Three great things: 1) Fun city drawings on 2 ¬Ω” x 3 ¬Ω” paper 2) On sale for $0.99 on eBay 3) From Kelsterbach, Germany I was in. I bid. I tweeted about it thinking that NOBODY else would ever…
Ten years ago I wrote the first spudart blog post on September 28, 2011. In those ten years, we’ve had 22,755 comments! Here are the top ten most commented blog posts. In honor of all the people who commented, I…
I’m excited to submit another word to urbandictionary, because hopefully the high-culture elitists at urbandictionary reject the word and then my list of rejected words will grow. Here we have the new word “idontbelieveinsearchengines” Word: idontbelieveinsearchengines Definition: When you ask…
For my encaustic painting class, we are going to learn image transfer. We were told to bring patterns of just b&w—no gray. This is what I’m bringing. Starting with the Gummi bear and moving clockwise:
The phrase “i don’t believe in search engines” has rarely been said online, according to search engines: 5 times Ask.com 3 times Google 2 times Excite 1 time Bing 1 time Dogpile 1 time Altavista 1 time Hotbot 1 time…
Stuck with a letter “Q” in Scrabble? You always look around for a “u” to attach it to. Right? Or maybe you are really slick and you look for the letter “i” to spell Qi. Let me introduce you to…
Borders donated 8,000 books to the Chicago Public Library System. I’d like to see a list of the titles they donated. Actually, come to think of it, I’d like to see where every book in the library came from. Every…
Tired of giving the same old Facebook birthday greeting? Mix things up and share a fun image. How about using a 15 pixel by 15 pixel balloon? It’s unique and funny. Sometimes people post obnoxious photos on their friends wall…
I like how my tweet about the Muppets opening theme song looked like in my twitter widget. The words stack nicely. The most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational
What do you think someone needs to hear? The question was posted by the You are Postcard Workshop at the Renegade Craft Fair. While walking the fair this past weekend, lots of great vendors were selling great wares, but I…
View the entire photo on Erik’s blog My twin brother posted about Chad Ochocinco’s aquarium bed and I had so many questions for him, I’m going to make my questions into a blog post. Please please, read my brother’s post.…
My local art center Lill Street starts their classes next week. They offer both ceramics and painting (and lots of other classes). I have a list of ceramics projects I’d like to do, but whenever I take ceramics, it totally…
Five tourists armed with cameras were taking photos of the Trump Tower architecture. As they were shooting, I wanted their photos to fly magically into the air for me to see. We have technology now that allows people to instantly…
Spudart is becoming be more and more about art. A friend recently told me when she first visited spudart, she was expecting art and not all these random ideas. In the past year I’ve been trying to make more art…
Watching your weight every day is fine, but a more effective method is to see your trend over the past week. Using the new maldre math operation, you can effectively analyze your weight once a week. Almost every day on…
When I was in art school, one of the art majors who was a year older than me (thus making her much wiser than myself) pointed out how people like to talk about previous years were so great. But as…
1) Hard drives need a computer to work I brought my laptop to a cafe to do some photo work. All my photos are on an external hard drive, so I packed up the drive and all its cords. I…
Spread some fun at work. Take your coworkers tape dispensers and write something fun on it. Give some smiley faces. Write a message. It’s only tape. You can even say that you are making their normal boring tape into super…
My friend Lisa (a citygirl) is inheriting a pickup truck. If you have a pickup truck, what would you do with it? If i had a pickup truck I would carry around bricks and then stop at random places and…
Thanks to everyone on Facebook for recommending the printmaking demo (by Julian Cox at the Le Gallery Thorndale on August 7, 2011) We had a small, but highly interested crowd of three people (including myself), so we got to ask…
You can save the image of Jonathan Starks’ Starbucks card onto your phone and use it at Starbucks. He encourages it. Or if you are feeling like you are in a giving mood, you can put money on the card.…
Aboard NASA’s journey to Jupiter will be LEGO mini-statues of Jupiter, his wife Juno, and Galileo. Why? CNN reports, “LEGO is partnering with NASA to promote children’s interest in science, math, engineering and technology.” Are they going to offer these…
I like the nicknames they gave to the logos. The worm and the meatball. (from a New York Times article) The old school feel of the meatball is nice, but just speaking from a logo perspective, it’s a complete mess.…
I highly encourage you to leave a comment on sparx’s photo of a pink donut with no sprinkles. Here’s a highlight-worthy comment: maybe the donut has an anti-sprinkle deflector shield. I bet now that the donut is inside you, you…
A curly pier swirls off Montrose Harbor. Along the spiral is a wire fence; great to hang a swing. A spiral pier just begs you to walk all the way to the end. It also begs you to hang a…
The Amazon Kindle allows you to see which parts of a book have been highlighted the most by everyone reading it on a Kindle. Here’s the Bible verses that were had the most highlights for the ESV version. —————— 540…
Ever want to come up with a fun nickname for someone, but draw a blank? Now you have a surefire way of making a cool nickname. Use this simple formula: First syllable of the person’s last name + “town” For…
One of the most classic tv scenes ever. Balki Bartokomous and Larry Appleton make Bibbi-Babkas and sing a song. This video had me totally cracking up. The lyrics from Perfectstrangers.tv: When you rolling out the dough,Just make sure you roll…
