How Maps Can Tell Stories

(Flickr Photo Maps) Buenos Aires and Santiago in a new style

Mathematicians propose periodic table of shapes

How new concepts and ideas are accepted, delayed, or rejected under various conditions of human societies

aakkozzll (App demo)  Normal Distribution Curve

Is the Internet an Arbiter of Peace?

(Comment) Disruptive innovation

An iPad Case That Folds Like Origami

"Paintings, like bars of gold, are assets of investment and hoarding; a treasury that may span generations." - Robert Genn
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated'" - John Donne Via
"Do you have any idea of how fast things can change for the better?" - TU
" La propriété, c'est le vol! (Property is theft!)" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (nineteenth century French anarchist and mutualis)  Via
"Chaos breeds life when order breeds habit."  - Henry Brooks Adams

Bing has added thousands of "Venues" to its mapping offerings to help users navigate shopping malls, airports, convention centers, museums, parks, racecourses, racetracks, and stadiums.

(Guy Debord +)  Neighborhood Maps

The best iPad apps of 2012 (so far)

Internet is spherical with a dense core

(TED Talk) Newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.

( Harpers Magazine article) "The Ecstasy of Influence"  (by Jonathan Lethem) on reuse in art and literature.

(For Beginners) How to Transfer Files to Your iPhone or iPad

The Real Story Behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign

"Like the laboratory, the studio is a domain of imaginative possibilities--as near to 'creation' as mankind is likely to go." - Robert Genn
"Curation = creation" - R.B. Wild
"For every setback, disappointment and heartbreak, ask yourself, 'What does this create the opportunity for?' (And therein you will find its gift.)." - The Universe

"Never let your past experiences harm your future. Your past can not be altered and your future does not deserve the punishment!" - ?
"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original." - Ken Robinson

On Art + Science in Web Cartography

An Algorithm is Not a Map

(TED Talk) How algorithms shape our world

(Worldwide) Geometric Signs Chart

(International) Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications

Snowflakes and Icebergs

Canadians Changed The Copyright Debate

(Official) Blogger blog and Google+ page
 
"If you hire a tradesmen with a big box of tools, don't leave yours lying around (like his previous customers did)." - R.B. Wild
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock (on the art of brevity)
"Artists are manufacturers of wealth." - Salvador Dali
"The more challenges one faces today, the more "Whoohooo's!" "Yeehaaa's!" and "Holy Batman's!" tomorrow." - TU
"Beware of a man’s shadow and a bee’s sting." - Burmese proverb

Google Testing New Navigation Interface

Social LandMark Map

http://indiemaps.com/projects/openlayers-dymaxion/examples/world_dymaxion.html

Play with space-filling curves here

(Webinar) Introduction to No Limits Mind Mapping

What is the difference between analytic cubism and synthetic cubism?

Roswell UFO incident (originates with a U.S. Army press release on 8 July 1947)

Why Scammers Say They're From Nigeria
 
"Most artists work all the time. Especially the good ones. (I mean, what else is there to do?)" - David Hockney
"Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest." - LexiPhile
"I think the next century will be the century of Complexity." - Stephen Hawking
"Funny how some folks think that avoiding challenges will bring them peace? As if the peace they now know didn't come from earlier challenges that were faced, and mastered." - The Universe
"Each medium, if its bias is properly exploited, reveals and communicates a unique aspect of reality, of truth. Each offers a different perspective, a way of seeing an otherwise hidden dimension of reality." ‐ Carpenter, E. (1960). The new languages. In E. Carpenter & M. McLuhan (Eds.), Explorations in Communication: An anthology. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Something about Maps

World Freedom Atlas

Stephen Hawking (Map) is keeping his eyes on the ... Nobel Prize

(Author: Ian Hacking)  http://www.nepistemology.com/docs/autonomy_of_statistical_law.pdf 

Infographic Resumes (an escalating trend)


Grafitti artist at work:

A. MICHAEL NOLL : 50th Anniversary of His Digital Computer Art

EARTH AND HER SPECIAL PLACES

"The path to Great probably doesn't pass through Good." - R.B. Wild
"Traditional science contradicts religion both in its determinism and its rejection of causes that cannot be seen and measured. But a new school of thought in science does something very different. It regards natural processes as a combination of chance and necessity, with the former holding priority over the latter." -  (Monod 1971; Eigen and Winkler 1981)  Via
"There are only two types of dreams; those that have come true, and those that are coming true." -The Universe
"New research shows that organic food makes people more judgmental and less likely to help others." - Brain Blogger
"To write with a broken pencil is pointless." -LEXIPHILE

Infographic Contest Album.

Google Maps heading to new directions

(Map) The 100-Mile Book Diet

http://www.wfs.org/content/printable-houses-and-future-opportunity-therein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pictures_Generation featured prominent art stars from the nineteen eighties such as Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, David Salle, Richard Prince, Jack Goldstein and Sherrie Levine (as well as their artistic predecessors such as John Baldessari)... privileged the processes of quotation, excerption, framing and staging... ‘Pictures’ was an apt way to describe their images, which were predominantly inspired by, or culled from newspapers, advertisements, film and television and that were increasingly becoming the signifiers of reality. Review

Amazing works have been chiseled onto various derelict buildings around Europe

Photoshop CS6 Content-Aware Saves Hours of Editing

Amplify the positive outliers

"Who controls the past controls the future." - George Orwell
"... the only way anyone could get anything done, would be if they held onto and moved with their vision in thought, word, and deed, even when present circumstances appeared ABSOLUTELY unchanged for their efforts. " - TU 
"Whatever advice you give, be brief." -  Quintus Horatius Flaccus (generally know as Horace), Roman lyric poet
"Something should be said about figures and signs whose significance is obscure and which often float in an atmosphere of pure symbolism or abstraction." - Graziosi  Via
"No heroic measures could ever surpass sustained tinkering." - R.B. Wild

Geometric Signs + Symbols (in Rock Art)

New Media Festival, Los Angeles

10 Steps To Designing An Amazing Infographic

http://virtualmathmuseum.org/mathart/MathematicalArt.html

So where exactly is the division between art and science? 

(Book) Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The Best of Earth As Art

How (and Why) to Buy In to High-End Art

"Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics." -  Edward Kasner & James Newman Mathematics and the Imagination, 1940
"Generally, typically, and most of the time, it's those who consider themselves to be the least spiritually mature who are the most, and vice versa." - The Universe
"Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now." - Lexi Phile
"I wanted it to be great." - The Procrastinator's Motto
"Arts and cultural managers don't have a uniform. And I'm not saying that they should. But there are functions and benefits of a uniform that we might want to consider for our work." - Andrew Taylor