Author: Matt Maldre

The source of my quote “sizes are only for people at home depot” Matt Maldre: You need a gallery at work Erik Maldre: i do have a gallery at work. i’ll measure it’s size Erik Maldre: 23.5″ wide, 12.5″ high,…

Make a pledge to Corner Bakery and get a free combo! My pledge for the Corner Bakery: 1) I will not eat as many Milk Chocolate Covered Mint Espresso Beans, even though I’m totally stuffing my face with them now.…

Ten years ago on 02/02/02 I started a new comic strip, Groundhog Croquet. It lasted a whole two strips. Check ’em out at spudart.org/groundhog

word: putemup definition: The interjection one yells while one’s fists are raised and is requesting that the other person engage in a brawl. Short for “put em up.” example: You just ate all my milk chocolate covered toffee popcorn!? Putemup!…

I’m looking for paper companies to like on Facebook, so I do a search for paper. It’s pretty funny that the top pages are not paper companies, but silly things like, “Paper cuts: so small, but so evil.” and “I…

Is Google Plus worth using? Most people respond, “I already have Facebook.” Yes, but consider you can use Google Plus as a complement to Facebook without going into social media overload. Facebook is a place to share what you are…

What makes you joyful? Not just happiness. But joy. The comfort and pleasure of joy. We set out to answer that question a couple years ago in my bible study group. We were to write about what brings us joy.…

TV: — Uncle Iroh (Avatar Animated Series) — Spongebob Squarepants — Ron Stoppable (from Kim Possible) — Jazz (Transformers) — Balki Bartokomous (Perfect Strangers) — Rolf the Dog (Muppet Show) — Gonzo (Muppet Show) — Kramer (Seinfeld) — Tom Haverford…

word: lll definition: laughing laughing laughing. Not just a short laugh. Not just a laugh out loud. But a prolonged laugh of good length. example: Did you see that potato? lll tags: laugh, laughing, long, extended, length, happy, funny, hilarious,…

Dick Durbin is selling American flags for a mere additional $4.05, you can have your flag flown above the U.S. Capitol. Pretty rad. However, you have to PRINT out a pdf, and MAIL it in with a CHECK. What’s a…

Spotify. Why use Spotify? “Millions of tracks, any time you like. Just search for it in Spotify, then play it. Just help yourself to whatever you want, whenever you want it.” Here’s my reasons why you need to sign up…

At my work desk, I have a round table by me that rarely gets used. It’s now an art pedestal for the 1400 Gallery. (The gallery being my workspace in the Tribune Tower). This particular work of art is three…

A package of Buckyballs sits in the 1400 Gallery (my desk at the Tribune Tower). The gallery was showing an exhibit of 10 puddle jumpers curated from a list of 56 puddle jumpers from Flickr. One of the sales people walks over and…

I bought my niece all the plush mascots keychains from the 2010 Winter Olympics. To make mailing stuffing to keep them from jostling around, I made 11×17 xerox enlargements of each figure. A couple extra copies were made to hang…

Current museum projects I’ve got several art projects that take place in art museums. Last summer I got reciprocal art museum pass from the Walker Art Center and it allows me to go into over 400 art museums nationwide. With…

Throughout 2011, whenever I saw a video I liked on Youtube, I would add it to my 2011 favorite playlist. Now you can enjoy all 68 fun youtube videos! If you are curious, I already have a video in my…

Today Gapers Block featured a photo from my "Alley Giveaway" series.

I’ve never been caught leaving my public art around. Until today. It happened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The idea The past couple days I’ve been thinking about what artwork I can leave in public elevators. This…

In 2011, spudart.org hit a milestone. There was over one million visitors to the site! 🙂 That’s not total since the spudart.org has been up, that’s just for the year 2011. Thanks to everyone who visited. Here’s the totals for…

Deodorant aisles like Tron? Individual candy bag dispensers? Alcohol prediction machines? Yes, you have just stepped into the flagship store of Walgreens in Chicago. The energy was palatable. You could feel the excitement with everyone in the store. And the…

Things to do in 2012: Visit more coffeeshops. Whenever I see a bench I haven’t sat in, to sit in it for at least one minute. Always sit on the Giddings Park for one minute when I walk to work.…

These two photos appeared next to each other in my most interesting photos 2011. I like how they are kinda similar.

There should be a fantasy football league that is just about money. People could say, “did you see how that money did?” And then someone else could say, “that money totally had all the money!” The third person would reply,…

Is 12 noon pm or am? I always get confused. Who would be the best person to help me out? None other than the people at AM/PM gas stations. Here is a series of letters I have written for AMPM…

I like it when Etsy visits paypal.

The Spudart blog is moving to another platform! For the past month I’ve been spending most of my time converting my blog from a very old platform, pmachine over to a more robust one, drupal. Excuse me while there is…

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…