Tag: Art

A group called “Chicago the Beautiful” is producing thousands of of free art to distribute for the public. The name of the project is called “The Free Art Machine.” There are plenty of ways to participate. 1) Be a part…

The image of this ewok sketch card makes the ewok look like he’s melting. I contacted the eBay seller with the following message: Oh no! The ewok is melting! I don’t have a question about this auction, I just wanted…

Take a CTA train, have six artist groups each decorate the interior of a car, let passengers ride the train for one night; you have the premise for “Art on Track” which has run one night a year for the…

The Oak Park Public Library has one of the best photo streams on flickr. This hand-picked selection of six photos proves to the world that the Oak Park Public Library truly has it going on! Cakes for loan! I want…

There are 12 nations in the land of Calendria, one for each month of the year. Of which nation would you like to reside? Janurria Febrarian Kingdom of March Aprilaan Maysia Republic of Junistan The Julh Augustica Septembrila Octsburg North…

I’d like there to be a website that collects images of all the artwork being shown in Chicago art museums and galleries. Here’s the next best thing. A google image search for each of the gallery districts in Chicago. I…

If you could add one letter to the end of your last name, what would it be? Here’s how my last name would look: Maldrea: Sounds like a continent! Maldreb: An ameboa? Maldrec: The rec center! Maldred: Painting the town…

Earlier in the day I tweeted about thinking of trying to get a receipt with 8/10/12 14:16. But who has receipts with 24-hour time? I should try to get a receipt timestamped 8/10/12 14:16 — Matt Maldre (@spudart) August 10,…

Artontrack and Sandy Caribou blogged about this hilarious letter mailed to the Art Institute of Chicago. Arthur needs to check out my Art Institute Collection, “Stolen Artworks“

Make your own Lichtenstein using the DotBot generator at roy.artic.edu. If you post your photo on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Facebook timeline, they will put your photo into their DotBot Self-Portraits album. Most people just shoot themselves making a…

I’m going to miss the Olympics when they are over. There should be a two-week competition in something happening all the time. And there should be a channel dedicated to it all the time. Ideas: Two weeks of art competition Two…

Cherry Blossoms, choreographs, and bicycling joins the great selection of stamps that the Maldre post office offers. Need a unique stamp for a unique situation? I have over 30 different stamps at my desk.

Caitlin of wanderlustings.com posted a wonderful list of creative stimulation exercises. One of the things i find that helps me is to simply create. I spend so much time consuming, not enough time creating. I often make excuses for my…

In a WBEZ interview about how techno music is like classical music, Mason Bates, composer-in-residence for both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, gives an example of how people are afraid of the symphony. At minute 11:48…

This sticky note table is right up my alley. Sticky notes are so versatile. There are so many ways to use them. I use them for public artwork. They are non-destructive and able to make a message. If a viewer…

Byliner.com is a pretty cool site featuring short stories. I wanted to join and post some of my short stories from my blog. I have good stories, right? However, on their “submit a link” page they say, “Byliner showcases new…

In case you missed it, yesterday I posted about how other companies should have an experts bar. A few ideas come to mind: Disneyland and Wrigley Field. Read more about how this would play out at “Disney should have a…

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s twitter account pointed me in the direction of a “Time Out Chicago” article about their new identity, “We are here at the Museum of Contemporary Art.” The commenting is closed on the article, so I’m…

There needs to be an easier way of selling on etsy. Their posting form is way too long. There’s a total of 14 fields to fill out. — Who made it? — Categories — Photos — Item Title — Description…

We consume a lot. But what do we do with it? I explore these thoughts in a post, “3 keys to doing something with what we consume” on my blog about syndication.

Do you tell any online services where you are currently are? Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook Places? What happens when a service aggregates all the locations of your friends into one service? Find out at “Where are your friends?” on…

The Art Institute of Chicago has this thing on their website where you can browse all their artwork. You can even make collections of their artworks to show to other people! (Read more about “My Collections”) Last week a chicago…

If you want to buy a bunch of baseball cards from one seller online, where do you go? Checkoutmycards.com has lots of great sellers of cards. But you probably don’t want to pay shipping from multiple sellers. You want one…

The clouds were moving very fast yesterday. I took eight shots–normal exposures, each about 30 seconds apart. Then I brought each photo into one photoshop file as a layer. Each layer got its own hue. And then each layer was…

I bought “Orange Happy Tree” from the artist Todd Webb. I really like Todd’s work, it’s very optimistic. Here’s my message to Todd when I bought “Orange Happy Tree” on etsy. Wooo! I saw your tweet about the goose, and…

Artsy.net has 15,000 works of art from over 3,000 artists represented by over 200 of the world’s most respected galleries and museums. (AUG 4, 2016 UPDATE: now 350,000 images by 50,000 artists). They describe their site: The people behind art.sy…

I should memorize my credit card number, but I’m afraid of doing so in case I get kidnapped and they try to torture the number out of me. I think about it almost every time I enter in my credit…

Walking half asleep to work Engines growling Elephants and camels travel the street Thankfully they obey stop lights or they would run me over

What makes you joyful? Not just happiness. But joy. The comfort and pleasure of joy. We set out to answer that question a couple years ago in my bible study group. We were to write about what brings us joy.…

Dick Durbin is selling American flags for a mere additional $4.05, you can have your flag flown above the U.S. Capitol. Pretty rad. However, you have to PRINT out a pdf, and MAIL it in with a CHECK. What’s a…

At my work desk, I have a round table by me that rarely gets used. It’s now an art pedestal for the 1400 Gallery. (The gallery being my workspace in the Tribune Tower). This particular work of art is three…