Last summer, when I only had one fake job (I presently have 2), I briefly entertained the idea of submitting writing to the local “weeklies.” The other night while “tidying” a disused hard drive (Hey baby, wanna come over and…
Archive for June, 2004
…presenting yet another addendum to my series of vinyl trivialities.
Alternate playback methods
I’ve turned up (and had suggested to me) a number of interesting variations on record playback whilst ‘researching’ vinyl oddities. On the ridiculous…
A few items of interest spawned by my bottlecap mosaic post:
An article in Readymade several months back pointed me in the direction of canstruction. A brief description:
“Canstruction combines
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I came across the following in a post on the craftster message board:
”There’s a building on my old campus (western michigan university), that spells out WMU (or something like that, I couldn’t really read
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When I was in high school, one of my art teachers showed us a video detailing the creative process of painter Chuck Close, and I was completely blown away by the way he dissected and reassembled images on a large-scale.…
Attention Michigan folks: We’ll be having our FOURTH annual barn show in just over a week, on Saturday, June 26th. We’ve been having these shows each year as a fundraiser for the Christopher Kempa Memorial Art Scholarship Fund,…
With the sport of dodgeball soon to be immortalized in Ben Stiller’s new movie of the same name, I figured I’d confess. Dodgeball always seems to get a bad rap among the ‘less than athletic’ circles that I…
I got some great anonymous non-fan mail yesterday:
”Your descent into madness is slow but sure, as evidenced by the turn for the worst your website has taken.”
Come on now, really? A descent into madness? Isn’t that a bit…
The first panel of Sunday, May 23rd’s ‘Mutts’ strip (by Patrick McDonnell) was a subtle homage to Yoshimoto Nara‘s work (inset):
The rest of the strip is fairly unremarkable. I just thought that was interesting.
In a recent conversation with my girlfriend, I was accused of playing a video game called ‘Bonkers Robot 2.’ While this is clearly an awesome name for a videogame, no such game exists. I made the following images in photoshop:…