Last time, it was about my 2016 Cubs World Series scorecards on Uni-Watch. His post “The Art of Keeping Score — Literally” is on archive.org This time, it’s for my official coin used to settle family disputes. His post “Your…
I’ve been grabbing two random toys from the closet each morning to study their similarities. Dinobot Snarl and Fuecoco. Ancient armored robot vs. modern fire-type monster.
The Kodak Charmera keychain camera's real superpower isn't the retro look—it's shooting so low to the ground you get proper worm's-eye-view shots. Case in point: Destro, a hard drive, and a library short story as backdrop.
I folded my Chicago-style hot dog flag using the same 13-fold triangular method as the American flag. Normally you end up with a field of stars. Here the protocol demands a perfect field of neon green relish, sports peppers, and…
Instagram, the app that forced everyone vertical with Reels, Stories, and the grid, is now testing horizontal video. Here's hoping the horizontal movement wins.
A stranger at Buona Beef gave my daughters foam star stickers as a random act of encouragement. Before we left, I told her I also carry star stickers in my wallet. She couldn't believe it. Honestly, I couldn't either.
One of the hidden perks of having kids: you can put an Ewok on the table at a restaurant and nobody questions it. The catch is that sometimes the Ewok belongs to the adult.
I found an artwork featuring a pay phone in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. That somehow led me to a decades-old webpage listing the museum’s pay phone numbers — and memories of my own pay phone art project from…
A basketball net, viewed from above, secretly forms a 24-sided shape: an icositetragon. And somehow the bottom of the net also looks like three overlapping squares from a forgotten 1993 sports logo manual.
Giving an urban icon a second life, then watching that life quietly fade. One of the few buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire, the Chicago Water Tower still stands on Michigan Avenue. It’s part of the identity of Chicago.…
Last year, Kodak released a tiny keychain camera that went viral. It sold for $30. People questioned if a toy camera is worth thirty dollars. Well, now people will have to question if a toy camera is worth $35. Kodak…
You can spend a lot on party decorations. Or you can hang foil fringe curtains and let kids run through them 400 times. One small adjustment makes them last way longer.
Virtuosity was the NY Times Word of the Day recently. It’s always fun searching abstract words in Google Photos. You’ll often come up with some surprising results. This image came up in my Google Photos. When you first see the…
I made this wire figure and put him on a swing in Chicago’s Winnemac Park. This is an art series called “Get into the swing of”. The series is meant to encourage people to enjoy the area where they view…
I could have 100 pennies, or I could have 64 paper circles. This sheet of metallic paper was $1. I managed to punch out 64 circles. Paper is expensive! I might as well use real pennies!
One of the underrated joys of college radio: discovering artists you’ve literally never heard before. I took a WXAV college radio playlist, turned it into Spotify, and then asked last.fm: “Which of these artists have I never heard before?”
It's never too late to dream about being an Olympian. If I was an Olympic athlete, I would roast marshmallows over the Olympic cauldron. Here's 15 more things I would do.
