Author: Matt Maldre

Looking to improve your Dodgeball game? Buy some dodgeballs to practice with. The National Amateur Dodgeball Association uses 8-inch Gator Skin dodgeballs. They sell them for $20 on their site, but I found a source that sells ’em for $13.88…

According to a pringle potato chip, the longest time to stand motionless is 20 hours, 10 minutes, 6 seconds. huh.

On Saturday, April 22, 2006 the Chicago Cubs had a garage sale at Wrigley Field. Here’s the scoop on what was sold, the atmosphere, and a guide on how to attack events like this in the future: What was sold…

When you think of the word “shortstop,” it’s actually a rather funny sounding word. Breaking it down, the player plays short (meaning, not way out in the outfield, but short in on the field towards home plate). And they are…

A google image search for the “World’s Coolest Shirt” only ended up with one result. So I set out to create just that–THE WORLD’S COOLEST SHIRT. And the grand result is now being sold on my cafepress store. But there’s…

What a great idea that Sacramento did for their pedestrian bridge at their airport. They took an aerial view of the Sacramento River and wove it into a carpet for one big welcome mat. Now visitors can say, “oh let’s…

Of all baseball players to get their own cologne, Gustavo Chacin? Who? The story goes that his last name sounds like a cologne so the Blue Jays broadcasters pretended for 10 months that it existed. And now it actually does.…

The renovated bleachers at Wrigley Field now allow bleacher ticket holders to go to the non-bleacher parts of the park. They stamp your hand with a BB upon leaving the bleachers. BB–how funny that the Chicago Cubs marks the bleacher…

Tonight’s full moon is known as the “Egg Moon.” When decorating Easter eggs this year, let the moon be an inspiration. As adults, we (probably) don’t search for easter eggs anymore. But when you see the full moon tonight, let…

I had some confusion when I bought bleacher tickets online for a Cubs game this year. They forced me to choose the “Tickets@Home” option, because they were bleacher tickets. The poor poor Wrigley Field bleachers. Not only do they get…

Photo taken by Nick King, Antalya, Southern Turkey It’s incredibly amazing how the moon exactly covers the sun when viewed from earth. The sun couldn’t be any bigger or smaller. The moon couldn’t be any bigger or smaller. And then…

It’s so much easier to eat ice cream out of the container with a fork rather than a spoon. A fork is able to really dig in.

I’m thinking of making website called “i don’t know how to cook” and it will follow through my progress as a bachelor cooking, cuz I’m like REALLY bad at cooking. My big ah-ha moment today was putting a can of…

I can’t believe the top ten users on wheresgeorge.com has each registered over 100,000 bills. That’s 91 bills each day–every day–for three years solid. How does one spend 91 single dollar bills a day? For that matter, how does one…

Kevin Hulsey spent 720 hours on this. That’s 18 weeks of 40-hour weeks (4.5 months). Wow.

I recently submitted some work to the Highland Park Art Walk, and they require an artist bio, so here’s a rough draft. Any comments or suggestions are very welcome. Matt Maldre, a native Chicago artist, earned his Bachelor of Fine…

Today at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. this won’t happen again for another one hundred years. (thanks to lisa, dave, and tom for telling me about this)

interjection: short for “take your time” The shortening of this phrase into takyotim is ironic given what it means. View all the new word definitions on spudart.

Here’s some funny street corner wrap ads. It would seem like there could be some other very interesting combinations to give a more deeper message. I just can’t think of any right now, can you?

Childcare India is running a campaign in India that affixes life-like stickers of begging children to glass doors to call attention to apparently rampant child begging. The campaign’s headline, placed on a sticker near the door’s handle, is “Push him…

MLB.com has a game called Beat the Streak where you try to put together a hitting streak to beat baseball’s legendary record of 56 games. Choose one player every day who you think will get at least one base hit.…

A logo for my fantasy baseball league, the Amazing League on mlb.com’s Beat the Streak Client: Me Fonts: LionelClassic and LampLighter Script from fontdiner.com

Every year my twin brother and I have a fantasy baseball league with just the two of us. It’s really weird, every year we alternate who wins. 1992 erik 1993 matt 2000 erik 2001 matt (thank you barry bonds) 2002…

The Chicago Cubs are allowing fans to buy a brick at Wrigley Field with any message on it. We are currently taking donations to buy a brick that says: RUB THIS BRICKAND THE CUBSWILL WIN TODAY You can donate any…

Here’s some clips from the LEGO PressRoom, “LEGO Group on the Right Track.” The strategy is a continuation of the Action Plan implemented by the Group in 2004 05 to overcome its financial crisis. The company will, therefore, continue to…

There’s a post on craigslist from an Art Institute Student: fifteen minutes of (nominal) fame march 31, april 1st chicago student at art institute looking to rent (not necessarily a monetary exchange) out 8′ by 8′ floor space of a…

This is the view from underneath planet Jupiter. It’s kinda neat to see Jupiter from another angle. Note the famous Great Red Spot in the upper left. It’s like seeing the underside of earth.

Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, unveiled PANTONEView Home 2007, the eight most directional color palettes for the home furnishings market for 2007. Here’s one of the eight palettes:…

A couple days ago I added 16 missing design and illustration items to spudart.org:

One of the reasons for low-voter turnout is that people just don’t know. You often hear “I don’t know who to vote for, because I don’t really know anything about them.” The Chicago Tribune does have some nice articles about…

The list of 47 is rather long, so here’s my favorite eight. A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts. According to state law, it is illegal…