Photo: Graffiti
Tuesday, July 31, 09:31 PM By
Shelly
I am not condoning graffiti, but this
was very cute.
It's the same color as the tagging on the buildings on the block.
It's the same color as the tagging on the buildings on the block.
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Not Enough Coffee Man
Tuesday, July 31, 03:26 AM By
Bryan
Continuing with more bad art, it's a lame parody of this comic. Basically, I just wanted to practice more with layers and crude drawing with Art Rage.
Coffee Painting
Monday, July 30, 11:53 PM By
Bryan
Today's Thing is from one of Shelly's craft project kits. I deviated heavily from the instructions and eventually quit when my efforts to correct mistakes created too many uncorrectable mistakes. Isn't that what art is all about, living with mistakes.
Maybe one of Shelly's Things could be to correct this painting. I'm not much of an artist, although I did enjoy this project and learned how to mix paints a bit.
See shell's two cents
Fish
Friday, July 27, 01:07 PM By
Bryan
After trying unsuccessfully for about an hour and a half to get Simpsonize Me to work, I had to give up and whip up some modern art in about 10 minutes with viscosity. I blame the stupid Burger King and his overall creepiness.
Wire Flowers
Thursday, July 26, 07:34 PM By
Shelly
The Generic Beat Show 1
Thursday, July 26, 04:16 AM By
Bryan
From the archives, here's an old electronica show I made for radio circa 2003. No song titles, it's all there along with plenty of extra added funky stuff. About once a month, I'll release an old show you can listen to in the player. I'll make a new picture, so at least one Thing is new in the post.
Get show HERE.
Hi Fructose Random Links
Wednesday, July 25, 11:53 AM By
Bryan
Hifructose is an art magazine I've been wanting to read for a while after I saw it previewed in Boing Boing. I finally picked up issue five. I like it --- the art exists somewhere between ART and toy. It's trying to figure out the world using day-glo martians, saucer-eyed girls and morning-time dreams. That's my lax impression. In a magazine like this, I want to explore more art. So today's Thing is every URL in the magazine randomized. All the ads-which are mostly for galleries and toys-plus I went back and found the home page for each artist or work shown that was available. There are 80 links. Click on the button for a new, random link and get exploring. Sorry the button itself is so lame, it's a generic script. Hifructose does have a link page here, but this randomizer has links their page doesn't.
Click Away.
Radio Banner
Monday, July 23, 11:56 AM By
Bryan
Today's Monday update Thing is a banner image for the podcast page. I had to stretch it out on the web page. Learning, learning...
New Layout
Monday, July 23, 07:05 AM By
Shelly
Come check out my new layout and
updated sidebar on my other blog, See Shell's
Schemes. This is where the Paul Harvey of my artsy/craftsy
posts are, and ideas of what I'm working on next. Template by
Chic & Sassy Designs.
TTOTD Radio -- The Thing 4
Friday, July 20, 03:17 AM By
Bryan
Some
TV-related songs in today's The Thing Radio plus a hidden comedy
routine from a cartoon rat and another bonus hidden track. The
podcast is now in AAC--the preferred format because you get
chapters, song titles and artwork--and in crappy MP3 so you can
listen in the players here on the page. Visit the podcast page or subscribe in itunes.Grab the AAC Version HERE.
Grab the MP3 Version HERE.
Grab the CD Jewel Insert HERE.
Off to find more free, legal internet music...
Thank You
Thursday, July 19, 09:51 PM By
Shelly
If you're signed up for the Monsters By Mail
e-mail list, then you, too, received the following e-mail this
week:
Did you see the name of who won the free t-shirt?? That's right, this zombie lover right here! YAY! The shirt came in the mail today and the personalization on the envelope is awesome, too!! It fits the 1/2 manaquin pretty good, I hope it fits Bryan.
So my Thing tonight is a big, heartfelt, purple "THANK YOU" to Len!
Did you see the name of who won the free t-shirt?? That's right, this zombie lover right here! YAY! The shirt came in the mail today and the personalization on the envelope is awesome, too!! It fits the 1/2 manaquin pretty good, I hope it fits Bryan.
So my Thing tonight is a big, heartfelt, purple "THANK YOU" to Len!
CD Covers Collage
Wednesday, July 18, 11:38 AM By
Bryan
Quarter Project Part 2
Tuesday, July 17, 09:04 PM By
Shelly
A while back, I posted Part 1 of this project, go read that for the
background, if you want. What I'm doing is kind of an anonymous art
project, introducing painted coins into the mainstream. These coins
are all painted with fingernail polish, unlike the sharpie markers,
this should stay on the coins for a while.
This bunch of multicolored coins, all went into the candy machine at work. And did you know, if you put coins in and press the coin return, you don't get the exact coins back? My painted minions are working their way into regular society.
Excellent.
This bunch of multicolored coins, all went into the candy machine at work. And did you know, if you put coins in and press the coin return, you don't get the exact coins back? My painted minions are working their way into regular society.
Excellent.
Bryan's 1st Pretentshus Comic (Age 4)
Tuesday, July 17, 04:39 AM By
Bryan
Podcast Page Update
Monday, July 16, 11:26 PM By
Bryan
Today's update day. It's all about
the podcast
page today. I updated the look of the page a little bit. I
embedded a new MP3 player on both sites. Right now, there's no way
to show AAC or embedded files in a flash viewer, so starting
NOW, the podcasts also have a crappy MP3 version, so those
unfortunate few who can't play AAC files can listen on the web page
or download to their Zune.
Like anyone has a Zune.
There are now two versions of each show, AAC and MP3. You can listen to the MP3 shows in the players in the sidebar. Thanks libsyn! Also, today I updated and got the podcast listed in itunes, so you can easily subscribe there as well. I also added the podcast page to Feedburner.
Here's an array of icons:
(Feedburner)
Like anyone has a Zune.
There are now two versions of each show, AAC and MP3. You can listen to the MP3 shows in the players in the sidebar. Thanks libsyn! Also, today I updated and got the podcast listed in itunes, so you can easily subscribe there as well. I also added the podcast page to Feedburner.
Here's an array of icons:
(Feedburner)DreamBlade Hiding
Monday, July 16, 09:51 PM By
Shelly
It's Hard Out Here For A Podcast Pimp
Friday, July 13, 12:37 PM By
Bryan
Today's Thing is another Friday promotion. There's a bunch of podcast related sites. Have you picked up a podcast lately? It's not hard to find, subscribe and listen to a wide variety of podcasts. Howver, I do wonder how much effect subscribing to a podcast listing site helps people who would like The Thing Radio find the show. I also added the blog to a few more blog warehouse sites. Are these large referenced sites with no readers. It's hard to tell. I did find another giant list of ways to promote your site. Here's some of the places I went to promote. You could check them out to find new sites.
itunes -- Yeah, everyone knows itunes, but it's still the big dog in podcast promotion. Too much commercial stuff being promoted. I'm still waitng to hear back from them. My last podcast just cheap dirt did make it on itunes and was probably the reason I had over 80 subscribers. I'll put a link up t the new show when it comes out.
Podcast Alley -- Still waiting to hear back from them. One of the oldest sites for podcasts out there.
Podcast Pickle -- Second oldest.
PopCurrent.com -- Newish single episode directory. Signed up but haven't submitted a single show.
Odeo -- This guy went on to create the much more popular Twitter.
Blog Top List -- Vote for me and so on and so on.
There's more but I gotta go.
Big Brother Love
Thursday, July 12, 10:13 PM By
Shelly
TTOTD Radio--The Thing 3
Thursday, July 12, 03:23 AM By
Bryan
Ning
Wednesday, July 11, 09:10 PM By
Shelly
Today, I started a new network thingy.
It seems to combine several good ideas out there into one good
idea. I will add more content in the coming days, but for now, I've
set up the community page. Come join
me!
Not Matt Groening
Wednesday, July 11, 12:04 PM By
Bryan
Stick Men--More Than Meets The Eye
Tuesday, July 10, 03:41 AM By
Bryan
Here's the first page of Today's Thing. Tuesday is comic day. You can see the other two pages starting tomorrow on my flickr page or at TTOTD Comix Page.
Waiting is the hardest part.
Mac Update
Monday, July 09, 11:59 PM By
Bryan
You can't really see today's Thing.
I've been learning some mac-related stuff and doing some repair.
Besides getting 9 gigs off my hard drive, I used the new icreate
magazine tips to speed up the old G4 and do some spring cleaning. I
also am learning some new programs courtsey of the new Mac Heist promotion along
with Mac
Update. Today was a learny day. To test out my new audio
program, Amadeus, I made a TTOTD Radio spacer then posted it
with my new FTP program Fetch.
Trio of Mr. Bills
Monday, July 09, 07:11 PM By
Shelly
Team Pass for Good Reason!
Friday, July 06, 05:58 PM By
Team
Due to spending time with all sorts of
out of state family the last week, we are taking a team pass for
today. I had family come from North Carolina, New Hampshire (and I
finally can point that state out on a map), and Virginia, and Bryan
had family from Texas. We love you all, thanks so much for
visiting!
Stay tuned, future Things could include photos of you, or subjects we talked about.
Stay tuned, future Things could include photos of you, or subjects we talked about.
TTOTD Radio--The Thing 2
Thursday, July 05, 03:33 AM By
Bryan
It's Thursday, so it's the Thing Radio. Number 2. Click on the podcast icon to listen in your browser. You can get the RSS Feed Here. You can download the PDF here. I added direct download links for each individual songs, plus some of the song track look weird, it's part of the bargain with IODA Promonet which gives me free music. Lots of links to explore. To the songs:
The Songs
1. Pavement--Spit on a Stranger from Twilight
Terror. One of my favorite old Pavement songs. Direct download.
2. Simple
Kid--Lil' King Kong from 2. New music from
English dude that has some Beck qualities. The whole EP can be
gotten on the Direct Download.
3. Mike Doughty--Looking
at the World from the Bottom of a Well from
Haughty Melodic.
An album from last year, but I like the song. Direct Download.
4. Los Campesinos!--Please
Don't Tell Me To Do The Math from
We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives.
The first, new EP from this Welsh band. It just became available
on emusic.
Ho-ray. Direct Download.
5. Shout Out Louds--Tonight
I Have to Leave It from
Tonight I Have to Leave It.
Swedish band. Direct Download.
6. 
Download "Robert Onion"
(mp3)
from "93-03"
by Frank Black
Cooking Vinyl
More On This AlbumI have most of the songs on this new Frank Black retrospective.
7.
Download "Elizabeth
Sways" (mp3)
from "Flowering Spade"
by Sean Hayes
Sean Hayes
More On This Album8. Rickie Lee Jones--Elvis Cadillac from The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard. Her newest, vaguely religious album and her best in years, striking toward Lucinda Williams territory. Direct Download.
9. Bright Eyes--Four Winds from Four Winds EP. Their first EP from Cassedega. Real country. Direct Download.
10. Cornelius--Gum from Sensuous. I like their previous albums; this one is from late last year. Direct Download.
My Wish for Today
Wednesday, July 04, 03:28 PM By
Shelly
I don't know how many people know this
about me (certainly not as many as know that Bryan is a
cheapskate), but I am part hippie. The Fourth of July holds special
meaning to hippies, as it is the highlight of the National Rainbow
Festival. On the fourth, thousands of hippies, the Rainbow Family,
attending the festival gather at noon to pray for peace through a
group Ohm.
This coloring artwork I made today, "Peace On Earth" is my addition to the group Ohm for today.
Here's the Wiki article.
This coloring artwork I made today, "Peace On Earth" is my addition to the group Ohm for today.
Here's the Wiki article.
Hey Baby, it's the Fourth of July
Wednesday, July 04, 01:39 PM By
Bryan
Hey Baby, it's the Fourth of July.
Everyone knows I'm a cheapskate. I don't like giving to charities. I'm poor. I'm cheap. Who knows where the money goes or how it will be spent. (Here's the part where I sound like an infomercial) However, a few months ago, I heard about microcredit in Reason magazine. Then the guy who won the Nobel Prize in economics for developing the idea was on The Daily Show. This seems a way out for a lot of very poor people if the money can indeed get to them. It's like peer-to-peer loaning. Lots of people pool small amounts to loan to the very poor to develop their neighborhoods. There was a story on this trend on ABC news about how even Americans can give to ordinary Iraqis to help rebuild. Man, is there a debt we need to repay. Because it's Iraq, the loans are anonymous, so they can't be tied to Americans and the lendee could face reprisals. Yea, that's our world.
Anyway, for today's Thing, I loaned 25 bucks to a Nigerian woman to help rebuild her market. She looks crabby. With the internet, there's no overhead in paperwork and donating to the lending organization is a charity, while the loan itself isn't. The organization I went through is called Kiva, although many are springing up to help a variety of people. Most of the loans are to women, as they are in the most need, have the least access to loans and are more likely to pay the loan back. Yea, something like 95 percent of the loans are paid back. There is no interest. So, I should get my money back eventually. Hey it's not a lot. If I get it back, I add in another 25 and loan it out again. I remember when I went out to get a car loan after going through consumer credit. No bank would give me a loan. The credit union that did is still my bank today, even though I live 200 miles away from it.
Read more about Microcredit here. There's many more organizations to look at and people to help, even here in the US.
Crafty Family
Tuesday, July 03, 11:49 PM By
Shelly
With lots of family members around
this week, I took a moment to look around at Grandma's where we
were usually congregated, and was reminded of what a crafty family
I come from. I took some photos of crafty gifts that Grandma has
received over the years, and threw them together with some other
crafty photos from my youth and childhood, and made a new flickr
set. Check it out here.
More on this Thing
Scooter: The Real Reasons
Tuesday, July 03, 04:13 AM By
Bryan
Blog Log & More Pimpin'
Monday, July 02, 07:23 AM By
Shelly
TTOTD Radio--The Thing
Monday, July 02, 01:20 AM By
Bryan
I've
been thinking about doing regular weekly items to make thinking up
new Things but easier and more consistent for everyone else. Two
Things I like doing are comics and podcasts. So every Tuesday will
be comic day and every Thursday will be music podcasts or some kind
of podcast. Monday is update day. Wednesday is free day and Friday
is promotion/free day. However, better ideas take precedent.
So, today is update day. Over a year and a half ago, I had a podcast hosted on Libsyn called Just Cheap Dirt. It's no longer around; I burned myself out, but I like the Libsyn service for hosting podcasts. They've updated their features in the last year and I can put video up there as well.
So Today's Thing is a TTOTD podcast page. You can grab all the new shows there; I will also post them here as well. Look to the sidebar, there's a player there and a few new links. The show I did last Thursday is there as well as in the player. However, it's a long download. The best way to get new shows would be to subscribe to the RSS feed and stick it in itunes or your RSS reader. If you click on the direct download on the TTOTD Radio Page and open up the AAC file in a new browser window.
In other words, there's a bunch of new ways to easily get new shows.
Also, look for the podcast icon on
new posts here and click on them for the show.
I've spent all weekend promoting the new pages to a bunch of sites and searching for legal music to share. The music shows take the longest to make of than most of the Things here, but generally have the longest value for me. And I hope they have provide the most enjoyment for you as well. I should have a way to subscribe in itunes by the end of the week, waiting for Apple to get back to me.
The Links:
TTOTD Podcast Page
TTOTD Podcast Page RSS Feed
So, today is update day. Over a year and a half ago, I had a podcast hosted on Libsyn called Just Cheap Dirt. It's no longer around; I burned myself out, but I like the Libsyn service for hosting podcasts. They've updated their features in the last year and I can put video up there as well.
So Today's Thing is a TTOTD podcast page. You can grab all the new shows there; I will also post them here as well. Look to the sidebar, there's a player there and a few new links. The show I did last Thursday is there as well as in the player. However, it's a long download. The best way to get new shows would be to subscribe to the RSS feed and stick it in itunes or your RSS reader. If you click on the direct download on the TTOTD Radio Page and open up the AAC file in a new browser window.
In other words, there's a bunch of new ways to easily get new shows.
Also, look for the podcast icon on
new posts here and click on them for the show.I've spent all weekend promoting the new pages to a bunch of sites and searching for legal music to share. The music shows take the longest to make of than most of the Things here, but generally have the longest value for me. And I hope they have provide the most enjoyment for you as well. I should have a way to subscribe in itunes by the end of the week, waiting for Apple to get back to me.
The Links:
TTOTD Podcast Page
TTOTD Podcast Page RSS Feed
