Great Map

2012-01-30T08:32:00.000-07:00

http://safety-maps.org/

Comparing Maps of Obesity and Car Travel

100th Meridian (The Boundary Between the Moist East and Arid West) "where the Great Plains begin"

http://pinterest.com/rtkrum/cool-infographics-2011-gallery/

The map as art

Paper un-stacking animation

Which Industries Contributed the Most to Google's Earnings in 2011?

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all." - Pericles
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - Gandalf the Grey
"It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life." - Daniel Pink
"The one thing about generosity is that you can't ever overdo it." - TU
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Don Marquis

2012-01-26T09:54:00.000-07:00

Science Literacy Maps are a tool for teachers and students to find resources that relate to specific science and math concepts.

The Icosahedron Advantage

GPS apps for your iPhone

Textify.it visualizes images using text.

Is Your Image Worthy of People’s Attention?

Take a panoramic (or landscape) photo and uses the Polar Coordinates filter (of Photoshop CS or The Gimp) to create a circular image that seems to wrap the panorama around a planet.

(Wassily Kandinsky) Abstract Painting "YELLOW RED BLUE"

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung
"Art is difficult, it's not entertainment." - Anselm Kiefer Via
"An old soul is not an old soul by virtue of age, but for their patience, self-measure, and happy tears for no apparent reason (They also happy dance with no apparent rhythm)." - The Universe

"... put more wood behind fewer arrows." - Larry Page, Google
"Lots of countries suddenly seem to be reclaiming their heritage with this rising interest in maps." - Simon Hunter Via

2012-01-25T09:03:00.000-07:00

(Britain) Map Made of Words Via

"Infographic" pearls

(Video) How to make a star tetrahedron

IN SEARCH OF SERENDIPITY

Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers

How to Learn to Play the Piano on the Web

Toronto Gig Guide

"I’ve realized that my work needs to grow, change, and react to stimuli from audiences and collaborators in order to truly be its best." - Via
"Stretch, stretch, and stretch, to see every perspective...(and nothing shall keep you from joy)." - TU
"What we have to be is what we are." - Thomas Merton
"Good merchandise, even hidden, finds buyers." - Plautus
"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture." - Jean Cocteau

2012-01-24T10:59:00.000-07:00

Boomurang is a mobile communication app that allows you to access real-time, location specific information and conversation.

The Great College Map Project | Introspection

Mapping memories

Get The Most Out Of Your Trip To The Apple Store

Mitrasites is a collection of resources that poweredby Google Custom Search Engine, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, Flickr, recomended resources and comments from our editors and contributors.

The practice of transforming an idea or concept into a physical product or application can be complex, involving research, cost analysis and feasibility assessments, multimple rounds of prototyping, fabrication and extensive user and field testing.

Discussing Wassily Kandinsky's Essay: "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"

25 QUOTES TO HELP YOU STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST

Joe Rogan's rant about the power of DMT.

"Go! Virtually anything can happen next... it's just up to you." - TU
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." - Carl Sandburg
“Origami can make a really cool transport device.”- Via
"... interdisciplinary collaboration helps people develop great ideas otherwise undiscovered." - Via
"The word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter English word that can be spelled without repeating any letter." - Via Cliff Pickover

2012-01-23T12:56:00.000-07:00

(Penrose tilings and) Noncommutative Geometry

Canadian Cartographic Association : http://www.cca-acc.org

www.torontokissmap.com

Kirigami – Honeycomb

Banters : Lets You Post via Text

Multitasking: This Is Your Brain On Media

LA www.galleryrow.org (Make Your Custom Art Walk Map)

Recessions and depressions

"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions (and by the depth of our answers)." - Carl Sagan
"What you can do with your life has little to do with what's going on in the world (And everything to do with what you see as possible)." - The Universe
"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." - Al Bernstein
"Understanding that we become what we think, ... avoid three main negatives--nostalgic regret, adherence to outcome, and fearful anticipation." - Robert Genn

2012-01-19T09:51:00.000-07:00

Mapping Our Way Forward—More Experiments in Pedagogy

Tree Map : (trees of the United States in one handy map) Via

Chicago Maps

Thelma and Louise Route Map

Tessellation Links

(The Online Version of) “The International Journal of McLuhan Studies” to Launch

Top 25 video games of 2011 in pictures

Pioneering Digital Artist : http://annespalter.com/transformations.html

(Video) The Crash Course - Exponential Growth Meets Reality,

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." - Joseph Campbell
"Video Ergo Sum (We are what we see)." - Peter Campus, American artist
"Movies are dead. Long live video!" - R.B.Wild
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." -Isaac Newton
"...the wall exists only to be transgressed..." - Via

2012-01-18T14:06:00.000-07:00

TheBlu : new collaborative, gamified ocean mapping project Via

(3D Fractal Zoom) Menger Sponge:

socialmediaweek : all #SMW12 cities @SMWTOK @SMWHK @smwldn @SMWSF @SMWWDC @smwparis @SMWhamburg @smwto @SMW_SG @smwSP @SNWNYC @SMWmiami in addition to smwto

Art and the absolute point

International Math Sciences Institutes

We sell antique maps, old prints, atlases, globes, travel books.

(Help) Allocate RAM to Photoshop

(Music) Most Overrated 'Digital' Artist?

Geek Beanies

MS damage washed away by stream of young blood

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art." -.Kahlil Gibran
"Did you know that it's perfectly OK, even highly ideal, to claim all is well amongst doubt and confusion? To be happy in spite of challenges? To laugh at problems? Dance without a partner? Sing without a rhyme? Talk to inanimate objects?" - The Universe
"You can replace this text by going to "Layout" and then "Page Elements" section. Edit " About "." - Blog template user

" Frank had taken some of his maps, but he left the globe, and the rest. A globe wouldn't go in his kit-bag, and he had the real world now.." - from Maggie Gee's The Burning Book (Faber and Faber 1983) Via
"The engine of our desires can glow crimson with passion simply because the room is sealed shut, perfectly, and there is no sound of the butterfly wings from the "other side"." - Joseph Geraci

2012-01-17T15:11:00.000-07:00

Racial Segregation Maps Via

Compare Bing to Google Image Search

TOP 10 YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF 2011

What Happens Online in 60 Seconds?

Completely Worthless Collectibles

The Neuroscience of Perseverance

(Can't) How do i disable Google Docs autosave?

Ex-Nortel Executives Go On Trial for Fraud

"Give thanks whenever you want more. (Of anything)." - The Universe
"He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving." - Kahlil Gibran,
"I am so rich that I must give myself away." - Egon Schiele

"I don’t regret any art I have made; only the art I didn’t make!" - David Lee Eubank
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. William Cowper

2012-01-13T13:02:00.000-07:00

(NASA)s Arctic Sea Ice Map

"Not Quite Obscure Enough" (discussed counties with small populations but not small enough to garner true geo-oddity notoriety).

iPhone button icons

Top Tech News and Controversies of 2011

iPad Apps Everyone Should Have

http://gadget wise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/qa-publishing-your-own-e-book/

Net Art (and early web-based work) : http://www.doctorhugo.org/index.html

How do I accept that I won’t ever be great or outstanding?

"You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark." - Annie Dillard, acclaimed author
"Your light has illuminated darkened paths, your gaze has lifted broken spirits, and already your life has changed the course of history." - The Universe

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Look." - R.B.Wild (after Rumi)
" Something only stands out from a crowd when there is a crowd to stand out from. This is one of many reasons to read as widely as you can." The Guardian (UK) Via
"It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give." - Kahlil Gibran

2012-01-11T13:00:00.000-07:00

(Book 3) Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies ( Via )

Best smart phone navigation app

Rick Hansen Global Accessibility Map

(Interactive mind map) Malcolmn Gladwell's "Outliers"

(Interactive MindMap) SOPA will be the end of the Internet (as you know it).

How to market art:? Tell them how you made it

Star Wars Snowflakes

Products That Were Invented by Accident

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/what-if-we-occupied-language/

"You don’t take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams
"Art is the giving by each of us of our evidence to the world." - Robert Henri.

"Many artists would agree … it is not so much creating a great work of art, but creating a work of art that has never been seen before that gives the greatest sense of satisfaction." - Via

"Some of the most interesting things happen at the borders of between disciplines." - Teena Selig, Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
"Do it your way (that's what you're there for)." - The Universe

2012-01-09T09:08:00.000-07:00

World Migration Map

http://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/24764/great-geeky-gift-idea-map-of-pangaea/

Science leads the fight for free speech

(Online Book) "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin A. Abbott

McLuhan Blog Roll

http://socialmediaweek.org/ (13 - 17 February 2012)

iPhone photo sharing app : http://instagr.amhttp://instagr.am/

Comics That Push the Limits

(How to) Selling used books back on Amazon

"Every smoker knows he is a dead man on leave." - Christopher Hitchens
"Once you have seen the larger pattern, You cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole." - Ursula K. Le Guin

"Don't try to understand this now, but life is exceedingly fair." - The Universe
"As far as travel goes I've come a long way." - R.B.Wild (after Jurgen Klinsmann)
"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity." - Tom Krause

2012-01-05T09:07:00.000-07:00

Map your moves : a visual exploration of where New Yorkers moved in the last decade

Xtranormal Movie Maker lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie (to promote a point of view.). Via

Life on MaRS: (helped over 2,000 start-ups over 6 years) the largest startup incubator facility in Canada is expanding yet again::

Type Face – Origami

Mapping Profits: Cartography and Fine Art Investment

Author Self-Published A Hit Novel (Without Selling Any Actual Books)

Google+ Is Not A Facebook Killer

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."- George Bernard Shaw
"Put the "U" in Gutsy" - R.B. Wild
"If you only knew how normal you were when you thought you were weird. How strong you were when you thought you were weak. And how ready you were when you thought you weren't." - The Universe

"A little of everything constitutes a whole lot of nothing." - Rene Mason
"Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people." - Martina Navratilova

2012-01-03T14:02:00.000-07:00

Pastmapper.com Is Google Maps For Time Travelers

(Map) TED Speakers

(PearlTrees) Team Visual Thinking

Online Video Game Helps to Solve Genetic Origins of Disease

Polar Meltdown Triggers International Arctic Land Grab

Cartographic Artist : http://www.juliegladstone.com/Julie_Gladstone/Gallery.html

You Have Downloaded claims to track the IP addresses of 20% of public BitTorrent downloads. Via

"Little wrong things, that you can get to like, can send you on the track of something new or original." - Robert Genn
"Maybe it's not the wrong thing, but only part of it?" - R.B. Wild
"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people." - Ursula K. Le Guin
"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people." -
"I just had my vision checked. My hindsight was 20/20. My foresight is legally blind." - Anonymous

2011-12-23T12:00:00.000-07:00

Famous Curves Index

Mapping life: intersection of art and science

City Lights Seen From Space Reveal How Countries Change

(PDF) Art and Cartography (C. D’Ignazio, The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, 2009) Via

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

The iPod (Changed Computing Forever. Now It) Will Disappear

(Book Review) The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941–1960

"Media projects of the future will be cheaper to build, faster to market, less staffed with expensive marketers and more focused on creating free media that earns enough attention to pay for itself with limited patronage." - Seth Godin
"The light is getting brighter. The path is getting clearer. And you are getting closer." - The Universe
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
"The contemporary art audience, having had a century of flotsam and jetsam flung at them, think that [super-realism] is miraculous stuff." - Sharon Knettell
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Leonardo da Vinci

2011-12-21T11:30:00.000-07:00

Map of Paris: Visualizing Urban Transportation

Google Zeitgeist (The Most Popular Search Terms in 2011)

Science Tattoos

Augmented-Reality Apps (that Don't Exist but Should)

10 New Google Analytics Features You Need to Start Using

Digital Christmas Story

http://walnutstudios.com/section/200308_Digital_Gallery.html

What cannabis actually does to your brain

"Almost all creativity involves purposeful play." - Abraham Maslow
"Young souls use pain to learn how things are. Mature souls use pain to learn how else things might be. And old souls use pain to learn how else they might be." - The Universe
" I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years." - Samuel Goldwyn
"A map … is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any masterpiece." - R.B. Wild (after Joseph Brodsky)
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing." - Samuel Butler

2011-12-19T09:31:00.000-07:00

Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (by John Speed) is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures.

(Now Available Online) 23 Beautiful Old Texts

Stonehenge Reveals New Clues

Unusual places that can be found on maps that just don’t seem to make sense (State highpoints, non-contiguous boundaries, latitude/longitude confluences, and other trivial geographic facts...)

What’s it like to participate as a remixer?

Cowbird : keep a beautiful audio-visual diary of your life

http://blog.ministryofartisticaffairs.com/

"When God created the world she was playing." - Ernst Lurker
"What if you're already doing everything right, even though you're not sure? And the surprises along the way have only sped things up, even though it felt like they slowed you down? And all that you want is now barreling towards you, even though you can't see it? And when it arrives it'll exceed your every expectation, even though your dreams were huge?" - The Universe
" It is brains that see art and it is brains that make art." - Semir Zeki, a neuroscientist at University College London. Via
"...collage...the art form of the twentieth century, never mind the twenty-first." - Jonathon Lethem
"You've got to take the bitter with the sour." - Samuel Goldwyn

2011-12-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

IT Audit Map

Can Google (Facebook, tech wonks, and Web activists) kill the Stop Online Piracy Act?

(Video of) immune cells attacking the pancreas Via

New world of (digital) art and collecting : http://www.seditionart.com Via

(Performance Art) http://www.ikatun.org/kanarinka/erase-the-border/ Erase the Border

Blogrolled at http://toponymia.wordpress.com/

Even If You're Old You Can Learn New Tricks With Really Freaking Hard Work

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous." - Plato
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Sibert Cather
"Detours, challenges, and crisis are simply covers for miracles that had no other way of reaching you." - The Universe
"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge." - Ambrose Bierce
"He's comfortable on the yellow brick road and seldom feels the need to get to Oz." - Robert Genn

2011-12-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

Map of the Great Wall of China

Visualization in Mathematics:

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2011/11/previewing_the_2012_london_olympics.html

Walls and fences

Why I am a Net Artist

(Definition) "Design science“ : the effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment in order to help make the Earth’s finite resources meet the needs of all of humanity (without disrupting the ecological processes of the planet).

(Alex Leitch) The Laser Cutting expert + leader of Site3

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge." - Leonardo da Vinci
"It's good clean wholesome work that startles many collectors with the artists' patience and loving attention to detail." - Robert Genn
"Having a dream is more important than having it come true." - The Universe
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Churchill
"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? - James Thurber

2011-12-14T08:41:00.000-07:00

(Map) Nuclear Power

(Artist) http://kennethsnelson.net/category/tensegrity/tensegrity

PowerPoint Vs Dance

Tetrascroll. Goldilocks and the three bears ( Model )designed by: Buckminster Fuller (process)

(Artshow) Finding Antarctica: Mapping the last Continent, features about 100 rare maps spanning 2000 years of fascination with ''the Great Southern Land''.

Collagist Interview

Toronto Design Offsite festival (TO DO) : http://todesignoffsite.com/about/ exhibitions and events during Toronto design week.

"Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett:
"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing" - Victor Hugo
"Taking massive action on massive dreams amidst massive uncertainties, is pretty much where everyone had to start (And then things got way easier)." - The Universe
"There's no place like: Â 34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58' 5.36" if you can't be at: Â 48N 6' 59.9" 122W 59' 54.2" - drjuice@uw.edu
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

2011-12-12T11:05:00.000-07:00

(Live Blog) Visualizing Mathematics in the YouTube Era

Securing Nebulous Privacy Rights in the Cloud

(App Store) Photo / Video apps in iTunes

Artist turns animal animations into unpredictable visual form (Video)

http://photojojo.com/timecapsule/43694834@N00/2011-12-1 timecapsule/43694834@N00/2011-12-1

(Definition) "Pathography" - a narrative that gives voice and face to the illness experience. It puts the person behind the disease in the forefront (and as such is a great learning opportunity for all care givers and fellow sufferers).

http://chicagoartgalleries.net/

"Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo (I detest the common crowd, and I rebuff them). - Latin
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero
"If you're at least visualizing enough to wonder whether or not you're doing it right, you're doing it right, and you're way, way ahead of the game." - The Universe
"Brilliant finishes can often be had among the 'possible' and the 'borderline'." - Robert Genn
"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2011-12-08T13:08:00.000-07:00

Terminal Maps. http://www.torontopearson.com/TerminalListing.aspx

Proofs and Pictures: The Role of Visualization in Mathematical and Scientific Reasoning

(Sculptor); http://www.rinusroelofs.nl/sculpture/sculpture-00.html

Are artists cheaters? (also in the Economist and Time)

(Exhibition) Cartography and Migration in Networked Space

The Beauty of Incorrect Answers

OPPORTUNITES FOR ARTISTS : http://www.artadvice.com/blog/2011/11/15/updated-links-opportunites-for-artists/

(Animation) Antarctic's hidden world revealed

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged." - Umberto Eco

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." - Will Duran

"Every good hike brings you eventually back home" - Edward Abbey

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt

2011-12-05T15:23:00.000-07:00

Mapping as a conceptual framework to improve our understating of narratives.

Tensegrity Program : http://www.math.cornell.edu/~tens/pro.html

The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) addresses the imperatives of collaborative and cross-disciplinary research with a focus on the mathematical sciences and their vast array of applications in the sciences and in industry.

(Video) DropBox (cloud service?)

The Surprising Discovery About Twitter Retweets

(46 second video) Steve Jobs on changing the world

Creative Ways to Use Your Instagram Photos

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing." - Samuel Butler
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

"You must do what's important first." - Steven Pressfield, 'The War of Art'
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." - Plato
"There's nothing challenging that has ever happened in your life, that one day you won't look back upon with deep gratitude." - TU

2011-12-02T09:01:00.000-07:00

(Free Video Lecture) Great Thin-Shell Structures

CRTC limits radio stations' use of musical montages

Bathsheba Grossman makes mathematical sculptures. ( http://www.bathsheba.com/ )

Visually I wanted to show multiple images/points of view that would still "read" as a whole;

How do I know that my tracking code is installed correctly?

(Software) Perfect Resize

Cut Paper Projects

"Nelle azioni di tutti li uomini,e massime de'principi, dove non e iudizio da reclamare, si guarda al fine." - Niccolo Machiavelli (In the actions of all men, and especially princes, when there is no judge to refer to, consider the means)
"...if you are afraid that 'showing your true colors' limits your influence, you are mistaken. Done right, it actually amplifies influence." - "Be Slightly Evil" mailing list
"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature." - Bruce Barton
"Whatever you have to say, say it with love. And whatever you have to hear, hear it with love." - The Universe
"The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration." - Maniere universelle de M. Desargues, illustration from a perspective book, an engraving by Abraham Bosse"( in Marshall McLuhan - Quentin Fiore 'The Medium is the Massage', page 69)

2011-11-30T10:11:00.000-07:00

(Example) 3D Campus Map

(The New York Times) posted this great map showing the location of more than 400 New York City start-ups

The Anatomy of an Experience Map

The Art|Sci Center is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences.

(HOW TO) Create a 3D Lego chalk drawing

Oldest Human Painting Found

http://www.dirtylittlesecretscontest.ca/

"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost." - Samuel Butler
"Shapes like the square, the triangle and the circle are basic building blocks of human thinking."- Cecil Balmond
"Ever wish for do-over days? You know, hit the reset button and give 'er another shot? Cool. Will today work? (It's never too late). - The Universe
"What's the big deal with Occupy Wall Street? There's been Occupy Palestine for years." - Anonymous
"You can fool just about anyone, but the easiest one to fool is yourself." - Richard Feynman

2011-11-28T08:57:00.000-07:00

(Map) The UnFacebook World (A mashup of two popular maps reveals the parts of the world connected by electricity but not by Facebook).

http://content.photojojo.com/diy/diy-turn-phone-photos-into-mural-sized-prints/

(Digital) http://blog.nula.cc/collage

How Humor Helps Our Brains Pay Attention

Math Art : http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/graphcp.html

How Weird Al Yankovic Comes Up With His Song Parodies

http://bayareaartgrind.com/2011/11/28/open-call-for-arts-2012-2013-exhibition-series-at-the-art-museum-of-los-gatos/

"Do you know how most people get jobs they love? They first loved the job they had, and everyone noticed. (And I do mean everyone)." - The Universe
"Ideas, like leaves, can wither and fall, but in doing so, become the mulch in which new ideas grow." - Bly
"... the best way to reach people was to paint a superstar." - Maqbool Fida Husain
"New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media." - Marshall McLuhan
"Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking." - Daniel Kahneman

2011-11-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

Famous thought experiments explained quicklyhttp://m.wimp.com/thoughtexperiments/

Scientific artist http://www.visualnews.com/

Art of Mapping at Air Gallery : http://greatwen.com/2011/11/23/art-of-mapping-at-air-gallery/

You can make your own Flickr alias. (BUT, You only get ONE SHOT at it, so choose carefully! )

The Neverending Story (Of iPad Apps)

http://www.facebook.com/OccupyToronto

How to Fascinate

"It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value." -Claude Monet
"There's a time for speed and there's a time to go slow, and the evolved artist knows when." - Robert Genn
"..ancient mariners believed it was bad luck to always sail with the same crew.( Was it because they could learn little new by covering the same territory with the same people?)" - Xenia Stanford

"Free labour and rampant exploitation are the invisible dark matter that keeps the cultural sector going." - Hito Steyerl, (Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy)
"Any new technology is an evolutionary and biological mutation opening doors of perception and new spheres of action to mankind." - Marshall McLuhan Via

2011-11-23T11:38:00.000-07:00

The perfect hexagon

(U.of T.) Campus Map

FAQ's about the MobileMe transition (and iCloud)

The Importance of Mind-Wandering

(Definition) "Rogue waves" : the huge waves that routinely sink ships at sea, are made of many, many small waves that come together to form a gargantuan wave.

iPod font : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPod_Myriad.svg

(Review) Who Makes The Best Photo Books?

"...every conflict, disappointment, struggle or challenge, with others or yourself, is merely a manifestation of what's going on within your own thinking." - TU
"Take pains and pleasure in copying the best works by the hands of great masters." - Cennino Cennini (1370-1440)
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
"I worked for a menial's hire  Only to learn dismayed , That any wage I had asked of life  Life would have willing paid." - Jessie B. Rittenhouse  (found in "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, p.40)
"Pessimists are optimists with better information." - Robert Genn

2011-11-21T06:45:00.000-07:00

Nonlinear Physics Group Papers : http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~nonlin/papers.html

The Micro-Politics of the Counter Cartographies Collective

(Show) http://www.optics.utoronto.ca/thenextdimension

(Appropriation Artist) Carey Young (born 1970) is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media such as video, photography, performative events and installation into her works, which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial.

(Discussion) Co-op Galleries

(Band) http://www.myspace.com/mashalltheband

Truths About Drinking Water

"The very most that you now dream of having, doing, and being, will be the very least that you get." - TU
"You're on earth. There's no cure for that." - Samuel Beckett
"Why do all our rules address absolutes (which are typically the exceptions)?" - R.B.Wild

“To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.” - Antoine Saint-Just
"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

2011-11-18T09:11:00.000-07:00

Topography of Faith

Maps and Pictures of Europe : http://www.euratlas.orghttp://www.euratlas.org//

Our "divided brain" - an animated tutorial.

(Artist) Mark Rothko: http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/classic1.shtm

(Book) The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Modern Life by Robert Trivers.

Create a Google+ Arts page

Texting our way to isolation ; urging a refocus on human interaction

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." - Saint Augustine
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - E. Hemingway
"Every fortune, gold medal, and trophy...Every comeback, triumph, and celebration...And every kiss, hug, and hand held, ... Were first a thought, a whisper, or a dream." - The Universe
"History proves that juries in art are generally wrong." - Robert Henri
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.." - Napoleon Hill (born in 1883)

2011-11-16T14:56:00.000-07:00

Fractal Production of Value: Transitioning From Real to Digital Value Structures

Math Manipulatives contains resources that enable students to interact online

El (Eleazar) Lissitzky (1890-1941) was a vital force in the revolutionary period in Russia (having first trained in engineering and architecture and later becoming a painter and illustrator, his creative activity ranged across disciplines).

The Devil Really Is In The Details Of This Giotto

The Coalition For Quebec's Future (Quebec's newest political party) is making a symbolic statement with its logo, a mish-mash of colours that borrows freely from the emblems of existing parties.

Face-mounted plexi supplier : http://www.peplusimaging.com/about

Why Do People Eat Too Much?

"Next time you feel fear, either right after a major decision or just before one, it usually means you're exactly where you need to be." - The Universe

"There is a right physical size for every idea." - Henry Moore
"A flute with no holes is not a flute, and a doughnut without a hole is a danish." - Basha, zen philosopher Via
"Never trusted the guy giving out free hugs. Always went with the dude that charged $2." - Josh Comers
"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs

2011-11-14T08:58:00.000-07:00

Map of Twitter's Languages

Wayfinding Voices to Follow on Twitter

(On Youtube) Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery ."ex-Python sets out on a series of journeys through Wales following the world's first road atlas: John Ogilby's Britannia, published in 1675." ( four-part television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two Wales in 2008)

http://hacklab.to/about/

(Online Course) Art vs Law: An Inherent Conflict?

7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?

Goodwill Industries Now Offering Online Auctions

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting." - Goethe
"The future you see is the future you get." - Robert G. Allen
"No matter how much money or love you've made or lost, you can still make more." - The Universe
"'I never read; I just look at pictures." - Warhol
"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into tyranny." -(Ben Nicholson

2011-11-11T09:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.cbc.ca/mcluhan/download-media/

Seeing 3D Pictures (without glasses) - Understand Where to Aim Your Eyes

(Definition) The Crooked Path : 'It's a little path made by its users, without a plan, in order to do something that the usual administration could not or did not do – so there's a slight trace of disobedience or independence – people may do things that we can't predict.' - Jeff Wall Via

Demographics Are Not Destiny (?)

http://fuckyeahcartography.tumblr.com/

Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X

http://socialmediaweek.org/ 13-17 February 2012

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” - Marshall McLuhan Via
"Sometimes when you've had a difficult day, or met difficult people, been let down, disappointed, or heartbroken, it's easy to completely forget the most important thing of all... you're alive.Without even trying." - The Universe
"There are some things that have great value but no glitter. Consistent...long-suffering, patient, industrious, good-humoured, unswervingly loyal, he made an enormous contribution to our well-being." - Tribute to Ernest Wild by Alexander Stevens (chief scientist on the Ross Sea party)
"Rather than making a decision to get on with something, merely bump into opportunities." - Robert Genn
"The more power science and technology confer upon us, the more dangerous and malevolent that power may become, unless its use is checked and guided by moral obligations stemming from our philosophical knowledge of how we ought to conduct our lives and our society." - Mortimer Adler (THE QUESTIONS SCIENCE CANNOT ANSWER)

2011-11-09T15:34:00.000-07:00

Symmetry Video:

Central Park Entire, The Definitive Illustrated Map

http://www.hexakon.com/thescience/the-hexagon/

Unique optical illusions

Map Art Show

Ian Hunter Lyrics

Death and Gravestone Symbolism

"Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive."- George Dyson Via
"Space station astronauts see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day." - Via
"smART Maps are ideas made visible." - R.B.Wild (after Kahlil Gibran )
"Surrealism allows one to thrive beyond the restraints of the laws that govern." - Russell Jodway, Surrealist
"...secret of creating a corporate commission lies in “thinking like a construction worker.” - Danielle Julian Norton Via

2011-11-07T09:32:00.000-07:00

Native North American Map-making (.pdf)

Mathematicians To Thank For Great Graphics

What shape are your squares?

3D Fractal Collection

Further adventures in opticality (with David Hockney) Via

Cape Farewell project : bringing artists, writers, filmmakers and climate scientists together to collectively address and find a creative engagement with the world’s climate challenge.

Arty Bollocks Generator (Do you hate having to write your artist statement?)

"Until a painting is sold it is just a storage problem." - Jason's gallery artist
"Most think that perception works a lot like a flashlight in the dark, illuminating whatever it's aimed at.The truth, however, is that instead of revealing what's there, it creates it." - The Universe
""God has a bias to the Underdog.." - Dr. Carl Trueman (Sermon on 1 Corinthians 10:1-33)
"When I collage, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath." - R.B. Wild (after Salvador Dali)
"Space is not a passive vacuum, but has properties that impose powerful constraints on any structure that inhabits it." - Arthur Loeb Via

2011-11-03T13:47:00.000-06:00

Are these maps, cartograms, or mere infographics? (maps here)

Hexagons and triangles

(First two volumes of) the History of Cartography (in PDF format)

(McLuhanism) “brushing information against information” (explored)

RSA (Animation) Film Competition

(Book) THE QUEST FOR FRANK WILD

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

"Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets." -Oscar Wilde

"Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of." - J.J.Gibson
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." - John Muir
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
"All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind." - Martin H. Fischer

2011-11-01T12:47:00.000-06:00

Folding Space: Kaleidoscopic Fractals

Dymaxion projection in OpenLayers

Best Abstract on a Scientific Paper Ever?

Listing of the artworld’s most powerful figures : http://www.artreview100.com/

(Definition) "effect effect" : reduce whatever you're talking about to a single, italicized phrase/

By instantly capturing complete light field data, the Lytro gives you capabilities you've never had in a regular camera.

10 Collagists given the same material to work with

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity." - Melody Beattie
"Brave enough to think differently, Bold enough to believe he could change the world, and Talented enough to do it." - Obama of Jobs
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."- Colin Wilson
"Paintings are sold when they're painted, not when they're sold." - One of Genn's old friends
"Sometimes, being your true radiant self, living in the moment, glad for all you already have and who you already are isn't always easy." - The Universe

2011-10-28T08:39:00.000-06:00

Science Museum Arts Projects

Paper Polyhedra

Antique Maps and Globes

Scher started painting maps because it forces her to have patience, a trait she lacks in daily life

Vaughan City Hall

Why we’re preoccupied with being occupied

(Video) Final Moments

"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picaso
"If the Sun and Moon should doubt, They’d immediately Go out." - William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
"No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God – and can swim." - Russian Proverb
"...what you can't yet see is that all of the hallways beyond all of the doorways eventually lead to the same great room, in the same great house, with the same great party.(So, may as well pick the one you want? Huh?)." - The Universe
"Trust me, I lie about everything." - S.Michaelson

2011-10-26T12:32:00.000-06:00

Vertical Panorama Map

Minimal Surfaces are the most economical connections between loops or lines in 3-d space.

The mashup has gone mainstream

(Animation) The Divided Brain

Why Invent An Artist, Or A Movement?

(LA artshows) http://pacificstandardtime.org/exhibitions (Review)

2012 Prophecies

"As people serve well, so are they grateful. As people are grateful, so do they serve well." - Robert Genn
"The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream." - Jack Kerouac
"It may be excellent work … but is it doing any good?" - Via
"I’ll remember a very good phrase that never made it anywhere and I rephrase it." - Twyla Tharp, legendary choreographer
"Only through art has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." - R.B. Wild (after George Bernard Shaw)

2011-10-24T07:39:00.000-06:00

http://www.onlinecollegeclasses.com/mathematics-resources.html

(Definition) "Droste Effect" : depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on (in heraldry is termed 'mise en abyme'). Example

The mess of Knowledge Management groups on LinkedIn

Scientists bend nanowires into 3-D structures

Screw Viral Videos

Modern Day "Shakleton Recruiting Ad"

(Video) Law of Attraction in Action Via

"... when your thoughts become things, and your dreams start coming true, they invariably bring along with them totally unexpected, life-changing manifestations that just blow your mind ..." - The Universe
"To be in touch with creativity on a daily, even hourly, basis may just happen to edge yourself closer to divinity." - Robert Genn
"The best creatives think, 'Go big or go home.' If they are going to go to the trouble of writing a book, preparing a speech, or recording an album, they might as well make the biggest impact they can." - Michael Hyatt
"The great artist is a slave to his ideals." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"He was not merely a wild man; he was part of the wild, one with untameable elements of life; in his veins ran the blood of the wolf-pack; in his brain lurked the brooding depths of the northern night; his heart throbbed with the fire of blazing forests." - Robert E. Howard, Excerpt from 'Black Colossus'

2011-10-19T06:22:00.000-06:00

(An Introduction to) The fascinating patterns of Visual Math

Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks (and integrating these with any type of attribute data).

(UWO) Centre for Brain and Mind

Brands can make the most of Twitter’s new image galleries

"Data composting" Researcher works on temporal-informatics which is the study of the change of information—and our consumption of it—over time.

(Definition) "Honeycomb" : Google's platform which is the tablet version of the Android operating system.

(Video) Surrealist artist, Matthew Rose, who explains the concept behind his latest collage work

9/11 Technical Video

"Creativity requires an incubation period, people need time to soak in a problem and let the ideas bubble up." - Teresa Amabile
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Always have a dream that is longer than a lifetime." - Jack Layton
"Don't get so busy that you miss which you seek." - R.B. Wild

2011-10-17T16:12:00.000-06:00

(Interactive Mind Map) Fields of Mathematics

Crystal Lattice*Structures

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Triunitism/215394581807286

The Johnny Cash Project:: A unique take on crowdsourcing

Wild World of Pop-Art Montage

Our brains like newness too (things that surprise and deviate from an expected pattern).

(Collagist) Tony Fitzpatrick

"A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image." - Author Unknown
"Decide to be happy, and the world will beat a path to your door." - TU
"An erasure is a creative mark." - Melanie Circle
"The artist's world is limitless It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep." - Paul Strand
"To reduce uncertainty, subconsciously rejecting a creative idea may be easier than accepting it." - Via

2011-10-14T06:18:00.000-06:00

Leaf to plane morph

Interactive Digital World Map

Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Petrie's survey by triangulation of the three major pyramids at Giza

3D Mandelbulb

Colourgenics Artists:

Bryan Bolan, Shaun Downey. Derek Evans, Paul Eekhoff, Alex Fischer, Anthony Koutras, Virginia Lee, Adam Makarenko. Alex Mcleod..Doug Matsumura, Meaghan Ogilvie, Michelle Quance, David Suddaby, Ronald Tsang

(Visible Only From Above) Mystifying 'Nazca Lines' Discovered in Mideast

"The 11th hour has the same 60 minutes as the rest of them." - R.B.Wild
"Art can take flight in an odd but active monastery.." - Robert Genn
“I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.”- Gertrude Stein<
"Depending upon others to live 'unselfishly' is still depending upon others." - TU
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake." - Thoreau

2011-10-12T08:37:00.000-06:00

Visualizing Crime - A“Data Rose” Blooms

Make Your Own Map to Make Novel Connections

Border mapping awareness: responsabilities and tension Via

Sierpinski fractal zoom

(Definition) "polyptych" : an arrangement of four or more panels (as of a painting) usually hinged and folding together

Abstract map to a coffee shop?: tumblr.com/xua4zm2myk

How to Prepare for a Black Swan (Disrupter analysis can help assess the risks of future catastrophic events).

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” - Mark Twain
"To get into the Rapid Prototyping spirit, first try something you know won't work." - R.B.Wild
"First, there must be a connection made in the unseen. Second, there must be a leap in the physical." - TU
"The higher you get professionally, the longer it takes before anyone notices you're not doing anything important." - Adam Owen
"THE QUESTION ISN'T WHO IS GOING TO LET ME; IT'S WHO IS GOING TO STOP ME." - Ayn Rand

2011-10-07T06:37:00.000-06:00

Pollock's Fractals : That isn't just a lot of splattered paint on those canvases, it's good mathematics

Instagram - Snap a photo, then choose a filter to transform the look and feel of the shot into a memory to keep around forever.

Humans are hardwired to get a pleasure buzz from uncertainty

Create an animated GIF

Twitter Short Codes

Diptychs and;Triptychs

(AGO) Artist-in-Residence Program

" In my humble studio one hears the constant click, click, click of production." - R.B.Wild
"I like to live like a poor man with lots of money." - Picasso
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing." - Maria Mitchell
"I'm a content guy, I guess, in both sense." -Adam Owen.
"Not only is everyone beautiful in their own way, but everyone is beautiful to someone else as well." - The Universe

2011-10-05T16:45:00.000-06:00

The 10 dimensional space and our hexagonal world

MindMap of Academic Disciplines : an image-centered diagram that represents connections between branches of knowledge.

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/11-12/discretegeom/index.html

Interesting things to make out of paper—from mathematical models to toys.

Give your blog a fresh new look and make it easier for readers to explore it with Dynamic Views

Projection (Art Submission Guidelines)

The birth of the Bloor Viaduct

"There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing". - Mark Rothko
"... Or would they begin thinking things they've never thought before, saying things they've never said before, and doing things they've never done before?" - The Universe
"It's not worth doing if it doesn't make you nervous." - Nadja Sayej @ArtStars
"A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image." - Author Unknown
"Following your bliss is a socially responsible task." - Taylor Jane Green

2011-10-03T16:41:00.000-06:00

SightSpace 3D: A SketchUp iPad Viewer with AR

The Future Of Infographics

Does Quantum Math Explain How The Mind Works?

Timelines of History

Robert (Bob) Connelly is a mathematician specializing in discrete geometry and rigidity theory. He is best known for discovering embedded flexible polyhedra (one such polyhedron is in the National Museum of American History. ).Example

A Twitter -based organization: http://www.twestival.com/info.html

Multi-media Artist : http://www.matthewcatalano.com/pb/wp_3f97239d/wp_3f97239d.html

"A patch which demands sacrifice is a true path.". -Paulo Coelho
"The easiest thing in the world is to criticize. The hardest is to do the work worthy of criticism." - Robin Sharma
"Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"Nifty isn't it, how in life you don't even have to know how you got where you are, in order to get where you want to go." - The Universe
"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. - Stephen Nachmanovitch

2011-09-30T09:05:00.002-06:00

CFC Media Lab Struts Its Stuff at the Bata Shoe Museum for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

Autodesk’s SketchBook IPhone Application Brings Surge of Users (Buy)

Hex Grid Design (in Processing)

Make your own GigaPans with the low-cost GigaPan Epic (tripod attachment)

(Infographic) http://www.intel.com/communities/pix/other/Newsroom_UK_InternetOfThings_1024x1448.jpg

City Mad Dash's Smartphone Scavenger Hunt blends the tried-and-true fun of scavenger hunts with advances in mobile technology, resulting in a heart-pounding team building experience.

A privilege to be listed here with Sher, Lombardi, Turner, and Schiller

Possible next US show (?) : http://www.graciesquareartshow.info/

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confuscius
"We're all here because we're not all there." - Saskatchewan Residents
"...the more proficient one becomes at navigating the ship of their dreams, the more they leave the navigating to me (and the smoother the sailing)." - The Universe
"When something happens it's instantaneous, when nothing happens it takes forever." - R.B.Wild
"He who does not know can become knowledgeable from learning; while he who thinks he knows and ceases to continue to learn will stagnate." - Translation of The Akan Africans symbol for Knowledge; 'Nea Onnim'

2011-09-28T09:34:00.014-06:00

Adventures in Geometrical Intuition

Linden Lab can't turn Second Life into an engaging digital experience

Top 10 Geography Mistakes in Movies

[VIDEO] White Blood Cell Chasing Bacteria

Make a Journal With Photos for Pages

Sidebarred

"Lead us in peace…Grant us serene passage, until we arrive at our destination… Rescue us from the hand of every foe and ambush along the way…and from all afflictions that visit and trouble the world." - The Traveller’s Prayer
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nelle azioni di tutti li uomini , e massime de'principi, dove non e iudizio da reclamare, si guarda al fine." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"...those who are religious, cling, whereas those who are spiritual, seek (but it's the happy folks who know how to live)." - The Universe
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." - Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

2011-09-26T06:21:00.017-06:00

Golden Rectangle Zoom

(Map) American Enclaves : interactive application considers an enclave as any census tract where the proportion of Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latino, or White Americans is far greater than the national average

Core Subject Taxonomy for Mathematical Sciences Education (NSDL)

FRACTAL CRAFTS & ART PROJECTS

Yale Digital Content

As people we want to know as much as possible about the artist who produced the work.

The celebrity blog post that started it all for him.

"Anyone can get stuff but it usually takes an old soul to choose their stuff wisely." - TU
"The revolution will be remixed." - Yuri Almeida
"Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one." - Winston Churchill
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-09-23T07:29:00.018-06:00

Informative Map Illustrations

The Concept of Scale

Inkling (the new offering from interactive pen makers Wacom) while you sketch on paper, your idea goes digital.

(Podcast) Iconic Geometry (Listen now )
Font Popularity In The Internet Age

(Video) How we got stuck in perpetual copyright

Scientific Artist : Julie René de Cotret

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King
"True life mastery is more a function of knowing what to want, than knowing how to get what you want." - The Universe
"If you don't already love my maps, there's nothing I can say. If you do love them, there's nothing I need say." - R.B. Wild
"By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere." - Billy Crystal
"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious." - Pablo Picasso

2011-09-21T09:17:00.005-06:00

(Documentary) "The Man Who Saved Geometry"

(WTF?) National Profanity Map

Computer Vision research groups

Great Arts for Great Science

The Dada Anti-Art Movement

Art Basel 2011

http://litsciarts.org/slsa11

"When an old pond gets a new frog, it’s a new pond." - Via
"... we are very sensitive to where we are in horizontal space but only vaguely aware of how high we are." - Professor Kate Jeffery, lead author from UCL Psychology and Language Sciences Via
"Lady if you gotta ask, you ain't got it." - Fats Waller, Musician (when asked to explain rhythm)
"When a person is prepared to receive something, a series of accidents takes place." - Irving Sandler
"(Some feelings and even) some thoughts are too deep for words and have to be seen to be believed." - Clive Barnes

2011-09-19T06:33:00.020-06:00

(Bonnitta Roy) The Map, the Gap, and the Territory

(Definition) "Nexialist" : One skilled in the science of joining together in an orderly fashion the knowledge of one field of learning with that of other fields (term coined by A E van Vogt in his novel “Voyage of the space beagle”).

ORIGAMI-INSPIRED DRAWINGS

Graphic Design Guidelines (to break)

Blog-rolled Here

(Nuit Blanche) CFC Media Lab's "Technological Displacement"

(Con Artist) Mark Kostabi

"A word means what I intend it to mean, no more, no less." - The Mad Hatter
"You don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice." - Gack
"A Discoverer is an Explorer who go lost." - R.B. Wild
"If you’re being a magnet, you are attracting the people who are naturally drawn to you. You are being authentic, and you are fulfilling your own purpose." - Laurie Cameron
"Reality is big, but your dreams are bigger." - The Universe

2011-09-16T06:37:00.020-06:00

Reflections on the Mnd

(Definition) "The College of Mythic Cartography" : exists wherever Peers gather to tell meaningful Story about their relationship with the Land.

(Various Fractal Types and) Categories of 'Chaos'

Find Way : Art in the Information Age

Jorge Luis Borges : famed Argentinian author known for his works that explored dreams and unreality

One of the readers of this blog (?)

We are quite confident there will not be finding of work for hire

"Spontaneity is the right mind tossing out a suggestion, it is up to the left mind to determine it’s practicality." - el Loco Gringo
"Don’t just tell people your story, show them." - Via
"Two of the most important questions for all aspiring rock stars are: How big do you want to be? and What are you now doing about it?" - TU
"Paint like you were never going to have to show anything to anyone." - R.B. Wild
"When everything starts getting crazy, that’s when you really get busy..." - Via

2011-09-14T06:36:00.018-06:00

City of Neighbourhoods (has a web/mobileDigital Map RFP)

In a crowdfunding project, the donors are no less valuable than the project creators.

African Fractals

What does it mean to +1 something?

(Art Show) Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists and Cartographers

Gaudí was part of the art nouveau movement – or modernisme, as it's known in Catalunya – he was also a revolutionary structural engineer

The Pony Express

Better question, why did WTC 7 collapse?

"...one study claims that up to 80% of the human brain is wired just to interpret and remember visual data." - Via
"You decide what you want, physically move in its direction and I'll 'send in the clowns'." - TU
"Every age has their artists to forge the way into the next, to pierce through all our convenient truths into uncharted territory." - Via
"I still think science is looking for answers, and art is looking for questions" - Marc Quinn
"You are young yet‥but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself. ‥Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see." - E. A. Poe (in Graham's Mag. Nov. 1945)

2011-09-12T08:40:00.025-06:00

Ruminations on the Borderlands of Cartography

Interactive Map of Last.fm Artists

When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists

(Draft paper) Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy

How to make a regular hexagon out of square paper

Digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new ways

Evolution trumps revolution : Big ideas poke their noses into the world very slowly, easing gradually into view.

What happens at a Design Jam?

(Opening) "RETHINKING ART & MACHINE" : RAM showcases the work of pioneer artists who have addressed the relationship between art and electronic technology, light, graphics, robots, and virtual reality dating back to the 1960's (September 15, 2011 - January 22, 2012).

(Video) Why Did the Towers Fall?

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast." - Robert Frost, from "Mending Wall
"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell
"Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us."- David Steindl-Rast
"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." - Emo Philips
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain." - Google

2011-09-08T08:38:00.027-06:00

“Defending Android”

The International Boundary Commission (Treaty Interpretation)

Perhaps the Oldest Map in the World

(Data visualization) : Information Designer helps designers think like programmers (and vice versa).

The Elusive Big Idea is actually not dependent on big media

"Postmodernism" : what was it? And what comes next?

(New Album) Tom Waits "Bad As Me"

The Focal Point Debate: Should Every Painting Have a Focal Point?

"It might be that gratefulness is the very basis of an evolved creative life, and a life well lived." - Robert Genn
“Technology has taken a long time to get to the point where video makers can sample with the same abandon as musicians and still image makers." - Dick Whyte (presents a screening of recent avant-garde films he has curated from YouTube. All of them re-purpose existing material into new works)
"To what extremes would you go, to bring about your heart's fondest wishes, to manifest your greatest desires, and to live your boldest dreams? (OMG - Did you just say visualize daily and take baby steps?!)" - The Universe
"Why think about that when all the golden land’s ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you’re alive to see? - Jack Kerouac
"Best advice I got when starting out: nobody has a job for you; everybody has a problem to solve." - Howard Rheingold

2011-09-06T08:43:00.017-06:00

Botched Interface Market

Google’s Attack on the Patent System

Vimeo Video School

The Arctic may be the world's next geopolitical battleground

(Definition) "Hylozoism" : the philosophical conjecture that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.

http://www.netplaces.com/giant-word-search-book/puzzles-answers/cartography.htm

(Nuit Blanche Alternative) http://lesruesdesrefuses.com/2011-event-guide

"The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it." - Banksy Via
"Generosity and gratitude turn good into great (Thank you, you're welcome)." - The Universe
"For nearly two decades, he toiled in his studio painting and drawing without forethought or expectation, without plan or picture in his head, producing a storm of art that slowly increased in complexity and quality." - Via
"Art is anything you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan
"If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter." -Alexey Brodovitch

2011-09-02T07:06:00.020-06:00

(Blog-rolled in Preliminary Syllabus, Fall 2011) Information Visualization

The Fractal Structure of Exponential Growth

Exploring giant geometric models and mathematics

Picasa Web Albums and Google+

Similar(?) Sites Search

McLuhan100's videos

Toronto Galleries reviewed

"Exercise is anything a woman can't do wearing high-heels." - R.B. Wild
"Symbolism is the language of nature." - Manly P. Hall Via
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur
"Action is thy duty. Reward is not thy concern." - Gita

2011-08-31T09:38:00.019-06:00

Venice Biennale 2011 art festival in pictures

(Definition) "keystone species" : has a disproportionate effect on its environment relative to its biomass.[1] Such species play a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, affecting many other organisms in an ecosystem and helping to determine the types and numbers of various other species.

http://vi.sualize.us/tag/infographic/

Holocaust Maps

(Mathematics, Cities, and Brains) What Can A Highway Engineer Learn From A Neuroscientist?

How to Kick Your GIFs Up a Notch (and Learn how to make ‘em in Photoshop video)

Spoilers Don’t Spoil Anything

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car at night?" - Jack Kerouac
"There is a silence, a peace, and a calm that belies every moment (you'll find me there)." - The Universe
"Avoid making art that is accessible to everyone and important to no one." - Dick Evans Via
"The cessation of suffering is attainable by practicing the Eightfold Path to Community Engagement." - Via
"Our best thoughts come from others." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-08-29T07:07:00.020-06:00

GPS and the End of the Road

(Archive) ‘Digital Art & Screencaps’

Mental abacus may be largely a visual task for those who master it

Inklet Demo with Photoshop (handy application that turns your MacBook trackpad into a pen)

Copyright Suit Revealing Copywrongs

Spectacularly Wrong Predictions

Benefits of Roughhousing

"Have no fear of perfection, you will never achieve it.” Salvador Dali
"... first you have to know what you want, defined in terms of the end result. And then you have to physically move towards it, without defining the 'hows'. At which point, the thing you want actually starts coming to you, on its own terms, from a direction completely unexpected (not unlike a cat). - The Universe
"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it." - Henry Moore
"Prizes are nice, but the real competition is with your performance yesterday." - Irwin Greenberg
"Crazy people in other fields encourage us to be bolder in ours." - R.B. Wild

2011-08-24T06:17:00.016-06:00

What G+ is really about (pst!!! it's not social)

Hobo Maps

Technology and the Saturated? Art Market

Project Imagin8ion : turn eight completely unrelated photos into the plot line for a short film? Via

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/

Lawrence Lessig : American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. (Books)

Pseudonyms

"Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice." - Elbert Hubbar
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
"Believe what you want. Give yourself permission, and don't be afraid to go BIG." - The Universe
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” - Warren Buffett
"You have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks." - Leo Burnett

2011-08-22T07:02:00.015-06:00

deCarta Remains Nimble in Mobile Search Market (LBS)

What to Do About All the Crazy-Ridiculous Research?

http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/forum/

"Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces Inbetween" (by Sam McElhinney)

(Definition) "Halakhic system" : generally imposes exact, artificial boundaries upon the various phenomena of created nature.

Math Art

(Sample Sharing Concept) CopyWisely

"... each US citizen averages around $51k personal debt, while their share of the national debt is around $47k ... total debt per family: $668,639." - Via
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction." - Samuel Butler
"Only put off until tomorrow, what you are willing to die left undone." - Pablo Picasso
"Some are better loved from a distance. For a while, anyway (and that's OK)." - The Universe
"The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes." - Marshall McLuhan

2011-08-19T09:37:00.016-06:00

Visual History of Mapping the Universe

New Apple Patents Show Exaggerated and Distorted iPhone Maps that may make maps a lot easier to figure out; they'll highlight the stuff you care about through exaggeration: routes are bigger, landmarks are emphasized, etc.

Our brain fails to map high distances

(Last Panel) http://dilbert.com/mashups/

(3D Sculpting and Painting) Autodesk 123D Sculpt App for iPad Via

About Image Uploading on Twitter

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/totem/default.aspx

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
"... get where you need to go". - http://www.you-are-here-movie.com
"Self-trust is the first secret to success." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"... focus on customers more than vendors; smiles more than frowns; possibilities more than risks; options more than commitments; vacations more than overtime; detours more than setbacks; opportunities more than obstacles (and Goldilocks more than the bears)." - The Universe
"Do or do not. There is not try." - Yoda

2011-08-17T06:16:00.022-06:00

3D Images

VroniPlag - collaborative documentation (plagiarism barcode)

(Video) The Legendary Steve Jobs

FEAST (Funding Engaging Actions with Sustainable Tactics) http://www.feast-toronto.com

Art That Can Be Seen From Space

Doodle on Your Photos

Why Is Contemporary Art Addicted to Violence?

"When you die, you're dead." - Via
"Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness." - Gary A. Freedman
"Yes, and it can be easy for you too (Get used to it)." - The Universe
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge." - Kahlil Gibran
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." - John F. Kennedy

2011-08-15T06:20:00.019-06:00

There's a lot more to Google+ than a challenge to Facebook

(Definition) "Arts-based visual research methods"

(An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator) http://inkscape.org/
also free: http://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.html

(Video) 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial

When Brain Injuries Transform Into Art

CBC "Ideas" Archive http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/

Why Did My Computer Get a Virus?

"I do not explain, I explore." - Marshall McLuhan
"When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap." - Joseph Duveen (1869-1939)
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"It's usually a dirt road that leads to the diamond mine." - TU
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."- G. K. Chesterton

2011-08-12T06:17:00.018-06:00

Digital Maps Are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land

Google Closing Down Labs

(Intro) http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Triangulation Vs http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Trilateration

Why Curiosity is Important (and How to Develop It)

m.strange (a young digital Tim Burton?)

(Definition) "Imaginal Cells"

VO2 Max

"If only for the forward march of our own character, we need to fill our sketchbooks." - Robert Genn
"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say." - Barbara McClintock
"Laced throughout every day of your life,are hidden highways of opportunity, invisible crossroads of time, and golden avenues for personal transformation that if only traveled upon would reveal the extraordinary, the sublime, and the unexpected. (Yet most slip by undetected until there's first a childlike wonder at the ordinary, the routine, and the expected)." - The Universe
"... the tetrahedron is the synthesis of space." - A. Gaudi
"To live right on the shooting line, right on the frontier of change is terrifying." - Marshall McLuhan

2011-08-11T08:50:00.001-06:00

GalleryLandscapeViewer, originally uploaded by Raw'n'Wild Via Flickr
Imaginal Cells Map (Gallery View)
Barthe Map (in background)

2011-08-10T07:24:00.014-06:00

Gough Map of Great Britain and its Making

(Video) Wikitude Drive (Augmented Reality giving the driver a "quasi-head-up" display)

The Past and Future Histories of Human Innovation as Histories of Computation

Special Characteristics of the Middle-Way Approach (is that it can achieve peace through non-violence, mutual benefit, unity of nationalities and social stability).

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-bother-with-marshall-mcluhan

(Book) Line in the Sand : A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work.

"We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. " - Steven Pressfield
"(And while I abhor the idea of disturbing you when things are getting so very exciting in your life,) I just want to remind you that no matter what may ever happen, the dreamer is always greater than the dream." - The Universe
"Some things nearly so, and some things nearly not." - Yul Brynner, The King and I
"…nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?" – R. W. Emerson
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." - Friedrich Nietzsche

2011-08-08T06:39:00.019-06:00

Platonic Solids in All Dimensions

Identity and Pseudonymity

The 10 most walkable U.S. cities

Online pixel brush

McLuhan Program is re-launching the Monday night seminars

How Thinking Can Change the Brain

http://www.hotelocho.com/artists.html

"'What is there?' you will get a multitude of competing answers - including 'It’s a matter of faith'." - Roy Clouser, The Myth of Religious Neutrality
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained." - David Bohm
"We are not the best but we will always be the better." - Chinese Spam eMail
"There's never been a conflict from which both parties didn't have something very cool to learn.(That's why we call them parties.)" - The Universe
"When you know the artist, you think less of the art." - George Bernard Shaw

2011-07-27T08:38:00.017-06:00

Charles Bliss designed a graphical symbolic system

Origami tessellations

The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC. Via

http://autos.sympatico.ca/did-you-know/9125/funny-road-signs-2/1

A brief intellectual history of a creative career

(Song) maps // rogue wave [yeah yeah yeahs cover]

Gaming The Streets: Uncommissioned Art

"Drawing, I now think, need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment." - Adam Gopnik
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first." - Stephen Hawkings (one of the greatest thinkers and cosmologists of all time
"It's not the path you have to know, but the destination." - The Universe
"The artist... is always thought of as being way ahead of his time because he lives in the present." - Marshall McLuhan
"Raw is the new polished." - Nadja Sayej, ArtStars

2011-07-25T08:37:00.017-06:00

Voices Guide iWay GPS Navigation Users on iPhone (in 20 Languages)

(*printed* map journal) Grassroots Mapping Forum Via

Hexagonal Prototiles

Draw, paint, doodle on your computer

Potential collaborator(?) : Dana Bentley

(Video) 12,000-year-old unexplained structures

(Barcelona) http://www.halfhouse.org/residency-english.html

"Life is movement. It's the person who sits on the couch who's living dangerously." - Grete Waitz
"Fishing is a lot like painting... the more you stay at it, the more likely you'll drag something up." - Robert Genn
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - Mao Tse Tung
"It's not the day you have to manage but the moment." - The Universe
"Without knowledge action is useless, and knowledge without action is futile." - Abu Bakr

2011-07-21T16:32:00.022-06:00

(How to make) OSM-derived Art Maps

Maps, Mapmaking, and Map Use by Native North Americans

5 Reasons Google+ Is Not A Facebook Killer

Why Don’t Macs Get Viruses?

While geometric ornamentation may have reached a pinnacle in the Islamic world, the sources for both the shapes and the intricate patterns already existed in late antiquity among the Greeks, Romans, and Sasanians in Iran.

A practical method of using patents to stimulate new product ideas

Collection of digital art Portfolios

"It's ALL Go(o)d. Everything, always, and forever." - The Universe
"In the scientific study of random processes, the drunkard's walk is the archetype ... we're continually nudged in this direction and then that one by random events (... the future of particular individuals is impossible to predict)." - Leonard Mlodinow
"To a butterfly, a week is a lifetime." - Robert Genn
"Is the telos (good) of philosophy to solve problems in the manner of the natural sciences, or is it to produce a rich succession of inspiring texts and ideas?" - Richard Kamber, PLOTTING PHILOSOPHY'S FUTURE
"An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity." - Confucius

2011-07-18T16:32:00.019-06:00

Iconography of the Oriental Map

Phone Zones as Alternate States

(Application) Google Goggles is at base a visual search engine that is activated not by typing in key phrases but by taking a picture on your smartphone of the object

(Intro video) 3D printing

Hexagon – This can be created from six circles placed around a seventh. As seven is a perfect number, and circles are perfect: the hexagon represents heaven. (Triangle – A symbol for three aspects of human beings: body, mind and spirit.)

Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor (share it instantly via web, email, IM, Twitter or your blog).

The Stagecraft of Steve Jobs

"Be brief, be bright, be gone." - Nadja Sayej (Twitter advice)
"Some will hear, but not listen. Some will listen, but not understand. And some will understand, but not act." - The Universe
"Persistence, so often mistaken for achievement." - Jen Bekman, gallerist (recently tweeted)
"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. " - Jose Marti
"I am because we are." - Ubuntu

2011-07-15T08:42:00.015-06:00

Open source JavaScript mapping framework for creating online maps

(Free final report download) the state of the Canadian digital media economy

Cartography’s Favourite Map Monster: the Land Octopus

Google +1 Button on More Homepages than Tweet Button

Online Les Paul Guitar

Settling Out of Court Over Pixel Art Depiction (fair use doesn't protect you unless you're willing to pay to defend yourself.)

Yankovic's parodic impulse has gone viral

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." - Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
"To fix the world you must first see it as broken. I'm not so sure I'd go there." - The Universe
"(Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing.) What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance." - Bertrand Russell
"It is far more revolutionary to be, sincere, romantic and idealistic". - The Resurrection of Beauty - a manifesto for the future of art / 2002
"We are doomed to repeat the past not because we have forgotten it, but because we never learned the lessons to begin with." - Brett Arends, personal-finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal

2011-07-13T09:31:00.016-06:00

Google Maps Mobile (on Android) now have Offline Raster Mode for out of mobile/cell coverage

How the IPhone Knows Where You Are

LABYRINTH: MYTH, MEANING & SYMBOL

The next wave of online business models must focus narrowly, rather than blindly pursuing scale.

Fine Silver Coin - Toronto City Map

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/ and free iTunes podcasts

Top 10 Technology ETFs

"Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced." – A.N. Whitehead
"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once." - Ray Cumming, 1922
"The best thing about every meltdown, is learning that whatever was lost, can be recreated. Hold on loosely." - The Universe
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~ Dr. Seuss
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King

2011-07-11T08:14:00.002-06:00

Genes Found That Respond To Distance

Hexagonal Graph Paper PDF Generator

On-line color IQ test

(Publication) EXPOSÉ 9 showcases 444 pieces of original digital art from 327 artists in 60 countries.

The 14 Biggest Ideas of the Year

(Teleclass) The Nuts and Bolts of Writing Your First Book

(Song) "speaking in tongues" // arcade fire ft. david byrne from talking heads

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." ~ Woody Allen
"Think of every single thing that you "have to" do to get through a day, as things you "get to" do (before your turn is over)." - The Universe
"One usually discovers what one is not searching for."- R.B. Wild (after Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin)
"What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity!" - Jakob Bernoulli Via
"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." - Paul Fix (1901 - 83)

2011-07-06T08:50:00.014-06:00

TileMill is a modern map design studio powered by open source technology. Via

Scaling Boundaries

Designing Digital Media for the Internet of Things projects - Summer, 2011

The Map Room (blog by Jonathan Crowe) comes to an end (after more than eight years and more than 4,000 posts).

(Course Overview) Google SketchUp can help you work quickly to block out a 3D concept.

Picasso-style portraits of superheroes and villains

The Rise and Fall of (Raw'n'Wild) Pseudonyms

"Subconscious perceptions: What will you discover hidden in the details?" - Via
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"You're here because you prevailed." - The Universe
"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." - Clifford Stoll

2011-07-04T08:31:00.016-06:00

(Samples) Network Maps

Google+ Social Network

(Book) Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto : guide to re-seeing the city’s familiar and hidden corners with fresh, unhurried eyes (and feet) Via

Organizational Charts is a very funny look at the corporate cultures and structures for some very high-profile tech companies using hand-drawn organization charts as the visual language.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Res-Artis-Worldwide-Network-of-Artist-Residencies/57312635896

(Scientific) Comic Archive

Barcelona ROJO Gallery

"I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum. - Claes Oldenburg
"To succeed, one cannot afford to be a realist." - Albert Bandura (address before the American Psychological Association, 1998)
"Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't." - Rebecca Solnit, "A Field Guide to Getting Lost
"All that you need to have, all that you want, will be provided as if by magic (once you know what you want and do something about it every day)." - The Universe
"When truly creative people come up with a new idea they don't reject it immediately because of its flaws. They play with it, looking for strengths and sliding over weaknesses." - David Campbell

2011-06-26T08:09:00.000-06:00

Can artists really be considered to have made scientific breakthroughs?

Gravatar is an avatar image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.

Digital Collage

Arty Bollock's Generator writes your artist's statement for you!

(Video) 'Visions of the Possible' (using theatre to 'fire pellets at the complacent body of society')

Products That Were Invented by Accident

Boundary Condition Thinking

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." - Stephen Fry
"If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it." - Luke Parker Via #quotes
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win." - George Bernard Shaw
"If you hold out long enough, always keeping busy while you wait, your ship has to come in ... Promise." - The Universe
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge." - Lao Tzu

2011-06-17T08:23:00.016-06:00

WeePlaces.com : Map Your Foursquare, Facebook, and Gowalla Checkins Via

smART Maps = Weaving a Pattern of Contextual Associations

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps

(Example) Sliding TimeLine (with zoom capability)

Play your mood on Musicovery

The Rap Songs Of The Arab Spring

The Importance of Being Opportunistic

"We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over & actually read a volume of 4 or 500 pages. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson Via
"It liberates me not being encumbered by technical proficiency." - Alexander Gorlizki
"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions." - Susanne Langer
"Everyone loves you, no matter what they think or say or do (And it's quite good form to love them no matter what they think or say or do. Actually, you do anyway, so perhaps just admit it)." - The Universe
"Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes." - 41-st Law of Power Via

2011-06-15T06:57:00.018-06:00

http://www.needmaps.com/

(Videos) Fractal Geometry

How Good Becomes the Enemy of Great

http://brainartexhibition.com/

How Do You Share Photos Across the Web?

Syndication info : http://great-map.livejournal.com/

(8'x12') Wall Mural

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." - Pierre Corneille (born 1606)
"You are now who you most wanted to be." - The Universe
"Prior explanation inhibits exploration and discovery." - Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz, UC, Berkeley
"We want our great artists and writers to be one thing or the other: saints or sinners, angels or devils. Either way, they should be heroes, with decisive achievements and expansive souls." -
Via
"In art, the obvious is a sin." - Edward Dmytryk

2011-06-13T06:24:00.014-06:00

(Biannual DVD publication) ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art

http://www.mythogeography.com/2009/11/blog-post_3492.html

(Fractally?) Thoughts within thoughts make us human (but what about visual thinking?)

The Great Ideas Online Discussion site--a place devoted for you to post your comments, questions and to converse with us and fellow members.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tgiod/

Symphony of Science 'music videos'

Lewis W. Hine was hired to document the construction of the Empire State Building

"Research is creating new knowledge." - Neil Armstrong
"Have your preferences, go where you're drawn, and dwell upon all that is good." - TU
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"In questions of art-revolution, the artist is called upon to speak first!" - Kandinsky
"To create is to live twice." - Camus

2011-06-10T07:34:00.020-06:00

Fluorescence Map Offers a New View of the World’s Land Plants

Tom Tom offers a GPS system that gives direction using John Cleese's voice.

John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures. Published in 1611/12.

Wikipedia Edits Visualized

Digital archeology: Showcasing the internet's earliest 'culturally significant' web pages and music videos

"The Ontology of the Avant-Garde."

(Book) "Connected Dreams: How Ideas Move and Connect in Unexpected Ways"

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." – Jonathan Swift
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past." - Oscar Wilde
"A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them (It's often called the culture of the organization.)." - Howard Gardner
"I'll love you no matter which path you choose,and more, I'll be there ahead of you. (So choose based upon your own happiness)." - The Universe
"(If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.) Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk." - Raymond Inmon

2011-06-08T07:12:00.017-06:00

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-maps-five-reasons-that-apple-others-shouldnt-even-try-to-compete/2979

Musicovery Map displaying songs by degree of consensus, with at the top the most consensual songs tagged by listeners).

Using SketchUp for digital fabrication

Some awesome facts about numbers

(Definition) "schema" are a set of 'types' (each associated with a set of properties). arranged in a hierarchy.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/ to replace MobileMe

Where, Exactly, Are Israel's Borders?

"Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it." - Alain Rene Le Sage
"It's often from a sense of discontent, feelings of incompleteness, or even a twinge of true unhappiness, that the seeds of great accomplishment are sown." - The Universe
"One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better." - Brian Eno
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." - Oscar Wilde
"The universe was made by a god who botched the job. Therefore, we must proceed mostly by abstract and fanciful maps, rather than by empirical observation." - Via

2011-06-06T07:39:00.015-06:00

Designing Maps Applications for Usability

TinEye ( http://www.tineye.com/ ) is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.

139 song mashup in 46 minutes

http://mycitystories.com/index.php?view=theme

User-Created Geographies of Religion: Allah, Buddha, Hindu, Jesus

Make 3D models from any file on your computer

Art images made with Processing

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace." - George Santayana
"Hallelujah, the winds are blowing." - TU
"Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it?" - Frank O. Gehry
"Art is an adventure not a habit." — Kathleen Munn

2011-06-03T07:06:00.016-06:00

http://www.google.com/mapmaker (for the United States only) Add and update the places you know for millions to see in Google Maps.

Re-examining Dropbox (and its alternatives)

NXNEi panel programmer forum

This study demonstrated that student retention of material across a wide range of subjects and difficulty levels can be significantly improved by presenting reading material in a format that is slightly harder to read.

Flip-Flap Books allow you to see all the photos in the book at once (instead of flipping through page by page by page).

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Canadian_inventions

Down with art!: the age of manifestos

"To give yourself over to chance is to embrace freedom, the unknown, total openness. And today, with the popularity of co-productions, collaborations and works-in-progress, that’s exactly where contemporary art is going." - Claude Gosselin
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul." - Emily Carr
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." - Kahlil Gibran
"Insisting on details always limits you." - The Universe
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world..... On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds." - Anne Rice

2011-06-02T06:41:00.015-06:00

Bing Maps Streetside view has flattened steet-level images and lets you scroll the images as one gigantic panorama to navigate the map. Via

http://taxonomy2watch.blogspot.com/2011/05/tool-to-build-faceted-navigation.html

Mapping Escorts

Amazing Interactive Installations

Ben Shneiderman : leader of the Human Computer Interaction Lab. at the University of Maryland

Best choice for a free photo manager–editor

Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Fund APPLICATION deadline: August 26, 2011

"You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so." - Francois Rabelais
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge." - Confucius
"There's always more than one right answer, path, possibility, nuance, or flavor - so insist upon none." - TU
"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-06-01T08:13:00.017-06:00

(23 layer mash-up) Punk song...Visualized

(iPad app) allows users to view and study Cubist works with a level of detail and precision (designed by Reza Ali) Via

When is sharing stealing?

(Video ON CREATING AND CURATING CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE) A CUTTER'S EDGES - JAMES GALLAGHER

The Good Fight (Some kinds of conflict can actually help us)

(Definition) "desultory" : skipping from one subject to another, disconnected, unmethodical.

Cyprus Residency Opportunity : http://www.cornaroinstitute.org/

"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind." - Rudyard Kipling
"Design, in all its forms, can often be distilled down to its three core principles: colour, composition, and noodle collage." - Design Exchange
"In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch." - Jonas Salk
"How you feel is more important than anything else (and this is something you get to choose, moment by moment)." - The Universe
"It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission." - Sally Ride

2011-05-31T06:28:00.014-06:00

Geoweb Density in Israel and Palestine

Photo Shadow Play

Thingiverse : place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects.

Top 10 moments in Steve Jobs' career

Library Map used as an example here

Artists using appropriation

Antique Map Bedding

"My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my short-term memory's not as sharp as it used to be." - Yarn
"Be creative whenever possible. It is always possible." - R.B. Wild (after the Dalai Lama)
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
"Sitting still is highly dangerous." - James A. Levine
"Love it all, before it's just a really, really, really, really, really beautiful memory." - TU

2011-05-26T09:55:00.017-06:00

Yellow Pages Encourages entrepreneurs to build location-based services

Free Science, One Paper at a Time

(Digital comic book series) In Maps & Legends : a fantasy mapmaker finds herself drawn into a mysterious world she’s been mapping. Via

http://collagista.wordpress.com/ : an online, bi-monthly zine – dedicated to promoting and supporting collage art in all its forms. Issue May 2011

Added example TimeLine to Amazon book

(Definition) "Internet of Things" : refers to uniquely identifiable objects (Things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-alike structure (by which a developer can link real world items to the online world using RFID tags and QR Codes).

Artwork From Old Maps made by.

Gaudi’s Barcelona : http://googlesightseeing.com/2010/04/gaudis-barcelona/

"We humans appear to be genetically wired to focus more on differences in our environment than on similarities." - William Seidman, Cerebyte Inc, 2008 Via
"For the one who continues, failure becomes impossible (and winning becomes inevitable)." - The Universe
"Man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs behind car gets exhausted." - Confucius did NOT say
"Mapping is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." - R.B. Wild (after Claude Monet)
"If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already.. the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of." - Cindy Sherman

2011-05-25T06:23:00.014-06:00

Top Sites for Creating Timelines like this one

'Electronic Bread Crumbs' : Find Your Way to Your Destination (and then Find Your Way Back)

Scientists compiled a clickstream map of “scientific activity” (along with other disciplines) that creates a visualization of how users moved from one academic journal to another. Via

Play with Photo Science

How Viral PDFs Of A Book Exploded The Old Publishing Model

(Timely?) http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/PeaceMap/MAPSwithOUTborders.htm

(Definition) "je ne sais quoi" : the French always have a certain way they approach things

"My wound is geography." - Pat Conroy Via
"The reason for all challenges, is so that you can finally learn that none are bigger than you." - The Universe
"Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.” – Peter Drucker
"A map is nothing but a drawing with a college education." - R.B. Wild (after Mark Twain)
"Spirit needs matter to become substantial; matter needs spirit to become meaningful." - Jeffe Ivany

2011-05-24T11:11:00.018-06:00

http://www.e-perimetron.org/ : international quarterly e-journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps.

What appropriation means to me and mine

Ken Jennings (Jeopardy guy) Writes Map Book

(Definition) "Visual thinking" : how we use our eyes (and our mind's eye) to look at a problem, see patterns and opportunities, imagine ways to manipulate those patterns to our advantage, and show those insights to others. Via

Subtle Technologies is a gathering at the intersection of art, science and technology to share cross-disciplinary ideas, explore new technologies, showcase creativity (and incubate the next generation of practitioners).

http://creativemapping.blogspot.com/ (quiet the past year though)

A View From the Gazan Cliff

"Think as only you can think, which will lead to feelings that only you can feel, from which connections will be made, lives will be changed, and worlds will come tumbling into existence." - The Universe
"Art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction." - Saul Bellow
"The cream has further to rise in a bigger bottle of milk." - R.B. Wild
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." - Henry David Thoreau

2011-05-20T07:00:00.003-06:00

http://burnon.ca/toronto/events Toronto’s Burner scene is vibrant and active

Exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The Creative Compass

3-D Art for All : Ready to Print

(Timeline) Internet Memes

http://www.cabi.ca/docs/Incubators-in-Canada-List.pdf Via

http://cgb.indiana.edu/research/projects/51

Links: Collage Artists

"Why are bad choices so easy and good ones so hard?" - David Krueger, MD, Mentor Coach
"What makes people smart, curious, alert, observant, competent, confident, resourceful, persistent--is not having access to more and more learning places, resources, and specialists, but being able in their lives to do a wide variety of interesting things that matter, things that challenge their ingenuity, skill, and judgment, and that make an obvious difference in their lives and the lives of people around them." - John Holt
"All is flux, nothing stays still." - Heraclitus, Fragment (535 - 475 BC)
"Freedom: Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE." - Tristan Tzara “Dada Manifesto 1918”
"The border fringe is the reality and the border line the abstraction thereof." - Prescott Via

2011-05-19T06:27:00.020-06:00

Where My Friends Be : mashup uses Google Maps and your own list of Facebook friends to create an animated map of where all your friends are located

ORIGAMI ARTISTS SUE

(Graph) Text Message growth

(Book) Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

(Example) Public Art Guide

Get to the Good Part: In Praise of Shortened Attention Spans

Call idea : artists will be given a (file?) package of identical materials that comprises of ten? different elements, and each will be asked to each create a single collage artwork using the pieces provided. Via

"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance." - Hans-Georg Gadamer
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist." - G. K. Chesterton
"When was the last time you pleasantly surprised or even shocked someone, and remained anonymous? Well, it just may be the most fun one can have in time and space. Let's play!" - The Universe
"Wonder is the desire for knowledge." - Saint Thomas Aquinas
"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help." - Charles Dudley Warner

2011-05-17T06:56:00.016-06:00

NounProject : universal symbols, free for download, viewed by category

(Map) Evolution of Facebook

MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation

Materials for Art-Practice-Led Researchers

Toronto Startup Index

(Book) The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation Buy

Res Artis : worldwide network of artist-residencies and residential art centers.

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." ~ Jonathan Swift
"This is the kind of spontaneous publicity — your name in print — that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now." – The Jerk
"Genuinely new art is inevitably threatening." - R.B. Wild
"I'll be happy to give you innovative thinking; what are the guidelines?" - a bedraggled employee tells his boss (in a classic Leo Cullum cartoon) Via
"The information in a message is inversely proportional to its probability. Random 'noise' is quite uniform; the more surprising a message, the more information it contains." - Claude Shannon, Bell Laboratories Via

2011-05-16T07:44:00.026-06:00

Zoom in on your genome

Clarity Not Always the Best for Learning

How badly have we messed up the architecture of access to scientific knowledge?

The myth of the lone genius innovator

(Online) QR Code Generator for Website URL Telephone Number SMS Message Email Address or Message Google Maps Location Wifi Login (Android Only) Paypal Buy Now Link iTunes Link YouTube Video Social Media ...

New Media Projects

What appropriation means to me and mine

(Book) In Motion : The Experience of Travel

"...usually it only ever seems hard, when you rush yourself." - TU
"More and more I'm convinced that obstacle is a synonym for opportunity." - @guygal
"It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England, but it only took the Americans three hours to get home." - Tourist Complaint
"Puzzles are intimately involved in every aspect of life, art, science, culture." - Ian Stewart
"It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass." - Wise Lady

2011-05-13T06:25:00.018-06:00

THE UNIVERSE IS DODECAHEDRAL : THE UNIVERSE IS FRACTAL

Body Browser: http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com (uses the WEBGL technology of 3D representation instead of Flash) Via

Accidental map projections

THE TROUBLED HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CLASSICAL BOUNDARY TERMINOLOGY

Google Maps as Art

(Ambient Device) Proverbial Wallets Project

Quotes about art-practice-based research

Richard Prince is an acknowledged pioneer and leader in the use of appropriation, who has dedicated his career to exploring the recontextualization of images that are all around us.

"Even though you can't physically see a tree growing, doesn't mean it's not. Right? Same with the world spinning? Gravity clinging? (Every day you get closer)." - The Universe
"The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!" - Via
"A chipped shoulder will never heal." - R.B.Wild
"Culture arises and unfolds in and as play, ... culture itself bears the character of play." - Johan Huizinga
"One is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." - Via

2011-05-12T06:40:00.020-06:00

Map of political financing in Canada

Difference between Art and Design Methods

Genomics Sector Innovation Network

Isometric ClipArt

http://www.flickr.com/groups/fractals

C100 hosts Canadian companies in the Valley

Francis Bacon Art & quotes

Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic

"Always remember that what to drag, where to drag, and where to drop is the essence of art-like communication whether you are dragging pixels or paint." - Michael P.
"And the Lord spake, saying, ‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"No surprise for the artist, no surprise for the viewer." - R.B. Wild (after Robert Frost)
"While our work has job-like elements, it's not really a job. It's a calling. It's a supreme opportunity to honour and make permanent our time and place in the nature of things." - Robert Genn
"No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." – Thomas Jefferson

2011-05-11T07:24:00.015-06:00

(Example) LinkedIn Map

Overview on 3D graphics

World's Largest Atlas

(Forum) The "Art" in Cartography

Things Marketers Need to Know About QR Codes

How to Create Coloring Book Pages from Photos

Analogue artists defying the digital age

"Play is a state of mind, rather than an activity." - Stuart Brown
"Around the bend, in the unseen, arising from the very uncertainties that may now seem to taunt you, there are some amazing surprises, awesome twists, and spellbinding coincidences about to emerge that you can't even now imagine." - The Universe
"Nature's great book is written in mathematical symbols." ~ Galileo
"Data is only free if the time you took to create it is worth nothing." - @JeffHarrison
"Fail often in order to succeed sooner." - Robert Genn

2011-05-10T07:17:00.020-06:00

Ontario Universities to Adopt e-Learning

A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge

Why Great Designers Steal—and Are Proud of It

http://mapillustrations.co.uk/category/map-art

Android Is Destroying Everyone (Especially RIM) - iPhone Dead In Water

(Art Show) The Importance of Being Earnest: Tessar Lo’s Maps

http://www.thegreatideas.org/mortimer_adler_videos/index.html

We 'brototyped' txt2hold.ca at http://www.sciencerendezvous.ca/2011/treehouse-group/

"Like… how do you get from here to the rest of the world? - Dukie, The Wire
"If we pick stocks based on extensive research, we invest only after a stock has proven to be successful (thereby missing its real growth phase)." - R.B. Wild
"I didn’t speak up when they came for the appropriationists…" - Brian Dupon t Via
"Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware." - Martin Buber
"I’m a simple man with complex tastes." - Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes