31 October 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3860062/The-veins-America-Stunning-map-shows-river-basin-US.html

(corrugated cardboard) Art

ARTECA; http://arteca.mit.edu/ (curated space for essential content linking the arts, sciences, and technologies)

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/the-new-wave-of-anti-design-magazines-will-question-your-sense-of-taste-and-thats-a-good-thing/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/growing-charm-of-dada/

(Video) Pop-up Books

http://www.pearltrees.com/spinnymommy/easy-origami

http://www.blogto.com/arts/2016/10/this_is_toronto_like_youve_never_seen_it_before/

http://www.architectureartdesigns.com/45-ideas-of-how-to-recycle-plastic-bottles/

https://www.instagram.com/michael_toke

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Albert Camus
"Never play to the gallery." - David Bowie
"There is no right and wrong. There's only fun and boring." - from the movie 'Hackers' (1995)
"When you can say, without doubt or equivocation, that 'My life today is entirely the result of my prior decisions, focus, and understandings,' I can then say, without doubt or equivocation, that it's only a matter of time before your every cup is overflowing." - The Universe

26 October 2016

(Map) https://www.wired.com/2016/10/lets-obsess-intricate-map-alt-music-history/?mbid=social_fb

https://food.good.is/articles/food-brands-owners

(Music) https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/topic/mashups

http://hyperallergic.com/332072/with-internet-comments-and-colonial-imagery-an-artist-remixes-our-hybrid-identities/

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/in-mathematics-mistakes-arent-what-they-used-to-be

http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/terry-gilliams-lost-animations-from-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-are-now-online.html

(Collage) old GeoCities elements; http://www.cameronsworld.net/

https://nowtoronto.com/movies/television/10-of-the-years-best-docs-to-watch-online-right-now/

(Definition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting

Patron Support; https://www.patreon.com/mayaweeks

"You can never own an idea, but you can cultivate it." - Via
"Alchemy is a science tinged with spirituality and infused with a schpritz of artistic spirit." - David Brafman  Via
"Go on. Astonish yourself." - TU
"Complicated as the author’s theory or explanation may be, is it actually simpler than the chaotic ideas and opinions we had about this subject before?" - Dr. Mortimer Adler
"Homo homini lupus (man is the wolf to man)" - Sigmund Freud, 'Civilization and Its Discontents' 1930

21 October 2016

RIXC Art Science Festival OPEN FIELDS: http://rixc.org/en/festival

http://deepdreamgenerator.com/gallery?time=all

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ieverything_i_knowi_42_hours_of_visionary_buckminster_fuller_lectures_1975.html

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/canadas-great-trail-stretch-15000-miles-coast-coast

http://hyperallergic.com/328567/national-archive-gifs-tell-us-history-motion/

http://momus.ca/from-a-safe-distance-guy-maddin-stills-his-lens-with-collage/

https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/scientists-say-google-is-changing-our-brains-25356c08b3e3#.q9z4n2uy9

(Interview) http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/in-their-words/billy-childish-interview-53134

Margaret Krawecka; http://www.spaceandstory.com/indeximmersivespace

http://www.coindesk.com/augur-reputation-launch-appcoin-pitfalls/

"Talent Is Vastly Overrated." - Billy Childish
"
"Until the really 'great' stuff comes along do the not-so-great stuff. The not-so-great stuff always leads to the great stuff. Whereas doing nothing pretty much leads to nowhere." - The Universe
"Have faith in your own bad taste." - John Waters  Via
"There are two types of companies; those that have been hacked, and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked." - John Chambers, CEO, Cisco
"Everyone is an artist." - Joseph Beuys

17 October 2016

https://www.academia.edu/29028775/Mapping_the_Invisible._Creative_Cartography_as_a_Tool_for_Representing_the_Changing_Contemporary_City

http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/explore-5300-rare-manuscripts-digitized-by-the-vatican.html

http://mentalfloss.com/article/86016/6-math-concepts-explained-knitting-and-crochet

https://hackernoon.com/the-hive-is-the-new-network

RAW Photo Editing App

(Yahoo Breach) https://s.yimg.com/sf/support/en-gb-security-notice-content.pdf

(Video) Plastic Water bottle ideas (re-purposing)

(Instrumental album) Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)

(Podcast) 'The decline of the American Empire';  http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-sorrows-of-empire-1.2914071

https://healthylandethic.com/2013/11/17/why-prairies-matter-and-lawns-dont/

"Sometimes you have to be different to teach everyone else how to be themselves." - Unknown
"A fractal is a way of seeing infinity." - James Gleick
"You must change your life." - Rilke's poem 'Archaic Torso of Apollo'
"Until you dream, there isn't a mold. Until you speak, there isn't a promise. And until you move, there isn't a path." - The Universe
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas

11 October 2016

https://blog.themaphouse.com/2016/08/19/war-map-exhibition/

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/09/04/when-the-don-valley-was-cottage-country.html

FoodBrand Map

Designer at the intersection of art, science, technology, and environment

(Video) Where Great Ideas Come From

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

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/07/elena-ferrante-the-trouble-with-anonymity-claudio-gatti-jane-austen-rahila-khan

http://www.laboiteverte.fr/collages-extravagants-de-sanda-anderlon/

(Definition) 'Rube Goldberg': doing something simple in a very complicated way that is not necessary

http://om-2016-acquisitions.blogspot.ca/2016/10/day-of-dead-dada-centennial.html?m=1q

"What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away." - Heraclitus
"After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me." - Elliott Erwitt
"The artist will come in from a bit of a tangent, probing areas where scientists wouldn't think to probe." - Via
"You miss 100% of the 5th shots you don't take." - Andrew Yung
"It's time you step forward to claim whatever it is that you want from life. Just remember, the gate keeper who will give it to you is the same gate keeper who has kept it from you." - The Universe

05 October 2016

(Glacier Face) GigaPan by Greg Lock

https://nowtoronto.com/news/ecoholic/the-water-takers/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/arts/next-from-david-byrne-neuroscience-in-an-art-gallery.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602274/three-grand-challenges-for-brain-science-that-can-be-solved-in-10-years/

http://www.marketingmag.ca/brands/an-agency-ceo-makes-the-case-for-artists-in-the-boardroom

Classical Music Mashup

http://www.businessinsider.com/8-awesomely-simple-science-experiments-you-can-do-at-home

(Definition) 'brokeh';aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens ( How to )

DNA MashUp; http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/baby-born-using-three-parent-technique(doctors-say)

"When in doubt,  show up early. Think less. Feel more. Ask once. Give thanks. Expect the best. Appreciate everything. Never give up. Make it fun. Lead. Invent. Regroup. Wink. Chill. Smile." - TU
"The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work." - Ira Glass Via
"The art audience is the worst audience in the world. It’s overly educated, it’s conservative, it’s out to criticize not to understand, and it never has any fun." - David Hammons  Via
"Nations have no permanent friends or allies; they only have permanent interests." - Lord Palmerston, 19th century British prime minister
"Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t then it is of no use to us." - Carlos Castaneda