(Map) http://www.http://www.neighbourhoodartsnetwork.org/toronto-arts-online/attend-an-event

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html

Mapiful ; customize a beautiful black & white poster of any location in the world (based on OpenStreetMap data)

(How do people turn space into a lived, livable place?) http://www.space-for-place.ca/

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-new-theory-of-distraction

(Sequential video) Journey Into the Arctic

http://altered-books.siggraph.org/wp/

http://hyperallergic.com/221997/artists-blow-the-whistle-on-their-nsa-whistleblower-project/

(Definition) 'Arte Povera' - "poor art" or "impoverished art" - was the most influential avant-garde movement to emerge in Europe in the 1960s involving a dozen Italian artists using commonplace materials that might evoke a pre-industrial age, such as earth, rocks, clothing, paper and rope (to make sculptures).

Ska Bands

"An artist must be open to the muse. The greater the artist, the more he is open to 'cosmic currents'." - William S. Burroughs 
"Leisure … is not the privilege of those who can afford to take time; it is the virtue of those who give to everything they do the time it deserves to take." - David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk and interfaith dialogue activist
"I would like this painting more if you hadn't made it." - (said to) Emma Webster
"Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci Series, by thinking about geometry all the time, you could organize and harmonize your life with the structure of the world." - Einar Thorsteinn
"I am interested in a complex kind of visual that does not just settle into one way of being read." -  Lecia Dole-Recio