30 November 2015

http://torontodreamsproject.blogspot.ca/2013/07/a-birds-eye-tour-of-toronto-in-early.html

(Book Review) http://hyperallergic.com/156479/lunar-mountains-and-divine-spheres-1000-years-of-illustrating-outer-space/

http://www.ignant.de/2015/11/24/digital-art-beyond-the-hype/

Video mapping : http://www.mappathon.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11/20/an-army-of-history-nerds-is-turning-archival-material-into-beautiful-gifs/

(Online galleries) Artbank.ca

Hobo Symbols: http://www.allisonhunter.com/signmakers/symbols.html

http://www.mindful.org/wabi-sabi-for-artists-designers-poets-philosophers/

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/whos-isis-anonymous-opparis-campaign-against-islamic-state-goes-awry/

(Tall Building Conference) http://mirvishandgehrytoronto.com/mirvishgehry-ctbuh-2015-conference/

"The trick is remembering that at all times far more is happening on your behalf than your physical senses will ever reveal. Like right now." - The Universe
"People can be very narrow in what they study and understand. We need to collaborate; we need to combine our different knowledge in order to create new possibilities." - Via
"It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always answering one." - Sebastian Melmoth (Oscar Wilde)
"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzybski
"... great art doesn’t come out of nowhere. Artists inevitably borrow from one another, drawing on past ideas and conventions, and then turn these materials into something beautiful and new." - Kirby Ferguson, (four-part video series 'Everything is a Remix')

25 November 2015

http://globalnews.ca/news/306578/griefs-geography-interactive-map-of-torontos-first-world-war-dead/

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/7-gorgeous-sea-maps-from-the-age-of-exploration

http://canadianart.ca/features/digital-biennial/

(Video) Seven Slide-Together Constructions

http://m.noisey.vice.com/Noisey-Design/from-lou-reed-to-david-byrne-meet-the-man-responsible-for-musics-most-memorable-album-artwork

http://thespiritscience.net/2015/11/04/lao-tzu-wisdom/

Why why all creative culture is built on “plagiarism, literary debt, appropriation, incorporation, retelling, rewriting, recapitulation, revision, reprise…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_laser

(Canvas-wrap printer) http://www.mrphotocanvas.com/

(Ski resort?) http://www.keepitwild.ca/

"The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad." - Alan Watts (on the Art of Learning Not to Think in Terms of Gain and Loss)
"Living a meaningful life is not a popularity contest. If what you’re saying is always getting applause, you’re probably not yet doing the right stuff." - Marianne Williamson
"All that you must do, you've already done. Let everything else be what you want to do." - The Universe
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu
"Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it." - Ajahn Chah

23 November 2015

FLAP Mapper: enter a bird-window collision into the global database

(Viz Lab) http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/11/five-myths-big-data.html

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/turn-your-brainwaves-into-lasers-at-this-art-installation

(Art piece) Forest made of cardboard

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/28/how-the-internets-most-earnest-evangelist-became-its-fiercest-critic/ (Jonathan Harris)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/highly-creative-people's habits

LED Lighting Contractor: http://christmasdecortoronto.com/

http://shackletonsolo.org/2015/11/07/prep-day-15-keeping-spirits-up-in-punta/

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/snowden-explains-why-its-super-easy-to-protect-our-privacy-online

"As you know, only the young, the primitive, and the eccentric waste time. That is why all the most useful inventions come from them. They are not bound to be productive, and can thus waste time pursuing the unpromising to find the totally new." - Marshall McLuhan, Wired Magazine 1996
"Don't try to be average. Most things you do will end up there naturally anyway." - R.B. Wild
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Lao Tzu
"He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." - Benjamin Franklin
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." - Rumi

18 November 2015

Surname Map: http://forebears.io/surnames/wild

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/12/21/100-diagrams-that-changed-the-world/

(Video) Bird Sounds Visualised

Art Science Collaboration; http://icecube.wisc.edu

https://www.sfcv.org/article/the-fifth-wall-next-generation-digital-technology-and-the-arts

http://www.edpien.com/papercuts

http://georgehart.com/slide-togethers/slide-togethers.html

(Video) Giant Photo Mural

http://www.thelocal.no/20151028/arctic-ice-melt-worsens-plastic-polliution

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68447/15-rules-hobo-ethical-code-1889

"The argument has always been over what to do with rubble, with 'appropriation' and 'quotation' included among the most recent proscriptions against starting over." - Via
"Everything that is masks for us something that might be." - Paul Valéry, French Polymath
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
"Sometimes, finally seeing things from someone else's perspective can totally change your life. Which, sometimes, explains exactly why they're there." -  The Universe
"Don't judge me for something I did 5 minutes ago! I've grown a lot since then." - Miklos Legrady

10 November 2015

(Map) http://hyperallergic.com/252440/the-most-popular-colors-around-the-world-mapped/

(Virtual Walking Tour)  http://www.aramcoworld.com/issue/200604/alhambra/tourmenu.htm

3D Collage

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/when-a-theoretical-astrophysicist-and-a-visual-artist-meet-things-get-complex

https://www.banffcentre.ca/post-residency-award

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/03/the-great-british-pottery-throw-down

(Example profile) http://globalstreetart.com/

(Ottawa)  http://www.voixvisuelle.ca/en/ digital art gallery

http://www.blogto.com/tech/2015/11/the_top_10_tech_accelerators_in_toronto/

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/study-concludes-antarctica-is-gaining-ice-rather-than-losing-it/

"Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself." - Robert Henri
"If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come." - Arapaho
"Don't let the dazzling heights you aspire to, scare you from getting started. After all, few could climb Mt. Everest tomorrow, though virtually all could begin preparing." - The Universe
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." - Steve Jobs
"It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive. … The body becomes irrelevant." - Dani Shapiro

06 November 2015

(Projection) Dinner Table Mapping

http://itmustbewednesday.com/2015/10/28/three-artists-putting-their-own-spin-on-sciart/

http://artfcity.com/2015/10/29/launching-the-largest-digital-biennale-in-the-world-on-shoestring-budget-an-interview-with-david-quiles-guillo/

(Video) "The Art of Data Visualization"

https://collageartistsofamerica.wildapricot.org/

http://www.graffitiallday.co/home/after12-graffiti-vandals/

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/10/29/20-quotes-by-rumi-that-will-make-you-feel-the-love/

(Under development) http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/opportunities-for-reconciliation-pop-up-in-unexpected-places-1.3294030/terabytes-of-testimony-digital-database-of-residential-school-stories-opens-to-the-public-1.3296657

http://www.flap.org/ Bird rescue

http://www.microfinanceconference.ca/

"Don’t let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs
"One day you're going to look at yourself, your life, and your ways, and you're going to see that your every idiosyncrasy, quirk, folly, and so-called fault, were among your greatest assets." - TU
"Be true to your work, and your work will be true to you." - The Pratt Institute motto
"Some of the best art comes from those who do it for their love of creative expression without needing to be accepted as a true 'artist'." -  Lee Fogel
"The world is missing what I am ready to give: My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace."- Via

03 November 2015

http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-history-of-cartography-the-most-ambitious-overview-of-map-making-ever-now-free-online.html

http://mathbabe.org/2015/10/20/guest-post-dirty-rant-about-the-human-brain-project/

http://www.mostafawaleed.com/#!laser-cutting

Perimeter's inaugural Artist-in-Residence

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thepolarsea

(Definition) "ambigram" : is a word or name written so it reads in more than one way

(Video) http://www.artbabble.org/video/louisiana/tim-noble-and-sue-webster-search-imperfection

Online PSD/PSB Extract/Recover:  http://www.telegraphics.com.au/psdparse-online/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

http://higherperspectives.com/native-american-quotes/

"Attention is a currency." - Brian Solis
"If it's on the internet then it must be true." - John Schaeffer
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." - Steve Jobs
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." - George-Louis De Buffon
"Paintings are made for dentists." - Francis Picabia