21 February 2017

Universe MapThe Most Detailed Map to Date of Our Place in the Universe

http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2017/01/map-outdoor-skating-rinks-toronto/

http://www.artbordersproject.com/about/

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

http://www.digicult.it/art/media-art-and-art-market-intervista-con-christa-sommerer/

Mónica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN

https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/comments/5oywro/psbattle_djts_official_presidential_portrait/

http://hyperallergic.com/217577/the-revolution-has-been-digitized-explore-the-oldest-archive-of-radical-posters/

http://www.blogto.com/city/2017/01/mirvish-village-might-be-saved-honest-eds-redevelopment/

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/01/mind-boggling-graph-of-trump business connections

" ... we can’t help but fret more about what effects we might have on the future in which we will not exist than about what might have happened in the past when we did not exist." - Via
"In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions." - Marcel Duchamp
"Have your own definition of success...so you can fulfill your dreams, not someone else's expectations of your dreams." - Elliot Fletcher
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking." - Steven Wright
"If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish." - Chuck Palahniuk

13 February 2017

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-shortest-route-between-all-the-pubs-in-the-uk

http://www.citylab.com/design/2017/01/mit-senseable-city-lab-treepedia-mapping-urban-trees/

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/

(HexMan) http://hyperallergic.com/352616/roy-brewster-norian-house/

(Video) Magical Triangle

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/why_skepticism

(Memory Art Project) https://www.facebook.com/BaycrestFoundation

https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/

http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/dada

http://toronto.shambhala.org/monthly-calendar

"It’s now, we’re us and this is here. If you’re in pain, this too shall pass. If you’re in luxury, this too shall pass." - Louis CK
"... being forced to walk on flat asphalt and concrete floors […] estranged from man’s age-old relationship and contact to earth, a crucial part of man withers and dies." - Friedensreich Hundertwassser
"When performing, I am able to purely live in the moment." - Ava Wild
" A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.” - Confucius
"Because the Outsider is continually darting on ahead, she remains undiscovered and misunderstood." - John Devlin

08 February 2017

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/11/map-and-territory/

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/mapmakers-craft.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-american-infrastrucure

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2017/01/11/when-mathematics-and-art-collaborate

http://hyperallergic.com/350791/seeing-science-project/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/04/anti-surveillance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyperface

http://graphichistorycollective.com/

(Definition) "Anthropocene" ; flooding, drought, ecocide, extinction of species, loss of biodiversity, waste, ocean acidification, climate change, energy transition, resource use.

Protest Signs 

(Micro Finance)  https://www.kiva.org/

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - Louise Bourgeois
"Clarity does not interest me. Understanding is tentative. Knowledge is conditional." -  Richard Nonas, artist
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves." - Patti Smith