29 March 2016

Toronto archival maps : http://wxs.ca/oldtoronto/

(http://p5js.org/ ; IDE (integrated development environment) available here: http://p5js.org/download/#editor : great tutorials (http://p5js.org/tutorials/), documentation (http://p5js.org/reference/) and examples (http://p5js.org/examples/)

http://blogs.guggenheim.org/map/art-and-geography/

http://nautil.us/blog/the-man-who-changed-how-artists-and-scientists-work-together

http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/learn-how-to-code-for-free-a-diy-guide-for-learning-html-python-javascript-more.html

When does borrowing from other cultures become 'appropriation'?

http://inhabitat.com/sustainable-ruche-shelves-harness-beehive-aesthetics-and-geometry/

http://www.scoopwhoop.com/3D-Zebra-Crossing-Designed-By-Gujarat-Women/

Art by Fire (gun-powder)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/banksy-geographic-profiling-proves-artist-really-is-robin-gunningham-according-to-scientists-a6909896.html

"... the importance of drawing as a mode of thinking, rather than a complement to it, or an afterthought. Drawing and thinking are closely related. Indeed, in many important ways, it's worth assuming drawing IS thinking." - Mark Earls
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"Somewhere there must be primordial figures whose bodily forms are only symbols. Could I but see them, I would know the link between matter and thought; I would know in what Being consists!" - Gustave Flaubert, 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony'
"Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished." -  Lao Tzu
"Naturally ...you're a bit startled to see the bar continually being raised on you, even after all you've done." - The Universe

25 March 2016

https://player.fm/series/topics-89907/artists-and-scientists-collide-at-cern-science-and-creativity-from-studio-360

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/five-tips-to-get-you-started-as-a-science-artist/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/design/at-mit-science-embraces-a-new-chaos-theory-art.html?_r=1

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/why-talented-people-copy

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/artists-turn-songs-into-3d-printed-sculptures

(Interactive) Isometric Cubes

http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/3900-pages-of-paul-klees-personal-notebooks-are-now-online.html

Dome Building

(Platform for JengaWall Project) https://www.facebook.com/notes/open-architecture-toronto/announcing-the-open-architecture-collaborative

(Gambling) http://www.playsmart.ca/

"If it is right, it happens; the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away." - John Steinbeck
"I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." - Benjamin Button
"Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation." - Kevin Ashton, author; The Most Successful Creative People Constantly Say 'No'
"Acceptance reveals an understanding that today's circumstances arose from yesterday's focus, encouraging introspection and fueling new thought, actually serving to hasten change." - TU
"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or nature." - Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817–May 6, 1862)

22 March 2016

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/london-psychogeographical-map

http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2016/02/10/9-ways-to-elevate-your-business-performance-with-mind-mapping/

http://blog.scienceborealis.ca/canadian-science-and-art-mix-it-up-in-the-annual-sciart-tweet-storm/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-sims-/pi-day-mathematics-art

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-at-spring-break-800-artists-tackle-technology-ownership-and-appropriation

(Definition) "antidisciplinary" : it’s about working in spaces that simply do not fit into any existing academic discipline (a specific field of study with its own particular words, frameworks, and methods).

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/tania-bruguera-to-stage-public-vote-on-immigration/

http://lacda.com/juried/spring2016winners.html

Toronto technical genius: https://vimeo.com/pdinnen

http://clockworkproductions.ca (rough texture vinyl)

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." - Deepak Chopra
"No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any." - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
"Rejection Is a Sign You’re Onto Something New." - Paola Antonelli
"Struggling, trying to physically manipulate the circumstances of one's life, reveals a misunderstanding of how those circumstances were actually created. And for the focus placed on them during the struggle, it actually serves to keep things from changing." - TU
"Genius gives birth, talent delivers." - Jack Kerouac

18 March 2016

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-video/8782271/Scientists-map-images-from-human-brain-for-first-time.html

(Example) Call to Participate (collaborate):  http://yourviewsfilm.com/  Via

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-04/alan-alda-on-art-and-science/7220536

http://www.straight.com/arts/643691/mashup-reveals-pivotal-role-women-pioneering-modern-art-methods

(DIY) http://www.protolabto.com/services/

http://www.google.com/doodles#archive

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/03/thoreau-on-genius/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-public-art-analysis

https://www.pokerstars.com/poker/terms/

http://artistsnetwork.ca/member/ron-wild-1

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike, than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
"We don't need no stinking badges!" - Blazing Saddles 
"When dreaming, know that anything can happen. In that magical state, the only price to be paid is with imagination. Having 'it all' costs the same as having nothing at all." - TU
"Without people copying each other, things don't spread very fast or very far." - Mark Earls
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, with an impartial eye." - The Buddha

15 March 2016

https://www.facebook.com/mappingresidencies/?fref=nf

http://www.creativeboom.com/photography/abandoned-checkpoints-photographer-documents-europes-forgotten-borders/

http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/six-artists-decisive-moments

(MashApp) http://charlesanifowose.vretta.com/projects/rawnwild-machup_map/

http://thepaintingcenter.org/exhibitions/exhibit-eh

http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/digital-creativity-creative-technologies-and-innovation/

http://99u.com/articles/52154/idea-sex-how-new-yorker-cartoonists-generate-500-ideas-a-week

Benefits and challenges of using fabric in digital printing

Tidying Up Can Hamper Creativity

http://amaroksociety.org/wordpress/

"All dreams come with built-in challenges, and all challenges come with built-in dreams," - The Universe
"For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." - Matthew 7:7- (KJV)
"Don’t worry about cool." -Sol Lewitt
"The only way I’ve found to get over this is to sit with the discomfort. Like most creatives, I’m at my best when there’s a bit of fear and a lot of uncomfortableness thrown into the mix.." - Paul Jarvis  Via
"Drawing is a philosophical act, an act of faith and a belief in magic." - Margaret Priest

11 March 2016

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/eleven-pro-tips-art-plus-internet

http://p5js.org/tutorials/

(GigaPan) Pixelated Mosaic example

http://www.sciartcenter.org/virtual-exhibits.html

http://www.makersculpture.ca/services.html

http://www.cgsociety.org/news/article/2055/face-tracking-art

http://observer.com/2016/02/multitasking-is-killing-your-brain

http://art-sheep.com/10-quotes-by-umberto-eco/

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/post/139798180820/study-shows-how-similar-the-faces-of-brand-models

http://desarts.co.uk/Blog/113/2016/02/24/Using_Facebook_to_promote_and_sell_art_and_design_work_(by_Gillian_J)

"Reverse Law of Desires: the sooner you can be happy without 'it,' the sooner you will be happy with 'it'." - The Universe
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo
"If the world were clear, art would not exist." -  Albert Camus, French philosopher
"CATCH THE EYE! STIR THE MIND! WARM THE HEART!" - statement in marketing
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." - Matthew 7:7-8 (KJV) 7

07 March 2016

(Video) Animated artworks

http://p5js.org/libraries/

http://www.sciencealert.com/7-times-mathematics-became-art-and-blew-our-minds

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/media-art-electronic-superhighway

Creat gifs from YouTube videos

http://www.clubink.ca/blog/digital-textile-printing/digital-textile-printing-changing-fashion/

http://flavorwire.com/561588/did-miguel-de-cervantes-invent-fiction-with-don-quixote

http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/7-artists-arctic

DomeBuilder

(Ottawa outdoor summer art show) http://www.newartfestival.ca/index.html

"Can you imagine living in a world where paying too much, giving too much, and trusting too much would all inevitably make you more?" - TU
"The probable is what usually happens." - Aristotle
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." - Anaïs Nin
"When hard and rigid, we consort with death. When soft and yielding we are followers of life." - Tao Te Ching
"...for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." - Kurt Vonnegut from "Cold Turkey" in "In These Times" (10 May 2004)

02 March 2016

http://www.artsciencecsm.com/

(App) http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/being-bilingual-changes-the-architecture-of-your-brain/

(Podcast) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2016/feb/04/art-in-the-age-of-big-data

http://artthescience.com/blog/

https://nowtoronto.com/news/features/interview-graffiti-artist-anser/

(Video) http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/olafur-eliasson-shape-idea (sculpture / installation artist)

Kazimir Malevich : founder of Suprematism [non-objective approach to making art] viewed the aerial landscape as a new and radical paradigm in the art of the Twentieth Century. In his mind, aerial photography had created a broad change in consciousness. Much of his work was inspired by or derived from aerial landscapes.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/ao-scott-critic-without-a-cause

(YouTube) WTC7

"Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it." - Gabriel García Márquez
"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is." - Eckhart Tolle
"A picture is a poem without words." - Ewa
"...the ability to imagine change in spite of the illusions that surround you and move toward it without even knowing "how" your kingdom will come, is the hallmark of perfection, strength, and divinity." - TU
"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours." - Swedish proverb