It's unrecognizable I didn't think I'd keep reflecting on this day, but somehow I can't. It's been with me for most of my lifetime that I can remember, and perhaps more importantl...
Thirteen is Understanding They say the best way to see if you really understand something is to try to explain it to another person. I’ll never really understand what happened to my b...
Derby, Mario, Mike, Feed, Gravity Here's a fun registry of derby names that lets you see if your roller derby name is unique: http://t.co/ZU0TAxNN4O — anildash (@anildash) Dece...
XOXO: Jen Bekman - 20x200 Jen Bekman is the founder and CEO of 20×200, a marketplace helping artists make a living by turning everyone into an art collector. The Details Jen Bekman...
Mixel: Art and Soul Last week, I was thrilled to see the launch of Mixel . If you aren’t familiar with it, go grab the iPad app , and while it downloads, take a look at this vid...
Spreadsheet Art Revisited One of my recurring fascinations is people creating works of art using common productivity software. Office Tools of Expression as a review of this medium th...
Blogs of the Year: Ill Doctrine Today’s Blog of the Year Pick: Ill Doctrine . Put simply, Jay Smooth’s Ill Doctrine is the best video blog on the web. (At least the best one that’s i...
Communicating Through Design Here’s some examples of how graphic artists are trying to save people’s lives. Prince Pickles is the manga-style cartoon character who represents Japanese...
I'm a real pretend artist! Those who know me know that I’m pretty much inept at any kind of artistic endeavor. Which makes it all the more amusing that I’ve recently had the chance to pr...
I'm in the Time Shares Exhibition I’m flattered, somewhat amazed, and more than a little amused to point out that I’m part of Time Shares , a series of online exhibitions presented by R...
Paint the town purple I’m supposed to be convinced that red is somehow better than purple by the images in this post. But instead, it makes me think how much cooler life could b...
Holly R4NTs Hey, whadaya know? My coworker Holly ‘s photos have showed up over at R4NT , right there amidst all the art and next to the interview with Chuck D. Why, if s...
Artist's Freeway Prank The only logical extension of this artist’s freeway sign installation is that conservatives and libertarians will label traffic signs government-sponsored ar...
met art history timeline The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a timeline of art history that is quite educational to illiterates like me....
researchers There are people doing the work of science, manufacturing knowledge for the rest of us. I like to read about what they do, and maybe you will too. Go lookit G...
bitterlemons.org - About Palestinian - Israeli crossfire The highest ideal of the Internet, for me, is to use all this technology and magic as a tool for communication. Taking theory into practice, we find sites like...
All I ask, friends, is All I ask, friends, is that games, or art, be elegant. That’s I all aspire to. These , then are both games and art. With elegance to spare....
Nice people I like making Nice people I like making art I appreciate: Crans is narrating a Photoshop tennis match pitting Heather against Derek . Will any of the layers feature...
PB has done a cool PB has done a cool thing , charging his visitors with creating captions for photos before her posted them. Then, using his formidable technical skills, he ran...
While I'm being an art While I’m being an art appreciator, please to be seeing Manhattan Timeformations , a visual history of my city, all in Flash. I love the history of Manhattan....
I know I've linked to I know I’ve linked to this site a million times before, but you are living a life less lively if you haven’t seen Sam’s beautiful, spare, elegant artwork at E...
The ball weaved a bouncing The ball weaved a bouncing path between the cars and ended up starting its final descent onto our street a few feet above my head. I reached up and grasped t...
I know, I know, I've I know, I know, I’ve linked to explodingdog before. Multiple times. But there is something so profound and evocative about these drawings that I just can’t...
I like the bright, pretty I like the bright, pretty colors on takarajimasha ‘s site. Especially on the little animated phone....
Hee hee hee... Our resident **Hee hee hee… ** Our resident creative genius had done a little bit of freelance work making art for some role-playing game company. Turns out some of his stu...
Courtesy of usr/bin/girl, please to Courtesy of usr/bin/girl , please to be seeing C-SPAM , spam as art. Kind of soothing, really, like a fishtank filled with slowly swimming junk mail....
We're going to see Fantasia We’re going to see Fantasia 2000 tonight. Despite some misgivings I have about Mouse, Inc. I think that the original Fantasia was one of the closest things...
MS touch mouse A nice update on the idea of improving tactile feedback is this related concept from Microsoft Research , a touch-sensitive mouse . The prototype appears t...
Nancy joins the dumb pictures The new Dumb Picture added today is courtesy of The Tacky Postcard Archive , which Helen had discovered for me a while ago. They’ve got all kinds of insp...
