06 March 2024

James Burke Connections; https://curiositystream.com/connections/

Telidon Pioneer; https://www.paulpetro.com/#

https://time.com/6292191/robert-f-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-vaccines-essay

COVID summer ‘23; https://apple.news/AlITnzDOkTgy1XxEaGBlLCA 

https://nautil.us/the-5-most-common-delusions-worldwide

https://mindisthemaster.com/unalome-meaning/

https://montycasinos.com/montypython/scripts/architect fail sketch

GreatMap citation; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6679561_Autonomy_as_a_universal_expectation_a_review_and_a_research_proposal

January Art Music (background); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0orz_C33I

https://www.bitstamp.net/learn/bitstamp-tutorials/how-to-send-and-receive-ripple-xrp/

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.” -  Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Once you at least do what you can, no matter how seemingly insignificant, everything changes.” - The Universe

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The wave, is not the water. The water simply commented to us that the wave was moving." -  Buckminster Fuller

28 February 2024

https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/Icicle_Atlas/

Great Wave;  https://mymodernmet.com/hokusai-great-wave-evolution

http://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/collage-exhibitions/memory-map/

Chinese cloud computing company; http://www.greatmap.com.cn/home

https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story640.html  Iron Wall

https://www.ydsquare.ca/blog/2023/11/6unesco-creative-cities-winner

DesignTO; Ideas Forum: Deconstruction; https://m.youtube.com/

https://hyperallergic.com/865761/street-artists-launch-poster-campaign-for-gaza/

Udo https://longexposure.art

Printing on Aluminum; https://www.pictorem.com/metalmain 

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” - Lao Tzu
“I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter. - Marcel Duchamp  (1887–1968)
“There's simply no such thing as thinking too big.” - The Universe
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” - Neil Gaiman
 “I am large, I contain multitudes.” - Walt Whitman

10 February 2024

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/world-turtle-cosmic-discworld

http://gruze.org/tilings

https://swimone21.medium.com/the-near-extinction-of-the-buffalo-during-westward-expansion

https://designto.org/blog/sustainability-at-the-2024-designto-festival/

https://unframed.lacma.org/2022/12/16/2023-art-technology-lab-call-artist-proposals

https://newatlas.com/architecture/2023-winter-stations/

Lenticular lens supplier; https://lens3d.en.alibaba.com/

(David Brown pattern) How+to+do+the+Miura+fold

https://projectswatches.com/

https://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/gaza

“You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.” - Sophocles

“Knowledge is of no value unless you out it into practice.” - Anton Chekhov

“Do not be a magician - be magic!” - Leonard Cohen

“One starts to get young at the age of sixty, and then it’s too late.” - Picasso

“To think what you have not yet thought is your real work.” - The Universe



02 February 2024

https://apps.hci.rwth-aachen.de/borchers-old/research/amap/ was at Stanford 

https://yourexperienceawaits.ca/2023/09/08/the-art-of-community-placemaking/

https://sgtscholar.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/middle-ground-other-groud-fallacy

Banksy story; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nwhs/episodes

https://theartyteacher.com/collage-artists

My 50+ Years of Antiquackery Activity | Stephen Barrett, MD, in conversation with William M. London

https://www.academia.edu/8702000/Brick_muqarnas_on_Rūm_Saljuq_buildings_The_introduction_of_an_Iranian_decorative_technique_into_the_architecture_of_Anatolia

LowPoly animal making; https://imgur.com/gallery/ccGTB



“Every day I create new works with all my might. The older I become, the brighter my life gets.' - Yayoi Kusama
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." - Epictetus
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe." - Mark Twain
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck

10 January 2024

Jan Borchers Amap; https://hci.rwth-aachen.de/borchers

https://conversational-leadership.net/colonialism/

Walking benefits; https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/10/kenneth-grahame-the-fellow-that-goes-alone/

https://torontofieldnaturalists.org/wildlife-disturbance-why-now-and-why-does-it-matter/

Fonts; https://www.dafont.com/theme

https://www.localgemspoetrypress.com/49-haiku-challenge-2023

https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/

https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/i-am-so-skeptical-that-i-am-even-skeptical-about-skepticism-edzard-ernst-on-so-called-alternative-medicine

https://www.nfb.ca/film/the-colour-of-ink/

https://medium.com/wise-well/the-long-road-to-understanding-long-covid-59cfc40ad749

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!” - Adam Gopnik (wrote about walking in The New Yorker)

“Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.” - Arshile Gorky
“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own" - Bruce Lee 
“A good reason to avoid hatred, besides corroding your heart, consuming your time, and weakening your capacity to think clearly, is that it inflates the ego of your opponents. For them, being hated is proof that they are right.” - Ayishat Akanbi 
"Letting people be wrong about you or a situation, WHILE keeping your peace and focus, is the most misunderstood power move you will ever make." - Morgan Richard Olivier

20 December 2023

https://boingboing.net/2022/12/15/antique-map-of-the-mandelbrot-set

https://discord.com/blog/meme-up-some-fun-with-remix

https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

Science controversies past and present; https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1295

https://nautil.us/the-5-most-common-delusions-worldwide

https://stickerapp.com/stickers/floor-stickers#!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/coyote

https://www.instructables.com/Paperfy-Your-Face-The-Easy-Method/

Inflammation/ immune system ; https://apple.news/Aes22nfBrRGyXa1jKnXyPNg

Truth & Reconciliation; https://nctr.ca/records/reports/

"Always go a little further into the water… a little bit out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting." - David Bowie

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert Einstein

“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.” - Susan Sontag

"Be yourself. The world loves the original." - Ingrid Bergman

“The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his realizations courageously and honestly." - Albert Einstein

05 December 2023

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/trinh-t-minh-ha-twofold-commitment-film binary thinking

Visual Math; https://www.3blue1brown.com

https://www.polyhedra.net/en/model.php?name-en=twisted-hexagonal-prisms

Small File Movie Festival; https://smallfile.ca/2023program/

https://quinsin.com/patterns-from-nature/

https://templetonreligiontrust.org/explore/engaging-the-brain-in-art

(Stephen Morris) https://quinsin.com/patterns-from-nature/ 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/spectacular-spirals

DesignTO; https://designto.org/event/second-life-sculpture/

https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/justified-vengeance-invasion-gaza-palestine

“Dreams are like that… Most of the time you don't even know how close you are until after they've come true. Sometimes, even, the very day before they come true, it still feels like they're a million miles away." - The Universe

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.” - Hermann Hesse

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. The way to do, is to BE.” - Lao Tzu

"Our heads are round so thought can change direction." - Allen Ginsberg 

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” - Leo Tolstoy