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Art and Invention

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , on August 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I have a soft spot for wacky and fun inventions, and this one is right up there. 

Watch This Guy’s Interactive Wooden Pixel Machine Make Art in Real Time

Sitting in my office in NYC, I sent a CNC machine in a guy’s workshop in Wisconsin a 40 by 25 pixel drawing and watched it flip hand painted wooden blocks across a grid, one by one, until the glorious smiling 404 Media logo appeared—then watched it slowly erase, like a giant Etch A Sketch, moving on to the next drawing. 

For more on the why and the how and the seriously?, see I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display.

Want to play (and have a Bluesky account)? Vist kilopixel and submit your art!

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Photo by SIMON LEE on Unsplash

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What the Future May Hold

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , on February 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »

In defense of Groundhog Day — America’s silliest holiday

As a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, there are a few state treasures you come to revere, like Tastykake’s Butterscotch Krimpets, a 64-pack of Crayola crayons with a sharpener on the back of the box, soft pretzels and Hershey’s chocolate. But no locally-produced treat could touch the majesty of the state’s ultimate icon: Punxsutawney Phil.

Happy Groundhog Day! This wacky holiday is good fun, but even our friendly neighborhood rodent doesn’t always know what the future will bring.

Whatever comes, let’s try to face it with a warm heart, constructive goals, and a sense of fun.

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Chris Flook, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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