29 September 2014

(Google's) My Maps Upgrade Presents Opportunities for Local Search

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/09/orange_county_language_map.php

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/02/enclaves_between_india_and_bangladesh

THE DIGITAL COLLECTIBLE : to search for art online, but to consume it online, and to download born-digital content as collectible items

http://artfactory.cc/painting-options/ stencils are transferred to their blank canvas

http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/pyramid-technology-what-you-need-to-know-about-pyramids/

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/vizzies-now-accepting-your-mind-blowing-science-and-engineering-visualizations

Arrested for projection art

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think

Wall Artist http://marcellodicintio.com/

"There is no must in art because art is free." - Wassily Kandinsky
"For times when the world seems to spin too fast, or when your dreams seem to turn slightly pale... switch tracks, give yourself a rest, and dwell upon the fact that you are still part of a greater dream." - TU
"Get familiar with the discomfort; embrace it." - R.B. Wild
"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." - Mark Twain
"Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." - Winston Churchill


24 September 2014

(Map)  http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/truetruesizeofafrica

ATLAS in silico : collaboration between artists and scientists spanning new media, computer science, metagenomics, biology, and engineering

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/17/where-you-are-book-visual-editions/

(Discussion) Can Art Advance Science?

Running a Kickstarter campaign takes stamina

http://www.aux.tv/2014/07/11-musicians-who-denied-weird-al/

(Music Video) "Wild is the Wind"

http://anthead-art.blogspot.ca/2014/09/practicing-art-on-cheap-cardboard-is.html

http://www.berlinartlink.com/resources/berlin-gallery-directory/

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/the-10-most-powerful-countries-in-the-world-military-172826/?singlepage=1

"In the course of creative endeavors, artists and scientists join fragments of knowledge into a new unity of understanding." - Via
"You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at." - W. H. Auden
"Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author
"It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently." - Anthony Robbins
"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start... It’s the only good fight there is." - Charles Bukowski

22 September 2014

http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/pyramids-of-giza/

BlindMaps: City Navigation for visually-impaired people

Math_talks_to_blow_your_mind

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2603038/intellectual-property/microsoft-takes-down-bing-image-widget-after-getty-lawsuit.html

Super Secret Science + Art Society : http://www.actionpotentiallab.ca/sssas

http://uproxx.com/webculture/2014/09/best-of-unnecessary-explosions-added-to-gifs-meme/



http://hackernest.com/ nerds doing good

http://onlineauctions.waddingtons.ca/ListView.aspx?id=21

(Burke Brown's) http://www.eipiphiny.org/

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." - A.A. Milne
"What if, instead of waiting for everything to be perfect, we start living your dreams this week, to any degree we can?" - The Universe
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." - Loren Eiseley
"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed." - Lavoisier
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.”- Lao Tzu

19 September 2014

http://www.zdnet.com/google-reveals-crisis-response-map-for-tokyo-7000033125/

https://www.academia.edu/8178063/Unfolding_Clusters_A_Music_and_Visual_Media_Model_of_ALS_Pathophysiology

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/08/dizzying-new-gifs-at-the-intersection-of-art-and-math-by-dave-whyte/

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/a-team-of-artists-are-3d-printing-their-emotions-as-abstract-house-decorations

http://www.pinterest.com/kimsnature/science-art/

http://www.braininstitute.ca/blog

Make Art That’s Difficult to Collect

http://www.ngcmagazine.ca/artists/the-proust-questionnaire-takao-tanabe

Art Show "Grenzfall - Tearing Down Walls"

http://www.artberlin.de/galerien-berlin/top/

"Art moves away from reality and invents something that may be ultimately more accurate about the world than what a photograph can depict." - Howard Zinn
"To draw , you must close your eyes and sing." - Pablo Picasso
"You can have what you want, if you brave what you fear and do what you can." - The Universe
"Laugh at yourself, not with ridicule but with objectivity and acceptance of self." - C. W. Metcal
"Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." -  W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet

16 September 2014

http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/08/making-better-digital-maps-in-an-era-of-standardization/378805/

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/beautiful-mathematical-gifs-will-mesmerize-you

http://thespiritscience.net/2014/02/15/after-400-years-scientists-discover-new-class-of-shape/

Top Timelapse Tips

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/25/100-ideas-that-changed-art/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/exclusiveDigitalArt/

http://news.artnet.com/art-world/tech-nerds-and-flashy-art-at-burning-man-84622

http://www.berlinartlink.com/video/emptying-flags-public-installations-by-artist-sonja-hornung-across-berlin/

Hu­mans learn­ed to coop­erate be­cause they did­n’t want to make the neigh­bors an­gry

Mac OS X Lion

"As you walk down the path of life, should you ever find you suddenly don't have the foggiest idea of how your grandest dreams will one day come to pass. This is a good thing. A really good thing. Just keep walking..." - The Universe Intuit higher meanings in mysterious happenings." - James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"There (really) are no 'have tos'." - R.B. Wild (after TU)
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." - Rumi

12 September 2014

Food Mapping

An Atlas of Alternative Maps

THE ARTIST INSIDE THE MATHEMATICIAN

http://hyperallergic.com/145135/nasa-explores-the-potential-of-origami-in-space/

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/03/vine-six-seconds-video-app-mobile-phone

The Difference Between Doing Art and Being an Artist

Animation : http://meermusaphotography.com/post/90867895993/cube

http://www.complexmag.ca/style/2013/02/the-50-greatest-nyc-graffiti-artists/

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lung-capacity-smoker-vs-non-smoke

http://www.torontowoodturnersguild.com/page/448131628

"Time turns metaphors into things." - Robert Smithson
"What little, mortal, baby steps can I take today that will demonstrate expectancy, prepare for my dream's manifestation, and above all, place me within reach of life's magic?" - TU
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith
"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse
"I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." - 'The Soul of a New Machine'

08 September 2014

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/09/for-the-love-of-open-mapping-data/

Myth about knowledge and learning—namely, the notion that there is a gulf between the sciences and the so-called humanities

the universe may be shaped like a dodecahedron



Hand-drawn animation of a hand drawing a hand

http://www.complexmag.ca/style/2014/08/12-times-celebrities-have-tried-to-do-graffiti

(Onto Nashville)  http://mam.org/kandinsky/

http://hyperallergic.com/119254/comic-sans-gets-a-makeover-and-you-can-download-it-free/

Beacon ; back original reporting by experienced writers around the world

http://thespiritscience.net/2014/08/19/ascend-academy-the-archetypal-elements/

"If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are." - Wendell Berry
"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see." - Duane Michals
"Relax, enjoy, stop second guessing yourself. You are so where you need to be." - The Universe
"Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know." - Pioneering muckraker Lincoln Steffens
"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity." - George Carlin

02 September 2014

A Map of the Introvert’s Heart

(Online magazine)  INTERALIA MAGAZINE :  dedicated to the interactions between the arts, sciences and consciousness

(Book) "Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing"

(Face-tracking with) Projection Mapping

(Conference) http://www.designthinkers.com/Register.aspx

(Interactive Story-telling)  http://www.cloudsdocumentary.com/

http://artefuse.com/2014/08/08/dread-scotts-slave-rebellion-reenactment/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/new-aga-khan-museum-will-showcase-islamic-art-1.2742387?cmp=rss

http://hyperallergic.com/129991/thoughts-on-the-present-and-future-of-bushwick-open-studios/

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-our-brains-got-their-wrinkles

"Woodturning; it's putting a piece of firewood on the lathe - and taking a piece of art off." - Mr. Magrath
"When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be reflected in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes." -  Lao Tzu
"All creative types require distractions, interruptions, (and sometimes a little drama) to get the most done, and to blow the most minds." - The Universe
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had." - Alan Watts
"Don't sit down in the middle of the woods. If you're lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road." - Margaret Atwood, author