Tag: Art

We have two holes in the front of our head filled with goop. They are for seeing. These holes with goop are called eyes. We have two holes in the side of our head for hearing. They are called ears.…

Based in Chicago Half Letter Press publishes and distributes booklets about collaborative and experimental artwork. I recently discovered their shop at halfletterpress.com and ordered a bunch of books–for cheap! Here’s the message I wrote in part of my online order:…

Whenever I sign up to get something in the mail for free, I like make up a middle name that is related to the product. For instance, Oscar Meyer is giving away coupons for free hot dogs. I used the…

My brother makes a strong (and correct) argument that Tony Gwynn is better than Cal Ripken. There’s some cardinals fan bloke commenting on that post saying Gwynn was hopped on steriods for a few years. Which is a complete joke.…

lahp on twitter said: “We’ve already had a discussion about Klingon cloaking devices this ayem. Yep. We’re dorks.” When you say that you are a dork, doesn’t that diminishes your dorkness? Dorks don’t admit to being dorks. Or can you…

Postcrossing.com is a site where you can sign up to send and receive postcards from across the world. (It is #14 on my list of 14 things that inspired me in 2008.) Most people send postcards of photos of their…

You are looking for this webpage. And hopefully you did a search on Google and found this page. Here is what you are looking for: Call to God What is your treasure? Art Authentication

When I intially saw these super cool gloves on etsy a few months ago, they were sold out. The wondeful etsy seller Xmittens made s’more and posted ’em on etsy. When I saw the gloves got reposted, I bought them…

I find it funny when people at work are sitting at their computers and ask what the day is. Um. It’s on your computer. It’s nice and all they are being friendly and socialable by asking another human. But really.…

When America messes up so much that people get tired of living here, we’ll joke about moving to Canada. But really. Canada? A) It’s so far away. B) It’s Canada. But what if we lived in Europe. Couldn’t you just…

I love the bookstore in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. They have such a great selection of books. I found nine books that I want. Yes, NINE. Here they are: Amazon.com Widgets Usually, when I’m shopping, I’ll find…

“Mountain Dew Monkey” recently added me as a contact on Flickr. What a great name! Can you imagine a monkey drinking Mountain Dew!?

At rest areas on highways, I’m leaving these brochures for people to pick up. I’m hoping they will spur good conversation between friends and families on our highways. Here’s a few preliminary photos of the brochure as I’m designing it…

Just look at how this paperclip box gets totally destroyed in my drawer. I’d love a cute paperclip box. Etsy? Help!

My first answer is: None. and the location is nowhere. Actually my answer is: a doodle, inked onto the inside of my hand from a pen. Stays for less than one day. The doodle would be a smiley face. Actually,…

Walking down the corridor in Chicago’s Grand Avenue station, the train starts flying by. One of the windows on the train is totally smashed. The pattern created is incredibly exquisite with beautiful lines emanating out from one spot. I didn’t…

Funny how back in the day there were all those hats and shirts that said 01.20.09 in anticipation of Bush’s last day in office. It’s amazing how Obama was able to take control of 01.20.09 and outshine the fact that…

The number in parenthesis is the number of hits the post got in 2008. Top 250 words spoken at presidential candidate debates (7,634) A timely post. Fun graphic. Caught fire on flickr. (there were four images, they each got 5441;…

I was recently asked who is a favorite artist of mine. I really haven’t evaluated that in a couple years in the framework of favorite. The true inspiration is the artists that are around me. They influence and inspire me…

We all often sit like robots on the bus. I’m a reading robot. Being a robot can be good sometimes, because we respect each other’s quiet and space. But we don’t have to be totally robotic. This past Wednesday night…

99.9999999% of German music sucks, but of the 0.00000001% that is good, it’s like REALLY good. There is no middle ground with german music. It either really SUCKS or it really ROCKS. Here is the basic categories of German music.…

Beau Bergeron is the artist behind the increasingly popular snow ghosts did an entertaining presentation to IDEO. On his website’s contact form one of the fields is “favorite fourth grade memory.” Here’s my response: learning multiplication. it showed me how…

I’m looking to do a photo series where I photograph nativities in alleys. I’d like to leave the nativity in the alley for someone to find. Does anyone know where I can get a bunch of nativity sets in bulk…

photo courtesy cathibeth, thanks cathie! I was looking for a creative question, and Cathibeth sent me the following: If the trees in Maine reach to the sky and grab ahold… what are they grabbing ahold of? Here’s a few of…

Stamps. Stickers. It’s just meant to be that these two files sit next to each other alphabetically. Whenever I mail my bills, I pull out the stamps file AND the stickers file. Stickers are so much fun. The world could…

Illinois voters, if you care about our teachers, I urge you to vote NO to the Illinois Constitution question that will appear on your ballot this November: Public Questions To the Voters of Cook County: “Shall the Illinois Constitution be…

The Polling Place Photo Project by the New York Times encourages Americans to photograph their polling place and submit their photos to their website. It sounds like a great project that would be fun to get Chicagoans in on. But…

Someone on reddit linked over to my Biden-Palin word cloud and gave me 4,400 visitors. Interesting that out of the 5,406 views (an addition 1,000 came from places other than reddit), this image has gotten only one favorite. I wonder…

Image courtesy dewo via creative commons license It’s overtime in a NFL football game. Your opponent is pinned all the way down to their one-yard line. Your defense goes in and sacks the quarterback! Safety! Two points! Your team wins!…

Why is Labor Day called “Labor Day?” It should be called “No Labor Day.” Or maybe “Relax Day.” And then the day after Relax Day would be known as Labor Day. Since it would be too confusing to change the…

I’ve been into the idea of photographing LEGOs, so I did some research on flickr to see what was possible. Here are photos by other flickr members: These are all in my flickr favorites