If people dressed up as famous artists when visiting museums, who would you go as? I posted this question on the Spudart Facebook Page and got some fun replies. Dali, Warhol: “Someone distinctive looking like Dali or Warhol,” Tom Saaristo.…
Who speaks words like a poet? All comment given by bernawi of flickr is like a prance through the drewdrops of morning on the windows of perception. to find the true nature of things, it will break the ice of…
8-year former White Sox player A.J. Pierzynski is a class act to run a full-page ad for local fans in the Chicago Tribune at the end of 2012. I tip my hat to him. But I also give AJ two…
What is the zip code for the White House? The Post Office suggests many zip codes for the White House. Use the Post Office Zip Code suggestion form, and search for: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The Post Office gives this list of…
We like to elevate ourselves by looking down on Sammy Sosa, but he’s just a big screw-up. The problem with Sammy is that he has no filter. He just blurts out things in desire for attention. And he does stupid…
An art series gets epic when there are 100 items in the series. Do you have any art series that has more than 100 photos? I have one. My HDR photos of Chicago is currently up to 190 photos. Let’s…
(artwork by Chicago artists: Erik Maldre, Ginny Gaura, Carissa Rose, Kristina Gosh, Lynda A. Betz) With admission prices rising at the Art Institute, this would be a great time for them to employ an extra incentive for people to come…
Starting February 1 the Art Institute is raising their admission prices as much as five dollars. With every ticket, a piece of artwork should be given away with every ticket. Snaaaap. $23. I want some artwork! An artist trading card…
It’s weird how someone can call the phrase “Together, we’re fucked” to be optimistic. It’s a rather perverted look on optimism. Give Sarah Nardi’s article a read, “Artist Joel Fisher chooses to see the bright side.” The artist claims he’s…
While waiting at the Randolph/Wabash CTA station, a face by my feet was staring at me! His tiny piercing eyes met mine as his gruff face with a heavy chin and wide thin lips spoke to me, “eerh, woodn’t you…
The Art Institute is wrapping up Thomas Schütte’s large statue, “Vater Staat.” They should do something creative with the masking tape. Let’s make some suggestions to the Art Institute of Chicago on how to better apply the masking tape. To…
You can search within your favorites on flickr. You can’t do that on Instagram. For instance, I searched for “balloons” in my flickr favs, and I got these fun results. Try that, stupid Instagram! Get a free flickr account now…
You know what is a great motivator to get your goals done for 2013? A community website called 43things.com. Add your goals to a list. Then you can write entries about your progress in each goal. There’s thousands of people…
2012 saw most of my photos cropped to squares thanks to instagram. I also found that while browsing other people’s photos on the Instagram app, I often didn’t read the caption. I would only look at the photos. I started…
A big congratulations to local Chicago website, thisiscolossal.com. Christopher Jobson announced that his website of “art & visual ingenuity” is able to support his family full-time. The artwork featured on thisiscolossal is truly amazing and inspires me everytime I visit.…
Flickr determines the most interesting images by a combination of views, comments, and favs. Here are my ten most interesting photos from 2012. Along with each photo I give one photo technique that helps make the image interesting. Nostalgia with…
My most interesting photo so far in 2013 is an image of Campbell’s chicken soup. Everyone this year is starting their 2013 with the flu. Not a very nice way to kick off the year! So it’s rather fitting that…
The library of the future is indeed a curious place. Check out my blog post “A library with no books” where I talk about the mac domination, wall screens, DJ librarians, empty shelves, and guillotine doors.
If you could ask the president anything, what would you ask? I have a few questions: Is there a working telegraph machine in the White House? Does the White House still have Rutherford B. Hayes’ croquet set? Why does the…
Can you guess what famous baseball card this is? [Answer]. It would be fun to take the 45 most iconic baseball cards of all time and show just the backs of the cards. You’ll enjoy more posts about baseball cards:…
These two photos sitting next to each other on flickr make an interesting pair. I did a search on flickr for: chicago art. Normally i’m not a fan of boring standard graffiti. But the angles in standard graffiti rather mimic…
Dick Perez. The official Baseball Hall of Fame artist of the 80s and 90s. I grew up collecting the Donruss cards featuring his “Diamond King” paintings with crazy backgrounds. I did my fair share of baseball portraits in grade school…
Warning! Crazy backgrounds! All these paintings were done in the 80s and early 90s by the official Baseball Hall of Fame artist, Dick Perez. One has to wonder what was going through Dick’s mind when he created these backgrounds. He…
Get Dominick’s receipt with it saying, “How was your shopping experience? Please share your thoughts online: www.grocerysurvey.net Enter to win a $100 gift card” You can fill out a survey at let Dominick’s know how your grocery trip was. Dude,…
I’m really excited for the Art Institute’s upcoming shows in 2013. The Artist and the Poet February 1, 2013‚ÄìJune 2, 2013 My girlfriend is a writer and I’m an artist. We shall happily go to this exhibit together. Picasso and…
2013 glasses photo by paul.hadsall via create commons license, dog photo by me If I was around a dog, and if I was around a pair of 2013-shaped glasses, it would be a safe bet that the 2013-shaped glasses would…
I like archiving interesting articles by “printing” them as PDF files. Here’s a cool four-part series “Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies.” All the interesting articles get put into a folder on my computer. When I share the article, I…
You know those really cool stained glass things you can make? You drop little plastic pellets into a wire frame and then throw them into the oven, and the plastic pellets melt. When the entire thing cools down, you take…
What’s BBHA, EROG, EEPE, RWSD, TICA, IMEL, REDT, JSDO, AHII, VOEL, and ATTY? I don’t think those words appear in the Scrabble dictionary. It would be rad if the words not only worked horizontally, but vertically too. Here’s a couple…
I tweet as the librarian on the Death Star, @atourriten. Come follow me, I tweet very little with that account, so you won’t get overload. Here’s one of my favorite tweets: I miss @the_management tweeting. He must be bogged down…
Ever call someone crazy in an IM or text? Perhaps you even get a little creative and call that person ker-azee. Now you can never run out of ways to call someone crazee with this list of 96 different spellings…
