ART
- ASCII art
- bitmap art
- ceramics
- felt
- found objects
- HDR photography
- LEGO mosaics
- mail art
- modern dance
- oil pastels
- origami
- pencil rubbings
- printmaking
- public art
- sculptures
Artists
- Alexander Calder
- Anselm Kiefer
- Bruce Nauman
- Camille Pissarro
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (aka Christopher R. W. Nevinson. He’s a recent artist of interest to me, because I’m starting to develop a kind of cubist illustration style for my scorecards)
- David Hockney
- Edgar Degas
- Edward Hopper
- Gerhard Richter
- Jackson Pollock
- Jacob Felländer
- Jean-François Millet
- Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
- Johannes Itten
- Josef Albers
- Joseph Beuys
- Joseph Cornell
- Maurice de Vlaminck
- Maya Lin
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Klee
- Richard Serra
- Ron English
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Winslow Homer
READING
(see my goodreads for more)
Books
- Bible
- Cartooning the Head and Figure
- Comic books
- Criticizing Art: Understanding the Comtemporary
- Dictionary
- Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
- Mere Christianity
- Museums and Communities
- Synectics
- The Kids World Almanac of Records and Facts: Volume 1
- The Monumental Impulse
- Thesaurus
- Thinking about Exhibitions
- Tipping Point
Author
- Adrian Todd Webb
- Bill Watterson
- Edward Tufte
- Francisco Ruiz Velasco
- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
- Jay Carlson
- Jeffrey Brown
- John F. MacArthur Jr.
- Keri Smith
- Martin Luther
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Wes Molebash
Comic strips
- Brewster Rockit
- Groundhog Croquet (mine)
- 4amShower
- Invisible Bread
- Digger by Ursula Vernon
SPORTS AND GAMES
Baseball
- Chicago Cubs
- Ichiro Suzuki
- Javier Baez
- Shawon Dunston
- Willie Mays
- Willson Contreras
Sports
- anarchie basketball
- badminton
- baseball
- croquet
- detailed baseball scorecards
- extreme croquet
- hit by pitch
- kickball
- Kooshball
- laser tag
- marbles
- miniature golf
- Olympics
- table hockey
- tennis
Board games
- Apples to Apples
- Boggle
- Careers
- Clue
- Monopoly
- Scrabble
Games
- Connect Four
- Dots
- mazes
- whiteboard games
Video games
- Combat (Atari 2600)
- Frogger (Atari 2600)
- Missile Command (Atari 2600)
- driving video games
MEDIA
Movies
- Tron
- Star Wars (any of them)
- Transformers (the 1986 cartoon version)
TV
- Spongebob Squarepants
- Transformers
Actor/actress
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Mr. T
- Will Smith
Star Wars
- Atour Riten (the Death Star librarian. I am him on Twitter @atourriten)
- Death Star
- Ewoks (I an ewok on twitter @ewoklumat)
- Anything from the snow scenes
- K2SO (the snarky droid from Rogue One)
- Anything, really.
PLACES
- Antarctica
- ballparks
- benches
- Beverly Hills (neighborhood in Chicago)
- bus shelters
- Chicago
- Chicago Art Institute
- Chicago Christian High School
- Chicago Cultural Center
- cities
- Earth
- elevators
- Estonia
- Ferris wheels
- Hope Lutheran Church
- Hope Lutheran School
- Illinois
- Illinois Wesleyan University
- library
- Lincoln Square (neighborhood in Chicago)
- Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
- museums
- Tribune Tower
- Wrigley Field
Space
- Moon
- outer space
- Saturn
- stars
- Enceladus
Stores
- Hobby Lobby
- Paper Source
ETC
Animals
- monkeys
- pigeons
- squirrels
Clothes
- goofy socks
Color
- brown
- cinder block gray
- any shade of gray
Food & Drink
- bread
- chocolate
- Coca-Cola
- hot chocolate
- hot dogs
- Kit Kat
- McDonalds
- Peanut M&M’s
- Pepsi Blue
- Pepsi Clear
- pizza with everything on it
- Potbellys
- prune soda
- stout beer
- Subway
- sushi
Etc
- Montessori
- coins
- pennies
- the aesthetics of money
- INTJ (myers-briggs)
- Myers-Briggs Personality Test
Religion
- Bible commentaries
- LCMS
- Signed baseball cards with bible verse inscriptions
Toys
- G.I.Joe
- Hot Wheels
- LEGO
- M.A.S.K.
- pinball machines
- Remote controlled cars
- Transformers