I’ve been fascinated by my friend Jenn Pascoe’s quietly growing collection of name stamps from the bottoms of paper bags. She keeps a Flickr set of these images, right now still a self-defined work in progress. I like these small gestures at some sort of individual humanity inside the industrial manufacturing machine. Anyone out there know more about the story behind these stamps?
Tim Groves, the Toronto-based founder of the Missing Plaque Project, just sent me a link to a great video interview he did for RBNonline in December. In the interview, he…
Last week, The Foundation for a Better Life (probably unintentionally) placed one of their new “Innovation” inspirational advertisements, featuring Henry Ford, in a bus shelter at an intersection in Pittsburgh…
I’ve been scheming with my longtime friend and cohort Stuart Anderson to build a penny smashing machine since some time back in 2007 or 08. At that time, we’d just completed…
This fall, I’ve been working with long time cohort Stuart O. Anderson to develop a customized souvenir penny smashing machine (also known as a penny crusher, penny press, or…
Because I print on paper bags, I also have a collection!!