Making Xerox selfies at home with your inkjet printer
Today I learned my inkjet has a copy feature—like a Xerox machine! Of course, the first thing that I do…
Fun with Xerox machines
Xerox selfies in front of art museums
I’d like to stand outside an art museum with a xerox machine, offering pedestrians the opportunity to make their own xerox selfie. All day long, visitors look at art behind glass. Give these visitors a chance to have a memorable, intimate portrait of their own face pressed upon a glass—the glass of a Xerox machine. …
If I had a mannequin foot…
I almost xeroxed my socks yesterday, but then I thought that was going too far putting my foot on the copier. Perhaps I need a mannequin foot. If i had a mannequin foot… I would walk around with three feet. I’d make up new games of soccer where I can play sitting on the ground. …
Folding a round paper plate into square box
Most origami starts with a square sheet of paper. The corners of the square are integral to shapes and folding lines. Would it be possible to fold a ROUND sheet of paper into a SQUARE box? And not just any ordinary round sheet of paper, but a PAPER PLATE. Maybe your blueberries are rolling off …
What happens without a mobile phone for a few days
This is a good replacement for a cell phone right? I’ve been carrying this clock around in my pocket all day. I love pulling it out to tell the time. Why have I been using this old school LCD clock? My wife’s cell phone died this weekend, so she is borrowing my phone for a …
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Whenever you see a Xerox machine in a public place, xerox your face
I have a long-standing goal of whenever I see a xerox machine in a public place, to scan my face. My wife and I did one on our honeymoon in France. The copy machine was tucked away in the back of a Monoprix supermarket in Avignon while we were picking up some food storage containers. …
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Thoughts about xeroxing your face
A few days ago I xeroxed my face on our copier at work. The scanning bed was left open, and was just begging for something fun to be done. I did one copy of my face, then I grabbed a coworker and we each did one. Decades ago, this was classic way of having fun …
Clothespin artist of 1994 influences the creation of spudart
The clothespin artist stands at the front steps of the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1994. My fellow college freshman friends and I approach this man selling clothespin necklaces and tshirts with simple clothespin silhouettes. While signing free xerox prints of clothespins, he teaches us the meaning of clothespin art. People can …
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2010 Winter Olympic Mascots in 1400 Gallery
I bought my niece all the plush mascots keychains from the 2010 Winter Olympics. To make mailing stuffing to keep them from jostling around, I made 11×17 xerox enlargements of each figure. A couple extra copies were made to hang up in the 1400 Gallery. The tiny cute little keychain mascots become much bigger. A …
The Occasional Potato is coming back!
The Occasional Potato is a xeroxed group of things/articles that I find interesting. And it has a potato on every cover.