing to worry about. One day last week, after creating this poster, he decided to “run with the hand and fist drawings” and turned them into the two paintings that you see below.