Tag: Art

Throughout history our number five used to look like a 4. Here’s a history of our numerals from Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. It wasn’t until the 16th century that the 5 finally stuck as five.

Which is better? The bicycle bell or the bicycle horn? The *ring ring* on your left! or the *toot toot* on your left! or… OR… BOTH! *ring toot* *toot ring* Imagine the combinations! You could be a traveling symphony! A…

The lack of stars in the city sky surely has to affect people somehow. Perhaps we get too grounded and not enough of looking beyond. A self-portrait in my alley at 3am looking up at the sky. Also posted on…

Can a regular freezer–like the one that’s a part of your refrigerator–create a solid block of ice that is one foot cubed? Obviously we can make little 2-inch regular ice cubes. But something seems like it would go wrong if…

Here’s a little napkin sculpture doodle. It’s like he’s saying, “I give up! I give up!”

  1,450 feet is pretty far After measuring the 1,450-foot distance with this measuring wheel, it was surprising how far it was. (for explanation of this project, see this previous post). The distance was far enough away that it seemed…

√¨Faith was a recognizable dimension of everything he did in public and private life. It was never a badge or an ornament to make others uncomfortable, but always a star he checked to set his own course.√Æ –a statement given…

Dots on the sidewalk left by people’s gum. It’s quite amazing how so many dots form. The history of sidewalk gum dots. A) For all these gum spots to appear, there has to be lots of people who spit their…

GoLive is for the creative individual and Dreamweaver is for corporate cogs… Both web design programs Adobe GoLive and Macromeda Dreamweaver have windows that control a site. These windows have a side for local files on your computer and a…

Thinking about shadows has reminded me about an old project that never got finished. To take a piece of string the same length as the height of the Sears Tower—1450 feet. Attach one end of the string to the corner…

A shadow of a pole going over a manhole got me thinking the other day about shadows. I could make cardboard cutouts of shapes and create my own shadows with this new generator i got. And then take photographs of…

Wow, a whole week that we can bring our pets into work. Not just a day, but a WEEK. Do plants count as pets? How about my pet rock? He can do tricks!… Sit. Stay. Play dead. And my favorite,…

The plastic bottle. How can we use it for other purposes? I want to make some art using a platic bottle. Using just stuff from my desk. Maybe some cool action bottle figures or something.

The voice behind Destro and Devastator were both played by Arthur Burghardt! No wonder why you never saw them both in the same room at the same time!

What? : inquistive. Whatever. : dismissively shuts down the inquistive. Two words, so similiar looking, yet so different in meaning.

Belgian artist Benjamin Verdonck sits in a swallow’s nest hanging 30 meters up on the glass wall of a building in Brussels, May 3, 2004. Verdonck was trying to hold conversations with passersby on the street below as part of…

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Apr 28, 585 An unforeseen total eclipse of the sun interrupts a battle between Lydia and Media, bringing a sudden end to their six-year war.

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company announces that it has irrevocably changed the formula for its flagship beverage, unveiling “New Coke.” The company stands firm on its decision until public pressure finally forces them to reintroduce the original drink, exactly 79 days…

Why don’t we have more parking garages in the city? Is there something that people don’t like about them? There is an obvious parking problem in the city, why not build more parking garages?

You know you’ve been playing with photoshop brushes too long when you’re outside in public and you start to see all these textures that you could create with a photoshop brush. “Dude, look at the sidewalk, that’s totally like a…

It was the birthday of Dave Rothkopf, Tribune Media Services copywriter. We both have a love of monkey humor. So his desk got invaded with hundreds of different monkey images from online. It is pure monkey mayhem. Yes, this is…

It’s Dave’s birthday tomorrow, so I decked out his desk with a five foot tall inflatable monkey, 7 smaller inflatable monkeys, and 258 images of monkeys from google images. Check out the web gallery of photos from this event taken…

wow, my personal cameraphone page “Matt’s cameraphone photos” comes in * 3rd and 5th on a google search for “cameraphone photos“ * 2nd and 5th on an aol search for “cameraphone photos“ * 51st on a yahoo search for “cameraphone“…

On Presidents day, we celebrate the presidents of our past. So then what does the current president do? Could he possibly treat it like secretaries day or boss day? Where he would get presents and such cuz it’s Presidents day,…

I was searching for my name on images.google.com, and google shot out this interesting selection of images from my site:

A discussion on being brilliant: Matt: Stupidity in another format can be considered brilliant. Dave: That was a thin line between stupid and clever.

The name “creative ground” is very interesting. Being grounded. Down-to-earth. Dirt. But creative at the same time.

Here’s my email away message while i’m gone from work: 2004 will be an interesting year. Such a nice even number that you can easily divide into many slices of pizza. 2003 was a bit more hard to slice pizzas…

I’m looking for ideas for my holiday card which is gonna be really late. It’ll probably be sent out in January. Which of these January Holidays would make a good card?

A hilarious way to help you with art critiques. With the Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator, you need never again feel at a loss for commentary or √¨insights.√Æ Soon you can produce CRAP critiques as easily and fluently as anyone…