25 May 2021

http://utoronto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html

https://www.6sqft.com/nyc-water-towers-history-use-and-infrastructure/



Animating faces: https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia.  Abe Lincoln example; https://youtu.be/kEtiajHLmQY  Deep Fake 

(Video) Pole/ Tube painting




“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars . . . ” - Jack Kerouac, ‘On The Road’, American Beat writer (1922 – 1969)
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be.” - Charles Bukowski
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” - John Steinbeck
"I’m a peripheral visionary . I can see into the future, just way off to the side." - Steven Wright
Thinking small isn't easy or hard. It's just a habit. A habit with consequences. Same for thinking big.” - The Universe

19 May 2021

https://arteinsky.blogspot.com/2014/06/3d-model-of-earth-without-water-in

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3207185/best-password-managers-reviews-and-buying-advice.html

https://digiart.ca/

Abstract background with Hexagon Grid group node of Animation Nodes in Blender - Tutorial video 

Human Nature: In Conversation with Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna  

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photos-ever-taken-snowflakes 

Domino Chain Reaction (exponential growth in action) 

http://philogb.github.io/page/myriahedral

https://montecristomagazine.com/community/53-years-ago-vancouvers-fool-turned city upside down 

http://www.grapheneuses.org/graphene-stock/

“A man a plan a canal Panama” - (same backwards) 🙃

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” - Pablo Picasso

“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.” -  Buckminster Fuller

You’ll learn more in one hour of doing something than in a lifetime of thinking about it.” - Marc Randolph

“The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals." - John Hartford 

06 May 2021

https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/dvhmp/rosedale-estate.html   

https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/tourism-in-service-of-occupation-and-annexation

https://www.youtube.com/c/FieldsInstitute 

https://art21.org/read/julie-mehretu-to-be-felt-as-much-as-read/

https://snark.art/  Digital crypto art 

https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/07/samsung-out-of-the-box-competition-shortlist-15-cardboard-furniture-designs/

(50 word stories)  https://medium.com/centina-pentina

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/azerbaijan-armenia-conflict-nationalism-colonialism

https://www.blogto.com/city/2016/09/how_toronto_built_the_most_hyped_sports_stadium_ever

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/picnic-in-cemeteries-america

“Use your smile to change the world; don’t let the world change your smile.” - Chinese Proverb

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.” - Mark Twain

"Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.” -  Stephen Harrod Buhner.

"To Live in Hearts we Leave Behind is Not to Die” - Thomas Campbell

“A hard rain’s a-gonna fall.” - Bob Dylan