Visual Aesthetics in human-computer interaction

Burning Man Maps

Memory Foraging: When the Brain Behaves Like a Bee

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=34a627ac20bca52ac4a3da1c73fd9205

Non-Programmers May Soon Be Able To Create Apps Too

http://scienceonline2012.com/  art show

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

($4.5 million +++ raised) Kickstarter record

Start a small artistic hive (to become a better artist)

How Cold War Scientists Joined Forces to Conquer Polio

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill
"... we understand photographs today—not as documents of reality, but as raw materials that can be endlessly refashioned." - Via
"Honor them, love them, help them, heal them, but above all else, free them (everyone, of course)." - The Universe
"If at first you don’t succeed, call it Version 1.0." - Via
"The most inspiring new art is visualized information." - WSJ

(Game) "Speculation" http://speculat1on.net/http://speculat1on.net/ (video trailer)
 
(OCAD / York) Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design (CIV-DDD).

(eLearning) Grad student resources

ZomeTool sculpture at Denver Art Museum

To Title, or not to Title, That is the Question

10 cut-out photographs (and acrylic sheets)

Mac Flashback Trojan: How To Check If Your Device Is Infected

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - J. Danforth Quayle
"Today's your day (yet if by its end nothing seems to have happened, it may just mean that tomorrow, for sure, will be the most amazing day of your life)." - TU
"A man hears what he wants to hear, And disregards the rest .........." - PAUL SIMON, 'THE BOXER'
"The only people who say 'money doesn't matter' have lots." - R.B.Wild
"If we are to better the future, we must disturb the present." - Catherine Booth

Visual Representation

Palestine-Israel Map 2011
 
Typogami: A Free Animated Typeface Inspired By Origami

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/8846/proofs-without-words

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/65578/

[Paperback] Do Less, Achieve More: Discover the Hidden Powers Giving In

(Artist) Niall McClelland : on the process and progress of his photocopy tapestries

Why Facebook is a Long-Term Loser

"Universal Rule on Decision Making... Don't make them until it's time to make them (unless you already know what you want, in which case, however, there is no decision to be made). - The Universe
"Be absurdly happy, completely fearless, and in constant trouble." F.R. Maltby
"...and I thought they were here for me, and they were." - Caine Monroy   Via
"Preparation does not take away any of the enthusiasm of the final painting. In fact, the preliminaries in color and tonal studies free up the artist for an unbridled yet focused trip to the finish." - Harley Brown
"Go beyond language. Go beyond thought." - Bodhidharma

Wooden Relief Maps :http://carvedmaps.com/

The Beauty of Maps: Seeing Art in Cartography

Can geometry be pornographic?

Canadian Mathematical Society :  http://crm.math.ca/cal/en/liste.shtml

Digital Art Served ; computer graphics, matte painting, digital painting and photo manipulation.

How to Tell if a Photo is Authentic or Altered

Signs that you are overdoing the self-promotion on social media

Peace art project appears holstered

"Look for the path of least permission." @LCBledsoe:
"Making your work should come out of the need of making your work." -  @ArtStars
"Little else you say can change so much in the life of another as words of praise, compliments, or encouragement. And remember that some of the best pats on the back, are the ones you give yourself." - The Universe
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"(Apart from the immortality we get through our children), art is a reliable means of leaving something of ourselves behind." - Artist

The Elements Of Navigation

Google Art Adds more Museums

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/10-fresh-map-decor-ideas-121126

Along Comes Wikipaintings : "The Most Complete And Well-Structured" Online Art Repository (Beta)

(Book)  Book of Ice: DJ Spooky’s Cross-Disciplinary Antarctica Project

http://www.art21.org/videos/preview-ai-weiwei-in-season-6-of-art-in-the-twenty-first-century-0

http://www.fujifilm.ca/products/photofinishing/paper_chemistry/paper/index.html

Karen O in Stop the Virgens created this “psycho opera” from the ashes of an album that was never realized; a completely immersive experience that blurs the lines between opera, rock concert and gallery installation.

"You are the average of the five people you spend most time with." - Jim Rohn, motivational speaker
"The art of the past no longer exists as it once did, its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose." -Via
"Keep living until you die." - R.B. Wild
"Some of the things that hurt us here the most, are your regrets over the past, insecurities over downtime, and self-doubts over decisions to be made." - TU
"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - Via

A Picture of Language

Marauder's Map

http://pinterest.com/search/?q=map

Technical Maze Terms

(Writer/artist)  Wyndham Lewis (Influencer of McLuhan)

Graffiti artists

(Video) : truly electric rendition of "Sweet Home Alabama

"Everything is optional, and every option holds a promise, and in every promise there's a plan for the 'best of your life'. So, whatever you chose, or may yet choose, celebrate it. Even not choosing, is choosing, and this too deserves celebrating." - TU
"It's not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it's in the happiness of pursuit." - Denis Waitley
"Whether a series of exploratory roughs, comps, a-painting-a-day, or thumbnails before a more ambitious project, sketches pave the way to professionalism." - Robert Genn
"Don't always do everything perfectly (leave room for happy accidents)." - R.B. Wild
"But art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact--sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book." - Seth Godin

Submarine Cable Map

Cartographers Talk Maps In A Digital Age

McLuhan Program In Culture and Technology

(Book Review) "Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything"

Dada and Photomontage

Making Difficult Mazes

The concentration of wealth and american decline

"I’m an associational thinker. I’m interested in the way things layer and filter." - Lewis Klahr, The Pettifogger Via
"When we have lived long enough, watched ourselves carefully enough, and learned from our mistakes, eventually we stop panicking and chasing after every "good" opportunity." - Chin-Ning Chu in "Do Less, Achieve More"
"... taking action is absolutely critical, because more than anything else, it creates expectation." - The Universe
"If you're in a race, race now, because early leads and early gains compound..." - Seth Godin
"...artists who struggle on their own generally do best." - Robert Genn