31 March 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/americas-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts

https://medium.com/@dadler/how-mathematicians-make-breakthroughs

http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/walking-into-a-gif-installation
http://www.studio-beat.com/art-news-blog/studio-beat-digital-residency/

Fold/Weave Art

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/03/hypnotic-kinetic-sculptures-by-jennifer-townley/

http://hyperallergic.com/187981/a-conference-considers-the-philosophy-of-street-art/

http://inhabitat.com/mind-blowing-photographs-of-earth-taken-from-space/

(Definition) 'TMB' : "There's Nothing Better"

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest." - Georgia O'Keeffe
"Ideas can come from anybody." - Min Kao, Garmin
"Wherever a new disagreement emerges, so does new hope for enlightenment, on both sides of the fence." - The Universe
"It's really crazy how close to real life we can get with art." - Gizmodo
"A dangerous woman doesn’t break the rules—she makes them." - Via

27 March 2015

http://m.mtu.edu/news/stories/2015/march/mapping-great-lakes-wetlands

Wellcome Images 2015

http://www.collageartstreet.com/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/this-16th-century-book-can-be-read-six-different-ways/

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/visual-exploration-in-mathematics-fractal-art (R&D fundraising)

http://www.designeresra.com/blog/alhambra-ii-carved-patterns

http://blinkinlabs.com/blinkytile/blinkytile-assembly/

Laser-cut T-shirt

https://www.facebook.com/augdementedreality (hand-drawn)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-we-learned-doing-100-deals

"In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom." - Buddha
"Mathematics is about progress and adventure and emotion." - Cédric Villani
"Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists." -A. Y. Jackson
"At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality." - Lama Yeshe
"When you find yourself in a hole, the best thing you can do is stop digging." - Warren Buffett

23 March 2015

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/02/24/500-year-old-map-was-discovered-that-shatters-the-official-history-of-the-planet

http://symbiosisartscience.org/2015/02/22/do-you-science-heres-what-art-can-do-for-you/

(VR goggles) https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/get-cardboard.html

http://weburbanist.com/2012/10/29/home-mathematics-12-fractal-furniture-architecture-designs/

http://earthweareone.com/dimensions-holograms-reality-and-energy/

https://www.pinterest.com/letsfabit/laser-cut-home-decor/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/cut-lace-newspapers

We need spaces for art and tech beyond corporate influence

(Video) "Winter Stations"  Lifeguard Stands

http://hyperallergic.com/185876/new-banksys-highlight-plight-of-palestinians-in-gaza/

"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." - David Foster Wallace
"The body expresses what words cannot." - Martha Graham
"I don't separate things, all my ideas bleed into each other." - Childish Gambino
"It's not about being brilliant, or about always being right. It's about not giving up before you have the chance to succeed." - @gapingvoid
"The true method of knowledge is experiment." - William Blake

19 March 2015

(Video)  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stacyspeyer/polyhedra

http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/new-discoveries-islamic-complex-mathematics-architecture-and-art

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/the-mysterious-and-cool-science-of-ice

http://www.jessicagordonryan.com/jessicagordonryancom/blog/2015/2/23/right-brain-vs-left-brain-are-you-the-scientist-or-the-artist

(Video) iPad Magician

(Online Course by Node Center)  "Curating on the Web: Exhibiting Internet-based Art"

http://www.juxtapoz.com/design/pop-up-furniture

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/04/rick-mercer-rant-anti-terror-bill

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/how-i-requested-my-photographs-from-the-department-of-homeland-security/

http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-funniest-french-expressions-use/

"... the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." - Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
"I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake." - Federico García Lorca
"I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam." - Annie Dillard
"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." - Sylvia Plath
"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world." - Zhuangzi

16 March 2015

(Interview) http://mashable.com/2015/02/26/citymaps-founder/

http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/Icicle_Atlas/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/04/transfixing-3d-paper-patterns

Video projection mapping of found home movies on laser-cut panes

http://paper.li/ArtScienceNexus#!art_entertainment

How you can contribute throughout a HackaThon weekend

http://www.wikihow.com/Define-a-Problem

http://thespiritscience.net/2014/04/17/10-discoveries-unexplained-by-science/

http://www.openculture.com/2010/08/borges_the_task_of_art.html

http://theunboundedspirit.com/12-pieces-of-buddhist-wisdom-that-will-transform-your-life/

"... irony and humor are among the best weapons against barbarism." - Le Temps
"Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them." - Marvin J. Ashton
"Mo money, mo problems." - Notorious B.I.G.
"To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one." - Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
"Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." - Oliver Sacks

13 March 2015

(Map) http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-los-angeles-surveyla-historicplaces-website-cultural-historical-sites

(Video Conferencing)  https://hello.firefox.com/zrEkTV5RfE4

https://www.pinterest.com/martinez2609/kandinsky/

(Video) Google Cardboard Virtual Reality Kit

http://hyperallergic.com/183321/an-interactive-kandinsky-to-consider-and-destroy-the-elements-of-abstract-art/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/10/new-sculptural-collages-made-from-antiquarian-books

http://cottagelife.com/98695/environment/water-shorelines/5-incredible-natural-phenomena-involving-ice

(Architecture that disappears?) http://www.arch2o.com/reading-between-the-lines-gijs-van-vaerenbergh/

Materials we cannot laser cut

An electronics maker-space; http://make.icewire.ca/about/equipment/

"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory." - L.N.
"Do you have the feeling that this week is going to totally rock?" - TU
"The subtle secret
to possessing all you want:
blessing all you have." - The Universe (Haiku)
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard
"I'm trying to love people because they exist and not because of what they can do for me." - Emery Allen

10 March 2015

Map of the United States' quietest and noisiest places

http://hyperallergic.com/176036/the-minimalist-beauty-of-a-renaissance-era-geometry-book/

Clio Art Fair

Arctic& Circle Project  (the ship)

http://weburbanist.com/2013/11/11/origami-inspired-architecture

(DIY Idea) Places You 'Heart' Map Art

http://laughingsquid.com/the-front-of-a-jeep-creates-an-accidental-freestanding-ice-sculpture

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-boss-warns-forgotten-century-email-photos

https://www.pinterest.com/cathwitherell/laser-ideas/

https://jhaines6.wordpress.com/?s=WTC7

"Generosity, kind words, doing a good turn for others, and treating all people alike: these bonds of sympathy are to the world what the axle is to the wagon wheel." - The Buddha
 "We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole." - Vint Cerf
"Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it."- N. Scott Momday (as quoted in Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez)
"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary." - Chuck Palahniuk
"You stand to lose nothing; what you may gain are new associative chains." - Joseph Brodsky

06 March 2015

https://www.academia.edu/10488416/Crowdmap_and_OpenStreetMap_A_Technical_Comparison

Your Travels Around the Internet Expose the Way You Think

Kepler's Rhombic Dodecahedron

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/490344/interesting-math-facts-that-are-visually-attractive

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/feb/10/muslim-rule-and-compass-the-magic-of-islamic-geometric-design

http://hyperallergic.com/183852/billboard-art-project-sets-off-terrorism-scare-near-usmexico-border/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Painting-Center

Laser-cut Fashion

http://www.cultofmac.com/310703/celluon-picopro-projector-review/

http://newsfeed.gawker.com/a-skyscraper-called-torch-tower-is-on-fire-in-dubai

"Obscurity has been thrust upon me… and it has not added one whit to my love for popularity, fame, and fortune." - R.B. Wild
"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part." - Richard Feynman
"... our problem is civil obedience." - Matt Damon
"I would think about this work totally differently if I thought you had any idea what you're doing." - (said to) Eames Armstrong
"When you love who you are you become much more lovable." - The Universe

02 March 2015

http://www.pathomap.org/

http://www.salvagedgrace.com/2011/09/29/repurposing-more-maps/

http://mixmotion.com/2014/09/19/kamiko-an-interactive-kinetic-sculpture/

https://www.pinterest.com/clarityartists/sacred-geometry/

http://weburbanist.com/2014/02/26/algorithmic-architecture-14-fractalparametric-structures/

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

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/06/arts/a-walk-through-the-gallery-henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-in-new-york

(Paper-roll) Paper Portraits

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/saving-artwork.html

Why Islam prohibits images of Muhammad

"Scientists say 'maybe'." - Kate M.
"Self-love is a gentle but burning call to wildly awaken." - The Wellness Alchemist
"The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself." - Sherwood Anderson (sent his seventeen-year-old son John, 1926)
"Expect more, get more." - The Universe
"If you can't explain physics to the guy on the bar stool next to you, then you don't understand it yourself." - Dr. S. James Gates Jr, Physicist and science communicator