Year: 2024

Artist Chris Killham takes Blackhawks relic cards and finds the exact spot where the swatches comes from on a Blackhawks jersey.

And the middle part of a sunflower is actually hundreds of tiny flowers

Kerry Skarbakka photographs himself falling from trees, jumping off bridges and in the midst of fires – all in the name of art. Inspired by the helplessness he felt after the 9/11 attacks, Kerry's work captures him frozen in a…

To celebrate the greatest living contemporary composer, I'd like to fly an Estonian flag on his birthday. But it falls on a day when I should be flying an American flag instead.

The Art Institute of Chicago is welcoming people to send them mail art in the form of postcards. If you were to send some mail art to the Art Institute, what would you send?

When making lunch, do you ever have a hard time deciding between leftover pizza or a sandwich? Why not combine them? Make a pizza sandwich.

Transforming large sculptures into two-dimensional photograms.

Did you know there were basketball cards from the 1970s—and they certainly look like hey are from the 70s

Searching a newspaper can be a lot easier through a PDF than their website.

Camille Casemier curates weekly pop-up art exhibitions in the Mount Sinai Resale Shop's fitting rooms. It reminds me of when I had a gallery in the Tribune Tower.

Sir Elton John owns colorized Rothko prints that are all purple.

It’s fascinating how different cultures can come together to form cute ASCII art.

Do you keep a gardening notebook?

What a wonderful idea! The “growing” of the LEGO piece, but also the notion of having a Sunday Sketch series, looking at a familiar object and reinterpreting it.

BlueSky is the new Twitter alternative social media platform. It currently has 4.9 million users. Tired of the algorithm on Twitter? Wish you can create your own feeds? One of the cool things about BlueSky is that lets users create…

How many art schools teach things like laser cutting, wood engraving, 3d printing, and plotter drawing? Basically, any computer-driven printing/plotting/etching. If I were in art school again, I’d be all over this stuff. Right now, I haven’t been able to…

Some people are on Instagram ONLY to post things. And that's ok.

I’d like to make a master calendar of all my goofy dates. I don’t want to clutter up my calendar. When there is a real event, like my daughter’s ice skating lesson, I don’t want 6 other random events blocking…

The NBA All-Star events this weekend are going to take place on a court that’s a giant flat-screen TV. Youtube preview. Whut. Wow. Mark this as a landmark moment. Years from now, we’ll look back at it like, “Yo, it…

The 2024 Super Bowl ad that stuck out to me is the “Oooo Ooooo Tumu” ad. The earworm jingle. The weird animated characters. The swaths of bright orange. It really pushed that branding over and over in the ad. The…

In an age of streaming singles, imagine a station that celebrates whole albums, providing insights between songs. It's a deep dive into the artistry behind the music. 📀🎧

You know how they talk about Illinois seeing two cicada broods overlap this year? The 13-year cicadas and the 17-year cicadas. And this only happens once ever 221 years. (the last time being 1803). Well, the two broods just BARELY…

NASCAR is teaming up with the Art Institute of Chicago to create a Georgia O’Keeffe-wrapped pace car at the 2024 Chicago Auto Show.

20 years ago I made a LEGO frame for my computer monitor. Should I do that again?

I haven’t checked the wastewater COVID chart in months. As of December 30, 2023, the United States witnessed its second-highest peak of COVID presence in wastewater. https://biobot.io/data/ It’s a bit surprising to see the second highest peak of COVID, and…

A friend posted a couple sketches from 1999 (when he was in college). I printed them out and plan on having my kids color them. It’s a fun thought to take a from someone you know from 25 years ago,…

Making a "/now page" to share what I'm doing now.

Impactful scarves, choice dignity, clear intent with tiny cards. How scarf bombing blends art, warmth, and giving.

Since when did Instagram stop showing “recent photos” for a search? When I do a search on Instagram, it shows only “top posts.” What if I want to come back tomorrow and see new posts for a particular search? I…

Loving the simplicity of life in chronological order, not through an algorithm.

A new pair of wired headphones lets you listen to Apple Music with lossless sound. (I never knew listening to music introduced some sort of loss.) The little box that does the work is called an “in-line DAC”. I call…