Year: 2021

What would you do with 5-10 million expired coupons EVERY WEEK?

So quiet. The exhaust from one tiny ship pulling a grand sailboat. The exhaust floats into the sky like the larger clouds. Then...

Falling leaves like Japanese characters read downward vertically on a page.

Crawling up into the nooks and crannies of a fabric scrap.

This trailer is wonderful, because it shows how delicate his works are, and how they can easily fall apart.

Tips for capturing the moment when saving a leaf

Let's get into the math of buying regular tickets at the ticket window versus getting an annual membership.

19 days to fly your flag; and an additional 46 days if you are really adventurous

I love Astrotrain. Yet, I don’t have any of his figures anymore. They just cost too much. $50 and upwards. No thanks. If there was an Astrotrain for $20 or under, I’d be tempted to get it. I wonder where…

Hello little green person. You look like a leprechaun, but you come from Ancient Egypt.

Searching for 'feline' instead of cat yields more ancient results.

I will be mailing this postcard to someone who has a tree, and I will name their tree after a U.S. President.

The geometric shape called magatama

Making iced coffee with iceberg lettuce, because transitive logic told me so.

Jawas on Mars?

I found 27 different bicycle registration programs in the Chicagoland area. Can we have just one?

Pleasantly surprised by all the Twitter bot accounts tweeting that they are listening to Cameo's "Word Up".

Do a search for "cubism" on the Art Institute of Chicago's website, and you'll get some medieval armor.

Illinois is the #1 pumpkin producer in America. Let’s fill the state quarter with a giant pumpkin.

I just happened to catch William Shatner’s conversation with Jeff Bezos just after landing from his outer space trip. William Shatner had some good words to share with Bezos just after walking out of the module. Shatner had some profound…

The French symbolist painter Odilon Redon got a kick out of putting eyeballs on things. But why?

Telling someone how you discovered their work online (and then sharing your own work too)

Today I discovered Spongebob Squarepants' great-great grandfather—in an art museum.

Instead of viewing the suburbs as sprawl, what we we focus on how they are compact?

Rhythm is powerful and full of life. But can it also be bad?

Plazas are great places.

Classical ballet music: good energy, good pacing, good variety

Did you know that Photoshop can draw instant trees?

The mystery of who owned San Francisco's most famous painting in 1875.

Sharing more of my garden.

Change things up when working from home.