09 May 2012

System that divides city into many small sections that people with local knowledge can easily explore and update

Manuscript (Copying) Timeline

Google Drive.

(Math) Polar spaces
 
APIs can't be copyrighted (would "monopolise ideas")

Saving digital art one torrent at a time

The Phrase Finder (phrases, sayings, idioms and expressions)

(Be a storyteller and) write great blog posts

Draw Something: Celebrity quiz

A Crane Ceremony of Hope (Paper cranes delivered to SickKids)

"Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way." - Erskine Childers  (last words)
"Having learned the meaning of infinite patience, i now rise to the text whenever anyone reads about Evariste Galois, preferring to remain just below the surface, like a goldfish nibbling the fringe of a floating leaf." - From The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis
"Don't ask for permission where you unwilling to accept 'no' for an answer." - R.B.Wild
"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success." - Bo Bennett
"It is bizarre how little of twentieth-century science has been assimilated into twentieth century art." - C.P. Snow, 1959

08 May 2012

Galois Geometry

French Wine Map (showing best vintages from 1978 to 2011)  Via

The 125 United States That Could've Been

Mapstalgia: video game maps drawn from memory.

(App) Build a Body (By Spongelab Interactive)

(Blog) The ArtScience Call

(Book) 'Art of the Digital Age'

Why Art Theft Is Good

Pinterest: A Marketing Tool for Artists

(Art Game)  The Scrawl Game

"Stop beating yourself up searching for the one big idea. Get lots of ideas out there and then let the people you interact with feed those ideas and they will make it big." -  Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide  Via
"... learning to be happy while not yet having all you want is the first "Criterion of Joy." (Nail it, and for the rest of your life people will be asking what it is about you)." - TU
"There is no royal road to geometry." - attributed to Euclid
"The best thing about the future, is that it only comes one day at a time." - ?
"No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for." - Nikolay Semyonov

07 May 2012

(How to) use fast prototyping, agile development, and the latest tech in order to gain an advantage.

[Paperback] 'Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas' :  Dennis Wood

Everything is a Remix

(Podcast)  What Makes Games Like 'Angry Birds' So Addictive?

Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years

 What is Philosophy? Definitions from Prominent Philosophers
 
(Video) Hand-Cut Vinyl Installation

Watch 56 Episodes of Star Trek Played at Once

Will anyone use Toronto's new anti-graffiti app?

Cindy Fuller, Miss May 

"Fight so that no one loses." - Marty Avery
"And when you can clearly see that life and those dreams in your mind's eye - how confident you will walk and how proud you will feel - start walking and feeling like that today." - The Universe
"We’re resistant to attempts to create value or applying a paradigm that exists for physical objects.  In treating digital works as a physical work, you’re neutering the power of those works.” - Jeremiah Johnson
"Amor doctrinae floreat." (“Let the love of learning flourish.”)
"For that work I did nothing, chose nothing, in the sense that: the world is made as it is, not as I designed it, the flags are those that exist, and I did not design them; in short I did absolutely nothing; when the basic idea, the concept, emerges everything else requires no choosing." - Alighiero e Boetti, 1974  Via

04 May 2012

Manhattan Portrait Map

(Map) Enlightenment Thinkers 

A Search for a Radical Cartography

(Podcast): Where Conference 2012

Let's Not Put On These Google Glasses

Videos that have gone viral on YouTube since its inception.

Pop-up book

Everyone Loves James Franco, The Man Who Can Do Anything

Creating Video Content For Your Art Practice

Ad Images – Tips for Killer Creative

"If you want to understand life, don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology." - Richard Dawkins  Via
"Make stuff to inspire others to make something too." - Right Brain Terrain.
"A finished work of art, as it marches out into the universe, transforms from the pleasure of the artist to the pleasure of others." - Catharine Compston, artist
"Inactive people may not be fit enough to hit the exercise intensity that leads to the neurobiological reward." - David Raichlin, anthropologist, University of Arizona
"Chance favors the connected mind." - Steven Johnson

03 May 2012

(Map) Price of Pot

Woodcut Maps from Google app

http://cityoflabyrinths.tyo.ca/

(Game) Protein Folding 

http://ca.bestpicturesof.com/  combines 3 Popular Image Search Engines In 1 Place

10 Tumblrs Serving Up the Best Animated GIFs

Dealing with distracted learners

Pixelated Birds Installation

http://takepicturedontsteal.com/  public interactive art project

http://sandrareford.com/Textile_Art.html

"If you try to make something beautiful, it is often ugly. If you try to make something useful, it is often beautiful." - Oscar Wilde
"You can't teach someone to see the far horizons." - Theodore Sorenson
"The real reason your brain is so large, is so that you can vividly imagine all the exquisite, exciting, and enthralling details of your heart's desires; not so that you can figure out who you need to meet, when you need to meet them, where you need to be, or how you're going to pull it all together." - The Universe
"... the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
"A great man is always willing to be little." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

02 May 2012

TypeBrewer offers a quick way to explore the impact type has on the look and feel of a map

(Map) Urban WildLife Safari

(Podcast): Making Sense of Trimble’s Acquisition of SketchUp

Twitter Announces Innovator’s Patent Agreement

(Video series)  Big Data

Fractal Mosaic Portraits

Use of Three-Dimensional Models to Understand Human Viral Infections

Tips for Making a Better Kickstarter Project Video

(Video) Pothole gardening

100 Photos Merge to Form Swirling 360-Degree Landscapes

"Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing," -  The Cult of Done Manifesto
"I think all things that we marvel over are based in gimmicks." - Wayne Coyne  Via
"These maps are completely unnecessary. The world didn’t ask for them. They aid no navigation or civic-minded purpose. They’re just for pleasure. " - Ira Glass  Via
"Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death." - Leonard Baskin
"If there are no separate parts, there is nothing to combine." Augusto Garau, Theory of Color professor

01 May 2012

Map Cube Game

Mapping European Stereotypes

The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious  (Buy)

Psychogeographic Walking Tour of Mississauga

All Creative Work Is Derivative

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/art

Digital artist uses smaller fractals near smooth edges

Multimedia Grand Challenge 

Quixote Map liked here

How to Make It in the Art World

 "The true measure of an individual is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience but where they stand in moments of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." - Heda Bejar
"We can't run from our dreams - we need to run to them!" -  Kathrine Switzer. the first women to run a marathon
"Things look different when you focus upon what you haven't done, instead of what you have done." - TU
"Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things." - Randy Pausch