Tag: Art

You may have seen a bunch of people tweeting their Twifficiency score. twifficiency.com explains: ————– In a nut shell, Twifficiency calculates your twitter efficiency based upon your twitter activity. This includes how many people you follow, how many people follow…

What is your first photo posted to flickr? Here’s all the first flickr photos of my flickr contacts: And my first photo on flickr: I like that it’s a set of stairs that I climb every day. To think those…

(photo by ohalchemygirl) It’s a monster versus sushi smackdown! Who will be the last monster or sushi standing? My bet is on the tamago. I love tamago. (that’s the rectangular yellow egg maki). Please leave a comment about which character…

I’ve reached one million views on all my flickr photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spudart. Thank you to everyone who has viewed my photos. Here’s my top three most viewed photos: Chicago’s Moving Bridges over the Chicago River Viewed 41,256 times The Chicago…

People can now sync their flickr photos with their Facebook wall. Anytime you post something to flickr, it’ll also post to your Facebook account. Sounds great, right? But what if I already look at people’s photos on flickr? Now i’m…

The Tribune Tower is getting a new tattoo. Performance artist Elliott From painted a Blackhawks logo on the WGN window at the Tribune Tower today. It was a cool live painting performance as Elliott was playing music and splashing paint…

Someone made some wrong measurements, because the Chicago Blackhawks helmets don’t quite fit onto the heads of the lions in front of the Art Institute. The Art Institute of Chicago posted a very nice photo album online of the helmets…

What a great question! There are multiple areas of my life that I’d like to use to address this question. I have a hard time picking just one book. Artistically Trivia-wise Relationships Spiritually and overall approach to life: Society Love…

The Apple Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago has a 42-inch Panasonic display to show off their Apple TV product. Being curious how flickr photos show up on the Apple TV, I pulled up my Chicago HDR set. I stood…

The same artist who did the Chicago Bean (Cloudgate) is designing this super huge sculpture for London and their Olympics in 2012. (via the Guardian) The structure will officially be called the ArcelorMittal Orbit, after steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, the…

I love how appshopper.com has a wish list feature. It makes me be more wise with my app purchashing decisions. Here’s what I have in my wish list now. What apps should I get? ToonPAINT $1.99: ToonPAINT allows you to…

The first CD I ever owned is Bobby Brown’s “Don’t Be Cruel.” Classic. What’s your first CD you ever owned? Feel free to leave it in the comments below or tweet it with the hashtag #firstcd Here’s the first 14…

On the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower there is a gray garbage can in the kitchen area. We throw away so much stuff in the kitchen that can be recycled. To help solve this, a few weeks ago I…

I just have to share this genius question and brilliant responses from facebook:

I put a web address on my 2009 Christmas card.

Every Christmas season, Chicago’s greatest hipster crafters get together and sell their ironic, cool, stylish wares. Here’s a few reasons why Renegade puts on a great holiday show. 1. Great location The Pulaski Park Fieldhouse is worth the trip alone.…

Online personals have some interesting questions, especially eHarmony. They have 13 questions, and I’ve been meaning to share some of my responses, cuz there are some thought-provoking questions. I’ve posted the question What are the THREE things for which you…

PaperGirl had a nice post about her twitter usage, so I’m making one too. I’ve been tweeting for almost two years now as @spudart. My tweets tend to be about fun ideas and interesting observations. My most-used word is Chicago.…

Days of the week as verbs. Person 1: How are you? Person 2: I’m frying. You? Person 1: Yeah, it is very hot in this elevator. Tomorrow I’ll be satting. Person 2: Sweet, I love to relax and sat. On…

Since joining last.fm a couple years ago, I’ve listened to 2,500 different artists. Cool! (That’s out 12,687 plays). I highly recommend last.fm. It’s free. You can type in artist or a tag, and it will play related music. It’s a…

I’ve been sitting on writing blog post #1,999 for the past week. I wanted to write something introspective about my blog. The timing was pretty funny, because my church (Park Community Church) is doing a series called Pursue. Last week’s…

Eight years ago today I wrote my first blog post, titled “Long live long tables.” Since then I have written 1,998 blog posts (including this one), and have had 17,939 comments. Wow. All over eight years.

Etsy seller robotcamp was selling 14 drawings of robots for the low low price of $1.19. How can anyone resist? Apparently the 91 people who viewed that auction could resist. I, however, could not resist. Here’s a screenshot of the…

My brother and I have commented so much on a particular photo on the Art Institute’s Flickr account, that it is now their #1 most commented photo. I encourage you to leave a fun comment on this photo of people…

I often throw crumble up paper and throw snowballs at my coworkers. Next time I will use Fun Size Snickers.

A friend of mine is ordering a pound of worms for a worm bin. A pound of worms is available in the mail! Worms traveling through the mail. It’s like they are worming their way through. What a delight! Also,…

Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art has a fantastic selection in its book store. Going to their bookstore is just as fun as seeing their galleries. Here are six books that stood out on my recent visit. Amazon.com Widgets For those…

Hang up frames on various things in the public, and call it art. A crack on the wall in a train station. A tree trunk in Pioneer Court. All art. Print out captions with title and your name. Post the…

A few years ago I was walking up the sidewalk to my parents’ house, and there was one clover growing out of a sidewalk crack. That one clover just happened to be a four-leaf clover! Since then I always look…

Take advantage of the day with the most sunlight, Summer Solstice on June 21. Some suggestions: Pull an all-nighter: I once did this when I locked myself out of my apartment on Summer Solstice a couple years ago. It was…

Let’s delete all the 50 states and use counties instead. We could have 3,033 states. Here’s what the map would look like. (take a look at the full hi-res version) There would be a problem that many of the states…