There was a duel at high noon in Court Square today. The weapon of choice, paint brushes dipped in black ink. The participants, local artists. Today's Ink Off drawing competition was between Gino Barzizza and Lauren Holterman. They spent an hour attacking a giant piece of brown paper with drawings of banjo-playing geezers, Venus fly traps and smiling, winged faces. Workers on their way to lunch stopped and started. The Beale Street Flippers flipped. There were free balloons. The Ink Off was put on by Live From Memphis and the Rozelle Artists Guild as part of Downtown Alive, a weekly Thursday lunch time street performance series that happens every summer in Court Square. When I stopped by (about halfway through), no one seemed to be winning the art battle. Judging by the results I found on Facebook, no one did - Gino and Lauren were declared co-champions. That's fine with me - everybody wins when there's live art and free balloons.