25 May 2015

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/federal-governments-new-map-of-canada-shows-more-arctic-sea-ice

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/gallery/2015/may/15/150-years-of-mathematics-in-the-uk-in-pictures

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/04/21/air-quality-map-shows-torontos-most-polluted-neighbourhoods

http://asianjournal.com/aj-magazines/going-over-boundaries-fil-am-artist-lordy-rodriguez-discovers-identities-through-the-visual-language-of-maps/

http://www.ams.org/mathimagery/

http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/create-easy-cartoon-effect-in-photoshop/

http://hyperallergic.com/208206/crimes-of-the-art

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/

(YouTube Channel) InSide Out Project (JR)

https://groups.freecycle.org/group/Toronto/posts/offer

"Some things are destined to be --it just takes us a couple of tries to get there." - J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
"How do you surrender to a drone?" - Miles Collyer 
"There is no secret of life. Life's aim, if it has one, is simply to be always looking for temptations. There are not nearly enough of them; I sometimes pass a whole day without coming across a single one. It is quite dreadful. It makes one so nervous about the future." - Oscar Wilde
"To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing." - Picasso
"That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." - Albert Einstein (Advice to His Son)

22 May 2015

(Street Art Map) Toronto

http://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/04/07/heres-awesome-map-evolution-religions/

Projection problems;

http://www.knotplot.com

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/18/hannah-fry-the-mathematics-of-love/

http://hackathon.pchintl.com/hackathons/toronto

http://twistedsifter.com/videos/recycled-animation-sequences-from-famous-disney-films/

http://hyperallergic.com/207918/woman-found-guilty-of-criminal-harassment-for-instagramming-street-art/

http://www.insideoutproject.net/en

http://thespiritscience.net/2015/04/29/what-is-synchronicity/

"You are now, officially, the person you once dreamed you'd become." - The Universe
"More than anything, Art reminds one simply how to open one's heart." - ChrisWare‬
"... I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come." - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it." - Henry Moore
"Make the most of yourself... for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

19 May 2015

http://hyperallergic.com/175223/an-atlas-gathers-the-most-creative-contemporary-maps/

http://ideastations.org/science-matters/math-matters/math-making-major-news

What Information is Used to Recognize the Gist of a Scene?

https://designschool.canva.com/blog/taking-long-walks/

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world-bad-for-brain-daniel-j-levitin-organized-mind-information-overload

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/may/09/fibonacci-clock-can-you-tell-the-time-on-the-worlds-most-stylish-nerd-timepiece?CMP=fb_gu

http://www.theprovince.com/Renegade+Productions+gets+stay+Vancouver+digs+after+assuring+city+officials+safety+standards+will

TO Public Art and Monuments Collection

http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/hot-water-freezes-faster-cold-and-now-we-know

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/10/5-conspiracy-theories-turned-true

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
"To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not?'" - Christopher Hitchens
"When the salespeople become the art and the content becomes secondary to the delivery system, then truth and expression becomes close to redundant." - Nick Bantock
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Patience is ... (the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and) letting things evolve at their own speed." - Pema Chödrön

11 May 2015

(Toronto Arts Online Map) http://www.neighbourhoodartsnetwork.org/events-by-neighbourhood

http://nativewarriors.net/anonymous-creates-map-of-turtle-islands-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women.html

http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/communicating-through-maps/442173

http://ca.complex.com/music/2015/04/warren-g-regulate-google-maps

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/not-bad-science/2015/05/03/a-meeting-of-art-and-science

http://makezine.com/2015/04/16/relive-favorite-heist-diy-laser-dodging-game/

https://plus.google.com/collections/welcome

(LA vs SF art collectors)

(Definition)  'die Reisevorfreudekribbeln' (German); a very particular tingle that one feels just before departing for uncertain territory. Via

https://www.creatroninc.com/category/led-and-lcd/led/led-string-strip

"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand." -Michelangelo
"Show me a person with mental illness and I’ll show you a person with mental illness. Show me an artist with mental illness and I’ll show you an artist." - Melissa Bender, Artist, Member of Workman Arts
"Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it." - Simone Weil
"... find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it." - Daniel Dennett, Philosopher
"In every work of art, the artist himself is present." - Christian Morgenstern

07 May 2015

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-would-earth-look-if-all-ice-melted

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-astrophyicists-comprehensive-universe.html

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/20/8430013/american-history-map

http://designlinesmagazine.com/janes-walk-2015/

... changing the domain of architectural geometry from orthogonal Cartesian grids to non-Euclidean form (and moving into the domain of algorithmic space now, where new rules are defined by algorithms).

http://educateinspirechange.org/nature/20-mysterious-alien-artifacts-exist/

(36 Digital Artists)  http://www.atelier.digitaliiis.com/IMMERSION/GRID/GRID_I.php

http://scotties.ca (online app for custom printing)

http://reiflarsen.com/Reif_Larsen/Writings.html

http://toronto.lairdplastics.ca/product/materials

"There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts." - Vladimir Nabokov Via
"Drawing is still the bottom line." - Sara Genn
"As self-selected members of the art world it is time we declared, 'we are our own art history'." - Loren J. Munk
"Careful planning, and brilliant improvisation." - Sergi Eisenstein
"Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50." - Edgar Degas

04 May 2015

http://www.blogto.com/tech/2015/05/new_map_tracks_the_most_interesting_places_in_toronto/

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/04/08/toronto-poetry-map-reveals-an-inner-world.html

http://www.brainjet.com/random/10417/15-eye-opening-maps-of-the-world-that-you-wont-find-in-a-classroom

How Art, Science, and Technology Interact (in Southern California)

http://webneel.com/beautiful-paper-sculptures

http://www.boredpanda.com/mosque-ceilings/

http://hyperallergic.com/197129/rogue-light-artists-revive-brooklyns-lost-edward-snowden-monument/

http://topexpiringinternetartists.com/

http://www.studio-beat.com/art-news-blog/studio-beat-digital-residency/

The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long

"Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you." - David Whyte, poet and philosopher
"Common sense is not what you need to get where you're going (courage is)." - The Universe
"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great." - M. C. Escher
"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"We are geometry, it's in us." - Jaq Belcher

01 May 2015

http://nativewarriors.net/anonymous-creates-map-of-turtle-islands-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women.html

http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/nlpip/lightinganswers/led/indicationIllumination.asp

Canadian museums continue to go digital with Google Art Project

http://www.pinpointto.com/category/exhibitsshows/

http://www.boredpanda.com/environmental-street-art-graffiti-climate-change/

http://ca.complex.com/style/2015/04/banksy-bomb-damage-mural-in-gaza-city-was-sold-for-175

(Video) Frank Chester – The Chestahedron  (The Wonder of Seven)

(Missed conference) http://www.keckfutures.org/conferences/informed-brain.html

http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/hot-water-freezes-faster-cold-and-now-we-know-why

My ride;  http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/246337000

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious." - Rumi (1207-1273)
"Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them." - Rudolf Steiner
"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"No step forward is too small." - R.B.Wild
"Creativity is more than coming up with ideas." - Robin Cox