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 audiophile end of …
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 the competitive spirit of a design/build competition
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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 it, lol) in [binary
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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, which has …
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 am a …
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 …
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:…