Street Art You Can Use.

We love books with lots of pictures. It's an addiction of ours right up there next to emusic.com, graphic tees and obscure sneaker brands. When we travel abroad, art and culture books tend to hog up most of our weight allotment.

In Sweden last summer, we picked up Urban Recreation by Akay and Peter. Thankfully, it has more pictures than words because it's in Swedish. While we might not get the full story from just the photos, there's plenty to love about these urban street artists.

One of our favorite projects of theirs is City Swings. Made from found materials like wood, car tires, plastic milk crates and rope, Akay and Peter secretly hung 65 swings around Stockholm for everyone to use and enjoy.

Art? Yes. But also a public service, a random act of kindness, and a good deed that is less about the artist and more about community and the active participant.

It's time for more modern day Robin Hoods to emerge. Ones that benefit the community by doing crazy things like secretly planting gardens where they are needed. Ones that give freely and don't have to alert the press, ask for a tax write off or expect prime logo placement. It's time to make giving back an art form that everyone can use.