Mexico Crime Map

(SIGGRAPH) Digital Arts Community Online Exhibitions: Analogues Show, Environments Show

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/nov/1/postinternet/  art

http://www.complexmag.ca/art-design/2014/01/artists-to-watch-2014/




Things Highly Creative People Do Differently

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Akaman/Classwar_Karaoke_-_0025_Survey/09_One_Way_Trip_in_a_One_Man_Boat

http://www.tagroom.com/this-guy-animated-classic-paintings-and-the-results-are-f-cking-beautiful-49111

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds

Gallerist Sees Sales Bolstered by Instagram

http://infotel.ca/newsitem/A-hockey-moment-this-crowd-wont-soon-forget/IT8068

"When you don't dress like everyone else, you don't have to think like everyone else." - Iris Apfel
"All creators need to be able to live in the shade of the big questions long enough for truly revolutionary ideas and insights to emerge." - www.brainpickings.org
"You can have results or excuses. Not both." - Unknown
"What if this were the very last time I got to see white flakes of frozen water floating in the sky?" - Nicole Collins
"Once you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true." - Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle, author)

Fountain on https://plus.google.com/110412314101169962448/posts/QQ74zXzBy1r

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/10/in-defense-of-map-porn/

GIFPOP IS A TOOL TO MAKE CUSTOM CARDS FROM ANIMATED GIFS, USING LENTICULAR PRINTING

The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).

http://www.siggraph.org/connect/digital-arts

Large Net/projection installation

Mural Painting by hand

http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2014/03/03/top-10-eureka-moments-shower-sleep-and-drive/

http://thegreatmixtape.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/the-great-mixtape-top-five-13/

Toronto's 10 Best Contemporary Art Galleries

"You'll never leave your mark if you are worried about making a mess." - R.B. Wild

"I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa." - Gregg Allman
"We need to be comfortable with struggle." - Via
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” - Tim Ferriss
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched." - Edgar Allan Poe

http://torontoist.com/2014/02/get-interactive-with-historical-toronto-maps/

Fabulous collage artist ventured into animated film

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/phrenology-diagrams-from-vaughts-practical-character-reader-.html1902/

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/roberto-fazios-studio-brings-projection-mapping-to-the-next-level

Why the Art World is in Trouble

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/862003/20-must-watch-artist-documentaries-from-basquiat-to-bas-jan

(8-10 May)  http://www.torontodigifest.ca/2014/about/

http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/the-problem-with-too-much-information/

(Graffiti removal)  http://www.genemastrangeli.com/#/50-shades-of-grey/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/01/how-to-make-your-own-luck/

"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds." - Theo Jansen (Strandbeest; Dutch artist.known for building large mechanisms that are able to move on their own)
"We feel safe in our comfort zones, where we can avoid the sting of regret. And yet, at the same time, we regret most those actions and risks we did not take." - Michael Schwalbe
"People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes." - Neil Gaiman (via observando)
"Your an idiot!" -The Internet’s Most Internet Sentence
"In sports, six seconds is all it takes for amazing to happen. It's no surprise then that athletes love Vine." -  Via

Tomnod :  thousands of volunteers use satellite images to explore the Earth and solve real-world problems

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/magnificentmaps/2014/03/good-news-for-fans-of-medieval-maps.html

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/nov/1/postinternet/

http://www.complexmag.ca/art-design/2014/03/13-projects-that-represent-the-future-of-design/

http://paddle8.com/blog/2014/02/21/interview-with-shepard-fairey/

Innovation:


(8-11 May) Outsider Art Fair in New York

Marblemedia unveils plans for $60M Toronto water park

San Fran gallery; http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Eleanor_Harwood_Gallery/Home.html

http://hyperallergic.com/115354/cariou-v-prince-settled-out-of-court/   Discussed

"Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind." - L. Nevelson
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." - Henri Poincare
"Do what you love, love what you do, and the world will come to you." - TU
"I think I am improving!" - Pablo Casal, cellist (when asked why he still practiced at age 93)
"What is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/where-malaysia-370-might-have-landed-an-interactive-map/284445/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/29/codex-seraphinianus-rizzoli/

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-pathfinder-panel--vector-3306

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/gallery/2014/feb/25/golden-meaning-graphic-artists-golden-ratio-pictures

Mesmerizing GIFs Show Cities Passing From Day to Night

(Fibre) Net Art ; http://drainmag.com/fd-up/

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2014/03/art-fair-trends/art-history-remixes

http://www.reddotblog.com/wordpress/index.php/artists-are-you-consistent-a-gallery-owners-perspective/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55416/10-rejection-letters-sent-famous-people

http://bureaudetudes.org/2014/02/13/world-government-2013/


"The great thing about procrastination is that you always have something to do tomorrow." - Kathleen McMullin
"All life is an experiment; the more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo
"I'm concerned about the organs used to make organic food." - Miklos Legrady

"...we blend multiple ideas that are already in our minds, and these blends contain new ideas that didn't exist before." - Via
"The beautiful is always bizarre." - Baudelairehttp://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/where-malaysia-370-might-have-landed-an-interactive-map/284445/

(Map)  http://listentotrack.ca/map/ (Click on a marker to hear a song about that place! )

SketchUp 2014 released

Remixing ; the Renaissance in GIFs

Cube (surface) Maze (Sketch-Up file)

The problem with a paper-less society

http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/

(Video) Chaos and Butterfly Effect

http://thepaperthinhymn.com/2010/01/26/how-to-speak-post-modernism/

Discussing graffiti supplies

http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-says-thousands-illegal-video-stopped-165146458.html

"What great work of art are you creating this week? What will you finish by week's end? Time flies by so quickly. ... Raise hell and persevere, no matter what." -  www.livingtheartistslife.com
"There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones." - Paul Cezanne
"A word on miracles... don't let those that have not yet transpired, blind you to those that have." - The Universe
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
"Artists have not always tolerated the opinions of others. They admit to little influence, believe for the most part in their own direction and, in some ways, insist on being the centre of the universe." - Robert Genn

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/07/a-map-of-the-world-according-to-illustrators-and-storytellers/

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/android-apps-best-of-2013/

Mark Rothko on How (Not) To Experience His Paintings

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/giant-suspended-net-installations-by-janet-echelman/

The Creators Project (66 videos)

Fountain Art Show Video (Post by 5Star )

http://pulpartparty.ca/about/

Quilting (with Processing) artist  : http://libselliott.blogspot.ca/

(Paperback) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind 

http://www.blogto.com/toronto/the_best_art_supply_stores_in_toronto/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/BATL-Backyard-Axe-Throwing-League

"Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself." - Romare Bearden
"(After observing a particularly poor copy) Is that an original?" - David H.
"There's always far more going on that you've yet to see.  Even now. So if you should ever feel bored or lonely again, look a little closer." - The Universe
"I write every day ... It is not a burden. It is the way I live." - Mavis Gallant
"An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others." - Robert Genn

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2014/03/fountain-art-fair-2014-preview/barthel

Tour These Historic Places in Downstate New York

How RFID Works

3D Netting

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/street-artists

Projection Mapping (?)

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/ingenious-kinetic-doors-by-klemens-torggler-fold-open-and-closed-like-origami/?src=footer

Toronto's 3D printing creatives specialize in digital fabrication

Digital Artist : http://www.newrafael.com/exhibitions  Via

New Domain Extensions Are Now Available

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” - William Shakespeare
"The test of an adventure is that when you are in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'" - Thornton Wilder
"(... scratch the old brain for new places, new subjects, new angles, new designs.) A great pitfall to be avoided is 'dropping into rote.'" - Robert Genn
"By the time you're really rolling, it will be in a direction you cannot now even imagine (so please, for the time being, just roll)." - TU
"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary." - Oscar Wilde