Cicadas come out when the soil temperature is 65 degrees at 8 inches deep. A handful of tools will tell you the current soil temperature and forecast the upcoming soil temperature.
“The Symbols in the City” by Tiffany Owens Reed of Strong Towns Or, let’s take sidewalks. So many of ours here in Waco are extremely skinny, overgrown with grass, often existing only in disconnected segments or, in some parts of…
“Artists Mourn Death of Flaco, the Owl Who Inspired Millions” by ET Rodriguez of Hyperallergic. This article has some nice photos of items left behind, memorializing an owl who lived in NYC’s Central Park. I kinda wish someone would photograph…
Almost every day I load up around 100 tabs in my browser. One of the tabs is a search on Twitter for the phrase “Art Institute of Chicago“. Today this search showed this fun tweet of a couple sculptures with…
When you write a blog post, you can say as much or as little as you want. “Blogging is the medium of incomplete stories” by James G Indeed. I work for a company that syndicates columnists and newspaper articles. I…
If you paid for a subscription to Apple’s iCloud anytime in the past four years, you could be part of lawsuit against Apple regarding iCloud (and potentially get some money if the lawsuit prevails). Why? With your iPhone, you can…
In the mid-80s, I unexpectedly enjoyed playing with Swine Sucker, a Madball. Despite its gross appearance, throwing it around became a surprisingly amusing pastime.
Kerry Skarbakka photographs himself falling from trees, jumping off bridges and in the midst of fires – all in the name of art. Inspired by the helplessness he felt after the 9/11 attacks, Kerry's work captures him frozen in a…
To celebrate the greatest living contemporary composer, I'd like to fly an Estonian flag on his birthday. But it falls on a day when I should be flying an American flag instead.
The Art Institute of Chicago is welcoming people to send them mail art in the form of postcards. If you were to send some mail art to the Art Institute, what would you send?
Camille Casemier curates weekly pop-up art exhibitions in the Mount Sinai Resale Shop's fitting rooms. It reminds me of when I had a gallery in the Tribune Tower.
What a wonderful idea! The “growing” of the LEGO piece, but also the notion of having a Sunday Sketch series, looking at a familiar object and reinterpreting it.
BlueSky is the new Twitter alternative social media platform. It currently has 4.9 million users. Tired of the algorithm on Twitter? Wish you can create your own feeds? One of the cool things about BlueSky is that lets users create…
How many art schools teach things like laser cutting, wood engraving, 3d printing, and plotter drawing? Basically, any computer-driven printing/plotting/etching. If I were in art school again, I’d be all over this stuff. Right now, I haven’t been able to…
