Author: Matt Maldre

"Your sense of self is the understanding that yourself will remain the same through time."

Magenta and yellow ink simple refuses to go away.

My invention of the SpudDOUBLEMAX!

Today's first encounters with Bob Ross are a bit different than the 1980s and 1990s.

I hope the art work is shocked by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

Since I’ve had vertigo a couple times in the past two months, it’s a little odd that the very first track in my Spotify Discover Weekly is a track named “Vertigo“. I rather like it too! Although, I would say…

As anyone ever made “artist tires” with treads that make interesting art on the ground? The car then becomes a giant printmaking press, leaving a trail of art around.

Trying a new mechanical pencil.

I’m working on my front porch watching a woodpecker climb up our large Slippery Elm (aka Red Elm). It kinda scoots along the tree, looks in the bark, scoots along some more, looks in the bark. The way it scoots,…

Does the Art Institute of Chicago have any cool baseball hats?

An enormous flag with odd inscriptions was raised on the Eiffel Tower today. Just as the sun was starting to rise over Paris at 5:15am, a giant flag was being hoisted up the world famous tower. At 12:41pm, the flag…

Take sand from a beach that is significant to you, and put it inside an hourglass

As your kids get older, you continually get younger.

When searching for Mah Na Mah Na on Spotify, the results include Daft Punk's TRON soundtrack.

A friend, Leigh Hanlon, shared a post with me on Facebook with the question: “Does a paper’s quality affect how you use it — and how creative you are?“ An interesting notion. Does cheaper paper allow you to be more…

I probably enjoy the "Swing Batta Swing" album a bit too much.

Most people think Buzz Aldrin's first words were "Magnificent desolation." However, NASA's transcript says, "Magnificent definition". Which is it?

What are the words Neil Armstrong said right after his famous "one small step" phrase?

Let's make this 1993 song into a meme: "Question [insert some sort of situation] Man, funk dat!"

Yves Klein made a completely blue stamp and used it as postage on an invite for a 1958 show. A single perforated postage stamp painted with Klein’s famous IKB (International Klein Blue) pigment. The stamps were originally created to use…

If you printed an entire book with QR codes, could you use less paper?

I'd like to make a compilation of some of my blog posts into a little booklet

Got a big head like me? Here's the helmet you should get.

Visualizing how much land one T. Rex would roam in Chicago.

A video essay about how regular exercise with a wall helped a student through the pandemic.

Will you welcome Comic Sans into your heart, mind, and ethics?

Spotify had a nice sharing feature. Click on any song, go to the Share menu, and select “Share via Twitter.” A little pop-up appears with pre-filled text containing: • Song title• Artist• URL You could edit any of of these items before…

Now I have a vaccine sticker and a “I voted” sticker from the DuPage County Fairgrounds. I hope the Fairgrounds hands out stickers for all their events!

Back in the 90s and 00s, the Wingdings font was the precursor to emojis, and it's so adorable.

In 1869 Paris would these buildings be new or really old?

It's like bizarro tech support. "Oh, you are having an issue? Let me cancel the tech appointment."