07 May 2015

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-would-earth-look-if-all-ice-melted

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-astrophyicists-comprehensive-universe.html

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/20/8430013/american-history-map

http://designlinesmagazine.com/janes-walk-2015/

... changing the domain of architectural geometry from orthogonal Cartesian grids to non-Euclidean form (and moving into the domain of algorithmic space now, where new rules are defined by algorithms).

http://educateinspirechange.org/nature/20-mysterious-alien-artifacts-exist/

(36 Digital Artists)  http://www.atelier.digitaliiis.com/IMMERSION/GRID/GRID_I.php

http://scotties.ca (online app for custom printing)

http://reiflarsen.com/Reif_Larsen/Writings.html

http://toronto.lairdplastics.ca/product/materials

"There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts." - Vladimir Nabokov Via
"Drawing is still the bottom line." - Sara Genn
"As self-selected members of the art world it is time we declared, 'we are our own art history'." - Loren J. Munk
"Careful planning, and brilliant improvisation." - Sergi Eisenstein
"Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50." - Edgar Degas

04 May 2015

http://www.blogto.com/tech/2015/05/new_map_tracks_the_most_interesting_places_in_toronto/

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/04/08/toronto-poetry-map-reveals-an-inner-world.html

http://www.brainjet.com/random/10417/15-eye-opening-maps-of-the-world-that-you-wont-find-in-a-classroom

How Art, Science, and Technology Interact (in Southern California)

http://webneel.com/beautiful-paper-sculptures

http://www.boredpanda.com/mosque-ceilings/

http://hyperallergic.com/197129/rogue-light-artists-revive-brooklyns-lost-edward-snowden-monument/

http://topexpiringinternetartists.com/

http://www.studio-beat.com/art-news-blog/studio-beat-digital-residency/

The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long

"Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you." - David Whyte, poet and philosopher
"Common sense is not what you need to get where you're going (courage is)." - The Universe
"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great." - M. C. Escher
"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"We are geometry, it's in us." - Jaq Belcher

01 May 2015

http://nativewarriors.net/anonymous-creates-map-of-turtle-islands-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women.html

http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/nlpip/lightinganswers/led/indicationIllumination.asp

Canadian museums continue to go digital with Google Art Project

http://www.pinpointto.com/category/exhibitsshows/

http://www.boredpanda.com/environmental-street-art-graffiti-climate-change/

http://ca.complex.com/style/2015/04/banksy-bomb-damage-mural-in-gaza-city-was-sold-for-175

(Video) Frank Chester – The Chestahedron  (The Wonder of Seven)

(Missed conference) http://www.keckfutures.org/conferences/informed-brain.html

http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/hot-water-freezes-faster-cold-and-now-we-know-why

My ride;  http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/246337000

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious." - Rumi (1207-1273)
"Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them." - Rudolf Steiner
"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"No step forward is too small." - R.B.Wild
"Creativity is more than coming up with ideas." - Robin Cox

30 April 2015

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/03/this-19th-century-stench-map-shows-how-smells-reshaped-new-york-city

https://blog.percolate.com/2015/04/how-to-captivate-your-audiences-with-motion

http://ca.complex.com/style/2015/04/new-york-street-artist-cost-charged-with-vandalism

http://www.matem.unam.mx/~rodrigo

http://www.artslife.com/2015/04/16/how-to-validate-an-artwork-pixel-it/

http://artbank.ca/the%20collection/recent%20acquisitions

http://www.visualnews.com/2015/03/12/the-top-50-art-blogs-to-follow/

(Art zine) http://paper.li/f-1399281241?edition

Standard 6-sided Cube(?);


http://www.medicaldaily.com/what-causes-tinnitus-brain-scans-show-multiple-areas-are-responsible-perpetual-330794

"If everyone wanted the same thing, whatever was super trendy and wildly popular, it wouldn't change the fact that you could still have yours, pronto. There is enough for everyone." - The Universe
"You are free and that is why you are lost." - Franz Kafka
"... the best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or 10 years ago." - Warren Buffet
"... tracking the gene of the impossible visionary so that we can unleash that on ourselves (so we can all learn to be impossible and stick with our vision and believe in ourselves)." - Ondi Timoner
"It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it." - Andy Warhol

29 April 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/16/30-fake-maps-that-explain-the-world/

Origami in math education

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/23/art-respond-science-cern-supersymmetry

http://blog.sketchbook.com/news/create-perfect-lineart-in-autodesk-sketchbook

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

http://randomvacay.com/25-of-the-most-imaginative-statues-and-sculptures-from-all-over-the-world/

http://themindunleashed.org/2015/03/12-pieces-of-buddhist-wisdom-that-will-transform-your-life.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html

http://ca.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/04/10-times-professional-entertainers-lost-it-on-live-tv

https://squareup.com/invoices



"If you look, the eye is always moving. (If it isn’t, your dead.) This means there are hundreds of vanishing points not just one." - David Hockney
"We create ourselves by our choices." - Kirkegaard
"Why should I look at this [art] instead of out the window?" - Bill Berkson
"Ars longa, vita brevis." - Hippocrates (translated: Life is short, [the] art long)
"Everything simple is false. Everything which is complex is unusable." - Paul Valéry

27 April 2015

http://brittlepaper.com/2015/03/maps-africans-chimurenga/  (what if maps were made by Africans for their own use, to understand and make visible their own realities or imaginaries?)

http://www.philwebsterdesign.com/infobox/fractal-islamic-patterns/  (Portfolio)

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/david-whyte-creates-mind-boggling-geometric-gifs-using-processing

Weaving graffiti

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/03/a-sprawling-cut-paper-bacterium-by-rogan-brown/

Photoshopped architecture:  http://architizer.com/blog/anarchitecture/

http://hyperallergic.com/196733/renegade-edward-snowden-monument-erected-and-quickly-removed-in-brooklyn-park/

http://www.journalnow.com/relishnow/the_arts/visual_arts/exhibition-at-the-weatherspoon-art-museum-takes-a-nuanced-view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Rethinking the Placebo Effect

http://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-PDF-File-Size

 "Be a good person, but do not waste your time trying to prove it." - lis
"Sometimes I wonder if my only real job as an artist/writer is to pull together disparate parts and join them in a way that others might begin to see their belonging." - Nick Bantock
"A jug fills drop by drop." - Buddha
"I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do." - Jana Stanfield
"Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it." - Bertolt Brecht

24 April 2015

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/cold-water-from-the-melting-greenland-ice-cap-is-causing-the-gulf-stream-to-slow-down

The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/sunday-review/learning-to-see-data

http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2015/03/play-pac-man-in-google-maps.html

http://blog.novedge.com/2015/03/the-edge-mesh-applied-mathematics-for-the-digital-design-industry

Graphene allows strange form of ice to occur at room temperature (and it may explain some of the unusual behaviors of water).

www.torontodigifest.ca/2015/tickets

http://www.bodymindsoulspirit.com/the-psychology-behind-messy-rooms-why-the-most-creative-people-flourish-in-clutter/

https://www.nfb.ca/film/overtime

(Treehouse Talk video) The 17 Tiling Patterns

"Don't fight forces. Use them!" - Buckminster Fuller
"How did we come to live in an insular tribal sphere where unwritten rules and rigid moralities — about whom to like and dislike, what is permissible to say and what must remain unsaid — are strictly enforced via social media and online disapproval, much of it anonymous?" - Jerry Saltz
"There is no such thing as art - there are only artists." - E. Gombrich, 'The story of Art'
"Some people bloom late. Some very late. And some, very, very late (but they all bloom). And the longer it takes, the more spectacular it is." - The Universe
"The future of science is art." - Kam chon fai  Via