Year: 2011

This is a cool photo of Henry Blanco. It’s too bad the design of the card is covering up an essential part of the photo, home plate. It makes you wonder what the photographer thinks of this card. 2011 Topps…

Precisely it would take 105,714,892,800 sticky notes to cover every square inch of Chicago. How did I come with that? 3 inch x 3 inch sticky note 63,360 inches per mile 63,360/3= It takes 21,120 stickies lined up to cover…

I played the word POOD in Words with Friends. I always thought the past tense of poo would be spelled POOED. My second-grade humor was greatly pleased when Words with Friends accepted POOD. What a great Scrabble potty word to…

I’m glad he got the tube off his head. This Youtube video reminds me of the time when Unlikelymoose and I were at an art museum in San Francisco and we saw someone walking around looking at the artwork through…

I saw these two pins on the same day. Somehow they belong together. Here’s the links: First one: Face protector thing Second one: Baby face thing I like how the caption on the first one talks about how ridiculous it…

Sparxmind pointed out to me that the USS Enterprise on wikipedia seems to be depicted as an aircraft carrier. Last time I checked it was a spaceship in Star Trek. Maybe it actually is the Star Trek spaceship in that…

It seems like my Scrabble / Words with Friends rack always ends up multiple i’s. Does the letter i like to group together in herds? If you have the double-i syndrome like me, here’s some words that might come in…

One mattress photo. Three different websites. The comments that resulted.

Everyone on twitter has the urge to tweet about what they eat. Or how their knee hurts. It’s the typical stupid twitter joke that comedians tell. I avoid tweeting about such uninteresting things on my main twitter accounts. That’s why…

I’ve always wanted a gun that shoots out strings of Christmas lights. I would hold the Christmaslightstring Machine Gun in the G.I.Joe Roadblock style and yell out in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice, “MERRY CHRISTMAS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!”…

I would like to make a goal to always have pre-stamped postcards with me at all times. If i come across a cool-looking mail drop-off box, I can use that box. And then I could take a photo of that…

Do you know about the “One of a Kind” annual show at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago? I never heard of it, yet this is its 11th year running. Maybe I never heard of it, because I’m always going to…

The future of theatre is a paper my friend John is writing. This 5th question was very interesting: 5. Is there any social and/or economic politics that can effect or affect the future of building stages and theatre architecture? Here’s…

My friend John interviewed me for a paper he’s writing on the future of the theatre. One of the questions he asked was: What is your opinion and thoughts on the future of Stage Design in America? When you close…

Word: CRZAY Definition: When something is beyond crazy. You can’t even get yourself to say crazy the normal way, you end up saying CRZAY. Example: Person 1: This donut is so CRZAY. Person 2: You mean crazy? Person 1: Did…

Browsing through the public library, you see others standing in the same subject aisle as yourself. But when you Google something, you don’t see others doing the same search as you. Google should have an option where you can turn…

I like seeing this in my firefox google search bar.

Are there any words you find hard to spell? Here’s my collection of tweets over the past few years that shares my difficult words: “rubbage” is actually spelled “rubbish?” #learningtospell I tend to spell simplier instead of simpler, which is…

The Museum of Contemporary Art is working with 17 teen artists to make self-portrait videos. Give them a look. They are interesting. Alejandro: I’d like to hear more of Alejandro’s interviews with MCA visitors. Alexis: Interesting piece asking strangers who…

My photo is featured on the homepage gapersblock.com today (archive in Rearview). This caution tape was flapping around so fast, it was like a squid swimming in water. It really did! You ever see squids swim? Their legs flap around…

Let’s admit it. The Pace bus service in Chicago isn’t really all that popular. You always see only one guy riding on the bus, Mr. Pace. Here’s seven suggestions on how Pace can improve their bus service. 1) Pen cups…

I want to hang clouds from trees. Sorta like the clouds are ornaments. That will be a neat sight to see. How should I make the clouds? I made a poll on the Spudart Facebook Page. Please vote on the…

I had the honor of meeting Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo the most fun photo website. He was very intrigued by the public artwork that I do. Only a couple weeks later, he found out that he has acute lukeumia…

A few interesting points from Art21’s interview with Paul McCarthy: Equating amusement parks with art. It’s a really interesting idea to explore how a place like Great America can be artwork. I would like to explore this. The way Paul…

Art21 scored an exclusive with Cindy Sherman where she talks about shooting digital for the first time in her life. Wow. Cindy. It’s 2011, and you never shot with a digital camera? That was one surprise in this video. Another…

Thanks to Kelly Ryan O’Brien for posting this on her Idols and Egos blog Yeah! I think this is why I always want honest critiques of my work. The past few months I’ve been thinking a lot about if I…

In theory there are 101 of these wax creatures. So far six have been discovered. In my encaustic painting class we learned how to make mono prints with wax. Here are little monsters made on tissue paper with a blue…

Tell me what to put in the puppy’s circle, and I will draw it! Here’s what people have suggested to me so far: A bone (@personalgenius on twitter) Kibble! (Tom Saaristo on flickr) Scooby Snacks (Jamie McQuinn on facebook) A…

There are two incredible art events happening in Chicago on Thursday, November 17, 2011. 1) A talk at the Cultural Center on Chicago’s bridges (i love Chicago’s Bridges) 2) A dance performance interpreting artwork at the Art Institute (art +…

While looking for more art podcasts, I found three audio podcasts that I’m going to bring into my mix of podcasts. How about you give them a try too? ————— Art Talk KCRW Edward Goldman offers impassioned views on what…

Tateshots and etsy are two video podcasts that I look forward to with every release. ————— TateShots A selection of short videos each month, with a focus on modern and contemporary art at Tate. TateShots is probably in my top…