Tag: Art

I have never been stuck in an elevator. I like elevators. I want to experience this. Please share your elevator stuckedness stories in the comments. A search on flickr for elevator stuck results in some interesting photos, such as the…

I like to keep very detailed scorecards. I’ll jot down lots of extra information. View the series in high-res in my flickr “Baseball Scorecard” set (or just click each image below to see the hi-res version). You can also hear…

When: Weekend of April 27-29, 2007 Where: Chicago, USA (see Itinerary) Cost: Free! Why: Because it’s fun to get together. Let’s go! I’m signed up. All you have to do is enter your name at: http://northamerica.photobloggers.org/ And you can get…

Here’s some ideas of projects I’d like to take in my next ceramics class: 1) Funny trophies There are absolutely no trophies in the world with a statue of a croquet player. That must be fixed. 2) Chicago molds It…

DesignSponge posted an interesting work of art by Doris Salcedo. The comments on this post are rather funny, because there are many people upset over this artwork for varying reasons. One person thinks it’s “a waste of space.” Another one…

Here’s a line graph showing the historic trend of the first class postage stamp rate increase since 1945. It seems like stamps are rising in cost so much lately. But it’s really been a historic trend since the beginning of…

Are there any daily devotional studies out there that also have a monthly calendar companion? It would be nice to have a calendar up with some bible verses that reinforce what the devotional is covering for that month.

My employer is very good at finances. We run a very high profit margin, everything in the company has to run a tight ship financially. Which could be good for my job security. Sometimes I think it’s because the finance…

Here’s a photo of Chicago Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano posing during “picture day.” It makes me wonder if this is a Chicago Cubs internal “picture day” (for marketing materials) or a MLB.com “picture day.” Given the ivy background, I would think…

Alexander Hamilton is featured on the American 10-dollar bill. The source of this image is John Trumbull’s 1805 portrait of Hamilton that belongs to the portrait collection of New York City Hall. Here’s animation featuring the portrait overlayed on top…

eBible.com is a site where you can bookmark bible verses and share your notes. Here’s the most bookmarked verses: 63 bookmarks: John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him…

It would be really cool if museums would organize their permanent collections by color. Right now all art museums organize their permanent collection by style which does create for interesting connetions between artworks. However, it does get a little old…

In modern art museums the color field artists of the 1960s always tend to appear after the action abstract expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s. It makes sense because of the time sequence. But here’s another reason: After seeing all…

Page views according to alexaholic.com: Observations: 1. Flickr rules due to web 2.0 features. 2. Photobucket is rising due to ease of use for MySpace users. 3. Webshots is dying. 4. Deviantart still growing. 5. Snapfish stays low. I’ve never…

What would be the top photo on Flickr for a search on “very“? Would it be something very extreme? Nope. It’s a quiet photo that is very interesting. Photo by ChristinaLutze. UPDATE, 1/19/2017 Ten years later, what is the top photo on…

Darth Maul Lightsaber Pen Just take a regular pen with a cap, add a second cap to the other side, and pow! It’s like having a double-ended light saber!

Mark May 6, July 7, and September 8 on your calendar this year! May 6 05/06/07 08:09 03:04 05/06/07 July 7 07/07/07 07:07 September 8 09/08/07 06:05 11:10 09/08/07 You can add these events to your calendar as an iCal…

In addition to tracking the typical stats from a baseball game on a scorecard, why not add some fun stuff too.

INSPIRATION/OTHER ARTISTS –Find interesting work online? Let us know. –Anything inspired you? What is it? –What are some past influences on your art? –Mention any interesting conversations you had with other artists YOUR ART –Show progress of your works with…

1999 Cows on Parade 2001 Couches 2001-2004 Wacker Drive Construction   2003 Bobbleheads 2004 Mickey Mouse (Photos courtesy of Vincent Falk) When Chicago does a public art theme, Vincent Falk photographs himself beside every single sculpture with a matching outfit.…

83 in text messaging means TD or Touchdown. If your team scores a touchdown, you can send an excited text message to a friend that says, “TD TD TD TD TD TD TD TD.” All it takes is to hit…

I’m a big fan of the Dice Collection on: http://membres.lycos.fr/arjan, so I made this chart as a sort of table of contents to the different types of dice shown on that site. Who knew there are so many different types…

(the owl is from renegadecraft.com Yesterday I covered why the huge S.O.F.A. show in Chicago is no longer an inspirational show. SOFA is a nice show, but when you compare it to the urban craft shows of Chicago, SOFA looks…

Background on SOFA: Chicago’s Navy Pier has a huge art show every year with 100 worldwide galleries showing off their sculptural art called S.O.F.A (Sculpture Objects Fine Art). In the past ten years that I’ve attended the show, it was…

Professional voiceover artist, Larry Simon gave a talk on voice technique for the Chicago Area Podcasters Network at the Apple Store on November 7, 2006. Here’s some of my notes that I jotted down: Imagine your voice as an instrument.…

some cool graphs on which letters are most popular in Scrabble and in the English languageScrabble’s letter distributions: Art or science?

There’s 11 new artworks in unmoo’s ebay store. You can read his blog post about the AIN’T series. $3.00 each. What a deal!

We vote on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. There’s so much chatter on the news about the candidates, but all I want is a simple one-page chart that shows where they stand on the issues. So I made a chart with…

Presenting the gallery of yarn monsters!

And why do we read left to right? When we face north, the sun moves the opposite direction–right to left. Look down at the earth’s north pole from above, the world spins counter clockwise. Yet our clocks spin clockwise. Baffling!

They say you should take 10,000 steps a day to be healthy. You can even count non-walking activities as steps. For instance, universalhealthcare.com says sawing firewood is the equivalent to taking 113 steps a minute. Here’s the top ten activities:…