Tag: Art

Things I am currently doing: Put my computer devices on power strips that I only turn on when they are in use. Use my 3.3 watt 2-inch screen tv, instead of the 180 watt tv. Recycle glass, plastic, metal, paper…

Kleenex makes two types of tissue box designs: 1) The predominant designs found on tissue boxes are of the feminine aesthetic. Flowery, flowy pieces of CRAP. Narrrr! I am man! I want manly tissue box covers. 2) The other type:…

100 Things I√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve Learned About Photography 53. No image is better than a bad one 54. Everyone has to start little 55. Your opinion about photography is important! 56. Leave a funny but thoughtful comment 57. Speak about your experiences…

Which of these two Abraham Lincoln photos do you like more? (on the left) Abraham Lincoln: Face Forward (on the right) Abraham Lincoln: three-quarters view At first I liked the three-quarters view, cuz it shows more depth. But then I…

How many times can you get a bouncy ball to bounce off the walls of an elevator? I got nine. That doesn’t seem like much.

The year is 2050. Grass lawns have been outlawed due to some scientific reason. What would replace them? Stones? Cement? Steel? Astroturf?

Some thoughts on dates since January 1, 0001: October 1, 2007 would be day number 732,951 starting from the beginning of AD in January 1, 0001. It’s been 1,055,449,440 minutes. That’s just a tad over 1 billion minutes. (One billion…

The presidential candidates’ websites send out some rather entertaining emails. Yesterday I get an email from Bill Clinton; part of it says: So here’s an idea: why don’t you and I share that excitement together during an upcoming debate. Hillary’s…

Seriously though. Do you really need to listen to your headphones for that extra thirty seconds in the elevator? What if someone wanted to talk to you?

I cannot find the answer anywhere on the web. Here are some hints: one grain of sand has a volume of 1.3 * 10^-9 cubic feet (from gomath.com) Some people on abc.net.au tried to figure out how many grains of…

My photo, AMA Building Shadows is featured on Gapers Block Rearview for September 10, 2007. Hooray! Check out the Flickr photo and high-resolution prints at deviantart.

What’s up? What’s shaking? yeah yeah. How about some new phrases: * What’s rolling? * What’s jumping? * What’s spinning? PLEASE leave some related alternatives in the comments. There’s GOTTA be some more.

It’s fun to end sentences with “, no?” Yes? I’m trying to think of a good example to leave here, no? But my brain isn’t coming up with any.

ABC News posted a photo of all the Democratic presidential candidates, but they cut Dennis Kucinich out of the photo! Before (with Dennis Kucinich) source: Yahoo News After (without Dennis Kucinich) Oddly enough ABC News kept Kucinich in the caption,…

The lower case j in Futura looks like crap, as unlikelymoose pointed out in his blog post, “Futura Book “j” stinks. However, Futura is such a standard for font choices. Futura is so round, geometric, it exudes a classic feel.…

The only piece of artwork on the moon is a three-inch tall aluminum figure representing an astronaut. This work was created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck as a dedication to the astronauts and cosmonauts who died from the space…

Next time you make tea in the kitchen at work, make every movement of your body be like a robot. Focus on doing only one movement at a time and exaggerate the motion by doing the robot dance sort of…

You bump into someone you know, “Hey, what’s up?” Or you might even be a bit alternative and say, “What’s going down?” and do a little hip-hop fingering pointing down action with your elbows up in the air. But here’s…

I like to pay for things with only two-dollar bills. It this a work of art? It’s like a performance piece, and it certainly creates a range of reactions from joy to intrigue to confusion. Read more about this adventure…

Flickr.com, the wildly popular photo website, created a group called 07_07_07 where 7,777 photographers are each submitting seven photos taken on 07/07/07. The moderator of the group mentioned, “We are going to attempt to get a publisher to produce a…

You can now measure the number of watts particular computers or appliances use. The P3 International Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor just plugs right into your outlet and the unit’s large LCD display counts consumption by the kilowatt-hour, the same as…

Chicagoist recently made a long post about the photography rules on the CTA and how they are still convoluted. Here’s my short and simple interpretation of the rules: No tripods No cables No lights No obstruct transit operations No interfere…

Welcome to the Gapers Block readers. One of my photos was featured on the Rearview of May 22, 2007. You can see the photo at flickr and read a nice story about my run-in with the security at the Northwestern…

I’m looking for a simple, cheap digital camera to take videos. Most older digital cameras are able to take short little digital videos. I used to have a Canon Digital Elph S110 that was a 2 megapixel camera that could…

Here’s something that is lots of fun. Draw on your computer monitor with a dry erase marker. It’ll wipe right off! Read more about it in the blog post titled, “IDEA: Draw on your computer monitor.”

Literally, draw right ON it. Take a dry erase marker and you can start doodling right on your screen. Your co-workers might think you are crazy, but it’s an interesting exercise to see your monitor in a new light. If…

Here’s the photo I submitted to “24 Hours of Flickr.” Please view the image on flickr and add it to your favs. I would like to get a high interestingness ranking, so you clicks and favs will help! Thank you!

I nearly got ran over by a Doritos truck this morning while walking to work (well, kinda nearly). And it got me to thinking, whatever happened to Doritos? I remember them 15 years ago being much cooler. Is this just…

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Flickr.com wants you to chronicle your day on 05/05/2007, and then you can submit one photo to: http://www.flickr.com/groups/24flickr. And you might just get published in the book! Oh yeah! From the 24 hour flickr page: The event will be commemorated…

Thanks to Gapersblock.com for featuring this photo in the April 27, 2007 Rearview! More details about this photo available on its flickr page. And a high-resolution prints are available at: www.deviantart.com/print/923690/