spudart.orgSpudart.org has random thoughts, links, art, design, illustration. By Matt Maldre, a wiseguy Chicago designer, artist, photographer who laughs a lot.I want to visit Amsterdam- June 17, 2008 After seeing the photos in this post and this post, I want to visit Amsterdam. I love Chicago's river. Amsterdam's river here has such neat little boats all along the sides. It's so naturally part of a community with the houses and fun bikes. I would love to photograph their river.http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4630_0_3_0_C/ All 1,038 of my flickr favorites in one page- June 16, 2008 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 and open the html file in your browser.http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4631_0_3_0_C/ Chicago Eco-Bridge: One Giant Hug- June 13, 2008 Oh wow, this proposed Eco-Bridge off Chicago's lakeshore is just fantastic! One of Chicago's true jewels is the lakefront. Yet, it seems that many people outside Chicago aren't aware of how great our lakeshore is. Dude, the Chicago Ecobridge will certainly make the lakefront a stronger part of Chicago's identity. Blair Kamin gives an excellent review of the bridge in his Skyline blog. Here's my notes from his review: Two miles long Connects Adler Planetarium to Wacker Drive (just south of the.http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4632_0_3_0_C/ IDEA: Public comments on ebay auctions- June 12, 2008 It would be really cool if people could leave public comments on ebay auctions. I'd love to leave a comment on a goofy auction. Or better yet, I could release my angst when someone outbids me. I recently I was bidding on some original art used for a Topps baseball card (Lloyd McClendon), and I got outbid. Who bids on Lloyd McClendon stuff. Sheeesh. Now we know that ebay doesn't want public comments on their auctions. But a 3rd party site could create a site where people can leave comments. It..http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4625_0_3_0_C/ IDEA: An easy way to export flickr information- June 11, 2008 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 HDR photos in flickr. But I'm running into a problem converting the spaced separated tags from flickr into comma separated ones. Here's how flickr stores the tags: hdr chicago olympics "stir the soul" "lasalle street" "adams street" "summer olympics" winter day daytime illinois "nikon d80"...http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4627_0_3_0_C/ IDEA: Every car owner should pose by hisher car- June 10, 2008 If I owned a car, I would totally drive it to some scenic location, and then photograph myself with my foot perched on the bumper. Classic photograph. Every car owner needs to have one of these. Then you can have a collection of these type of photographs as you own different cars throughout your life.http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4626_0_3_0_C/ GAME: How much money is this- June 9, 2008 Can you guess how much money is in this bag Our copywriter at work Lisa was exchanging her change and we agreed this would be a fun game. How much money ya think is in here My original guess was $40.00.http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4629_0_3_0_C/ John McCain wants you to put your life on hold for him- June 6, 2008 John McCain has a rather odd way of asking people to volunteer for him. I got an email from his campaign asking me to put my life on hold for a few months. There's gotta be a better way to phrase this. Clearly John McCain is trying to ride off Obama's democratic nomination win. Headlines across the country read "Obama makes history." So now McCain sends out an email saying, "Can you put your life on hold for a few months to make history" Clearly McCain doesn't know how to get support.http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4624_0_3_0_C/ Chicago is...- June 5, 2008 The Chicago Olympic Committee is asking you to complete this sentence: Chicago is _________. Tell the world what Chicago means to you at www.chicago2016.org. Here's a few things I submitted to this form: Chicago is loving the Olympics Chicago is a melting pot of the world Chicago is working hard Chicago is optimistic Chicago is embracing the world Chicago is working hard and dreaming bigFeel free to use any of those or write your own. If you do submit something to their site, please also post.http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4623_0_3_0_C/ New word: Kamino- June 4, 2008 New word: Kamino definition: to disappearOk. Not so much a new word, as a new definition for an existing word. Kamino is the planet in Star Wars that was erased from the official library records. The planet virtually disappeared! More info at the Kamino wikipedia entryIn usage: "Where did John go He totally went all Kamino." (image is from http:simonz.co.huupdate_eng.html).http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/4622_0_3_0_C/ |