Author: Matt Maldre
4,090 posts
Artist and designer. Sharing creative sparks to brighten your day. Inspiring curiosity, play, and new ways of thinking. Blogs at spudart.org, mattmaldre.com, 57hits.com, and christiannotebook.com.
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Googlie eyes over ParisHaving fun with the Eiffel Tower webcam
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Your age in circles drawn on a sheet of paperA fun exercise that takes less than one minute: Take your current age in years, and draw the same number of circles on a sheet of paper, without lifting your pencil/pen.
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Can you mail a paper airplane with a regular stamp?Throwing a paper airplane into the mailbox slot is a lot of fun!
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Making Xerox selfies at home with your inkjet printerToday I learned my inkjet has a copy feature—like a Xerox machine! Of course, the first thing that I do…
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Abbey Road crossing live webcamView constant battles of pedestrian against car in the Abbey Road webcam.
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The grumbling against snowSometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on a key cultural way that people relate to one another.
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eBay auctions related to your last nameAn eBay search for my last name comes up with some fun results.
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X-men logos suddenly appear everywhere in a suburbWhy is someone going around Glen Ellyn spray-painting X-Men logos on people's lawns?
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Why “I Love Onions” is such a wonderfully quirky songWhat combines kazoos, scatting, muppet voices, a Billboard 100 appearance, and played on Captain Kangaroo? Answer: this song!
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Word of the Day writing promptUse the solution from Wordle as a writing prompt
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Thinking about the word “their”
If you had to write about "their", what would you write?
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Come defeat me in the March MadnessI laughed at the thought of hosting my own March Madness group. So I made a group on all of the three big services. Come join! One of the groups has a CRAZY point structure.
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Fun with pi on TwitterWhat if all the people who tweeted the first 280 digits of pi actually knew them by heart, and typed them in manually?
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What’s in your pencil cup?Participate in #mypencilcup by photographing what's in your pencil cup.
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Amazon teasing me with 3D glassesOh Amazon, you are such a tease with your “inspired by your browsing history”
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14-year-old Shaun White gives 9 wise wordsA 2001 interview shows quite a bit of wisdom from the 14-year-old Shaun White. Points like respect for elders, being willing to admit what he doesn't know, and the importance of community.
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The best Winter Olympics country ever: NorwayWhen we think of Winter Olympics, the first country that should come to mind—NORWAY.
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Staffordshire Pottery Houses in a major art museumIf you ever wanted to own artwork from a major museum for just $51, here's your chance.
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Lace border looks like rows of cocoonsRows and rows of cocoons ready to take over our planet.
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19th century chair as a TransformerI might have gone too far. I have come up with three different Transformer names for this 19th century armchair in the Art Institute’s collection.
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Rough pigs by Charles Émile JacqueThe roughness of how these pigs are drawn seems to be more accurate for how they are in real life.
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That random piece of art history would make a great coloring pageYou can be the person who loves to color random artwork that was never meant to be colored.
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How coins can inspire youA sand dune landscape invites you to be transported to another place.
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How to throw the world’s best party in 1926Were ghosts a regular part of New Year's?
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Parsing what millions of something means in real lifeWhat would you do with 5-10 million expired coupons EVERY WEEK?
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Sailing from a quiet to violent seascapeSo quiet. The exhaust from one tiny ship pulling a grand sailboat. The exhaust floats into the sky like the larger clouds. Then...
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Japanese falling leavesFalling leaves like Japanese characters read downward vertically on a page.
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Velvet giving illusion of depthCrawling up into the nooks and crannies of a fabric scrap.
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Andy Goldsworthy on the brink of collapseThis trailer is wonderful, because it shows how delicate his works are, and how they can easily fall apart.
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Pressing leaves with storiesTips for capturing the moment when saving a leaf
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Comparing the cost of an Art Institute of Chicago membershipLet's get into the math of buying regular tickets at the ticket window versus getting an annual membership.
