Tech & Art (intersection of tags)

I like archiving interesting articles by “printing” them as PDF files. Here’s a cool four-part series “Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies.” All the interesting articles get put into a folder on my computer. When I share the article, I…

i like how when i google image “Matt” the three results for me are a Brewster Rockit comic, my bulletin board of baseball cards at work, and some iPad painting that I never knew I posted anywhere online.

A group called “Chicago the Beautiful” is producing thousands of of free art to distribute for the public. The name of the project is called “The Free Art Machine.” There are plenty of ways to participate. 1) Be a part…

There needs to be an easier way of selling on etsy. Their posting form is way too long. There’s a total of 14 fields to fill out. — Who made it? — Categories — Photos — Item Title — Description…

Do you tell any online services where you are currently are? Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook Places? What happens when a service aggregates all the locations of your friends into one service? Find out at “Where are your friends?” on…

Artsy.net has 15,000 works of art from over 3,000 artists represented by over 200 of the world’s most respected galleries and museums. (AUG 4, 2016 UPDATE: now 350,000 images by 50,000 artists). They describe their site: The people behind art.sy…

I like it when Etsy visits paypal.

While looking for more art podcasts, I found three audio podcasts that I’m going to bring into my mix of podcasts. How about you give them a try too? ————— Art Talk KCRW Edward Goldman offers impassioned views on what…

Tateshots and etsy are two video podcasts that I look forward to with every release. ————— TateShots A selection of short videos each month, with a focus on modern and contemporary art at Tate. TateShots is probably in my top…

Be boldly simple. That’s my sticky note memorial I wrote for Steve Jobs. Lots of people wrote things like “Steve Jobs changed my life.” “I have a hole in my heart.” Do you really? The man is a great thinker.…

Three great things: 1) Fun city drawings on 2 ¬Ω” x 3 ¬Ω” paper 2) On sale for $0.99 on eBay 3) From Kelsterbach, Germany I was in. I bid. I tweeted about it thinking that NOBODY else would ever…

Tired of giving the same old Facebook birthday greeting? Mix things up and share a fun image. How about using a 15 pixel by 15 pixel balloon? It’s unique and funny. Sometimes people post obnoxious photos on their friends wall…

A big thanks to all the people who commented and faved my photos on flickr in the past year. In 2010, I posted 373 photos to flickr. 154 people wrote 613 comments. 533 people made 1,706 faves. Here’s the top…

Do a Google image search for my name, Matt Maldre, and the results show a photo of me that I use everywhere. I’m wearing a tan plaid shirt. But then just a few results after that, there is a guy…

Faving photos on flickr is fun. Giving appreciation to other people’s photos. Making a collection of your favorite photos. I recently faved my 3,000th photo on flickr. In 2008, I made an image of my first 1,000 favorites. Here’s the…

A shop named “sexoffender” has been on Etsy since 2009. It’s clearly wrong to have a store with this name. Etsy is not taking the store down. Please please please report this store to Etsy. If enough people complain, then…

What is your first photo posted to flickr? Here’s all the first flickr photos of my flickr contacts: And my first photo on flickr: I like that it’s a set of stairs that I climb every day. To think those…

I’ve reached one million views on all my flickr photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spudart. Thank you to everyone who has viewed my photos. Here’s my top three most viewed photos: Chicago’s Moving Bridges over the Chicago River Viewed 41,256 times The Chicago…

People can now sync their flickr photos with their Facebook wall. Anytime you post something to flickr, it’ll also post to your Facebook account. Sounds great, right? But what if I already look at people’s photos on flickr? Now i’m…

The Apple Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago has a 42-inch Panasonic display to show off their Apple TV product. Being curious how flickr photos show up on the Apple TV, I pulled up my Chicago HDR set. I stood…

I love how appshopper.com has a wish list feature. It makes me be more wise with my app purchashing decisions. Here’s what I have in my wish list now. What apps should I get? ToonPAINT $1.99: ToonPAINT allows you to…

My brother and I have commented so much on a particular photo on the Art Institute’s Flickr account, that it is now their #1 most commented photo. I encourage you to leave a fun comment on this photo of people…

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

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…

About Call to God I write a prayer on a sticky note and place it on a public pay phone. By placing the sticky note on a phone, I hope to make the connection to the viewer that saying a…

I have added over one thousand photos of other flickr users to my favorites on flickr. You can see all 1,038 in one big image file. Or if you would like to see the individual images, download this zip file…

It would be great if there was some way to easily export the information for your flickr photos. I want to back up all my captions and tags. I’m alright with doing it manually since I only have about 100…

Print out cute photos from the internet and include them with your mail. Paying your credit card? Stick a hedgehog in with it. Submitting your student load payment? Slide a squirrel in the envelope. Sending in a rebate? That certainly…

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!

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…

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…