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…
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?”
Today I learned "The Power" by Snap opens with Russian text about... a computer for blind people? "The American company Transceptor Technology has started production of the Personal Companion computer." This dance anthem literally announces assistive technology. 90s were WILD.
In 1932, an illustrator drew a window washer for Fortune magazine. In 2007, I photographed a window washer from my desk at Tribune Tower. Same view? Maybe.
Why does every store play the same Christmas songs from 1950? Turns out there used to be a stigma around recording holiday music. That stigma accidentally created the canon. When it disappeared, so did our ability to make new classics.
Tired of Google results buried under SEO spam? I just discovered Feedle, a search engine specifically built for blogs and podcasts. It's exactly what the internet needs right now.
A leaf stuck to siding. Another floating in mid-air for 8 hours straight. These aren't magic tricks, they're Miracle Leaves. I'm collecting sightings on Bluesky. Share yours!
Finally got my hands on a Kodak Charmera (nearly impossible to find). Took it to the woods this morning and shot straight into the sun. The lo-fi quality makes it feel like 2003 cameraphone nostalgia.
What happens when your kids start sorting their Halloween candy, and it turns into something that looks like a Paul Klee painting? This year, our post-trick-or-treat candy sort turned unexpectedly artistic.
People who have used a camera for decades remember when horizontal was the default way to take a photo. If an everyday person turned the camera sideways for a vertical shot, that was considered a fancy technique. For much of…
Ever kicked a black walnut down the sidewalk? Congrats, you're a seed dispersal agent! These golf ball-sized nuts seem designed for sidewalk soccer—and you're helping the next generation of trees survive.
Every so often, I come across a post that reminds me why I started blogging in the first place. Not because it’s flashy or viral, but because it feels like the early web — people writing, linking, and thinking out…
Swedish word of the day: "ganska" = rather, quite, fairly, pretty. So "ganska cool" = pretty cool. Not to be confused with my initial reading of "gangsta cool"
What happens when you draw your age in circles 49 times? You wear an actual groove in the paper. My pencil kept catching on the rut I'd created. Turns out this simple art exercise became a lesson about breaking free…
