Tag: Art

The aesthetic forms of the signature are very intriguing. When I paypal’ed $1.74 to the seller, I included the following note: Thanks for selling this card. It has to be one of the coolest signatures ever. It’s like a work…

If I buy 48 of these ninjas from the dollar store, what should I do with them? A few responses from the Spudart Facebook Fan Page: — I think you should place them around the city like your sticky notes.…

Flickr is a-jumpin with photos of people jumping over puddles. Here’s 56 leap-tastic photos of puddle leapers. In honor of April Showers month in 2010, I found images of puddle jumpers on flickr and hung them up in the 1400…

(Photo courtesy lahp) What if garden hoses sprayed snow instead of water? During summertime, you can quickly cool off. But then the snow melts. The real value of the snowhose is during the winter. Missing the snow? Spray some on…

Photos from Chicago’s third largest snow storm ever. I walked around Lincoln Square the day the blizzard ended and took these photographs of the neighborhood.

Take the 20 musicians you listen to the most. How different are they? You can compute your electic score with the eclectic test. Oh, and you have to use last.fm. My eclectic score is currently 93/100, meaning my musical preferences…

I came across this verse in Isaiah 55:12 and immediately thought of this video I shot last fall: You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,…

I have a new blog dedicated to exploring the intersection of being an artist and a Christian. I plan on making one blog post per week at ChristianNotebook.com. This week I explore that we are God’s artwork made to do…

Time Out or some publication did coverage on which candidate supports the arts the most. (excuse me as I forget the link, if anyone has it, please leave it in the comments) They looked at if anyone in their family…

A big thanks to all the people who commented and faved my photos on flickr in the past year. In 2010, I posted 373 photos to flickr. 154 people wrote 613 comments. 533 people made 1,706 faves. Here’s the top…

My 50 most interesting photos posted in 2010 The following set was automatically created by dopiaza’s set generator. It’s a really cool script. Every day it checks the popularity ranking of all my photos I posted in 2010 and then…

Here’s what the Art Institute should do for their lion sculptures for Christmas 2011. Wrap them entirely in crochet. People would love it. Photo from http://animalnewyork.com/2010/12/wall-street-bull-crocheted/ Here’s what the Art Insitute of Chicago did in 2010: And what the lion…

Seen via Wooster Collective. A few artists unofficially assembled a fence in the middle of the popular Palackeho square in Prague. The government officials were confused and didn’t do anything to it at first. The artists wanted to question what…

An interesting conversation was happening about using one of my photos on Brian Micklethwait’s blog. Brian debates about “what the owner of the photos would think.” It’s fun reading about this debate. Especially since I’m part of it. I’m totally…

NBC Chicago has a fun section on their website called “So My City.” They welcome people to “Tell us your moment.” I was about to submit a couple of my photos and stories, until I read their terms of service.…

Do a Google image search for my name, Matt Maldre, and the results show a photo of me that I use everywhere. I’m wearing a tan plaid shirt. But then just a few results after that, there is a guy…

This photo by vivagirlco sparked an art project idea. It would be fun to lock up a cute itty bitty little bicycle like this and put a note on it asking people to put something in the bicycle basket. Perhaps…

I’m starting a new twitter hashtag named #streetswhereilived Please tweet all the street names of where you have lived. Mine are 114th, Griffin, East, Cornelia, Bell What are all the streets where you have lived?

In celebration of Christmas coming up, here are some of my favorite Christmas photos shot around Chicago.

Does this photo look extremely dark to you? On my monitor at home it looks fine, but at work it’s very dark It should look bright, not dark. When I worked on this photo at home it didn’t look like…

I’m thinking about doing a project with all the historical markers in Chicago. Maybe a collection of photos. A photo of just the plaque. A photo of the location where the plaque is. Maybe a 30 second video of the…

Find out which if your friends has the most common interests with you. A new feature on Facebook lists your top friends that have the most common liked Pages as you. facebook.com/pages/browser.php. Here’s my list: Hey, how about you like…

A leaf was under the under, and the under was under a bus.

Watching the elections results come in on election night is like watching fantasy football about halfway through Sunday. During election night they say, “22102 of the 88209 of the precincts are in. It looks like so-and-so is in the lead…

A Ukrainian woman yelled at me while I photographed the word “forgive” on the sidewalk. Walking down Chicago Avenue in the Ukrainian Village on a bright Sunday, I was looking for small things that I like to photograph for the…

Faving photos on flickr is fun. Giving appreciation to other people’s photos. Making a collection of your favorite photos. I recently faved my 3,000th photo on flickr. In 2008, I made an image of my first 1,000 favorites. Here’s the…

(If you cannot see the above video, please view it on youtube) What should be done with the space left behind from Chicago’s Pearl Art & Craft supply store on Chicago Avenue? One idea is to make it into an…

The Museum of Contemporary Art recently asked on twitter, “Who are your top 5 favorite artists of all time, and why?” Great question. Immediate thoughts came to mine was Joseph Beuys, Edward Hopper, Paul Cezanne, Jackson Pollock. Pretty standard art…

Every month I make a gallery of photos taken by others of my neighborhood. Here’s August 2010. Yeah, a bunch of fountain photos. But I like the Blago graffiti. And the word mobile.

I love Andy Rooney for his straightforward honest opinions. In this Youtube video Andy critiques modern art for being “pretentious nonsense.” However, the thing Andy has to understand about modern art is that it’s meant to be simple. Don’t overthink…

A shop named “sexoffender” has been on Etsy since 2009. It’s clearly wrong to have a store with this name. Etsy is not taking the store down. Please please please report this store to Etsy. If enough people complain, then…