Author: Matt Maldre

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Go to an art museum with a friend and this word list. Discuss the artwork using these words. Either pick a word a random. Or go straight down the list. This particular artwork is by John Baldessari, “Terms Most Useful…

The word “onemegabyte” sounds so cool. Too bad the domain and twitter account are taken. And yet there is no website and no tweets. Nothing is being stored on that onemegabyte.

I’m pretty sure that I’m the one who make Apple’s Softbank server die today during the iPhone 4S launch. And I’m serious. I know this probably isn’t true. But I do half believe it. Today was a great lesson in…

“Dude, fml.” What does fml mean? Whenever I see “fml,” I think “full of mayo.” I know it means “f**k my life.” But that’s dramatic and negative. Full of mayo is much more fun. Can you imagine being full of…

Here is the complete list of all the words that are palindromes AND that you can type with just your left hand. There are 16 such words. dad deed ere esse eve ewe gag radar redder refer sagas sees sexes…

Be boldly simple. That’s my sticky note memorial I wrote for Steve Jobs. Lots of people wrote things like “Steve Jobs changed my life.” “I have a hole in my heart.” Do you really? The man is a great thinker.…

Wanna learn how to make encaustic photos? Here I’ll show you how to transfer photos onto wax! Far out! Gesso setup These are 10×15 inch pine boards. And yes, I have lots of storage in my shelf by the window.…

I combed the internet for a master list of palindrome words. I found a bunch. But none were a master list. Here's one list with all the palindrome words combined. A total of 216 palindrome words. a, aa, aba, acca,…

It's fun photographing all the doors you walk through on your commute. Someday try counting them all.

What do you think this is? Lion Sunshine Flower Jelly donut splashing into a bowl of milk Popcorn Foliage around Spongebob’s house Please leave what you think this is in the comments. Thanks!

Three great things: 1) Fun city drawings on 2 ¬Ω” x 3 ¬Ω” paper 2) On sale for $0.99 on eBay 3) From Kelsterbach, Germany I was in. I bid. I tweeted about it thinking that NOBODY else would ever…

Ten years ago I wrote the first spudart blog post on September 28, 2011. In those ten years, we’ve had 22,755 comments! Here are the top ten most commented blog posts. In honor of all the people who commented, I…

I’m excited to submit another word to urbandictionary, because hopefully the high-culture elitists at urbandictionary reject the word and then my list of rejected words will grow. Here we have the new word “idontbelieveinsearchengines” Word: idontbelieveinsearchengines Definition: When you ask…

For my encaustic painting class, we are going to learn image transfer. We were told to bring patterns of just b&w—no gray. This is what I’m bringing. Starting with the Gummi bear and moving clockwise:

The phrase “i don’t believe in search engines” has rarely been said online, according to search engines: 5 times Ask.com 3 times Google 2 times Excite 1 time Bing 1 time Dogpile 1 time Altavista 1 time Hotbot 1 time…

Stuck with a letter “Q” in Scrabble? You always look around for a “u” to attach it to. Right? Or maybe you are really slick and you look for the letter “i” to spell Qi. Let me introduce you to…

I respect good street art, but I also value public spaces. Can street art be a gift rather than just self-expression? Let’s talk about it.

Borders donated 8,000 books to the Chicago Public Library System. I’d like to see a list of the titles they donated. Actually, come to think of it, I’d like to see where every book in the library came from. Every…

Tired of giving the same old Facebook birthday greeting? Mix things up and share a fun image. How about using a 15 pixel by 15 pixel balloon? It’s unique and funny. Sometimes people post obnoxious photos on their friends wall…

I like how my tweet about the Muppets opening theme song looked like in my twitter widget. The words stack nicely. The most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational

What do you think someone needs to hear? The question was posted by the You are Postcard Workshop at the Renegade Craft Fair. While walking the fair this past weekend, lots of great vendors were selling great wares, but I…

View the entire photo on Erik’s blog My twin brother posted about Chad Ochocinco’s aquarium bed and I had so many questions for him, I’m going to make my questions into a blog post. Please please, read my brother’s post.…

My local art center Lill Street starts their classes next week. They offer both ceramics and painting (and lots of other classes). I have a list of ceramics projects I’d like to do, but whenever I take ceramics, it totally…

Five tourists armed with cameras were taking photos of the Trump Tower architecture. As they were shooting, I wanted their photos to fly magically into the air for me to see. We have technology now that allows people to instantly…

Spudart is becoming be more and more about art. A friend recently told me when she first visited spudart, she was expecting art and not all these random ideas. In the past year I’ve been trying to make more art…

Watching your weight every day is fine, but a more effective method is to see your trend over the past week. Using the new maldre math operation, you can effectively analyze your weight once a week. Almost every day on…

When I was in art school, one of the art majors who was a year older than me (thus making her much wiser than myself) pointed out how people like to talk about previous years were so great. But as…

1) Hard drives need a computer to work I brought my laptop to a cafe to do some photo work. All my photos are on an external hard drive, so I packed up the drive and all its cords. I…

Here’s a playlist of my 70 favorite youtube videos from 2011:

Spread some fun at work. Take your coworkers tape dispensers and write something fun on it. Give some smiley faces. Write a message. It’s only tape. You can even say that you are making their normal boring tape into super…