29 September 2015

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150828/BLOGS04/150829883/dining-alfresco-theres-a-map-for-that

http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/23/uncommon-genius-stephen-jay-gould-connections-creativity/

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/09/fractal-patterns-in-nature-found-on-google-earth/

Perception / Reality https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is?

(Inside Out) http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project

(Video) "but is it art?" 

(Digital) https://www.facebook.com/thewrongbiennale

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/16/Photos-Of-Famous-Landmarks-Tell-A-Different-Story-When-Zoomed-Out/

http://lifehacker.com/this-graphic-explains-20-cognitive-biases

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/11/25/the-creative-gifts-of-adhd-disorder-or-gift-real-or-fictitious/

"What comes around is all around." - Rickyism
"Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible. Care more than others think wise." - Howard Schultz
"You really don't have to try so hard. (that's why there's magic and miracles. Remember?)." - The Universe
"... the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz
"On how one orients himself to the moment, depends the failure or fruitfulness of it." - Henry Miller

21 September 2015

(Scientific Imagery) 2015 Wellcome Image Awards winners

http://www.blogto.com/arts/2015/08/5_places_to_check_out_graffiti_and_street_art_in_toronto/

3D Origami:



http://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/articles/international-museum-of-collage/

22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art; http://isea2016.isea-international.org

http://islamicartrevival.com/

http://www.aliexpress.com/3d-decoupage-paper_reviews.html

http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/back-to-bed-a-new-video-game-inspired-by-the-surreal-artwork-of-escher-dali-magritte.html

(Art Show) http://www.troika.uk.com/exhibition/cartography-of-control/

http://www.creativeboom.com/resources/50-awesome-art-music-and-culture-documentaries-full-length-and-free-on-youtube/

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it." - McLuhan
"Nothing any good isn’t hard." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Your hands....They color the canvas...With beauty and madness...Revealing all our lies..." - Rocco DeLuca
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton
"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

15 September 2015

(Wayfinding) http://www.businessinsider.com/central-park-secrets-lamp-posts-hidden

Ephemeral work created by power-washing pollution from the river’s high stone embankments

(Video) Robert Longo: I am an Image Thief

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2015/08/28/vine-rolls-out-new-music-tools-that-help-you-make-perfect-looping-videos/

(Artist Talks?) http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/toronto/

Digital Artists Award: http://edaa.equitablebank.ca/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/karl-waldmann-fictitious-dada-artist

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3043858/world-changing-ideas/the-science-of-why-you-should-spend-your-money-on-experiences-not-thing

(Burke Brown's) http://www.goldenrule.ca/

http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/which-of-these-bananas-is-better-for-you-ripe-or-unripe/

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun." - Stephen Fry
"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life." - Corazon Aquino
"If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose." - T.D. Jakes
"A master's awareness of spiritual laws, directs him to manifest major life changes by working with their thoughts, not by working harder." - TU

11 September 2015

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/08/23/boaters-return-from-expedition-aiming-to-map-great-pacific-garbage-patch

(Mobile App Art) http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/aug/20/art-your-pocket

http://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Transportation%20Services/Beautiful%20Streets/Graffiti/pdf/Outside%20the%20Box%20with%20names.pdf

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-37-best-websites-for-learning-a-new-skill

(Not-video) Example origami instruction pics

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/opinion/2422729/14-things-to-do-when-you-get-great-pr-but-no-editorial-links

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/08/political-correctness-mostly-just-code-not-insulting-people

http://dragonflycanada.ca/toronto-is-an-iroquois-word/

sketch the relevance of appropriation to expose the point at which stable notions of ‘research’ are jeopardised.

(Intuition)  http://thespiritscience.net/2015/08/23/3-signs-your-higher-self-gives-you-every-day/

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms; to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." - Viktor Frankl
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." - Simone Weil, on Attention and Grace
"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant - there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing." - Georgia O’Keeffe
"When it comes to the words you choose, whether in your mind or amongst friends, let them be of what you like and love. What you care about and cherish. What makes you happy. What gives you wings. What makes you dream." - TU

08 September 2015

ArtSci has every right to call itself the new avant-garde

https://www.pinterest.com/DMTree/math-artsy/

http://ca.complex.com/style/2015/08/swiftkey-studies-break-down-most-popular-emojis-by-state

AutoDesk at SIGGRAPH

http://landarchs.com/hand-drawing-versus-computer-rendering-which-is-best-for-landscape-architecture

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/

(Inside Out) Nuit Blanche

http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/preview-inside-banksy-s-dismaland-tropicana-weston-super-mare

The Specials - FULL ALBUM

https://truthandshadows.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/how-we-know-an-airliner-did-not-hit-the-pentagon/

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee
"Most art should not be sold, displayed, or collected. However ALL of it deserves to be made." - R.B.Wild
"You see what you want to see. You might think it’s speaking to you, but it’s just your imagination." - Codex Seraphinianus
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein

04 September 2015

http://www.ams.org/meetings/bridges-2015

(ArtShow)  http://www.artshub.com.au/festival/news-article/features/festivals/richard-watts/what-science-and-the-arts-can-teach-each-other

http://www.businessinsider.com/addicting-geometric-gifs

(Geometric Manipulatives) http://www.froebelgifts.com/gift5.htm

http://www.nodecenter.org/innovators-grant-selected-participants/

http://www.wallpaper.com/gallery/art/the-great-outdoors-this-summers-most-exhilarating-installations/

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/surprising-ways-sharpening-your-math-skills-can-make-you-happier

Subversive genius Banksy is actually rubbish

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/19/isis-al-qaida-myths-terrorism-war-mistakes-9-11

(Birds Hitting Windows) http://flap.org

"Substantially all ideas are second-hand." - Mark Twain
"Maybe it's not just about finding the perfect friend, partner, or tribe, but finding the perfection in those you've already found." - The Universe
"Choices are the hinges of destiny." - Pythagoras
"... no matter how thorough our observation of the present, the (unobserved) past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities." - Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design
"The more we know, the more we have room for doubt." - Michel de Montaigne (February 28, 1533–September 13, 1592)