13 June 2012

(NYT) Everyone’s Lives, in Pictures

(10-year-old) maps the interestingness of Avengers character

Information Overload Is Not a New Problem

The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

(Essay)  http://om.co/2012/04/05/the-of-course-principle-of-design/of-course-principle-of-design/of-course-principle-of-design/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/07/must-read-map-books/

Why Do We Care About Abstraction?

Selling your art at art shows

"The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have." - Via 
",,,simply acting for the sake of acting (otherwise known as creative destruction), and choosing churn over stability, is central to life." - Via
"Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"The good is the enemy of the great." - Norman Mailer, 'The Time of our Time'
"Life's magic is a lot like a swift flowing river; no matter how long you've overlooked it or unwittingly swam against it, the instant you stop struggling you're back in the flow." - TU
Call (2012 International Workshop on) Visual Languages and Computing

(Infographic) It's All About The Images

A Random Walk with Pi

(Video series)  Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney


http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/07/must-read-map-books/must-read-map-books

What Color is the Perfect Triangle?

IAIN BAXTER&amp

Selling your art at art shows
 
"The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have." - Via 
"... simply acting for the sake of acting (otherwise known as creative destruction), and choosing churn over stability, is central to life." - Via
"Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"The good is the enemy of the great." - Norman Mailer, 'The Time of our Time'
"Life's magic is a lot like a swift flowing river; no matter how long you've overlooked it or unwittingly swam against it, the instant you stop struggling you're back in the flow." - TU

12 June 2012

Mapping European Stereotypes

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/press/11-12/mathartproject.html

In what ways do the Greek myths inspire our explorations?

Domains where the dynamics of language can be studied successfully


tweet2hold at SMWTO from Dylan Reibling on Vimeo.

(Video) Interactive Floors

The Art of Polymer Clay

The Virtues of Daydreaming

"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralp Waldo Emerson, American author/poet, 1803 - 1882
"Little hours and days a big month make." - R.B. Wild
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy
"One of the most stringent conditions all angels must meet, is that they must not allow themselves to feel hurt or rejected by the choices made by others, no matter how much they've done for them nor how great their love." - The Universe
"The Aleph?" I repeated. "Yes, the only place on earth where all places are -- seen from every angle, each standing clear, without any confusion or blending..." - Jorge Luis Borges, the aleph


08 June 2012

Maps of Seven Deadly Sins in America

(Artistic interpretation) Donald Coxeter's 'My Graph'

Fractal Artist

The Encampment A unique form of archaeology turns a historic site into sculpture on a grand scale, evoking the War of 1812’s personal toll. (June 8-2)

Transmedia 101 Workshop

Make Geometric Photo Art

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/brain-experiments-why-we-dont-believe-science.html

How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love

"Do you think the most stunning, celebrated, and adept dancer in the entire world, could become so by only ever dancing to the most brilliant, illuminating, and clever music in the world? (or would they freak, hip-hop, and tango to every riff, beat, and la-bamba within earshot?)" - The Universe
"I have no time for lies or fantasy and neither should you. Enjoy or die." - Johnny Rotten
"Dada has never claimed to have anything to do with art." - Max Ernst, 1920
"We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.” - Kathryn Schulz
"There are moments in a day and in our lives when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness." - Robert Henri

06 June 2012

The Science of Einstein (on the Beach)

3D Architectural Concepts

(iPad Magazine)  http://wondereur.com/what-is-wondereur/

(Evolving installation) of collaged screen and digital prints, assembled to evoke a busy commercial street

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/mathed/

(Art / Sci Collaboration) CHROMOSOME PAINTING

 http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty/

How to transfer files from Windows to the iPad
 
"The true dadas are against Dada." - First International Dada Fair poster, 1919
"Libraries were never warehouses of books. They have been and always will be centers of learning. Their central position in the world of learning makes them ideally suited to mediate between the printed and the digital modes of communication.” – Robert Darnton, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future Source: Thomas H. Benton, Marian the Cybrarian, The Chronicle of Higher Education 5/20/2010. 
"When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything." - The Universe
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." - The New Yorker
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

04 June 2012

(Interactive Map) Active nuclear sites (and the 50-mile evacuation zones)

Mapping the cultural neighborhood of a blog

 http://geneticsofpolygons.org/ 

Radiolab : radio show and podcast weaving stories and science into sound and music-rich documentaries (has a remix contest)

(TimeLine)  http://www.dipity.com/StevePro/Steve-Jobs-Life-and-Career/

Single frame (animation) movie

Biggest survey of contemporary Canadian art ever held in the United States (maybe even the world)

(SubtleTech) Burke Brown : http://aakkozzll.com/

"Hofstadter’s Law: It always take longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law." - Naomi Karten
"Like everybody else, you too can be unique. Just keep shuffling.' - Card Colm
"Before Dada was there, there was Dada." - Hans Arp, 1919
"...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - T.D.Roosevelt (in his speech 'Citizenship In A Republic' delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910)  Via
"We need to aim for quality in whatever genre or style currently attracts us." - Louis Armstrong

01 June 2012

MyMetroMap creates original art prints in the style of transport network maps.

Symmetry Variations

The Great Brain Mapping Debate

Yahoo's Axis offers visual results to search requests

(Recommended) Science-Art magazines or websites

(Case Study) Video Art in the Digital Era

52-track version of The World of Nat King Cole

http://www.eipiphiny.org/mehme.shtml

"The very best moment in any long journey that makes your dreams come true ... the day you realize how little they matter compared to loving the adventure they've inspired." - The Universe
"No one becomes a generally educated human being in school and college, or even in the graduate schools of our universities." - Mortimer Adler
"Everybody can Dada." -Dada-Fair, Berlin, poster, 1919
"Before any sight and any object, abandon yourself to your first impression. If you have really been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion." - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
"Begin--to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished." - Marcus Aurelius  Via