Every week, I take my garbage and recycling to the curb. I never noticed the perfectly spaced lines in the snow—until today. Sometimes, repetition creates beauty we don’t see at first.
In a collection of 927 paintings, there’s always one that lands dead last. For the Art Institute of Chicago, it’s The Sand Pits, Hampstead Heath by John Linnell. The least relevant—or quietly profound? Decide for yourself.
This year’s Christmas tradition: a 10-hour playlist with 158 versions of Last Christmas! Next year? Maybe Marshmallow World. What’s your holiday anthem?
A ceramic hippo looking despondent. A tiny figure side-eyeing centuries of art. These are the museum treasures we need to see. Little Guys Tour: coming soon to an exhibit near you.
Do you have an artificial Christmas tree? If you do, you might have done some comparison shopping before purchasing your tree. This is our first time buying a fake Christmas tree, so we are new to the variety of fake…
There’s a slight change to the format of my monthly newsletter. Starting now, the emails will also include my notepad posts from spudart.org. What are notepad posts?Notepad posts are quick ideas or observations that I share. They’re not as fully…
Bought a Hot Wheels Sandcrawler and a family-size bag of M&M’s. Turns out, they’ve got more in common than I thought! Both carry cargo… just one holds candy, and the other? Trash.
Clicking an “X” to close a window? That’s no regular X—it’s a multiplication symbol! A strange but stylish choice for ending something, or maybe multiplying your digital productivity?
Did you know you could search Wikipedia for symbols? What is the actual name of the ÷ symbol? Wikipedia tells us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/÷ The name for the division symbol is obelus. Wikipedia says about obelus: The word “obelus” comes from ὀβελός,…
Looking for classical background music? You might start by typing a generic Spotify search like “classical.” But why not show some love to your local orchestra? Try searching for the name of a nearby large city, followed by “orchestra.” It’s…
What if you had a house that had EVERYTHING glow-in-the-dark? Glow-in-the-dark walls, floors, ceilings. Glow-in-the-dark tables, chairs. I got the idea from seeing this pair of glow-in-the-dark Crocs. Why stop at Crocs?! Let’s make everything glow-in-the-dark. In fact, there is…
Ever wondered where the artists you listen to come from? Or if there are any good bands from Kazakhstan? There is a tool that takes all the music you listen to, and it checks the country of every artist.
