31 December 2013

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/find-the-best-of-reddit-with-this-interactive-map/

http://www.infographicssearch.com/ : Infographics and Mindmaps Search Engine

http://visualizingmath.tumblr.com/archive

What Is 3-D Digitization?

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html

Top Apps Downloaded In 2013

http://www.psdvault.com/resources/20-really-beautiful-and-unique-photoshop-effect-tutorials/#785764

(Examples) http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/09/ambigram-generator.html

http://www.rebellesociety.com/2013/12/10/abandon-the-flock-9-tips-for-unleashing-the-human-within/

http://www.antarcti.ca/20-fun-facts-about-antarctica/

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
"Everybody hates it when something’s really great.” - Dave Hickey, essayist and art critic (famous for his scathing critiques against the art world, particularly against art education)
"The loudest arguments happen in your own head (and your greatest opponent is yourself)." - TU
"Lots or extreme of anything is 'Art'." - R.B. Wild
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso

23 December 2013

(Interactive) Map Shows Where Homer's 'Odyssey' Really Took Place

Google Open Gallery : new online tool to allow museums, galleries and individuals to create online art exhibitions.   

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/11/12/heres-where-teens-are-going-instead-of-facebook/

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2319927/Google-Reveals-Top-Searches-of-2013-From-Nelson-Mandela-to-Twerking

These Incredible Animated GIFs Are More Than 150 Years Old

Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI.org) is searching for the most incredible and compelling stories that illuminate the science of life

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cahill-keyes-world-map-poster

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/creativity_is_rejected_teachers_and_bosses_don_t_value_out_of_the_box_thinking.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

http://qz.com/152501/how-successful-people-make-themselves-luckier/

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/male-and-female-brains-really-are-built-differently/281962/

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead." - Nelson Mandela
"Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it." - Charles Bukowski, Via
"Do you know what you've been doing your entire life? (besides getting better, getting wiser, getting older)?  You've been touching, teaching, and healing friends and total strangers every step of the way." - The Universe
"... make the art of failing an intimate part of the art of living." - Via
"The best thing you can ever to is to just get started. Even if you have no idea where you are heading, you'll quickly figure it out once you get started." - @gapingvoid

18 December 2013

Entrepreneurs Are Reinventing the Map

Infographics Search (An Infographics and Mindmaps Search Engine)

Apple’s iBeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html

http://gizmodo.com/5981603/20-optical-illusions-that-might-break-your-mind

doodling – please do

(Processing) http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/learn-how-to-code-in-an-hour

http://www.phinnweb.org/links/literature/borges/aleph.html

What is the most unfair advantage a person can have?

Are you Chasing Away Your Art Buyers?

"Usually miracles happen a good bit before you see their effects (which means some really huge ones may have already happened). - The Universe
"...once you've accepted total obscurity you may as well do what you want." - Chris Kraus
"In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light." - Hans Hofmann
"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life." - Plautus
"I am but one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something and I will not let what I cannot do stop me from doing what I can do." - Edward Everett Hale, the famous Boston gadfly

09 December 2013

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/map-of-american-lake-monsters

http://twentytwowords.com/2013/11/18/amazing-macro-photography-of-individual-snowflakes-10-pictures/

The Truth About The Left Brain / Right Brain Relationship

RECOMBINANT CREATIVITY Conference (at OCAD University)

http://theartedge.faso.com/blog/68644/think-outside-the-gallery

Nelson Mandela’s Art

Sculptors Society of Canada:  http://www.cansculpt.org/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/bitcoin-survival-guide/

(Head office architecture)  http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2013/11/the_new_temples.shtml

Western Digital SmartWare backup

"Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite." - David Sedaris
"A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious." - Jim Bishop
"Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear." - Denis Waitley
"Even prayers that lack conviction, confidence, and that end in question marks like, 'Can I? May I? Will I?' are answered with a happy face: 'Sure! You bet! No question!'" - TU
"If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen." - Harry Callahan, Photographer

06 December 2013

(Fantasy map imagines) the TTC network in 2054

http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2013/11/smithsonian-launches-a-3d-exploration-initiative.html

What is the common ground between art and science?

 [Paperback] "Imagery in the 21st Century"

http://boingboing.net/2013/11/27/23andme-vs-the-fda-in-less-th.html


Stantec Lightbox Raw'n' Wild from rwild on Vimeo.

(Top 20)  Most Shared Video Ads of 2013

100 most significant 
works of art made since the 1990s

(Call)  Subtle Technologies presents Open Culture: Participatory Practices in Art & Science (16-25 May 2014, Toronto)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/canadas-fall-in-math-education-ranking-sets-off-red-flags/article15730663/

"Any price – many millions, a buck fifty – paid for any work of art is absurd." - Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker art critic
"When the fear of 'things staying the same' exceeds the fear of 'failure', stuff happens." - The Universe
"wow - I just keep on creating new and more interesting images - to myself at least - and they keep me happy - both creating them and simply viewing them."  - Walter Paul Bebirian
"We can’t say exactly where the boundary is, but we can point to a spot in the sky that’s not cloud and we can point to a spot in the sky that is cloud." - Via
"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did." - Lillian Hellman

02 December 2013

http://www.buzzfeed.com/samir/this-map-of-planes-in-the-air-right-now-will-blow-your-mind

Visualization Meditation for Information Overload

(Schwartz functions) to define a “fuzzy boundary”

Kinematics is a system for 4D printing that creates complex, foldable forms composed of articulated modules   Via

(Book) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flatterland/112133525469544?nr

Putting Time In Perspective

(Definition) "Sheaf Theory" - things can be different around different localities

Matthew Cusick collages with maps

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/bitcoin-survival-guide/

http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/987494/interview-josh-schwebels-anti-social-practice

"Your plan may look great, but the parts you are certain about may turn out to fail and the parts that you were not at all sure about, may be the most successful." - @gapingvoid
"It was only walking along the uneven ground between orchard and forest that I realised that I almost never walk on surfaces that aren’t totally flat, level, hard, and constant." -Via
"A professional is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach
"Invariably, the 5 minutes of inspiration you need to totally rock the world and transform your life, will come at the end of hours, weeks, months, or even years' worth of floundering, frivolity, false starts, and seeming hopelessness (you'll see that those 5 minutes were made possible because of everything that led up to them, and that you never needed to be so critical of yourself or the time it was taking)." - TU
"I view a smART Map the same way an archaeologist views a prime digging site. There are all these wonderful treasures that are buried there and hidden from the rest of the world." - R.B.Wild