27 December 2017

https://hyperallergic.com/408052/illusion-maps-at-harvard-map-collection/

https://artistsandclimatechange.com/2017/12/12/top-10-best-art-sustainability-iniatives-in-berlin/

http://www.nicolebeno.com/#/onsite-gallery-x-ocad-installation/

http://icecastles.com/

iCloud Storage: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204247

https://m.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/29/vladimir-nabokovs-dream-diary/

https://www.paperclay.com/product.htm

(Definition) 'abstruse'; abˈstro͞os; difficult to understand; obscure. "an abstruse philosophical inquiry" synonyms: obscure, arcane, esoteric, little known, recherché, rarefied, recondite, difficult, hard, puzzling, perplexing, cryptic, enigmatic, Delphic, complex, complicated, involved, over/above one's head, incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, mysterious

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/12/21/asians-going-mad-for-ripple-coin

(Delegation report)  http://www.ifpb.org/del63/report3.html

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." - Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer
"Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody." - Piet Mondrian
"Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them." - Rudolf Steiner
"I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it’s complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an individual, each of them is a multitude." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi author of the book 'Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People'
"Discard everything that does not spark joy." - Marie Kondo, Japanese organizing consultant and author

21 December 2017

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/climate-change-maps

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/arts/design/why-experts-dont-believe-this-is-a-rare-first-map-of-america

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/11/20/565352403/a-google-related-plan-brings-futuristic-vision-privacy-concerns-to-toronto

http://www.northeastofnorth.com/neon-digital-arts-festival-2017/

(Nicole Loeser et al) http://universal-sea.org/about

(Definition) 'Disequilibrium' : happens when you begin to see things in the world that don’t make sense to you. The things you thought you knew, the things that helped you feel stable and clear, are now in question

(Art Residency) 'In the hole'   http://lindaduvall.com/

(Collage artist)  http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13597/elisabeth-wild is a 95-year-old artist from Vienna who is making collage from the Guatemalan jungle,  Via  Collaborator: http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/en/exhibition/vivian-suter-intrepida-featuring-elisabeth-wild-fantasias-2-2/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." - Dr. Seuss
"...hanging out and cutting up paper seemed like fun. I didn’t think too much about it. They had a ton of magazines to work with and in couple of hours I ended up with five collages. They were like nothing that I’d ever done before. The process was fast, intuitive, and raw. It blew my mind. It was definitely a turning point. Collaging was playful and liberating." - Yasmine Diaz
"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge." - Carl Jung
"Everyone spends their lives hoping, wishing, and asking instead of doing, being, and having." - The Universe
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R.Buckminster Fuller

15 December 2017

https://www.destinationtips.com/destinations/23-mind-blowing-international-borders-around-world/

http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_murakami.html

http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/yale-presents-a-free-online-course-on-miguel-de-cervantes-masterpiece-don-quixote.html

(pdf) "The Practice of Art and Science"

Creating symmetry: the artful mathematics of wallpaper patterns 

https://www.https://www.reddit.com/user/Riyos

(Collage Artist) https://www.melissamoffat.com/artmain  Via

https://soundcloud.com/birnabeatz/anonymousareone

https://onbeing.org/blog/parker-palmer-in-quiet-places-we-face-the-questions-that-can-make-or-unmake-us/

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/jerusalem-embassy-capital-trump/

"All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp." - Dan Sperber
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality." - Dante
"Everything you give, you get back, times seven. Plus, what you give, grows, times seven." - The Universe

07 December 2017

https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/toronto-ontario

https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/how-to-make-art-that-people-really-care-about

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-painting-techniques-that-don-t-involve-a-brush

https://inhabitat.com/this-breathtaking-new-street-art-is-made-entirely-out-of-trash/

http://whitecube.com/artists/julie_mehretu/

http://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/articles/max-ernst-at-moma/

https://www.curbed.com/2017/11/28/16705202/trump-wall-mexico-border-prototypes

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

The Best Free Antivirus Protection of 2017

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohs823drKKgswwGsg/html5

"I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way; things I have no words for." - Georgia O’Keefe
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat." - Confucius
"It’s all just been practice, so far, for when the really good stuff shows up." - TU
"There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." - Ursula K. Le Guin
" But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you." - Al-Baqara;verse 216

01 December 2017

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/

(Mixed Media Map Art) http://www.marycnasser.com/blog/friday-favorite-sarah-virginia-uhl

https://archpaper.com/2017/10/eight-border-wall-prototypes-unveiled/#gallery-0-slide-0

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-age-fake-photos-videos-spot

(Inspirational Quote Generator). http://inspirobot.me/

http://yongestclair.ca/zebra-public-art-mgmt-livens-yonge-st-clair/

http://nautil.us/blog/why-beauty-is-not-universal

https://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-fences-make-good-neighbors-public-art-fund-10-10-2017

https://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2017/nov/15/free-improvisation-still-the-ultimate-in-underground-music

http://upliftconnect.com/toning-vagus-nerve-heals-pain/

"In the end (not that there really is an end), it's ALL going to be about how much you loved." - The Universe
"Get familiar with discomfort." - R.B.Wild
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
"Asking for a friend." - Meme
"...the public eats up insider personality indulgences." - Robert Genn

24 November 2017

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/mapping-canadas-intact-forests

https://www.irbbarcelona.org/en/events/irb-barcelona-artist-in-residence-2018-call

http://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/articles/subtractive-collage/

https://www.boredpanda.com/tricycles-projecting-digital-graffiti-art-vj-suave/

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90149113/tech-is-transforming-our-spaces-and-were-just-beginning-to-see-how

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/30-books-everyone-should-read-in-their-thirties

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/einstein-darwin-and-the-two-hour-genius-rule

RESISTING ZIONISM & WHITE SUPREMACY:
https://uscpr.org/learn/togetherwerise/freedom-bound/

(Timber construction) https://structurecraft.com/

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/11/09/doctor-explains-what-happens-to-the-human-body-when-it-goes-into-ketosis-ketogenic-diet/

"If at first an idea does not sound absurd then there's no hope for it." - Albert Einstein
"Thinking big but acting small is the same as thinking small." - The Universe
"Artists ought to look at their subject matter and attempt to extract a greater truth from what is seen. Beauty more beautiful, colour more colourful, gesture more gestural, elegance more elegant, solidity more solid, drama more dramatic." - Robert Genn
"I was not disappointed." - Meme
"A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom." - Henry David Thoreau

17 November 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming

http://www.blogto.com/tech/2017/09/bitcoin-atm-toronto/

http://kolajmagazine.com/content/news/the-collage-taxonomy-project/

https://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/art-projection-design

http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2017/

http://mementosproject.ca/

https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/students-move-worlds-tallest-timber-tower

https://www.imore.com/how-draw-and-write-your-apple-pencil-pro

(Artist; Dan Bergeron) http://fauxreel.ca/projects/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-mindfulness-meditation-science-based/

"Trying to build happiness on a foundation of ego is like trying to build a tower on quicksand." - Pamela Gayle White, 'A Slow, True Path'

"An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs." - Francis Bacon
"You are only free when you realize you belong no place ---- you belong every place--- no place at all." - Maya Angelou
"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go." - Rumi
"Changing what you have comes from changing who you are. And changing who you are comes from changing what you think (Visualize)." - The Universe

09 November 2017

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90143906/theres-an-entirely-new-way-of-mapping-the-world-and-its-brilliant

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/how-an-exhibit-of-protest-art-wound-up-sparking-a-protest-of-its-own/

http://www.visualtalks.ca/home.html


http://www.pamlostracco.com/murals-home


http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/01/31/the-legend-of-shambhala-a-hidden-land-that-exists-within-our-own/

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/life/entrepreneurs-entering-the-edible-marijuana-business-will-face-baked-inproblems/


(Definition) "Punding" is a stereotypical motor behavior in which there is an intense fascination with repetitive handling and examining of mechanical objects, such as picking at oneself or taking apart watches and radios or sorting and arranging of common objects, such as lining up pebbles, rocks, or other small objects.
 
https://environmentaldefence.ca/cash-it-dont-trash-it/

http://toronto.interculturaldialog.com/exploring-faith-series-denominations-islam-oct-25-2017/


"Don't confuse lack of talent with lack of practice." - Megan
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"... that certain 'je ne said quoi' ..." - French saying
"All we want is credit." - disgruntled artist
"Difficult undertakings have always started with what’s easy." - Lao Tzu

01 November 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/06/science/why-we-miss-things-in-front-of-us

(Online, interactive, generative art engine) http://vispo.com/aleph3/slideshow/info.htm

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-11-of-the-world-s-most-unusual-artist-residencies?

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/creative-software/adobe-illustrator-indesign-wacom-tablet-users-shouldnt-update-macos-high-sierra-or-buy-new-mac/

(Sealant) B72 http://swotc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Mural-Symposium-Brochure.pdf

http://www.widewalls.ch/10-art-fairs-during-miami-art-week/

http://upliftconnect.com/wu-wei-ancient-art-non-doing/

https://laqfoil.com/en/products/backlit-ceilings.html

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-need-to-kick-our-addiction-to-plastic/

https://smallcappower.com/top-stories/blockchain-penny-stocks/

"For the earnest student, taking responsibility means never forgetting to have fun." - The Universe
"The wise man loves water." - Lao-Tse
"In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen." - Leon Battista Alberti
"Never aim for your goal directly, always move in angles." - Sam Ovens
"A small effort at the right time is better than a big effort at the wrong time." - Chinese saying

25 October 2017

http://www.hiddenhydrology.org/category/city/toronto/

https://www.sketchup.com/learn

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-matisse-fauvists-harnessed-expressive-power-color

https://artreview.com/home/ar_october_2017_opinion_will_the_blockchain_will_make_art_disappear
https://curiosity.com/topics/dr-steven-novella-on-skepticism-pseudoscience-and-conspiracy-theories-curiosity

(Book) http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/lost-tetrads-marshall-mcluhan/

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2017/09/almost-famous/#r0kFBrZzf0iJF0Us.01

https://pagez.fun/2013/10-hypnotizing-and-beautiful-mathematical-gifs

https://www.rt.com/news/403129-unctad-report-israel-palestine/

(Public Art Call) https://vasarely.obuda.hu/en/victor-vasarely-nemzetkozi-palyazat-a-kozteri-muveszetert-iii-eng/

https://smallcappower.com/top-stories/canadian-marijuana-stocks-aurora-cannabis/

"Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small." - Lao Tzu
"For those people who don’t get involved because they think there is a consequence; there is also a consequence for doing nothing." -  James Cromwell, actor and activist
"Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection." - Jean-Luc Godard
"It's one trick to manifest exactly what you want. It's another to bring about something even better (leave the door open)." - The Universe
"Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience." - Paul Cézanne

18 October 2017

http://e360.yale.edu/features/the-nitrogen-problem-why-global-warming-is-making-it-worse

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hard-painting-made-computer-human

June17 Arctic Circle resident; http://roberthengeveld.com/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/the-unknowable-joni-mitchell/

http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/book_report/roy-lichtenstein-what-is-pop-art-55006

https://pagez.fun/8554/7-mustsee-mathematics-movies-inspired-by

https://wearewildness.com/four-directions-medicine-wheel-affect-life/

http://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6185_ai_weiwei_good_fences_make_good_neighbors

(Definition) 'Normalization' (noun): the process by which something that was once considered intolerable is formally or informally condoned by society.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/24/arctic-plastic-pollution-polystyrene-wildlife-threat

"Honor Your Mistakes as a Hidden Intention." - Miles Davis
"It's not the size of your dreams that determines whether or not they come true, but the size of the actions you take that implies their inevitable arrival." - The Universe
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence." - Khalil Gibran
"Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved." - Lao Tzu
"I have come only to show the way." - Paul Cézanne

10 October 2017

https://hyperallergic.com/394476/a-crowd-sourced-sound-map-for-the-protests-of-our-time

(Spain residency site) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanca,_Murcia

ISADORA Projection Mapping https://troikatronix.com/get-it/

70s-sci-fi-was-all-about-hexagons

(Human extinction); https://guymcpherson.com/2017/02/faster-than-expected/

http://momus.ca/for-common-and-decent-things-resisting-co-opted-collaboration/

https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/photos-new-fern-faade-art-at-expanded-newton-rec-centre-designed-to-reduce-bird-window-collisions/

(Definition) 'avant-garde'; being ahead of, outside, or against the dominant culture; proffering a vision that implicitly stands (at least when it is conceived) as a critique of entrenched forms and structures

BioDegradable Plastic  https://healthfoodsoul.com/student-just-saved-the-planet/

http://teresaascencao.com/residencies/

"The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas. It’s to create a culture where everyone has ideas and feel that they’re valued." – Sir Ken Robinson
"A single perspective is never enough." - R.B.Wild
"Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen." - George Saunders
"Don't insist on 'how' your dreams will come true." - TU
"Entertaining the other side for awhile, even if ultimately you revert back to the belief you first had, can be incredibly powerful." - Malcolm Gladwell

02 October 2017

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

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-a-map-of-the-entire-internet-as-of-1973

http://ewao.com/2017/07/23/this-9-gigapixel-image-with-84-million-stars-of-the-milky-way-will-give-you-goosebumps/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal

(Noncommunative?0 http://www.wired.co.uk/article/neurons-multi-dimensional-network-brains

https://hyperallergic.com/316105/how-anamorphic-paintings-represented-the-miracles-of-the-saints/

http://www.resartis.org/en/residencies/

https://tinybuddha.com/wisdom-quotes/

http://nypost.com/2017/09/17/this-artist-is-making-mega-millions-stealing-peoples-work/

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/jim-andy-the-great-beyond-review-jim-carrey-andy-kaufman

"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." - T.S. Eliot
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what is next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Pema Chodron
"Through thick and thin, I kept my brushes wet." - Lee Quiñones
"One way to defeat invisible limiting beliefs is to simply dream of a life so grand, that they couldn't possibly make sense." - The Universe
"I must make myself fully aware that I know nothing. It is the only way to get ahead." - Edgar Degas

29 September 2017

https://ferryman.net/

(Toronto) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/03/08/the_star_unveils_unique_map_of_neighbourhoods

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

(Video) Banach Tarski

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/movies/silent-film-youtube-videos

https://theartsplus.com/2017/09/01/easy-predict-future-create/

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/guerrilla-public-service/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-fibres-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals

https://hyperallergic.com/397993/freedom-walt-whitman-and-phish

https://insiderfinancial.com/what-comes-next-for-first-bitcoin-cap-com-npv-otcmktsbitcf

"The man who arrives at the doors of creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist … what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings." - Plato (via John Marok)
"A brilliant idea will go viral on its own." - R.B. Wild
"Once you have a word for something, it becomes much more tangible, much more accessible. The shapes of your thoughts begin to include these different ways of seeing, of being." - Sanders
"The only difference between 'have' and 'have-not' is imagination." - The Universe
"Over and over again. Genuine art tells the truth." - Chogyam Trungpa

21 September 2017

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005690-the-not-good-bad-ugly-mapping

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/where-see-some-worlds-oldest-maps

https://blogs.ancestry.ca/cm/what-saliva-reveals-about-north-america/

http://www.spiralzoom.com/Science/plantsphi/Plantsphi.html

http://www.sciartmagazine.com/straight-talk-with-neuroaesthetics-researcher-dr-anjan-chatterjee.html

Emergence Class; https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~smorris/phy101_2011/readings.html

http://newsexaminer.net/art/graffiti-artist-banksy-arrested-in-palestine-identity-revealed/

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/25/google-releases-millions-of-bad-drawings-for-you-and-your-ai-to-paw-through/

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-jeff-koons-8-puppies-lawsuit-changed-artists-copy

Arcade Fire - everything now \\ full album  Critiqued

"The spiritual path is about what we give up, not what we get." - Tim Olmsted, 'The Great Experiment'
"Winners get back up way more often than losers fall down." - R.B.Wild
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"Beauty is the resplendence of the truth." - Antoni Gaudi
"The sun doesn't always rise in crimson. "The wind doesn't always blow from the south. The rains don't always fall on the plains. And so must you allow for your own rhythms in time." - The Universe

15 September 2017

Culture Mapping;  https://everythingiknow.scenariodna.com/

http://www.lsu.edu/science/news_events/CoSMagazine/ScienceandArtatLSU_Pursuit_2016-17.php

https://hyperallergic.com/396985/a-cybernetic-bestiary-made-of-disposable-packaging

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tracing-artwork-live-trace-or.html  (CS5 or earlier)

http://www.makersculpture.ca/

http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/08/31/found-in-an-nyc-junkshop-forgotten-postcards-between-two-haiku-masters/

http://www.govtslaves.com/2017-08-29-bookmark-this-over-400-links-google-doesnt-want-you-to-visit.html

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/12/03/berenice-abbott-documenting-science/

https://hyperallergic.com/389262/the-trickster-artist-behind-the-i-spy-books/

http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/analysis/phonecallshttp://911research.wtc7.net/planes/analysis/phonecalls.html.html

"This day I have found something wonderful that I shall surely copy." - Vincent van Gogh
"She was born wild.. and sometimes we need people like her. For it’s the horrors in her heart which cause the flames in ours. And she was always willing to burn for everything she has ever loved." - R.M. Drake
"... as you knock on doors and turn over stones, perpetually think to yourself, 'This or better..'. - The Universe
"Never talk about your secret methods. If you talk about them, they stop working." - Jean Cocteau
"You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather." - Pema Chödrön

07 September 2017

Map Trace Animation app: https://www.relive.cc/view/1131903747

https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/25/16024598/us-rivers-map-subway-theo-rindos

https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000005297565/bending-rules-hyperbolic-geometry-vi-hart.html

https://www.designcuts.com/product/worlds-greatest-vintage-collection

http://www.sciartmagazine.com/residencies.html

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/read-these-13-books-and-youll-be-a-better-person/

(Definition) 'Boketto'; gazing vacantly into the distance without really thinking about anything specific

(Video) Dylan (Hard Rain)

Polyethylene terephthalate bottles (PET resin)

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/gallery/2017/jun/08/kenya-plastic-bag-battle-ban-supermarkets-recycling-pictures

"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life." - Nietzsche
"When I start with my drawings, I just make a certain mark, and then the first mark needs another and from there on it’s really process based. I try to come to a state of mind where in the end it feels like the composition has been done by itself, or by someone else." - Wolfgang Voegele
"Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchbook, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear." - Kat Von D
"Forcing one art form to become another opens new opportunities for invention." - Robert Genn
"In the end, all you have are memories, and usually the ones you have with friends are the ones you treasure most." - The Universe

30 August 2017

Language Map

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-women-dada-hannah-hoch-beatrice-wood

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/13-step-digital-declutter

https://www.wired.com/story/the-star-wars-video-that-baffled-youtubes-copyright-cops/

http://www.shambhalaart.org/

(Erasing Graffiti) http://torontoist.com/2016/12/before-and-after/

Adobe Conference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces#Monospace

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/arts-culture/106319-philly-company-digitizes-collection-of-25000-old-records-and-growing-free-to-download

http://livetheorganicdream.com/humans-created-9-billion-tons-plastic-last-67-years/

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." - Carl Rogers
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King Jr., (1965)
 "We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." - Marie Curie
"A dream not followed by consistent action, however humble or small the actions may be, points to either a huge contradiction or a gigantic misunderstanding." - The Universe
"If you replace 'W' with 'T' in What, Where and When, you get the answer to each of them." - Harvey

21 August 2017

shocking-doomsday-maps-of-the-world-and-the-billionaire-escape-plans

Toronto golf courses

https://hyperallergic.com/348907/the-phantom-atlas

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-art-of-neuroscience

https://hyperallergic.com/390781/bob-clyatt-anthony-philip-fine-art/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Hyperallergic&utm_content=Marble+Reliefs+that+Flow+Against+the+Tide+of+Contemporary+Life

https://searchenginewatch.com/2017/07/28/what-does-visual-search-mean-for-ecommerce-in-2017

http://livetheorganicdream.com/humans-created-9-billion-tons-plastic-last-67-years/

(Quilter)   http://www.libselliott.com/

ArcadeFire

http://anonymous-news.com/complete-list-rothschild-owned-controlled-banks/

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it." - Anäis Nin
"What could be said in a few words, should not be said in many
For brevity has its own rewards, which are as good as any." - Itamar
"I do not explain, I explore." - Marshall McLuhan.
"The only thing that works is letting go." -  Keith Jarrett, Pianist (known for his amazing improvisations)
"Young souls learn to accept responsibility for their actions. Mature souls learn to accept responsibility for their thoughts. And old souls learn to accept responsibility for their happiness." - The Universe

15 August 2017

http://www.digicult.it/news/ethical-shape-sensitive-machines-philip-beesley-industry-4-0/

https://hyperallergic.com/386793/a-new-online-archive-for-the-brooklyn-academy-of-music

(Art/Science Collaborators) https://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2017/07/26/feat-kuenste-und-technologien-der-zukunft/

https://hyperallergic.com/323313/hiroshi-sugimotos-otherworldly-photographs-of-movie-theaters

https://www.livescience.com/38242-why-honeybee-honeycombs-are-perfect.html

http://theunboundedspirit.com/30-mind-bending-carl-jung-quotes/

https://truththeory.com/2017/07/18/first-european-union-country-declare-water-human-right/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/06/06/beethoven-genius-talent/

http://upliftconnect.com/control-inflammation/

http://anonymous-news.com/john-kerry-admits-wtc-7-911-brought-controlled-fashion/

"I’ve learned that opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss." - Andy Rooney
"I do not know with what weapons World WarIII will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself." - Robert Henri
"If you’re happy, you’ve already won." - gapingvoid
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T.S. Eliot

07 August 2017

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

Atlanta Airport: http://airport.blog.ajc.com/2016/06/29/4-million-airport-art-installation-coming-to-life/

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/mvxedv/katsu-shows-you-how-to-make-a-graffiti-drone

https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing

Oka Crisis https://www.facebook.com/subMedia/videos

https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/09/the-european-scientific-journal-didnt-conclude-911-controlled-demolition/

http://learn.wearewildness.com/blog/51217/embrace-wildness

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/zen-buddhism-koan

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2017/07/plastic-straws-suck

Utility : https://macpaw

"Act as you wish and regard nothing as sacred." - Sacred clown proverb  Via
"Mindfulness is nothing more or less than the practice of attention. Zen wants us to wake up from the sleepwalk of the routine and automatic - to bring full attention to our walking and talking, hearing and breathing, eating and working - to every aspect of our lives. There is no right or wrong way of doing things; there is only being more or less conscious. The goal is not to correct ourselves but to become more fully conscious of ourselves. Instead of struggling to improve ourselves, we can bring attention to the way we view the world around us and to our reactions and responses to it. Experienced mindfully, everything becomes a vehicle for liberation." - Laurence G. Boldt, Zen Soup
"Don’t be afraid to do the obvious... really well (sometimes miracles even hang around, waiting for you to call, write, or show up)." - The Universe
"Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out." - Robert Henri
"God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying things." - Pablo Picasso

31 July 2017

http://www.tribalnationsmaps.com/

(GigaPan) Visualizing the Bible: Cross References

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/artists-and-scientists-more-alike-than-different/

https://medium.com/@sonyahallett/cultural-appropriation-whose-culture-is-it-anyway-and-what-about-hybridity

Projection Artist; http://joanielemercier.com/no-logram/   Video

(Fabric Designer). http://www.libselliott.com/about/

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/conspiracy-thinking-and-the-need-for-certainty/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/plastic-age/533955/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/oka-crisis-anniversary

http://yournewswire.com/cia-911-wtc7/

"Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?" - Lao Tzu  Via
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable." -  René Magritte
"You see in the world what you have in your heart." - J.W. Goethe
"He came to understand that while you could be an artist of considerable intellect, that didn’t mean you had to be dry." - Via
"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." - Joan Walsh Anglund Read more at: https://fractalenlightenment.com/36234/artwork/mesmerising-visual-soundscapes-of-bird-songs | FractalEnlightenment.com

25 July 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/magazine/the-internet-is-where-we-share-and-steal-the-best-ideas

http://origami.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tachi/software/

Buckminster Fuller :PATTERN INTEGRITY

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/07/ctrlx-street-artists-delete-graffiti-with-a-painted-anamorphic-illusion/

https://stickerobot.com/blog/art-design/10-silkscreen-poster-artists-you-should-be-following-on-instagram-part1/     Andy Warhol, Rob Ryan, Blexbolex, Arthur Okamura, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Harry Gottlieb, William Ryan Ku

https://tricycle.org/magazine/uselessness/?utm_source=Tricycle&utm_campaign=9dff3947ab-Daily_Dharma

http://www.art-quotes.com/auth_search.php?name=Robert+Henri

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/01/31/the-legend-of-shambhala-a-hidden-land-that-exists-within-our-own/

(Definition) 'cognitive closure' is presently treated as a latent variable manifested through several different aspects, namely, desire for predictability, preference for order and structure, discomfort with ambiguity, decisiveness, and close-mindedness.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-water-bears-survive-apocalypse-humans-astrophysical-event-life-planet-indestructible

"The cut worm forgives the plow." - ‘Proverbs of Hell’ by William Blake (1790–93)
"Understanding something as an artwork gives rise to two possible mistakes of ontological mislocation: taking something as an artwork when it is not one, and taking something as a real object when it is an artwork." - Arthur Danto, 'The Transfiguration of the Commonplace'
"Do you really think you have to change to have what you want?" - TU
"Where do you live?; 'I live in the centre of my awareness'." - Buddhist monk
"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life." - John F. Kennedy

18 July 2017

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/05/understanding-limitations-maps

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/the-great-lakes-in-ojibwe-v2/

http://tensegritywiki.com/6+struts

http://www.florafelt.com/blog/architect-marika-shiori-clarks-living-wall-bursts-with-life-for-clevelands-hingetown-neighborhood

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/04/why-roman-concrete-still-stands-strong-while-modern-version-decays

HexInstallation : https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3667

https://tmrwedition.com/2017/02/06/artificial-intelligence-is-already-a-better-artist-than-you-are/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/dada-100-years-later

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/4w375w/running-is-the-worst-way-to-get-fit

(Definition) ko·an ˈkōän/ noun: a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." - Morpheus, The Matrix
"A bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits." - Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
"... the greatest artists are not merely 'people pleasers', but are also unafraid to challenge convention and cause controversy by proposing new ways of being and doing things of which not everyone may necessarily approve." - Via
"If it weren't for the stones in its path the river wouldn't sing...." -  Grace Alvarez Sesma
"Do not think that you have to get 'there' - wherever 'there' is for you - with what you have today, whether in terms of money, confidence, talent, connections, whatever.... Once you set yourself in motion, the necessary resources - in terms of money, confidence, talent, connections - will be drawn to you." - The Universe

12 July 2017

Hate Map : https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

https://techxplore.com/news/2017-06-algorithm-patterns-d-origami.html

https://artthescience.com/polyfield-gallery/optogenome/

http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/petra.berntsson/posts/10208919104395553

https://fractalenlightenment.com/32828/artwork/connecting-sacred-geometry-and-spirituality-with-daniel-kage

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/join-trim-paths-lines.html

BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE PROJECTSTO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL FUNDING : http://www.bfi.org/static/email/challenge/2017_Catalyst_Funding.html

http://additivism.org/manifesto

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/partners/sponsorcontent/content/article31374948/toronto-general-western-hospital-foundation-168026/who-to-turn-to-when-your-retina-detaches-from-your-eye

"You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn’t it? Sorry." - Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
"Be greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffet
"All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by silence." - Herman Melville
"I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman
"Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists." - Bhagavad Gita

28 June 2017

https://matadornetwork.com/network/pangea-look-like-current-international-borders/

(Map). https://hyperallergic.com/385406/lynching-in-america-online-interactive

https://iso.500px.com/heif-first-nail-jpegs-coffin/

http://www.buzzingcreatives.com/blog/2016/5/12/10-ted-talks-for-creatives

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/photos-toronto-island-under-water-2017

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/editing-paths.html

http://theunboundedspirit.com/bhagavad-gita-quotes/

Packaging Consortium:  http://www.pac.ca/the-pac-next-way.html

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/massive-frozen-methane-domes

https://timeline.com/by-the-end-of-his-life-martin-luther-king-realized-the-validity-of-violence

"When the homeland becomes foreign, the foreign becomes the homeland." - Thomas Mann
"Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it." - Bukowski
"After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is." - Donald Judd, sculptor
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius
"I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind." - Polish Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska's glorious poem 'Possibilities'

20 June 2017

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/photos-toronto-island-under-water-2017

(Soundwave generator). https://www.soundviz.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/opinion/in-praise-of-lost-causes

https://www.digital-science.com/blog/perspectives/podcast-neuroscience-improv-baba-brinkman-heather-berlin/

Plexiglass  http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/06/layer-drawings/

http://www.thistothat.com

Cardboard Tube architect; http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/works.html

https://www.facebook.com/about/basics/manage-your-privacy/timeline

Packaging Consortium:  http://www.pac.ca/the-pac-next-way.html

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4034589-top-12-lithium-miners-create-lithium-etf?page=4

"When the homeland becomes foreign, the foreign becomes the homeland." - Thomas Mann
"Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it." - Bukowski
"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees." - Aeschylus
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius
"There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving." - Terry Pratchett, Dodger

14 June 2017

https://www.troteclaser.com/en-ca/knowledge/do-it-yourself-samples/

https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/05/18/net-neutrality-answers/

https://canadac3.ca/en/expedition/the-legs/toronto-to-montreal/

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-memes-owe-art-history

http://www.cutlasercut.com/resources/drawing-guidelines/adobe-illustrator-cs-r

http://atxhackerspace.org/wiki/Laser_Cutter_Materials#Etching

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

https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/kimchi-chips-projector-beehive-mirrors-hologram-machine

Mindfulness:  http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2015/05/how-to-stop-worrying/

90's Ska Music Videos

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
 There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
 There is society, where none intrudes,
 By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
 I love not Man the less, but Nature more." - Lord Byron
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives." - James Joyce
"The art of the creative process is not seeking and finding, it’s bumbling." -   Jonathan Safran Foer, author, 'Here I Am'
"The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions." - Robin S. Sharma
"... you can't have a dream come true without a time when it hasn't." - TU

08 June 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/10/project-to-map-human-brain-from-womb-to-birth-releases-stunning-images

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2017/3/circular-visualizations/1

http://stefaniemueller.org/laserorigami-lasercutting-3d-objects/

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/first-bamboo-biennale

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/OldSoftwareReleases

The latest Leonardo Journal  : Download

DoorsOpen

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/16-facts-that-show-why-bottled-water-is-one-of-the-biggest-scams-of-the-century/

Scratch disk full

"A tensegrity is a set of strings that keep the construction together and the sticks apart." - Via
"Who guards the guardians?" - Roman poet Juvenal
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." - Mark Van Doren
"If you only knew how many miracles you've already performed, nothing would ever again overwhelm you, frighten you, or seem impossible." - The Universe
"Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless." - Euripides

31 May 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/21/climate/how-americans-think-about-climate-change-in-six-maps

https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/05/what-a-geographically-accurate-new-york-subway-map-looks-like

https://www.facebook.com/BuckminsterFullerInstitute

https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/cut-out-canvas/

(for OCAD class) http://spacing.ca/toronto/2016/09/01/artful-city-photo-essay-matthew-monteith/

Icons for everything:https://thenounproject.com/

http://globalnews.ca/news/3437927/justin-trudeau-cardboard-cut-outs-cost/

http://spacing.ca/toronto/2016/06/24/cn-tower-turns-40/

http://leaderpost.com/feature/elon-musk-inherited-a-lifetime-of-adventure-from-his-sask-family

"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two)." - Rauschenberg
"Meditation should not be regarded as a vacation from irritation." - Chogyam Trungpa
"When the artist is alive in any person… he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for better understanding." - Robert Henri
"A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"You don’t hoist your sails to move the boat, but to put yourself within reach of the wind." - The Universe

23 May 2017

https://arttextumreplicacion.net/2017/05/09/the-map-of-physics/

(Maps)  https://hyperallergic.com/371841/nypl-navigates-to-another-time-and-place/

http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/arts_culture/2017/05/ontario-resources-available-in-the-digital-archive.html

(ArtSci Festival) http://rixc.org/en/festival/

https://canadac3.ca/en/expedition/the-research/microplastics-along-canadian-shores/

https://medium.com/@girlplague/collage-a-valid-art-form-d70d6cedb4a1

(Laser case designer) http://www.makercase.com/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/blackout-city-blinds/

(Videos) Make Your Own Scale Figure (SketchUp)

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

"It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve." - Georgia O'Keefe
"Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it." - Alberto Giacometti
"Our economy is based on a crazy idea - the crazy idea being that we're gonna have infinite growth on a finite planet." - Paul Guilding
"The truth is you’re complete, you’re where you should be, and nothing has been missed." - TU
"The peril threatening humankind today is indifference, even more than hatred." - Elie Wiesel

17 May 2017

http://eysailing.gr/customize-journey-menu/ey-arts/cartography

https://hyperallergic.com/316836/how-an-imaginary-island-stayed-on-maps-for-five-centuries/

http://collagist.org/profiles/blog/list

(Residency) https://www.facebook.com/Vertigo-Starts-1332739353455906/?ref=bookmarks

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/05/11/robert-rauschenberg-confidence-man-american-art

http://torontotoollibrary.com/where-to-recycle-e-waste-in-toronto

https://my.rotary.org/en/document/presidential-peace-conference-2017-draft-program

http://decoziwindowfilm.ca/

http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-monitor/

https://www.facebook.com/ae911truth/posts/10154449014726269:0

"Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind." - Terry Pratchett, Dodger
"The truth is that if it’s too hard, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it." - Via
"The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within." - Ramana Maharshia
"Words create worlds." - TU
"There are only two kinds of people. Those who believe that they are a victim of the world and those who understand that they are the world." - Alan Watts