Tag: Art

Construction cranes probably have some sort of lightning rod at the top of the crane. Such a huge tall metal object is probably grounded, right? So then is the operating seat, like all covered in rubber or something?

CNN reports that the new largest prime number was discovered on January 4, 2006. It is 9.1 million digits long. (thanks Tom for the link) If you were to print this number out on 8.5×11″ sheets of paper, one-sided with…

There’s this clever “KERN” sweatshirt being sold on veer.com. You unzip the sweatshirt to demonstrate how kerning works. neat. I want to make a shirt that says “LEADING” and pants that also say “LEADING.” To demonstrate how leading works, you…

Just a few weeks ago, I discovered that “dumpster diving” has a bad connotation. It’s associated with people who pilfer garbage to find financial information. I always thought of dumpster diving as a way of finding art materials. I’m gonna…

Because, this wasn’t enough. Here is another photograph of adorable baby porcupines. (thanks to lisa for sending this to me)

From Metroblogging Chicago: The deal with the Bean is that you can take a crappy camera and sort of wave it in the general direction of the Bean with your eyes closed and you take, every time, a freakin’ awesome…

Having images for posts on blogs are very helpful. We like to think that the main meat of a blog is content/text. But it’s hard to skim over a blog with no images. Images serve more than to just illustrate.…

When you change clothes in your work bathroom, do you: A) Change right in the middle of the washroom B) Go inside a stall, but don’t close the door C) Go inside a stall, and close the door A man…

After nearly 100 years of depicting presidents in somber profiles on the nation’s coins, the Mint is trying something different: The new nickel features Thomas Jefferson, facing forward, with the hint of a smile. The forward-looking 2006 nickel front was…

Here is a comparison of the 1800 Rembrandt Peale painting and the 2006 United States nickel. (Here’s a slightly different animation of it with the coin at a lighter opacity: animation 2)

Do waiters and cashiers get hungry when they see so much food go by them on a regular basis? Or do they just become numb to it?

The G.I.Joe cartoon series aired from 1985-1987, but what time period did it take place in? The present? The future? I had always pictured it taking place in present time, but someone told me that he thought it was in…

I don’t get why they play loud music in bars. Um, hello. I’m there to talk with my friends. I don’t want your music so loud that I cannot hear my friends. Last night the music was at an acceptable…

In America we drive on the right side of the road, and pedestrians tend to walk on the right side of the sidewalk. What about in other countries where they drive on the left side of the road. Do they…

Does anyone out there use Macintosh’s iCal program? Or even one of the following ‚Ä¢ .ics format ‚Ä¢ Thunderbird ‚Ä¢ Firefox Calendar ‚Ä¢ Mozilla Calendar I’m thinking of publishing a bunch of calendars with the ics format, but wanted to…

This artwork is quite long. To view the artwork click here: earth and sun to scale. In this file, the Sun is the circle on the left. To view the earth, scroll all the way to the right through outer…

At about 8:30pm (CST) during the 2005 baseball all-star game FOX showed a “renegade” banner hung in the outfield that said hhrya.com. The broadcasters even pondered what it could mean. Joe Buck said something like, “Someone just unfurled a banner…

Apple just re-geared their iPod line. The iPod photo is now the standard iPod. So all standard iPods now have a color screen that can display photos. Why buy them from Apple, when you can get them cheaper from Amazon?…

Seeing that people are not allowed to photograph Chicago’s newest most provocative sculpture of a 110-ton reflective bean, I’m going to get my hands on a mini reflective bean and photograph that all around the city of Chicago. Problem is…

There are a lot of members on ebay that have a VERY similiar name to spudart. So similiar, it’s rather eery. sp.dart, spudat, spudhart, spudrt, scudart, spudar, spudark. A bunch of the names are from Germany. Which is where J‚Äìrg…

Chicago was the first city to have a nationally recognized large-scale city-wide temporary public art exhibit with its cows in 1999. Other cities soon followed suit, while every year Chicago has come up with a new variation on the theme.…

I’m looking for a super small flatbed scanner. One that has a bed size of 4×6 or 5×7. And I’m not talking about those pen scanners. It needs to be a flat scanner. I want to take my scanner out…

I was playing around with ways of visualizing 365 days a year. One of the graphics takes a line rotates around it around 365 times. It actually made some interesting patterns on my screen. So here’s a little preview of…

For New Toy Friday at work, we got an Uncle Milton Ant Farm! (thanks to our creative director, Jill!) Updated photos of the ant farm at work will be posted at: http://antfarm.textamerica.com.

Are there still any elevator operators in existence? Y’know, that dude that would be in the elevator and upon entering you say, “14th floor please.” When did those guys start losing their jobs? It’s like the caboose on trains. The…

Awhile ago I posted about if you can mail a crumbled sheet of paper through the postal mail. https://www.spudart.org/blog/can-crumbled-sheet-paper-be-mailed/ They have all arrived on the same day, just a few days after I dropped them in the mail (It just…

Have some kid ralf all over the sidewalk in front of your booth. I saw it happen last week in front of the Staples sidewalk giveaway.

This month the American Indian Center opened up the Trickster Gallery in Schaumberg–the one and only Native-run contemporary fine arts institution run in the State of Illinois. It will showcase contemporary Native American artists while shattering deconstructive images that result…

I know of two who sell stuff on deviant.com: dan-yell and spudart (me).

This AP photo of a pilot cleaning the windshield to an airplane asks the question, do all pilots fly the same plane all the time? He’s taking such nice care of his window it seems like this is his baby…

What is average size of a screen in a theater?