http://www.vox.com/2014/7/18/5915549/gaza-israel-map-blockade

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/05/mapping-the-human-condition/

walls’ height diminishes, gently sloping towards the centre, as you travel further into the maze

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/movies/online-origami-tutorials-eclipse-the-traditional-manual.html?ref=movies&_r=0

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/07/digital-revolution-how-technology-has-changed-what-it-means-be-artist

Journal of Mathematics and the Arts



http://hyperallergic.com/138490/stretching-the-truth-of-photography/

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/why-do-honey-bees-make-hexagonal-honeycomb

(Recommended by a TOAE visitor)  http://skepdic.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BeingNoOne-SelfModelTheoryOfSubjectivity-Metzinger.pdf

"That's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it." - Wynton Marsalis
"If more people knew of how admired they already are, they'd be even more admirable." - The Universe
"Artists have been hacking since even before the computer was invented. Pulling things apart, examining them, and putting them back together again in meaningful and unexpected ways..."  Heather Corcoran (Rhizome)
"It is not the private interests of the individual that create lasting fellowship among men, but rather the goals of humanity." - The I Ching, 13th Hexagram
"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies." - Le Corbusier

http://psiytecnologia.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the-internet-mapping-project2.pdf

http://www.not-wolf-productions.com/images/pictures/treasure-map.png

http://polyamm.weebly.com : Understanding the mechanics of aesthetics and its interplay within Art, Culture & Science

Folding fact:  http://www.iflscience.com/space/fold-piece-paper-half-103-times-and-it-will-be-thick-universe

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/apple-swift/?mbid=social_fb



Wall artist: www.ryanlegassicke.com

http://hyperallergic.com/62648/10-pivotal-moments-for-digital-art-in-2012/

(Example) selling art on Amazon

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-interview-rusbridger-macaskil

"Don’t make stuff because you want to make money; it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous; because you will never feel famous enough." - John Green (advised aspiring writers)
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"Oh sure, you can knock and it will be opened. Seek and it will be found. Ask and it will be answered. But you can also just say "thanks" in advance. And believing, you'll see that that which you stood in need of was there all along." - The Universe
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." - Melody Beattie
"Our love affair with maps is as old as civilization itself. Each map tells its own story and hides its own secret. Maps delight, they unsettle, they reveal deep truths, not just about where we come from, but about who we are."- BBC’s The Beauty of Maps

Don Valley Historical Mapping Project 

https://soundcloud.com/inquiringminds/42-arthur-i-miller-how-science-is-revolutionizing-art

Art Project;


http://hyperallergic.com/136378/study-finds-making-art-may-keep-our-brains-healthy/

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/07/john-lennons-imagine-made-comic-strip.html

Origami Lecture;  http://williamsongallery.net/folded/july21.html

(Definition) "Mauerkrankheit" (wall disease) was a term first used in 1973 by the East German psychiatrist Dietfried Müller-Hegemann. He observed that The Berlin Wall caused psychosis, schizophrenia, and phobias in the East Germans who were confronted by it on a daily basis.  Via

DMT, Mathematical Dimensions (and ...)

http://loiter.co/v/the-israelpalestine-conflict-illustrated-beautiful/

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?248738-The-mystery-of-the-friend-with-a-fake-identity%2F

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein
 "...if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked." - Henry Miller
"It is not the path which is the difficulty. It is the difficulty which is the path." - Søren Kierkegaard
"When you get to a place where you're seeing the positive in others more than the negative, it means you're doing the same for yourself." - The Universe
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran

Map Of Terrorism ( strategic response to state terror)

Creating Projection Mapping Objects out of Paper

Lost Rivers ; a community-based urban ecology organization focused on building public awareness of Toronto's river systems

http://mashable.com/2014/07/02/illustration-photo-self-portrait/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

http://hyperallergic.com/136823/remixing-the-renaissance-into-gifs/

(Burke Brown's) http://www.aakkozzll.com/

http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/turn-water-ice-instantly

https://squareup.com/dashboard/sales/invoices

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/this-spam-law-is-a-sledgehammer/article19495555/

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6118/did-the-bbc-report-on-the-twin-towers-falling-before-it-happened


"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." - George Bernard Shaw
"Sometimes I feel that something should just come organic out of my mind." - Eli Sudbrack
"I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity." - Nadezhda Mandelstam
"By all means seek to change the things you don't like and to attract the things you do, just don't put off your happiness for either or the other." - TU
"We are too soon old, and too late smart! - George Heintzman

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/30/map-of-womans-heart/

Google I/O Cardboard (goggles) Demo

http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/the-pentagram-of-venus/

Understanding the mechanics of aesthetics and its interplay within Art, Culture & Science

Drawings Without Paper

(Art Show)  http://artefuse.com/2014/02/04/relativity-drawings-by-paul-glabicki-at-kim-foster-gallery-chelsea/

Turn Water Into Ice Instantly



(Definition) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse : method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule, or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.

http://thespiritscience.net/2014/07/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-dmt/

"When you spend money (whether a little or a lot, wisely or not), do you celebrate that you're creating opportunities, dancing with life, exchanging energy, supporting economies, feeding families, lessening poverty consciousness, demonstrating courage, validating life, eradicating fear, inviting magic into your life, and lifting humanity higher into the light?" - The Universe
"Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity." - ?
"You should never will a change in your work; you have to work an idea to death.  I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end." - John Currin
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - Carl Gustav Jung
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Einstein

Map motifs are trendy this season

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/27/south-american-painting-radical-geometry-royal-academy-exhibition?CMP=EMCARTEML6852

http://www.artofsciencelearning.org

AMBIENT GENIUS  The working life of Brian Eno

(Definition) "tangram" is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form a specific shape (given only an outline or silhouette) using all seven pieces, which may not overlap.

(Creative Subtraction) http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

Artists are Dangerous :

(from Calgary Arts Development)

The 10 tallest buildings in the world ever to be demolished 

http://theunboundedspirit.com/the-paradox-of-our-age/

PlasticWorld

"Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves." - Adam Phillips, The Poetics of the Psyche
"Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, you don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for yourselves! You're ALL individuals!
The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!
Brian: You're all different!
The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!
Man in crowd: I'm not...
The Crowd: Shh!" - Life of Brian (1979)
"Resistance fighters are deemed martyr heroes on one side, but terrorists on the other." - Via
"How will I ever put a ding in the Universe, if I'm worried about banging a nail into the wall?" - R.B.Wild
"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." - George Carlin

Tribal Nations Map

TopoMap Install

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/us/the-multimillion-dollar-minds-of-5-mathematical-masters.html?_r=1

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/math-equations-models/

http://www.sciartinamerica.com/blog/geometry-and-nature-louise-desponts-the-six-sided-force

http://comiccartography.tumblr.com

Hottest six-second creators

(Walking tour)  http://www.donwashere.com/



(Book)"On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes"

"If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away." -  John Steinbeck (1902-1968), Nobel laureate
"Bizarrely, the more you play... the more you do, be, and have." - TU
"Just knowing that you can get into recovery mode frees you to take chances--particularly at the early stages." - Robert Genn
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." - Rilke
"He who reads much and explores much, much sees and much knows." - Miguel de Cervantes