(Map) http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade

http://www.artscatalyst.org/notes-field-commoning-practices-art-and-science

https://www.nodecenter.net/course/curating-on-the-web

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-making-employees-collaborate-has-gone-too-far

(Radio program) "The Engines of Our Ingenuity" : tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity

http://www.autodesk.com/artist-in-residence/home

(Movie nights) http://www.ago.net/fridaynights

Sculpture Supply Canada: http://www.sculpturesupply.com/ (345 Munster Avenue - just south of Kipling and Bloor subway station)

(Definition) "Arcturus" : red giant, looks orange to the eye. It’s the brightest star on the northern half of Earth’s sky dome. Especially noteworthy for its large proper motion, or sideways motion across our sky.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/scientists-are-floored-by-whats-happening-in-the-arctic-where-temperatures-are-4-c-above-average

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W.B. Yeats

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Genius gives birth, talent delivers." - Jack Kerouac (on whether writers are born or made)
"If you knew how each little, fluffy thought or daydream of yours was tied to the huge, pivotal events of your life, ..." - The Universe
"World is not going to open up for you - find a way in." - Alfre Woodard, actor

(Map) https://medium.com/save-texas-history/mexico-california-and-texas

(InfoViz challenge) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/a-visual-information-paradox/

http://mobile.recorder.com/home/20955672-108/when-art-and-science-collide-in-umass-exhibit

(Video) Chestahedron

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3056242/fake-patent-illustrations-take-jabs-at-silicon-valley-greed

http://www.sfchronicle.com/style/article/Pace-Gallery-s-digital-art-show-wows-SiliconValley

http://cardboarders.com/category/cardboardart/

Street Art as Cultural Testimony

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/02/headshot-a-visual-history-of-first-person-shooters/

The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century (Music video)

"LOOK UP AT THE STARS AND NOT DOWN AT YOUR FEET." - STEPHEN HAWKING
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." - Socrates
"I don't sound like nobody." - Elvis
"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution." - Goethe
"Accidents, coincidences, and serendipities don't create dreams. Your dreams create them. Dream away." - The Universe

(Map) http://cartoforum.com/bikelanes/

https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals

http://dailybruin.com/2016/02/03/science-intersects-with-art-in-experimental-illustrators-work/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/how-couples-are-preserving-their-digital-love-stories-from-facebook-posts-to-instasnaps

(Theoretical Astrophsics) http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/about/about-the-institute/

http://kofflerarts.org/ideas-media/koffler-digital/

http://hyperallergic.com/266126/an-eccentric-visual-history-of-our-most-basic-shapes/

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Exhibit-of-works-by-activist-artists-is-6793743.php

louis lavoie murals st albert

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2016/02/02/Tag-Team-The-street-artists-who-clean-up-the-citys-act

"...you can best help me align circumstances, coincidences, and chance encounters by getting busy, going out into the world, and moving in the general direction of your dreams..." - TU

"Do not feel absolutely certain of anything." - Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist
"Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow." - Henry David Thoreau
"Try again, fail better." - Beckett
"You get a short piece of time and you get to decorate it." - Frank Zappa (on improvisation)

http://ecourbanlab.com/mapping-worldwide-city-populations-1950-2030

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/david-maisels-geometric-geographies

ArtSci Podcasts; http://creativedisturbance.org/voices/

http://hyperallergic.com/266419/new-york-public-library-releases-180000-images-and-invites-users-to-remix-them/

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/these-paintings-turn-climate-data-into-art

http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/articles/10-places-to-experience-new-media-art-in-toronto/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dada-100-years-later

http://fhowtomakeflowercrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/intro-moresque-lamp

http://canadianart.ca/artists/ed-pien/

(Didn't collapse though) http://www.architectmagazine.com/newsletter/why-the-recent-dubai-skyscraper-fire-is-less-likely-to-happen-in-the-us

"The genius is not a know-it-all. They're a see-it-all. They're seeing connections that other people don't see." - CBC Radio: The Current: http://cbc.ca/1.3431585
"... any troubling lack of abundance in one's life is not a cause, but an effect, of other thoughts on the subjects of life, work, and happiness." - TU
"Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success." - Malcolm McLaren
"Not even the Dadaists know what Dada is." - Johannes Baader

http://hyperallergic.com/256268/before-google-earth-a-rare-cartographic-compendium-from-renaissance-europe/

http://99u.com/articles/52181/monet-of-the-mountain-how-a-ski-maps-painter-owns-his-niche-marker

Art/science Collaborators; http://www.sciartcenter.org/group-3

http://desarts.co.uk/Blog/73/2016/01/17/Visual_plagiarism

(Workshop) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/video-mapping-using-painting-with-light

http://www.torontolongwinter.com/blog/big-call-out-for-artists-participants-and-volunteers

Japanese Digital Art in California

https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/the-worst-movie-posters-of-2015-revealed-170137924.html

(Definition) 'Thich Nhat Hanh': a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist (on mindfulness)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Never_Alone_with_a_Schizophrenic

"... the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer." - Henri Matisse
"As a living, breathing, developing human being, you don’t need to be ashamed to change (now is the time to be who you are now instead of carrying around the shell of who you once were)." - Via
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT YOU SEE, AND WONDER ABOUT WHAT MAKES THE UNIVERSE EXIST. BE CURIOUS." - STEPHEN HAWKING
"STOP trying to predict, and therefore limit, where it's going to come from.  Just know it's going to come..." - The Universe

https://www.academia.edu/20224894/_Mapping_a_Slave_Revolt_Visualizing_Spatial_History

http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/01/180000-historic-maps-photos-and-postcards-are-now-free-for-public-use/423252/?utm_source=SFFB

(Video) http://scottbaldridge.net/2016/01/20/mathematician-clayton-shonkwiler-an-advanced-perspective/ (random polygons)

http://collagegallery.org/index.php/the-nature-of-collage/

(Exhibition) 5 Texan artists (including Flood), all of whom are working with print-on-canvas technologies to some degree

http://hyperallergic.com/73429/the-top-10-art-documentaries-to-watch-on-netflix-instant/

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/jan/26/why-people-fall-for-pseudoscience-and-how-academics-can-fight-back

(Opus) http://www.amazon.ca/Infinite-Jest-David-Foster-Wallace

(Antarctica) https://ca.news.yahoo.com/explorer-henry-worsley-dies-during-112156574.html
http://shackletonsolo.org/bio/

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think

"If you hear a voice inside you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh
"We live in a rainbow of chaos." - Paul Cezanne
"To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before." - The Universe
"The more you can muddy the waters around the meaning of a work, the more you can keep the value high." - Sherrie Levine, artist
"Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present." - Alan W. Watts

(Map) https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/nuclear-tests/

https://aeon.co/essays/the-paradoxes-that-sit-at-the-very-core-of-physics

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-made-science-beautiful/424620/

http://petapixel.com/2016/01/11/this-photo-was-shot-over-the-course-of-26-hours-at-an-african-watering-hole/

(How to Show Your Art at Galleries...and) Make the Most of Your Openings

New Digital Gallery Offers a 'Stimulation Overload' For All

http://chicagoist.com/2015/09/17/photos_how_the_bean_was_constructed.php

(Video) "Antarctica, My White Planet"

http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/remix

http://expandedconsciousness.com/2015/02/22/28-powerful-quotes-time/

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw
"From what I'm doing
the conversation changes
to what I have done." - R.B.Wild (R.I.P. David Bowie)
"An opportunity exactly like this, to be you, won't ever come again." - TU
"Pay for the best and you only cry once." - Miles Redd
"Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax right now, and rest." - Tilopa