140pix, Southern California edition

Color me ignorant, but I always assumed that those big graphics on the side of trucks, buses and trailers were just created by some computer magic. I didn’t realize that what I was looking at was a large moving canvas upon which a designer practices his or her art. Loring Studios is a Lake Elsinore company that designs and installs vehicle wrap. On Twitter, they go by @awthentikwraps, and they share pictures of their work, like this one of a California Pizza Kitchen trailer. I heart pizza, so I knew I had to share this picture when I saw the trailer roll through my Twitter stream.

Crewest calls itself “Downtown LA’s premier graffiti gallery.” Its director, Man One (@crewest), is an artist himself and is all over social media. I heard about his art, and the gallery, when Man One shared this piece on Twitter during a recent trip to Monterey Bay. You can see art from Crewest, and more of Man One’s work, on his Flickr page. You can also catch Crewest on MySpace and Facebook. For the latest gallery news, make sure to subscribe to the gallery’s blog and don’t forget to visit crewest.com for everything else.

What do you get when you mix the last leader of the Nazi party with a popular science fiction theme and 17 syllables? You get Hitler killed by a mad time-traveling scientist, as illustrated by Nathan Olsens (@nateomedia) and accompanied by a haiku written by Robert Olsen. The pair run Haiku Comics. Go check out their site to see the full strip. How did I find out about the site? I noticed it when Olsens shared this panel on Twitter, of course.