31 October 2007

http://www.myprofilemaps.com/ : Create your Custom Myspace Map Code (to see who's looking at your profile)

OrigamiMap : http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/images/origami01.gif

About Golf (Mind)Map

uiknow.com : "finding, organizing, creating & sharing" information on the internet or intranets" ( test space at uiknow.ning.com )

Interesting (Flash) 'collage' interface : http://www.mappingfestival.com/mapping2007/

Lat/Lon To Tile : http://mapki.com/wiki/Lat/Lon_To_Tile (displays custom tiles that show the x,y,zoom (or satellite t=) parameters, and latitude and longitude of the tiles that make up a google map).

The map and the book (etymology)

Visual-Spatial Intelligence

CNN coming to Second Life

MAD Magazine Cover Archive Specials

"Cognitive aspects of communication are to be found in the mind of the mapmaker, and especially the mind of the map reader." - Daniel R. Montello
"Do It Wrong Quickly." - Mike Moran Via
"It's not thinking about the bucks that makes one rich ... but thinking rich, that makes the bucks." - The Universe
"'Idea' is what the artist gives, like a stone thrown into the water for ripples to be made." - YOKO ONO
"Every map is a tool, a product of human effort and creativity, that represents some aspects of our world or universe ..." - Timothy G. Feeman

30 October 2007

Top 100 User-Centered Blogs Via

Bad Maps : Another reason not to drive in Shanghai

MicroWave Systems Map Via

Justice Mapping Center : http://www.justicemapping.org/services/ Via

Periodic Table of Mathematicians : http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/periodictable/ (should use ALT BOX roll-overs)

Online mapmakers get down to earth

M.A. Thesis in Interface Design : http://well-formed-data.net/

Cartography: map-making as artform presents carto/artists : Frank Bowling, Stephen Brandes, Jon Brunberg, Dorothy Cross, Jeremy Deller, Rita Donagh, Jimmie Durham, Clodagh Emoe, Simon Faithfull, Gary Farrelly, Brian Fay, Tim Goulding, Mona Hatoum, Sean Hillen, Patrick Ireland, Kim Jones, Chris Kenny, Tom Molloy, Satomi Matoba, Mariele Neudecker, Eamon O'Kane, Cornelia Parker, Simon Patterson, Grayson Perry, Kathy Prendergast, Tim Robinson and Chris Wilson.

"Let the ragged edge between the two be lightning or falling water, and figure its use: the distance away of a person poised in the air with wings on." - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Secret History of the Dividing Line (1996-2002, 20 minutes, silent, black & white 16mm film)
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." - M.C. Escher
"Have a wonderful day on your path." - Joe
"The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast, The slow one now will later be fast." - Bob Dylan, For the Times They are a-Changin" (1964)
"I do what I feel it is necessary to do. My necessity comes from my sense of invention, and I try not to repeat the things I already know about." - John Cage Via

29 October 2007

Second Life Map API goes missing

What is browsing— really? : http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/paper330.html (A model drawing from behavioural science research)

Z-order : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_(curve) (aka Morton-order, first proposed by G. M. Morton) is a space-filling curve which is often used in data structures for mapping multidimensional data to one dimension (because of to its good locality preserving behaviour; the z-value of a point in multidimensions is simply calculated by bitwise interleaving its coordinate values.

Garmin and MAD MAPS (http://www.madmaps.com ) Team Up to Make Your Drive Memorable. Via

FootMap : http://www.findareflexologist.com/xmas/Reflexology_Foot_Chart1.gif

Conflict, Peace and Systemic Health

(Interesting links) Cartes Art Machine

(Spoof) Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

". . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance." - Gloria Vanderbilt
"The only difference between "have" and "have-not," is imagination." - TU
"You know less than you think you do." - James Montier, behavioral economist
"In a sense, map design can be thought of as mind design; the way a map is designed will influence the views of the world it stimulates or inhibits." - Daniel R. Montello, Cognitive Map-Design Research in the Twentieth Century: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches Via
"In a comprehensive view of nature, the physical world is seen as a patterning of patternings ..." - Amy Edmondson

25 October 2007

The Thrill of Discovery (talk by Ben Shneiderman) : http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/Seminars/shneiderman2007/ Interactive information visualization provide researchers with remarkable tools for discovery. By combining powerful data mining methods with user-controlled interfaces, users are beginning to benefit from these potent telescopes for high-dimensional spaces. They can begin with an overview, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for details-on-demand.

Comparison of Different Grid Abstractions for Pathfinding on Maps
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML

You are (w)here?: London as a living map

BuyingTripMap : http://www.orientaloutpost.com/images/map3.gif

Now blog-rolled here : http://nathalik.wordpress.com/

Everyone’s looking at the Mona Lisa

Hilbert space filling curve ------>>>>>>

(Definition) Mandala : "An integrated structure organized around a unifying center."

"Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.' - G. Santayana Via
"Modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us." - Paul Cezanne
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"I thought and thought. A hundred times I was wrong. Then, at last, I was right.” - Albert Einstein
"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available." - Gregory Benford

24 October 2007

Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York (including Julie Mehretu, Lordy Rodriguez , etc.) Via : http://del.icio.us/EvaGreen/maps

Mapping Resources (Applications) Page 1 | Page 3 | Page 4

http://www.youarenothere.org/tours/about

Cross Platform Mentorship Lab

Mathematics Map ----------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://del.icio.us/chericem/mashups Great Map url has been tagged by 61 people ; 30maps , 21visualization , 19blog , 16design , 15map , 12mapping , 8blogs , 7cartography , 7gis ... Ad firm has me book-marked, and somebody at http://www.kavam.com/ directly linked to Hawking and Knowledge Maps.

"There is not a particle of life that does not carry poetry within it." - Gustave Flaubert
"Never trust the teller, trust the tale." - D.H.Lawrence
'They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar."' - Wallace Stevens
"Ideas are the building blocks of change." - Unknown Via
"Sing in me muse and through me tell the story." - Homer

19 October 2007

HappinessMap : http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/assets/examples/MM_Happiness.jpg Via (which has many other examples).

(Video) Trace Any IP Address In The World :
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/435158/trace_any_ip_address_in_the_world/

Political boundaries of North America : http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/bound0m.html

( Wedding) Map Icons : http://www.weddingmap.com/icons.htm PDF Download

WebShot Maps

http://www.origamitessellations.com/diagrams/double-pleat-hexagon-tessellation/

http://www.bethspeedy.com/mapping-the-necklace/

Systematic approach: How to get 100,000+YouTube views

Gift idea

"Knowledge is best presented through dynamic visual maps, supported with high retention images, interaction and music." : http://www.machine-dreams.com/audience_response/multimedia.html (Scores of PowerPoint slides and hours of one way communication seldom deliver the best results.)

Via http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/volumes.html ------>>>>

"To start from nothing and create an idea that ends up improving people's lives, it's just fun, the most fun in the world." - Rich Newton
"Eureka! - 'I have found it! - Archimedes
"If there isn't a significant possibility of failure it's not research, it's just work." - Duncan Buell, U. of S. Carolina
"I want to play until the end." - Gabriel Reece
"Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential." - Bruce Mau Design

18 October 2007

Burning Man Earth : http://bmearth.burningman.com/ (Mapping the Cultural Genome) Via

THE TROUBLED HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CLASSICAL BOUNDARY TERMINOLOGY : http://www.qub.ac.uk/cibr/WPpdffiles/MFWPpdf/A02_ran.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML (CONCEIVING THE BOUNDARY IN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY)

'contemporary maps' : http://maps-swicki.eurekster.com/contemporary+maps/

Pavement Drawings

Visual Stimuli (Images that are visually interesting but don't fit into any of the other galleries.)

Imagery displays full size in FeedShow

Geography debacle inspires 'pretty/smart' debate (?)

People Who Like Mind Maps Sites : http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/mind-maps/

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
"It's not the size of your dreams that determines whether or not they come true, but the size of the actions you take that imply their inevitable arrival." - The Universe
"Let Chaos storm, Let cloud shapes, swarm. I wait for form." - Robert Frost
"You mean I should believe some of the things he said and not others." – Paul Auster "You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into." - Jonathan Swift

17 October 2007

Google's Ajax Search API

BrainDrain Map : http://www.cooltownstudios.com/mt/archives/000934.html

Remote Sensing and Geospatial Art : http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/406

Regular Polyhedra : http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/polyhedra/ (made with Magz )

charts+information+diagrams : http://www.lope.ca/themes/diagrams.html

http://www.maperture.net/maperture/2007/9/9/photomapping-family-vacations-with-picasa-and-google-my-maps.html

World map system - Patent 5695342 (Each pentagonal map abuts five hexagonal maps)

Mind Map of Identity : http://www.riverhunt.org/Identity/exploration-identity-art.html

(a cinematic stroll) at the border...

Showed : http://www.apegga.org/AC2007/artshow.html

Interesting search

"With an apple I will astonish Paris." - Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
"And the nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression." - Sir John Harvey-Jones (Internationally-respected businessman)
"Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night." - Dylan Thomas
"Progress is a metaphor for merely walking along a road--very likely the wrong road." - G.K. Chesterton
"The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information." - ?

16 October 2007

Planetary Grid Researchers : Prehistoric to Present

Maps as Art and Interface

Map of Dott 07 Projects : http://www.dott07.com/go/map-of-projects

NarniaMap : http://www.parable.com/content/page/narnia_/NarniaMap.jpg Also here 9Nov05

Comparison of Different Grid Abstractions for Pathfinding on Maps : http://dli.iiit.ac.in/ijcai/IJCAI-2003/PDF/256.pdf ( PDF) - View as HTML

Seeing : http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/seeing/index.html (Findings)

"Study Guide" for Neuromancer : www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html

Via http://www.thingsmagazine.net/: "In Search of Lost Vanguards, Owen Hatherley in full flow on the evidence for 'Excavation and Space Exploration in Constructivist Architecture' at Archinect. Recommended / Studio of Ashes / A Gathering of Elephants (via Archinect) / Great Map, a densely chaotic weblog / Scotch + Penicillin / Paris: Invisible City / Each Note Secure, a music blog / the Injunction Generator / Moi, je suis Chuck Norris."

If you are looking for a free alternative to Microsoft office that supports open standards this could be worth a look.

Updated SparkLines link

"Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party." - Jimmy Buffett
"It doesn't have to be right. It has to be provocative." - Highsmith
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." - Basho
"To find yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC) Greek Philosopher
"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the starting of a fire." - W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright

15 October 2007

Visual Medical Dictionary : http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do Via

WORLDINFORMATION.COM : http://www.worldinformation.com/worldroot/start.asp (provides country related information on key business sectors in the world’s major markets).

(Java applet) Hexagonal Engineering - Honeycomb Page (a visual representation that morphs from a hexagonal grid to a rectangular).

http://www.thagoo.com/map ( previous | 1 2 3 4 5 | next) a tagged search engine who search on millions of user's categorized favorite links using the most popular social bookmark sites as sources.

Psychogeographic Studies : http://www.subk.net/provflux.html (interventions, installations and projects involving mapping and the investigations of one 's relationship to the urban landscape).

VisualsSpeak : http://www.visualsspeak.com/index.html (is primarily a business that helps professionals enhance their communication processes).

(YouTube) Mind-Map-Software "iMindMap" und Hyperlinks (collaboration example)

Routing goofs

(10 year old) Web-based Map Collection : http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/

Listed at : http://chekhovsky.livejournal.com/8921.html?thread=116185#t116185

The 16 Greatest Moments in Web History

Best graffiti : http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpots (1862-1960)
"The wizard asked 'Do you want to experience astro-travel'. Descartes replied, 'I think not.', and promptly vanished." - after Yarn
"The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence within the finite.” - Pythagoras
"Don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different or significantly different if you can." - Seymour Cray, 1994
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. " - H. Ford Via

12 October 2007

Discrete Global Grids : http://www.sou.edu/cs/sahr/dgg/ Via http://blog.earthbrowser.com/2007/02/global-grid-icosahedral-hexagonal-grid.html Related Links

Geo Demographics in Second Life : http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/geodemographic-data-in-second-life.html

Knowledge Map of Information Science (PDF version )

Institute for Figuring : http://www.theiff.org/ (anchored in the conceptual landscape on the edge of the Mandelbrot Set location: (-0.7473198, i0.1084649) )

Life Map : http://lion.taoriver.net/wp-content/Lion1200.png Via http://lion.taoriver.net/?p=65

ArtMaps : http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/maps/index.php Via ; http://creativemapping.blogspot.com/

(MySpace Video) Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a mapping question

Backlinks: 1667 (64 Domains » 58 different IPs) : http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/domain-popularity.html

Chat with artists : http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/

Fluxus - a global neo-Dada art movement that put on happenings and created collages (Yoko Ono still a member in 1964).

"We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more." - William Ellery Channing, American clergyman (1780-1842)
"No matter how good you think your interface is, it would be better if there were less of it." - Alan Cooper Via
"No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again." - John Wanamaker
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those that wander are lost." - J R. R. Tolkein, English Author (1892-1973)
"Time is the longest distance between two places." - Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) From "The Glass Menagerie" Via

11 October 2007

Censuses of the Internet Address Space : http://www.isi.edu/ant/address/ Via

(New community for visual thinkers) VizThink http://www.vizthink.com/ : Connect visual thinkers (business people, scientists, designers, "whiteboard people" and others), Teach each other and learn from each others' experiences, best practices and ideas, Start a global conversation that defines our community and starts to make the change we want to see in the world.

Global Migration Maps

(Definitions of) data, information, and knowledge (formulated by 45 scholars)

Intel Software in Second Life : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWfIJWaCzrA

"Second City," No More! Chicago Celebrates Maps http://festivalofmaps.org/index.aspx

Hexagon grid paper rolls : http://www.imagineimage.org/thehexgridpaperfactory.htm (in color 120 inches long and 36 inches wide).

http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=infographic&type=all

Map artists' Bios

Black Knight (Mercer Report)

Link check results

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." - John Kenneth Galbraith, American economist, diplomat, and author
"C’mon, be a nose." - Walter (making a sculpture in 'A Bucket of Blood')
"I am who I am today, where I am today, because this was my choice and it has served me well. However, it no longer serves me, my choices have changed, and I give thanks for the amazing changes that now sweep through my amazing life." - TU
"Consult the genius of the place in all things." - Alexander Pope
"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

10 October 2007

DeepLocal (http://www.deeplocal.com/) is the geographic software company behind innovative, social-network based Maphub platform : http://www.maphub.com/

Concept-Mapping in Online Education for Deployed Military Personnel

A few Maps of the day Via

Quasiperiodic rhombic tilings : http://www.jcrystal.com/steffenweber/JAVA/jtiling/jtiling.html (5-fold to 22-fold)

(Flash scroll) http://www.visualjournalism.com/

Sir Francis Drake (Pirate in the service of Queen Bess)

"Framing The Artists" booklet here.

The Cogs of Cognition : http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~th512/nagty/

(Found) by this search engine ("Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002 )

"Think before you think." - Stansislaw J. Lec, Polish poet, author, and satirist (1909-1966)
"Rumors are nothing more than an idle mind at work." - Anonymous
"To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment." - Alexandra David-Neel
"There is only one success, that is to spend your life your way." - Christopher Morley
"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing." - Alexander Woollcott, American author and critic (1887-1943) Via

09 October 2007

Knowledge Visualization (PDF) - View as HTML

GPS MapTracings

http://mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-with-highest-birth-rates.html

SketchUp User Group

Geometry Prediction for High Degree Polygons : http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/gphdp/

Shapes that tessellate : http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/grids.htm

(Hex) housing estate laid out on a hexagonal grid. This one is near the Jarama Motor Racing Circuit in Spain. Via

NativeMigrationMap ------->>>>>>>>

Mappish
Painting

"Draw, draw, and then draw some more." - Michelangelo
"'My Buddhanature is not something hidden that awaits polishing, nor a potential which will manifest itself sometime in the future: 'There is no Buddhanature that is not Buddhanature fully manifested here and now.'" - Dogen
"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American philosopher, essayist, poet & lecturer
"Very often when you just can't decide between two or more options, it's because the answer that would most give you peace, is actually, 'None of the above' (but not always)." - TU
"Keep cool but care." - McClintic Sphere (in 'V' by Thomas Pynchon)

05 October 2007

Knowledge transmission and dissemination : http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/knowledg.html

(World of) Orienteering Maps : http://maps.worldofo.com/

TALES OF THE DODECAHEDRON Via http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/all.html

Review 'linked-to' list

MapCollages

Refugee Camp Mapping ----------------->>>>>>

Nano_Coaching

Banner signs

Egyptian Scarab Models The Brain : http://www.timestar.org/kosmic7.htm

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242

"The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to ction. - William James (1842-1910), Philosopher & psychologist
"One must train from a state of movement to a state of stillness." - Wu Jianquan, 1870-1942, martial arts teacher
"Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos." - William Gaddis (JR, p. 25)
"Remain standing sometimes and look at the patches on the wall or into the ashes in the fire, in the clouds, or in mud and other such places; you will, if you observe them correctly, discover very wonderful inventions in them." - Leonardo
"Never argue with idiots. The just drag you down to their level and then beat you with their experience." - Yarn

04 October 2007

Review grid : http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/index.cfm?all=yes

Virtual library semantic zooming

The Island and Lake Combination : http://www.elbruz.org/islands/Islands%20and%20Lakes.htm Via

Political Quadrant Map : http://humanknowledge.net/PoliticalSpace.jpg

Dot, line, trace blossoming into drawing, map, art

Five more months to install XP

Sigmar Polke’s artistic diversity (and his resistance to any form of categorisation) has been seen as the only consistent theme in his work. The artist Printing Mistakes Gun Culture Global Imagery Machine Paintings Vision and Surveillance Abstraction and Figuration

How To Tell Good Music From Bad Music

Domains : http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=israelpeaceinitiative.com&prog_id=godaddy

map collage save this to web_design mapping cartography visualization ... on aug 03 Via http://del.icio.us/commonplaces/mapping

Yin is traditionally "passive, dark, feminine, downward-seeking and corresponding to the night. Yang, on the other hand, is "male, active, light, upward-seeking and corresponding to the day.

"A man always has two reasons for what he does - a good one, and the real one." ~ J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913)US founder of J. P. Morgan & Co."
"The man who goes alone can start today." - Henry David Thoreau
"Juan is so good and talented that he's sure to go somewhere." - Kay Meckes
"Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine." - Yarn
"I am circling around God, around the ancient tower and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song." - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet

03 October 2007

(Podcast) Exploring Nokia's Acquisition of NAVTEQ

Introduction to the fourth dimension : http://www.jpbowen.com/publications/ndcubes.html

(Java applet) Tiling transformer for subdividing tilings (starting from a square or hexagonal tiling) in various different ways.

The 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi; Late Artist's Swirling Diagrams Chart Scandalous Relationships Listen to this story...

Mapping conversation : http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/03/mapping_conversation.html

Cartography (& Water - Earth - Navigation - Geology - Volcanoes - Sky - Space Toxicology)

Here is the sentence "It's in binary" translated into binary code:
010010010111010000100111011100110010000001 1010010110111000100000011000100110100101101 1100110000101110010011110010000110100001010 Via

(Multi-media) Map Artist : http://www.jorgemacchi.com/eng/obras_1.htm

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ALCHEMY

If all 18 arrangements of regular polygons are tested, it turns out that only 8 of them will tessellate.

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is - it must be something you cannot possibly do. "- Henry Moore
"The answer to all 'How's?', is 'None of your beeswax.' Now just run along and prepare the way." - TU
"It is to be remembered that despite the fact that you are accustomed to thinking only in dots and lines and a little bit in areas, does not defeat the fact that we live in omni-directional space-time, and that a four dimensional universe provides ample freedom for any contingencies." - Buckminster Fuller
"If we do not create, there is no reason for our existence. " - Laws of the Greater Reality
"When your ship, long moored in harbour, gives you the illusion of being a house ....put out to sea! Save your boat's journeying soul, and your own pilgrim soul, cost what it may." - Brazilian Archbishop Helder Camara

02 October 2007

(Google has announced a new version of) Google Moon : http://www.google.com/moon/ including high-resolution imagery, photos from every Apollo landing, panoramas of the moon's surface, and text search (of course!) Via

Translation Map : http://translationmap.walkerart.org/index.html is a prototype system designed to facilitate collaborative translations

Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges : http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/paper291.html

Idea: The Histogram as the Image : http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/09/idea_the_histogram_as_the_imag.html

(Vegreville, Alberta, home of) the world's largest easter egg (based on a technique patented for folding paper or other flat construction materials into flexible surfaces).

Animated sculpture is a projection of the hypercube from 4d to the 3d of Second Life (just as the 3d of Second Life projects to the 2d of a computer screen) : http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html

Radical

http://www.hedweb.com/siteoday/2007.htm

(Flash-based) Pollock painter

'Wiped off the Map' : http://www.antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025 (The Rumor of the Century?)

"Art that explores technological and scientific frontiers is an act of relevance not only to a high-brow niche in a segregated corner of our culture." - Stephen Wilson (from "Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology )
"Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course." - Lee Trevino
"I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space". - Walter Haut, the now-deceased former PR representative at the Roswell Air Force base (issued an affidavit to be opened after his death)
"Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities." - http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/oblique/oblique.html
"How much of human life is lost in the waiting? - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American philosopher, essayist, poet & lecturer

01 October 2007

The pdf version of the trend map has been downloaded over 20,000 times.

Jackson's fractals : http://plus.maths.org/issue9/news/pollock/index.html

(Mappish examples) artist Atsuko Tanaka : http://www.artnet.com/artist/423970435/atsuko-tanaka.html signature piece, the Electric Dress, was to influence her paintings and drawings for the next half-century.

Best & Worst Seafood Choices (that are healthy for the oceans and safe to eat).

Brian Eno (Musician, Producer, Thinker) has 10739 friends.

Sidebarred 'Geography and Mapping' : http://dailyblatt.blogspot.com/

Search 'cartography+painting'

Yoshimoto Cube --------->>>>>>

Art Blog : fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archiv...

"Every man must scratch his head with his own nails." - Arabian proverb
"Technic is the result of a need—new needs demand new technics—total control—denial of the accident—States of order—organic intensity—energy and motion made visible—memories arrested in space, human needs and motives—acceptance." - Jackson Pollock ( A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works)
"You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal." - ?
"Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof." - Stephen Leacock
"One thing I feel most passionately about: love of invention will never die." - Karl Benz