13 November 2024

DesignTO installation; http://www.safourazahedi.com/journey-through-geometry

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-yeah-yeah-yeahs-maps-podcast-greatest-songs

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/the-arctic-is-warming-faster-than-anywhere-else-on-the-planet

https://hbr.org/2024/05/the-art-of-asking-smarter-questions

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/the-rise-of-3d-gaussian-splatting

https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/13-14/artsci_salon/

https://www.theworks.ab.ca/instant-places Bell curve 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/astra-zeneca-covid-vaccine

https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/how-plastic-can-harm-your-health

Malaria vaccine; https://archive.ph/cZSeC

“What we play is life." - Louis Armstrong

“Art is not about decadence, hipness or living life on the edge, art is about pushing your mind as far as it will go and then to observe what is on the other side.” - Buckhouse

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

“I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened! Mark Twain

“Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've been told, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced, but how you've remembered it. It's not what you've forged, but what you've allowed. And it's not who's appeared, but who you've summoned…  And this should serve you well until you find what you already have.” - The Universe

09 October 2024

Tensegrity Protest Towers; https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/16/extinction-rebellions-high-tech-stirling-prize/amp/

Enlightening falsehoods: a modal view of scientific understanding; https://philosophie.ens.fr/IMG/MU-Routledge.pdf

https://www.fourthwallcontent.com/blog/the-fourth-wall-and-why-its-relevant-to-content

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/israeli-park-a-lesson-in-forgotten-history-1.518950

https://aldacenter.org/ for Communicating Science



Eco/ art/science pioneers; https://www.theharrisonstudio.net/



“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one feels young. Inside this aging body there is a heart still as curious, as hungry, still as full of longing as it was in youth." - Albert Camus, The Fall
“The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most because they’re the ones who try the most.” - Adam Grant
“Whatever your problem or challenge may be laugh at it. Laugh long and hard. Because you are forever and it is temporary.” - The Universe
 “… the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.” - Kierkegaard 
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” - Richard Feynman

17 September 2024









(Definition) ‘What is Immunisation vs vaccination?’
Immunisation is the process of becoming immune to a disease as a result of a vaccine. Vaccination is when you receive a vaccine either by a needle or drops in the mouth. Vaccines work by producing an immune response in the body without causing illness. 


“... it's not enough to be outstanding at what you do. You also have to be willing to stand out." - Marianne Gobeil
"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values." - Marshall McLuhan, 1964
"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it." - Albert Einstein 
"Those who are truly kind, thoughtful, and generous always attract lots of kind, thoughtful, and generous people into their own lives." - The Universe 
"Knowledge, imparted through education, is the conduit for generational wealth." - Inverteum

30 August 2024

https://aokistudio.com/50-arguments-against-the-use-of-ai-in-creative-fields.html

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-first-nations-leaders-decry-lack-of-progress-five-years-after-release

3D models; https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/plia-folding-chair


Soundtrack only  I don't want to grow up  (Tom Waits)






“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” - Dostoyevsky
“No matter how long it takes, once it happens it'll seem as if time flew, you'll wonder how you ever doubted yourself, and you'll feel like you should have aimed a little higher. Aim a little higher.” - The Universe
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." - Werner Herzog
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." - Aristotle 
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” - unknown

30 July 2024

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/my-friend-benoit-mandelbrot

Sustainable Development Goals; https://sdgs.un.org/goals 

Long COVID

https://designto.org/awards/2024

Fields Institute; https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/how-launched-career-astronomy-alum-kirsten-vanstone

A certain world; a commonplace book; https://archive.org/details/certainworldcomm00aude/page/n1/mode/2up

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-dada-art-movement/

https://www.leekranefuss.com/2019/04/why-you-should-use-logarithmic-scales-to-make-investment-decisions/

https://artreview.com/what-is-the-purpose-of-protest-posting-gaza-social-media/

https://peacestoriesblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/canada-park/ Palestine 

“If my art doesn’t leave a mark, I’d at least like it to cast a shadow.” - Raw'n' Wild

"MEANINGLESSNESS; Points, holes, Solids, surfaces, Straight lines, planes, Instantaneous, simultaneous, Things, nouns, Congruence, 'at rest', The words artificial and fa"

“If someone wants ‘A’ to happen, yet they prepare for ‘B,’ they will always get ‘B’. Prepare for ‘A’.” - The Universe

"Sometimes, the most beautiful destinations are those we discover without a map.” - Kent


“The ability to recognize failure is the most important talent of an artist.” - Agnes Martin

12 July 2024

https://www.noemamag.com/a-single-small-map-is-enough-for-a-lifetime/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gaussian-splatting-next-big-thing-3d

Zeynep paper; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2022.2134539

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/icicle-machine-toronto

Daphne and Charles Maurer: https://prettyugly.info/. book

https://www.theculturalintifada.com/

Bottled Water Boycott: https://www.facebook.com/share/

AI; https://theobot.ai/description_challenge

Burlington Sculpture Walk; https://www.bwst.ca/the-artists

Canadian Sculpture Centre; https://www.artoronto.ca

 "Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't." - R. Buckminster Fuller

“You’ve also left your mark, and had an impact on more lives than either of us can count. Remember that when you look in the mirror, and into your own eyes.” - Mira, Imitation In Death

"The greatest trick and most subtle secret to doing anything really, really well, is loving that you get to do it at all." - The Universe 
"If revolution were a movie, I think art would be mentioned in the credits, not as the main force of change." - Tamer Nafar, hip-hop group DAM, from Lyd, Palestine
“The easiest way to avoid letdowns and disappointments is never tricking yourself into thinking that your happiness is dependent upon the things and events of time and space or what other people think, say, and do." -TU

04 July 2024

https://theartistproject.com/home/installations/

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/heinz-ketchup-bottle-cap-recyclable/

Google MediaPipe; https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lugsAbiZZYwR3XHJopbQ-JbKDn0wEWY8 from TMU TouchDesigner workshop

https://www.sacred-geometry.es/?q=en/content/3d-models

AIR; https://imagine5.com/artists-in-residency/

https://toaf.ca/art-nest-toaf artists

https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/dopamine-everything-you-need-to-know

https://artsandlettersclub.ca/members-spring-exhibition-2024/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccine-side-effects-takeaways   https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(22)00012-8/fulltext

The Israel-Palestine conflict: a reading list; Six books that shed light on a century of violence; https://archive.is/BOE4W

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller

“There are no mistakes; just unappreciated discoveries.” - Raw’n’Wild

“Art is not bought, it’s sold.” - Anonymous 

“Did you know that you can interpret any and all of the past events of your life as ones that have unfolded in your greatest favour?" - The Universe

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird