Courtesy of Cracked.com, this is an image of a sidewalk-turned-Mordor. How was this done, you ask? Nope, not Photoshop; sidewalk paint. The whole thing took a week to paint, and the artists' contingency plan for rain amounted to "leave and paint a new picture tomorrow".

Aside from its mind-blowing detail, this piece got my attention because it ties in closely with some of the things we've discussed in lecture. This image is no mastery of any software application like Photoshop or Illustrator; it's sidewalk art, done with nothing but paint. Overall, the thing I really got out of this is that design isn't really about what you can do, but rather, it's about how you make use of what you can do.