30 December 2016

CIA Declassifies Maps from 75 Years of Surveillance

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/brexit-a-fairytale-in-four-maps

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/535596/high-resolution-3-d-scans-built-from-drone-photos/

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-tech-behind-bitcoin-could-help-artists-and-protect-collectors-so-why-won-t-they-use-it

Film Collage

Digital Artist / Curator

ART Immersion Workshop  http://www.iceamericas.org/

http://www.juxtapoz.com/tag/scene-report/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/the-potential-benefits-of-mental-distractions-for-the-aging-brain/

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-pro-2016-consumer-reports-2016

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Dr. King
"Having a broad range of choice can attract visitors, but it discourages buyers (Choice Overload Problem)." - Via
"Concern should drive us into action  and not into a depression." - Pythagoras
"Actually, it's not that most people don't have much and just want a little. It's that they have it all and just want a little. Realign; want it all." - The Universe
"Punk has become another marketing tool to sell you something you don’t need." - Joe Corre

12 December 2016

http://www.mytravelmap.tk/?0

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/all-pop-music-since-1880-in-one-clickable-map

http://hyperallergic.com/256268/before-google-earth-a-rare-cartographic-compendium-from-renaissance-europe/

http://allmyeyes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/visualize-world-inspiration.html

http://www.cutoutfoldup.com/index.php

http://hyperallergic.com/343259/a-tech-collective-sets-up-a-sleek-boutique-to-help-visitors-elude-big-data/

Video Mapping artist

http://www.myseumoftoronto.com/cosmopolis

Online Prediction Market: https://www.augur.net (wisdom of the crowd)

(PodCast) MMIW Inquiry http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-december-7-2016-1.3883544

"The growth in understanding of spatial order seems to follow closely man’s own evolution as a conscious being. First as a tool of orientation, the ‘where’ of things, and eventually becoming the ‘how’ inherent in things." - Keith Critchlow. Order in Space: A Design Source Book. 1969
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston S. Churchill
"If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?" - 
"The price is what you pay; value is what you get." - Warren Buffett
"In all things, always and forever, simply wish the best for all involved, without stating what you think that is. And then, whatever does happen, no matter what happens, know that it was." - The Universe

02 December 2016

http://gizmodo.com/this-wacky-world-map-just-won-japans-biggest-design-award

(Video) The Map of Physics   (buy the poster)

http://www.myseumoftoronto.com/cosmopolis

https://www.epiloglaser.ca/resources/sample-club.htm

(Book) Finding yourself through Collage

https://artistsandclimatechange.com/

(Still working?) https://vine.co/u/1083199718462763008
http://blog.vine.co/post/152386882201/important-news-about-vine

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/whats-up-with-cats-and-boxes

(Music Video) Dwight Yoakam 'Fast as You'

http://hyperallergic.com/336812/the-trump-nightmare-is-here/

"Art is purposiveness without purpose." - Kant
"'...And what else?' is powerful because it recognizes that the first answer somebody gives you is never the only answer and it’s rarely the best answer." - Michael Bungay Stanier, Innovation Ecosystem
"You're already the kind of person you once dreamed you'd become." - The Universe
"وقل ربي زدني علما And say, oh my Lord increase my knowledge." - Via
"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." - Albert Einstein

28 November 2016

(Historical) vhttp://blog.modernmechanix.com/?s=great+map

http://longnow.org/seminars/02016/jul/14/next-30-digital-years/

(Hologram eLearning) http://www.artinthe5thdimension.com/courses.html

http://www.papercutters.info/SA/index.php

Arctic Circle Ressidency Application

http://theunboundedspirit.com/15-powerful-insights-from-the-mind-of-friedrich-nietzsche/

http://blog.sketchup.com/sketchupdate/modeling-laser-cut-halloween-costume-my-son

(Podcasts) http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu

How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unmistakable-habits-irresistible-people

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - The Buddha
"Practically everything I do takes ten years for people to get." - Billy Al Bengston
"In order to give of yourself you must fully be yourself. Enjoy being the real you, and bring great value to life." - Ralph Marston
"However long it's been taking, however difficult it's seemed, or however lonely you've become, remember, you live in a dream world where literally tomorrow, everything can radically change for the better (especially when you've been visualizing)." - The Universe
"Making connections is the mind's best business." - LuxBlox

23 November 2016

http://ca.complex.com/life/2016/10/meteorologists-solve-the-bermuda-triangle

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/maps-are-as-much-about-art-and-lies-as-science/

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/beautiful-mathematical-gifs-will-mesmerize-you/

https://blog.marvelapp.com/design-process-is-a-myth/

https://www.elanblogstudio.com/2015/02/create-seamless-honeycomb-pattern-photoshop.html/

http://www.autodesk.com/artist-in-residence/artists

http://www.sciartcenter.org/sciart-artists.html

OS X Yosemite: Recover items using Time Machine and Spotlight

(Language-based Art) http://www.krasidimtch.ca/

(Song) 'Spirit In The Sky'

"If you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost." - Neil Gaiman
"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you." - Deepak Chopra
"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go." - Rumi
"There are those scattered on every continent who are so compassionate and wise and loving, that the depth of their character completely escapes those who are still relatively new to time and space." - The Universe
"We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking." - Santosh Kalwar

18 November 2016

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/17/interactive_map_loss_of_indian_land.html

https://blog.themaphouse.com/2016/08/19/war-map-exhibition/

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/#hex-to-pixel

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/11/adobe-voco-photoshop-for-audio-speech-editing/

Japanese Woodblock Print Search

(Definition) 'Ruckenfigur' : a person is seen from behind in the foreground of the image, contemplating the view before them (and is a means by which the viewer can identify with the image-looking figure and then recreate the space to be conveyed)

(Resilience-based thinking)  http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/issues/nuclear/same-issues-different-stories

https://www.instagram.com/torontotoollibrary/http://instagram.com/torontotoollibrary/

http://osxdaily.com/2016/02/06/mac-startup-disk-almost-full-message-fix/

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/hijal-de-sarkar/militarizing-police-canada_b_9052280.html

"You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar
"Don’t waste a lot of time trying to guess what might matter to someone else. Put your love and effort and energy into what matters to you, and many others will benefit." - Ralph Marston
"I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you." - Kafka
"I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think its much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong." - Richard Feynman

14 November 2016

http://www.ualbertacentennial.ca/organization/affiliated/circumpolar.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/arts/design/the-mission-to-save-vanishing-internet-art

http://dailyvibes.org/10-traits-find-extremely-intelligent-people/?c=backdate

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/06/liquid-assets-how--business-bottled-water-went-mad

http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/aleister-crowley-reads-occult-poetry-in-the-only-known-recordings-of-his-voice-1920.html

http://hyperallergic.com/330033/vintage-cameras-and-the-imperfect-photographs-they-take/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/acm.siggraph.digital.arts.community

(Performance Artists) https://drawtoperform.com/

(what were) http://www.blogto.com/arts/2016/09/the_top_20_exhibits_to_check_out_at_nuit_blanche_2016/

(Bermuda has hex clouds too) http://www.iflscience.com/space/saturn-hexagonal-storm-changes-color/

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things. But I’m not absolutely sure of anything." - Richard Feynman
"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work ... and gave to it neither power nor time." - Mary Oliver
"Build the Wall. We’ll walk around it." - Larry Achiampong  Via
"Let go of your attachment to getting it right. Allow yourself to enjoy the experience of simply letting it flow." - Ralph Marston
"Neurons that fire together, wire together (repeated patterns of mental activity build neural structure)." - Via

09 November 2016

http://nuvomagazine.com/art/roads-of-canada

(NINT) National Institute for Nanotechnology

https://artistsandclimatechange.com/

http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/try-buy

(Online font generator) http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/theme/21/stencil

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/how-to-build-a-happier-brain/280752/?utm_source=atlfb

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/science/bottled-water-or-tap

http://yongestclair.ca/steps-fifth-birthday/

http://www.insideoutproject.net all actions

https://medium.com/@paulbrownUK/the-life-and-death-history-of-the-message-in-a-bottle

"An unmistakable trait of every true sage is their persistent awareness of how much more there is to love." - The Universe
"We must give birth to our images. They are the future waiting to be born." - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh
"Fear is the enemy of creativity. If you are anxious and worried about what you are creating, then what you are creating will not be worth very much." - Ralph Marston

04 November 2016

Science Students Are Taking to Tribal Art Forms To Visualise Their Work

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/secret-rooms-great-pyramid-of-giza

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/10/pico-iyer-the-art-of-stillness/  (Buy the book)

(Podcast) http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-10-22/what-happens-our-brains-when-we-look-art

http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/10/11/as-creative-placemaking-continues-to-grow-new-help-for-pract.html

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-conspiracy-theory-label/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/23/cult-of-quiet-in-pursuit-of-silence-movie?CMP=fb_gu

Celebrity Portraits Carved into Corrugated Cardboard

http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/10/10_quirky_things_you_might_not_know_about_the_danforth/

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage + Lyrics

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." - depression era adage taught by wise grandmothers and families in need
"When you are truly having fun you can create magnificent things. When you stop worrying about whether people will like it, people will love it." - Ralph Marston
"While certainty is something we labor to acquire, we should acknowledge and embrace its opposite as a positive disruptor that activates curious minds and propels them to discovery. Uncertainty is an irritant to savor." - Stephen Nowlin, UNCERTAINTY
"Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep ’til noon." - Mark Twain
'Whatever it is you want, however you want to have it, no matter why you want to have it, you can have it faster if you can first be happy without it." - The Universe

31 October 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3860062/The-veins-America-Stunning-map-shows-river-basin-US.html

(corrugated cardboard) Art

ARTECA; http://arteca.mit.edu/ (curated space for essential content linking the arts, sciences, and technologies)

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/the-new-wave-of-anti-design-magazines-will-question-your-sense-of-taste-and-thats-a-good-thing/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/growing-charm-of-dada/

(Video) Pop-up Books

http://www.pearltrees.com/spinnymommy/easy-origami

http://www.blogto.com/arts/2016/10/this_is_toronto_like_youve_never_seen_it_before/

http://www.architectureartdesigns.com/45-ideas-of-how-to-recycle-plastic-bottles/

https://www.instagram.com/michael_toke

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Albert Camus
"Never play to the gallery." - David Bowie
"There is no right and wrong. There's only fun and boring." - from the movie 'Hackers' (1995)
"When you can say, without doubt or equivocation, that 'My life today is entirely the result of my prior decisions, focus, and understandings,' I can then say, without doubt or equivocation, that it's only a matter of time before your every cup is overflowing." - The Universe

26 October 2016

(Map) https://www.wired.com/2016/10/lets-obsess-intricate-map-alt-music-history/?mbid=social_fb

https://food.good.is/articles/food-brands-owners

(Music) https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/topic/mashups

http://hyperallergic.com/332072/with-internet-comments-and-colonial-imagery-an-artist-remixes-our-hybrid-identities/

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/in-mathematics-mistakes-arent-what-they-used-to-be

http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/terry-gilliams-lost-animations-from-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-are-now-online.html

(Collage) old GeoCities elements; http://www.cameronsworld.net/

https://nowtoronto.com/movies/television/10-of-the-years-best-docs-to-watch-online-right-now/

(Definition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting

Patron Support; https://www.patreon.com/mayaweeks

"You can never own an idea, but you can cultivate it." - Via
"Alchemy is a science tinged with spirituality and infused with a schpritz of artistic spirit." - David Brafman  Via
"Go on. Astonish yourself." - TU
"Complicated as the author’s theory or explanation may be, is it actually simpler than the chaotic ideas and opinions we had about this subject before?" - Dr. Mortimer Adler
"Homo homini lupus (man is the wolf to man)" - Sigmund Freud, 'Civilization and Its Discontents' 1930

21 October 2016

RIXC Art Science Festival OPEN FIELDS: http://rixc.org/en/festival

http://deepdreamgenerator.com/gallery?time=all

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ieverything_i_knowi_42_hours_of_visionary_buckminster_fuller_lectures_1975.html

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/canadas-great-trail-stretch-15000-miles-coast-coast

http://hyperallergic.com/328567/national-archive-gifs-tell-us-history-motion/

http://momus.ca/from-a-safe-distance-guy-maddin-stills-his-lens-with-collage/

https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/scientists-say-google-is-changing-our-brains-25356c08b3e3#.q9z4n2uy9

(Interview) http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/in-their-words/billy-childish-interview-53134

Margaret Krawecka; http://www.spaceandstory.com/indeximmersivespace

http://www.coindesk.com/augur-reputation-launch-appcoin-pitfalls/

"Talent Is Vastly Overrated." - Billy Childish
"
"Until the really 'great' stuff comes along do the not-so-great stuff. The not-so-great stuff always leads to the great stuff. Whereas doing nothing pretty much leads to nowhere." - The Universe
"Have faith in your own bad taste." - John Waters  Via
"There are two types of companies; those that have been hacked, and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked." - John Chambers, CEO, Cisco
"Everyone is an artist." - Joseph Beuys

17 October 2016

https://www.academia.edu/29028775/Mapping_the_Invisible._Creative_Cartography_as_a_Tool_for_Representing_the_Changing_Contemporary_City

http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/explore-5300-rare-manuscripts-digitized-by-the-vatican.html

http://mentalfloss.com/article/86016/6-math-concepts-explained-knitting-and-crochet

https://hackernoon.com/the-hive-is-the-new-network

RAW Photo Editing App

(Yahoo Breach) https://s.yimg.com/sf/support/en-gb-security-notice-content.pdf

(Video) Plastic Water bottle ideas (re-purposing)

(Instrumental album) Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)

(Podcast) 'The decline of the American Empire';  http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-sorrows-of-empire-1.2914071

https://healthylandethic.com/2013/11/17/why-prairies-matter-and-lawns-dont/

"Sometimes you have to be different to teach everyone else how to be themselves." - Unknown
"A fractal is a way of seeing infinity." - James Gleick
"You must change your life." - Rilke's poem 'Archaic Torso of Apollo'
"Until you dream, there isn't a mold. Until you speak, there isn't a promise. And until you move, there isn't a path." - The Universe
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas

11 October 2016

https://blog.themaphouse.com/2016/08/19/war-map-exhibition/

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/09/04/when-the-don-valley-was-cottage-country.html

FoodBrand Map

Designer at the intersection of art, science, technology, and environment

(Video) Where Great Ideas Come From

http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/3900-pages-of-paul-klees-personal-notebooks-are-now-online.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/07/elena-ferrante-the-trouble-with-anonymity-claudio-gatti-jane-austen-rahila-khan

http://www.laboiteverte.fr/collages-extravagants-de-sanda-anderlon/

(Definition) 'Rube Goldberg': doing something simple in a very complicated way that is not necessary

http://om-2016-acquisitions.blogspot.ca/2016/10/day-of-dead-dada-centennial.html?m=1q

"What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away." - Heraclitus
"After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me." - Elliott Erwitt
"The artist will come in from a bit of a tangent, probing areas where scientists wouldn't think to probe." - Via
"You miss 100% of the 5th shots you don't take." - Andrew Yung
"It's time you step forward to claim whatever it is that you want from life. Just remember, the gate keeper who will give it to you is the same gate keeper who has kept it from you." - The Universe

05 October 2016

(Glacier Face) GigaPan by Greg Lock

https://nowtoronto.com/news/ecoholic/the-water-takers/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/arts/next-from-david-byrne-neuroscience-in-an-art-gallery.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

http://www.autodesk.com/artist-in-residence/home

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602274/three-grand-challenges-for-brain-science-that-can-be-solved-in-10-years/

http://www.marketingmag.ca/brands/an-agency-ceo-makes-the-case-for-artists-in-the-boardroom

Classical Music Mashup

http://www.businessinsider.com/8-awesomely-simple-science-experiments-you-can-do-at-home

(Definition) 'brokeh';aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens ( How to )

DNA MashUp; http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/baby-born-using-three-parent-technique(doctors-say)

"When in doubt,  show up early. Think less. Feel more. Ask once. Give thanks. Expect the best. Appreciate everything. Never give up. Make it fun. Lead. Invent. Regroup. Wink. Chill. Smile." - TU
"The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work." - Ira Glass Via
"The art audience is the worst audience in the world. It’s overly educated, it’s conservative, it’s out to criticize not to understand, and it never has any fun." - David Hammons  Via
"Nations have no permanent friends or allies; they only have permanent interests." - Lord Palmerston, 19th century British prime minister
"Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t then it is of no use to us." - Carlos Castaneda

30 September 2016

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/09/26/toronto-tries-to-simplify-byzantine-path-map-take-a-look.html

http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/9610261/Art_Inspired_by_Materials_Science.html

(Machine Learning Incubator) http://www.creativedestructionlab.com/

http://think2thing.com/services/introduction/

(Synchronous) http://www.oreilly.com/live-training/

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/about

(Video) The Evolution of Star Trek in Television & Film (50 Years of Trek)

(Music Video) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly

http://encurious.com/post/90982259223/quotes-from-childrens-books

https://www.corbettreport.com/911-suspects-rudy-giuliani/
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." - James Randi
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece." - G. K. Chesterton
"The more one hurries, the less time they have." - The Universe
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Zinn
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Nietzsche

26 September 2016

http://hyperallergic.com/316692/an-incredible-map-collection-gets-its-first-physical-home/

http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2016/9/16/mapping-the-disciplines-of-user-experience-design.html

Vectr ; free graphics editor used to create vector graphics

http://architectureau.com/articles/is-architecture-art

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/moma-history-archive

http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/history-of-the-gif

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-What-Climate-Change

Cold War town; http://helenawadsley.com/Projects/Pages/Pyramiden.html

(Artist at sea on container ship) http://www.rebeccamoss.org/works.html Via

http://www.art21.org/artists

"When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger." - Confucius
"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka
"We love an outlaw figure: someone who isn’t afraid to break a few rules in the name of ideological freedom." - Via
"Chances are something you give yourself." - The Universe
"Good is something you do, not talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket." - Gino Bartali

21 September 2016

http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/08/maps_show_torontos_building_and_population_boom/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/biologists-are-close-reinventing-genetic-code-life

(Animated) Kandinsky

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-keep-a-zibaldone-a-13thcentury-answer-to-tumblr

http://strategyonline.ca/2016/08/30/the-virtual-world-of-torontos-illicit-paintings/




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3769115/Is-real-face-Banksy-Massive-Attack-member-named-shadowy-graffiti-artist-investigator.html

http://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2014/2/24/how-to-view-and-remove-your-facebook-likes-shares-and-comments/

"Sometimes you are so busy looking at the sun you don't see what the sun is looking at." - Jay McCarten
"After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me." - Elliott Erwitt
"When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go." - Kim Sowol
"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others." -Booker T. Washington
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins

15 September 2016

(Animation) Morph Art

(Video) UK's tallest concrete structure is demolished in seconds

(Video)Mapping performance

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/realnetworks-left-its-mark-as-a-launchpad-for-tech-entrepreneurs/

https://www.ice-tracks.com/greenland-northwest-passage-favourite-voyage-arctic/

https://www.fastcompany.com/3063407/work-smart/information-overload-is-killing-your-attention-span-heres-how-to-fix-it

http://humansarefree.com/2016/09/eu-scientific-study-wtc-towers.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/harambe-the-perfect-meme

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2016/09/03/nestl-deal-doesnt-hold-water.html

(Cold War) Major powers are planning for war and claim that’s the best way to defend against war

"One can travel the world and see nothing. To achieve understanding, it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see." - Giorgio Morandi
"I never made a painting as a work of art, it’s all research." - Pablo Picasso
"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure." - Lao Tzu
"A painting needs a wall to object to." - Via
"Q: How do you find love, health, abundance, and enlightenment?
  A: Stop searching and start seeing what's been there all along." - The Universe

07 September 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/jun/08/new-ocean-map-reveals-health-of-seas-and-value-of-protecting-them-in-pictures

Art–science collaborations: Change of perspective

Animated collage

http://abduzeedo.com/logo-design-stars (shape)


(Video) 10 PLASTIC BOTTLES LIFE HACKS YOU SHOULD KNOW!

The Fantastical Visions of a Forgotten Early 21st Century Illustrator

(Video) Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - I Need Never Get Old (Live)

"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life." Frank Stella
"If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” Frank Lloyd Wright
"The mind takes its shape from whatever it rests upon." - Old Buddhist saying
"Life's most persistent and urgent question; what are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Wondering how else you could view life when things are already going really well is the sign of a spiritual rock star." - The Universe

02 September 2016

(Video) First Map of Toronto

http://hyperallergic.com/320293/how-robert-irwin-breaks-the-rules-of-art/

(Digital Archiving)  http://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/aug/09/rhizome-releases-first-public-version-of-webrecorder/

(Book) Strictly Mobile: How the Largest Man-Made Platform in History is Changing Our World

(pdf) 15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses

http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/installations-at-burning-man-2016/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/18/ice-scientists-arctic-ice-disappearing-reduce-emissions-peter-wadhams

https://www.canadianarchitect.com/events/international-conference-structural-civil-architectural-engineering/

http://www.qualityfoam.com/ethafoam.asp (polyethylene packing material) for art installations

(Animation) Karma

"Is it finished?" - Allister Keene
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Wherever you are drawn, go! (... both your head and your heart will agree)." - TU
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got, and fifty percent what people think you've got." - Sophia Loren
"It is no exaggeration to state that the Renaissance artist was the best practicing mathematician and that in the fifteenth century he was also the most learned and accomplished theoretical mathematician." - Via (book)

30 August 2016

http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-same-latitude-north-south-america-animated-map-2016

http://datos.gob.es/sites/default/files/files/2013-07-Visualization-Tools.pdf

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/aug/17/rhizomes-2016-net-art-microgrants/

(3D modeling software) https://www.rhino3d.com/features

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=ArtofAbstraction (only 3 product listings?)

https://www.shopify.com/blog/14866757-make-your-pins-count-7-ways-to-drive-sales-and-traffic-with-pinterest

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160802-unified_theory_of_randomness/

Visual Sound Poetry #71 - the jokers are wild - In the Collage Gallery

(Music Video) The Tragically Hip - At The Hundredth Meridian

Manufacturer Of Paper Tubes: http://trendpak.com/

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation." - Henri Bergson
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway
"With collage, one might argue that collaboration is naturally part of the process, that the use of source materials is a passive collaboration with the original creators." - Via
"Don't go back to less because you're too impatient to wait for more." - Michaella Shannon
"It takes a BIG person, to accept full responsibility for their own happiness. It takes an even bigger person to accept full responsibility for their own unhappiness." - TU.

25 August 2016

http://www.newstatesman.com/2016/08/da-vinci-genome-how-science-drives-art-and-art-drives-science

(Projection Mapping+) http://troikatronix.com/isadora/about/

http://mathcraft.wonderhowto.com/how-to/math-craft-monday-community-submissions-plus-make-orderly-tangle-triangles

Official Trailer for Flatland: The Movie

http://www.wsj.com/articles/do-digitally-altered-photos-represent-fact-or-fiction

http://www.business2community.com/strategy/bucky-fuller-method-dividing-half-improves-personal-productivity-01613904

(Book) https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/08/24/how-to-be-an-explorer-of-the-world-keri-smith/

https://www.google.ca/intl/en/policies/privacy/

(Video)  M. C. Escher Documentary (features the Artist in Action Practising his Unusual Perspective)

https://aatishb.github.io/entropy/

"Step off into the blank of your mind, something will come to you." - Richard Wilbur
"The secret behind miracles is that the person performing them begins without any knowledge whatsoever of exactly how they will succeed... yet still they begin." - The Universe
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." - Rumi
"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is." - Ivan Illich
"I have touched with a sense of art some people; they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?" - Mary Cassatt

17 August 2016

http://hyperallergic.com/315271/maps-made-to-influence-and-deceive/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/burning-man-art-2016_us_57b1c498e4b069e7e505ca4f

Are Replicas Changing the Way We Experience Art?

http://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/08/01/the-neuroscience-of-pokemon-go/

(Art Exhibit) Inverted Valleys: https://www.evergreen.ca/whats-on/event-details/12310/

(Book) https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/12/on-looking-eleven-walks-with-expert-eyes/

http://mathcraft.wonderhowto.com/how-to/math-craft-monday-community-submissions-plus-make-orderly-tangle-triangles

(Facebook slideshow) Bell Box Mural Project

(Video) TOP 10 Construction Demolitions Compilation

https://www.ice-tracks.com/our-ships/akademik-ioffe

"What the map cuts up, the story cuts across." - Michel De Certeau
"The secret behind miracles is that the person performing them begins without any knowledge whatsoever of exactly how they will succeed... yet still they begin." - The Universe
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." - Rumi
"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is." - Ivan Illich
"I have touched with a sense of art some people; they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?" - Mary Cassatt

10 August 2016

(Zine) Land Ownership; http://sobelow.org/

Being an Outsider; https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/27/erwin-chargaff-heraclitean-fire-misfit/

http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/cancer-cells

http://hazlitt.net/feature/its-okay-suck#.V5unBlPXIu4.facebook

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/25/sam-harris-free-will/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/zoe-saldana-film-gone-missing-canada-indigenous-women

http://hyperallergic.com/313470/designing-less-dangerous-architecture-for-new-yorks-birds/

(Video) Comply or Die

What do we mean by 'AIDS art'?

https://www.dropbox.com/help/topics/space_and_storage

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
"... he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy." - Hunter S. Thompson
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have." - Andy Warhol
"Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion." - Kierkegaard
"I put my talent into my works and my genius into my life." - Oscar Wilde

04 August 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/10/us/map-of-73-years-of-lynching

WWII in Asia peace art: http://www.alphaeducation.org/#!contest/c12tk

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-letter-from-the-editor-meeting-the-future-of-digital-media-head-on

smART Maps; https://www.flickr.com/photos/43694834@N00/

Meural idea for old iPad as a digital art 'canvas' (framed)

http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/07/10_weird_statues_and_sculptures_in_toronto/

Out Sitting

OAC Exhibition Assistance; http://www.arts.on.ca/Page122.aspx

Pyramiden: http://englishrussia.com/2012/10/17/the-city-abandoned-at-the-worlds-end

http://toronto.figmentproject.org/artists_and_projects_2016 was a great rogue project opportunity

"Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art." - Oscar Wilde (in a letter to novelist and poet Violet Fane)
"It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty." - Hunter S. Thompson
"The effects of beautiful objects, of variety of forms, and especially of brilliancy of colours presented to patients are actual means of recovery.” - Florence Nightingale, 1859
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein
"What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened." - Nikola Tesla

29 July 2016

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-little-known-nuns-helped-map-stars-180959012/?no-

http://www.as-map.com/2016/07/05/40-data-science-techniques/

Activist Art; https://tacticaltech.org/projects/all

http://artthescience.com/blog/2016/06/27/creators-jasmine-paradissitto/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/dada-100-years-later

What we look for in a residency application

http://www1.ae911truth.org/faqs/821-why-do-good-people-become-silentor-worseabout-911-.html

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/top-10-summer-art-documentaries

http://theunboundedspirit.com/the-100-best-zen-sayings-and-proverbs-of-all-time/

Satre's "the look"

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
"... it is not what an artist makes that’s important; but how he is; his personality, his activities, his opinions." - (attributed to) Joseph Beuys  Via
"Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that 'feel' right but can't be justified." -The Mismeasure of Man (Jay Gould)
"Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your mind creates for your eyes to see." - TU
"Quotable quote: "I think I'm on this planet to create things that nobody has seen before" - Brandon SvarcAny justification of oneself is weakness masquerading as a strength." - Guy Finley

25 July 2016

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/yale-researchers-map-6-000-years-of-urban-settlements

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-auctions-artist-interview-knowledge-bennett-s-use-of-history-and-appropriation
 
http://m.insidetoronto.com/news-story/6762163-pavilion-project-aims-to-commission-a-temporary-structure-that-engages-the-community-transforms-the

http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/faculty-of-art/digital-painting-atelier.htm

http://myseumoftoronto.com/

Video Loop Player

(Book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness

(Piano) Whale calling music

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/16/canadian-flag-designs-photos_n_4109726.html

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/07/apollo-11-turns-45-a-lunar-landing-anniversary-retrospective/

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Happy is the man who, in the course of a complete life, attains everything he desires, provided he desire nothing amiss." - St. Augustine,'The Happy Life'
"Why wouldn't the rest of your life be the best of your life?" - The Universe
"Fuck Being 'Likable'." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining." - Anne Lamott

20 July 2016

CARTOGRAPHY COMPARISON: GOOGLE MAPS & APPLE MAPS

http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/15-incredible-works-of-land-art/

http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/download-all-8-issues-of-dada.html

(Video) David Hockney: Photoshop is Boring

(InterAccess festival) http://vectorfestival.org/

(Art/Science Exhibition)  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/840827025/the-leading-strand-a-design-exhibit-celebrating-sc

Kate Collyer's Svalbard blog notes

https://home.cern/about/updates/2016/06/south-korean-artist-wins-two-month-collide-residency-cern

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/07/tessellating-paper-by-polly-verity/

http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/rauschenberg-foundation-announces-2016-artist-as-activist-fellows/

"The whole is simpler than the sum of is parts." - Josiah Gibbs
"You lose nothing when fighting for a cause; the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about." - Muhammed Ali
"It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality." - Henry Miller
"The day your ship arrives, and it now swiftly approaches, the confusion, fear, and setbacks will be among your fondest memories. Today, you're exactly where you most need to be." - The Universe
"The goal is not to possess power but to radiate it." - ?

11 July 2016

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-19thcentury-cartographer-crammed-all-of-human-history-into-this-map?

(Video Collage) DADA

https://www.facebook.com/RawnWild/posts/528633744001113:0

 http://www.openculture.com/2016/06/philosophy-prof-illustrates-nietzsches-zarathustra-in-the-style-of-dr-seuss.html

http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/19/why-your-company-needs-an-artist-in-residence/

http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/12-outsider-artists-who-prove-you-dont-need-to-go-to-art-school/

http://arctic-news.blogspot.ca/2016/06/high-temperatures-in-arctic

(Video) Burke Brown Tribute

http://www.wtc7evaluation.org

http://theunboundedspirit.com/short-story-the-taoist-farmer/

"Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali
"Art is a pharmaceutical product for idiots." - Picabia
"Just because you can't see the miracles doesn't mean they aren't happening, doesn't mean you're alone, and doesn't mean you're on the wrong path." - TU
"I am very attracted by bad taste; it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things." - Helmut Newton
"It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality." - Ray Bradbury (with Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke about space and the human future)

05 July 2016

Strolling through @Distillery_TO? Check out Ron Wild's brain sculpture "Gaming" presented by #Amaya #NoBlankBrains pic.twitter.com/Ygv5lSVpzj — The Brain Project (@TheBrainProj) June 7, 2016

(Animation) Polar Sea Ice

http://honesttopaws.com/gps-cat

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-nature-prefers-hexagons

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-100-years-on-why-dada-still-matters

http://fenyvesikristof.hu/documents/bridges/HistoryOfBridgesCommunityMathematicalIntelligencerFenyvesi.pdf

http://www.cmybacon.com/2010/05/cardboard-tube-art/

http://picasaweb.google.com/liruorigami1/Kirigami

http://hyperallergic.com/304350/dancing-to-the-glacial-rhythms-of-ice/

(Book) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy

"Never hope for it more than you work for it." - Sonya Teclai
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller." - Paul Klee
"If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed." - Deepak Chopra
"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones." - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
"What do you mean, you can't see it? You don't know? You aren't sure? You're scared? This is an adventure, you're an adventurer, uncertainty, fear, and even setbacks happen (besides, 'easy' has never been your style)." - TU

29 June 2016

(Map) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/09/map-these-are-the-cities-that-climate-change-will-hit-first/

http://malina.diatrope.com/2016/05/29/is-art-science-bad-art-and-bad-science-follow-the-raging-argument-in-the-mercado-central-exchange/

http://performancesolutions.net/the-brain-project-breaking-the-fundraising-mould-through-public-art/

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/life-stories-narrative-psychology-redemption-mental-health/400796/

(Book) http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.cst.ebooks.datasheet&id=88994

https://www.artrabbit.com/artist-opportunities

3M™ Envision™ Translucent and Diffuser Films  (provide more light transmission - optimizing LED light)

'Interactive art' idea (?)

http://www.electronicbeats.net/feed/youtube-channel-200-rare-print-noise-albums/

http://www.migratingmiss.com/24-unusual-travel-words-you-should-know/

"What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing." - Pablo Picasso
"Whether or not you can now see it, there is ALWAYS a way." - The Universe
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Albert Camus Via
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious." - Oscar Wilde
"You won't do a lot in the future, that you aren't already doing a little of today." - R.B. Wild

22 June 2016

http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/tag/map

(Video demonstration) Hydrographics - Water Transfer Printing

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will

Wall coverings and glass films ( including 3M™ DI-NOC™ Architectural Finishes and 3M™ Fasara™ Glass Finishes)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/partners/advscotiabankphotoplay0416/what-has-digital-done-to-the-arts-photographer/article29719160/

https://www.the-parallax.com/2016/05/06/why-satoshi-nakamoto-matters-bitcoin

(Quebec) Installation Artist: http://www.all-art.ca/projets.html

http://librospopup.blogspot.ca/2009/05/descarga-gratis-libro-phantastische.html

(Methane Bomb) http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/this-is-the-looming-climate-change-disaster-in-canadas-north-that-no-one-is-talking-about

http://www.daileyadventurers.com/10-uncommon-travel-quotes-to-inspire-wanderlust/

"Everything boils down to priorities. Everything." - The Universe
"My different styles must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an ideal. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present." - Pablo Picasso
"Risk being seen in all of your glory." - Jim Carrey
"The 'earth' without 'art' is just 'eh'." - Albert Einstein
"One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it." - Albert Camus