Write today's date + a small life moment on every lightbulb you install. Years later when it burns out, you'll get the sweetest surprise. Just discovered one from when my daughter was 14 months old!
Stumbled across a 1995 Curtis comic strip in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection. Now I'm emailing them asking if they'd ever do a full comic strip exhibit. Someone on Bluesky dared me to ask, so here we are.
The Art Institute doesn't own any Banksy works, but their search engine created the next best thing—accidental connections between street art, ancient sculptures, and Impressionism. See how Bankoni, Monet, and Bakst became honorary Banksy works.
You can build this in your backyard! 104 landscape stakes + string = your own Sol LeWitt croquet course. Takes conceptual art from museum walls to playable outdoor experience. Instructions included
Here’s a fun idea: take a bunch of autographs, cut the shapes apart, and move them around into a new drawing. The inspiration came from this four-signature FC Barcelona card posted by Topps on Facebook. So many interesting curves, loops,…
Have you ever looked at discarded paper and seen potential? In a fascinating video shared by Leigh Hanlon on Facebook, one creator transforms ordinary trash into something extraordinary—a handcrafted notebook with character and soul. Here’s the video. The Magic of…
Both the Yoda shirt and my t-shirt project grapple with the challenge of knowledge dissemination. How do you make abstract ideas tangible? Can clothing truly be a vessel for wisdom?
I’ve started a new art series where I leave notes on benches: If I come across a bench that I have never sat in, I will stop and sit in that bench for at least sixty seconds. #enjoybenches In a…
Eliminating the penny saves the government $85M but could cost consumers $1.4 BILLION annually if businesses always round up. That's a 16-to-1 wealth transfer from your wallet to corporate profits.
After years of watching Twitter kill my blog, I found a way to make Bluesky work FOR my writing instead of against it. Here's the simple mental shift that changed everything.
Every year, I wish my brother a Happy Wheaton Day on his town’s anniversary. Now I’m thinking of doing this for all my friends’ towns—along with a fun question about trees. Would you reply?
Give new life to your old photos. Use a new vocabulary word as a search term in Google Photos. Watch forgotten memories resurface in surprising, poetic ways.
Ever wonder what your first eBay purchase was? You can download your ENTIRE purchase history—mine goes back to November 2001. How to do it. What’s included. What’s not: my custom Mr. T doll from 2000.
Did you know? Instax instant photos can be CHEAPER than traditional 35mm film! At ~$0.75 per shot vs $1.08 for 35mm, instant photography isn't just convenient—it's economical! Check out our full price breakdown.
My Obama victory footage from 2008 made it into Geoffrey Baer's Chicago Lakefront documentary on WTTW! My video captures the exact moment when victory was announced in Grant Park.
Over my life I've come to accept my outsider status in relation to college sports. Now I find myself the champion of a bracket. Turns out the Transfer Portal era might be making rankings more predictive than ever. Or I…
Pill organizer wish list: 1. Jumbo-sized compartments for Halloween Milky Ways. 2. Labels in random languages for maximum chaos. 3. One shaped like Optimus Prime, because aging should feel heroic.
