29 December 2020

https://tomwaitsmap.com/

(Science disRegard)   https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=S58vlJwhwDw

https://www.macleans.ca/society/why-the-ideal-of-meritocracy-only-deepens-inequality 

https://www.blendswap.com/categories

(Buckminster Fuller)  http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html

(Podcasts) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads

Author bpNichol

https://www.artsy.net/artist/dan-brault

https://cointelegraph.com/xrp-price-index

http://911blogger.com/news/2006-08-24/modify-claims-about-wtc7-fires-some-were-raging

"(This may sound strange, coming from a technologist), but the fact is that down through history most of man’s inventions have first appeared in decorative rather than practical applications.” - Cyril Stanley Smith (‘Aesthetic Curiosity - The Root of Invention’) 

"What I fear most in life is the hardness of heart of educated people.” - Gandhi

"Courage is a matter of knowing when and how to take chances, especially when we’re afraid to.” - Mark Kingswell (author of ‘On Risk’)

"The size of your dreams, has little to do with the likelihood of them coming to pass." - TU

"People ask me, ‘Don't you ever run out of ideas?’ Well, in the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity." - Robert Rauschenberg

 

 

12 December 2020

Asemic Writing http://www.stevenjfowler.com/asemic  concrete poetry,

(QR Codes) https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1934954/

https://interestingengineering.com/why-is-the-hexagon-everywhere-all-about-this-seemingly-common-shape

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-09/coronavirus-long-haulers-tell-us-their-symptoms-and-the-aftereffects-of-disease

(Custom fabric) https://shopvida.com/search?x=0&y=0&q=fractal+shirt

https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2020/10/29/world-war-iii-has-already-begun.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/doctors-begin-to-crack-covids-mysterious-long-term-effects

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-secret-math-society-known-as-nicolas-bourbaki

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/aphorism-examples.html

Warp Text Into Shapes with Illustrator

“PAINTING IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE A DIARY." - Pablo Picasso 

>“When you grow up, people stop asking you what your favourite dinosaur is. They don't even care." - Rosie Made a Thing

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.” - D. H. Lawrence

They say you never know what you have till it's gone, so I got rid of everything to see what I have." - Steven Wright

“The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

25 November 2020


https://torontowritingworkshop.com/



http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html






"The thing about happiness, is that you get to take it with you." - TU
“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means. Through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.” - Dalai Lama
“An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.” - 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
“It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer’s feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.” - J.D. Salinger

19 November 2020

https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/get-involved/public-consultations/infrastructure-projects/glen-road-bridge/

https://onezero.medium.com/how-a-band-of-activists-and-one-tech-billionaire-beat-alphabets-smart-city

http://oeis.org/A139250/a139250.anim.html

https://one.google.com/home

https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-anti-climb-wall-protests-2020-7

https://micro2020.sciencesconf.org/ 

http://swcbookarts.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html?m=1

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/physics-report-911-controlled-demolition/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-company-in-and-out-of-the-dow-jones-industrial-average-since-1928/

https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/10/rosedale-neighbourhood-toronto-history/

"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882)
"Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.“ - Jerry Seinfeld
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. “ - yarn
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” - Albert Einstein

 

14 November 2020

https://toronto.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e277dfd698a9212f48e81e3c8&id=cda7492f9e&e=2d44e77c43

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pulsing-stars-flicker-pattern-close-golden-ratio-180954195/

(Online collaboration platform) https://miro.com/   (mind-mapping)

(Contemporary & Digital Art Fair )  https://cadaf.art/online20


https://www.salaamy.com/10-facts-about-islamic-art-2020/

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/a-deep-dive-into-tom-waits-best-rare-and-unreleased-material/

https://www.seti.org/press-release/seti-artists-residence-program-celebrates-10-years-bettina-forget-appointed-program-director

(Video) Poured Resin

(Rotary Action Group)  https://www.esrag.org/esrag-unep-handbook

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/conspiracy-theorists-have-a-fundamental-cognitive-problem-say-scientists?utm_source=pocket-newtab

"A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." - Albert Einstein.."
"Just do your work. And if the world needs your work it will come and get you. And if it doesn't, do your work anyway. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision." - Kiki Smith 
“You can not be what you can not see.” - Sally Ride, Misrepresentation
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true." - Soren Kierkegaard 
“When a friend makes a mistake, the friend remains a friend, and the mistake remains a mistake.” - Shimon Peres

04 November 2020

https://www.jasondavies.com/catmap/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/05/25/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared/#5a0f69a47494

https://action.storyofstuff.org/donate/nobailout_bigplastic

(gMail cleanout) https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190

The physics of a popsicle stick bomb

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2020/05/world-trade-center-7-building-did-not-collapse-due-to-fire-report

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/how-one-man-used-art-to-wage-a-war-on-hitler-1-6458293

(Nelson Madela Sculpture) https://www.afar.com/places/mandela-capture-site-howick
http://ttnotes.com/clanwilliam-museum.html

Storybook https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/11/the-white-cat-and-the-monk/

https://www.photobookcanada.com/faq

“The other peoples of the world are not failed attempts at being you.” - Wade Davis ❤️
"We created a culture of ‘pleasing’ that is now hijacking us. We want to please everybody: the audiences, the subscribers, the sponsors, the press, the colleagues… a big mistake! Art should not please. On the contrary. Art has to show where it hurts in our societies, in our world. We urgently need the courage back to pick up this role of disturbers again.” - Frie Leysen
"It’s not to anybody’s best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run.” - Bob Dylan
"A riot is the language of the unheard." - Martin Luther 
"Dance is the hidden language of nature's soul." - Martha Graham


20 October 2020

(Symmetry) for HexSpin?  https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-useless-perspective-that-transformed-mathematics-20200609/

(Gmail) https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190

(Lenticular printer) https://pops.co/collections/all

(Video) The Art of Assemblage 

(Podcasts) https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast

(miniseries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth_
(based on the novel)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth

https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/03/chekhov-6-rules/ Storytelling 

https://theconversation.com/rise-of-the-swat-team-routine-police-work-in-canada-is-now-militarized

(EPHEMERAL ART)  https://www.laprairieswitzerland.com/en/editorials-article?cid=ephemeral-art

Search operators you can use with Gmail

“The bad news is, you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” - Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist teacher 
“Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness.“ -  Stephen Harrod Buhner.
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” - Muhammad Ali
"Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.” - Benjamin Disraeli

07 October 2020

AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision Framework (3D Reconstruction, Photomodeling


 






“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.” - J.D. Salinger
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age." -  Aldous Huxley
"The gate determines who controls the fence." - R.B. Wild 
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." - Euripides
"If you just do what you can, with what you have, from right where you are, IT WILL ALWAYS BE ENOUGH." - The Universe

01 October 2020

https://builtin.com/hardware/quantum-computing


(Lenticular printing) https://www.softmotion3d.com/

(Lenticulator) https://limbricateur.com/Interlacer.html  interlacing software 





https://eand.co/this-is-how-a-society-dies-35bdc3c0b854

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/regional-perspectives/gwynne-dyer-netanyahu-stalls-468515/

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." - M. C. Escher
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” - Dalai Lama
“The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.” - Steven Pressfield, Author 
“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.” - H. L. Mencken
“Give a man a mask, and he’ll show you his true face.” - Oscar Wilde

14 September 2020

https://art21.org/read/julie-mehretu-to-be-felt-as-much-as-read/

https://elemental.medium.com/sciences-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-5cb9a3ec2f6a

https://www.leonardo.info/opportunity/asu-leonardo-imagination-fellowship

https://adventureuncovered.com/stories/ways-to-wander-creative-walking-as-adventure/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsiteshare&utm_source=facebook

https://globalnews.ca/news/7281140/cfls-federal-funding-denied/?utm_source=notification

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelkramerbussel/2020/09/03/why-koyama-presss-founder-is-giving-artists-grants-of-up-to-15000-canadian/#4ec48176632c

https://www.thoughtco.com/main-shakespeare-sources-2985252

https://genius.com/Jonathan-richman-because-her-beauty-is-raw-and-wild-lyrics

https://blog.rotary.org/2020/08/20/how-to-plan-a-virtual-world-polio-day-event/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/08/penguins-huddle-math/615595/

"I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.” -  Caspar David Friedrich

“Colors are the smiles of nature.” -  Leigh Hunt

"The one thing all famous authors, world-class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common', is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things." - TU

"If you want people to build things that don't exist and that are innovative, you have to give them the opportunity and the room to fail, to make mistakes. Because that's the only way we can truly innovate and make things better." - Tory H., Product Design Manager

“There are no distant places or impossible things, just mental spaces.“ - K. Gibran







04 July 2020

https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/05/map-history-data-literacy-propaganda-exhibit-bending-lines/612157/

https://interestingengineering.com/why-is-the-hexagon-everywhere-all-about-this-seemingly-common-shape

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/schrodingers-semester-lets-clear-the-uncertainty-for-fall-2020/

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel/

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facial-recognition-t-shirt-block

(Documentary) https://przekroj.pl/en/culture/there-is-no-one-truth-dariusz-kuzma

https://thecorrespondent.com/466/the-neoliberal-era-is-ending-what-comes-next/61655148676-a00ee89a

(Animation softwares). https://help.stopmotionstudio.com/help/stopmotion

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-latour-inte/stop-french-philosopher-latour-urges-no-return-to-pre-lockdown-normal

https://7news.com.au/news/north-america/george-floyd-protests-police-cars-set-alight-as-protests-rage-on-across-america-c-1070083

“I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, I am for an artist who vanishes.” - Claes Oldenburg
“Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”  - Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1982). Via
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.” - Don Quixote
“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.” -  Albert Camus, The Plague
"Never settle for less, don't ever think it's too late, and never, ever, ever compromise a dream." - The Universe

26 June 2020

(Hex Grid) https://phys.org/news/2018-02-scientists-chiral-phonons-d-semiconductor.amp

https://www.blocksidewalk.ca/_sidewalkblocked_now_wha

https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation

First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2020/04/on-761-days-anne-frank-and-the-circle-of-responsibility/

(Scientific Publications) https://www.academia.edu/search?q=Early+and+Medieval+Islamic+Art+and+Architecture

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3143635.Sengcan

(Book) The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mcgill-courses-to-be-online-in-september/

(Video) Absolute Basics of Garageband

"The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed." -  William Gibson
“Opportunities are like sunrises; if you wait too long, you miss them.” - William Arthur Ward
"A joke is often the hole through which the truth whistles.” - Japanese proverb 
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” - Anais Nin
"Thinking' is immeasurably more valuable when used to imagine what you want — the end result — than to figure out how you're going to get it." - The Universe

16 June 2020

https://theconversation.com/sidewalk-labs-smart-city-plans-for-toronto-are-dead-whats-next-138175

https://www.academia.edu/42750595/Why_Sisyphus_comes_to_mind_in_my_daily_struggles_against_coronavirus

https://mathcraft.wonderhowto.com/news/7-templates-for-slide-together-geometric-paper-constructions-0130593/

(Book) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2020/04/28/colleges-and-universities-quietly-preparing-to-take-all-classes-online-this-fall-amid-covid-19.html

https://www.academia.edu/search?q=Early+and+Medieval+Islamic+Art+and+Architecture

https://www.newframe.com/beneath-conspiracy-theories-the-class-war/

https://www.artistsasactivists.com/edition05-08-20

https://forum.academica.ca/forum/early-steps-towards-autumn-2020

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/04/tensegrity-lego-jk-brickworks/?mc_cid=c0de502171&mc_eid=b0e5485889

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." - Mark Twain
"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another." -  Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
"A lot can happen in 14 days… dreams form, insights gather, transformation emerges, routines begin, relationships ignite." - TU
“'Non-linear' is not a hypothesis but the lack of a hypothesis." - Ralph Showalter
“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.” - Voltaire

06 June 2020

Muqarnas

https://adammclane.com/2020/02/these-divided-states-of-america/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/04/09/Get-To-Know-Ancient-Stoics/

https://spectrejournal.com/the-only-way-out-of-the-crisis-is-to-fight-for-open-borders

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-myth-of-sisyphus/3-an-absurd-reasoning-philosophical-suicide

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337892595_A_Classical_Geometric_Relationship_That_Reveals_The_Golden_Link_in_Nature

Learning From the Virus

https://www.galeriemagazine.com/julie-mehretu/

The Cramps 'she said'

http://greenloc.ca/greenloc-hoarding/construction-hoarding-toronto/

"Distant water will not quench a nearby fire." - ?
"She is already thinking and behaving in ways that will eventually gain broad political and cultural acceptance, but that are currently deemed unacceptable." - Via
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." - Mary Oliver
"To have a great idea, have a lot of them." - N.Tesla
"The need to criticize belies a longing for recognition, appreciation, and validation. None of which, however, can be obtained through criticism." - The Universe

28 May 2020

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/columbus-map-discovery-secrets-new-world/

(Book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poetics_of_Space (by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard)

(Podcast) https://theconversation.com/how-dangerous-are-conspiracy-theories-listen-to-part-five-of-our-expert-guide-136070

https://gizmodo.com/samsung-redesigned-its-tv-boxes-to-be-easily-converted-1842918344

(Documentary) "The Hero's Journey" (Joseph Campbell)  YouTube

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191125-turkeys-ancient-tradition-of-paying-it-forward

https://thewalrus.ca/americas-next-civil-war/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2020/04/13/boston-university-is-first-to-announce-it-may-postpone-its-fall-term-until-january-2021

http://www.gazaincontext.com/film.html

"It is time to forsake our age and its adolescent furies.” - Camus, The Rebel
"What we take for the reality outside of ourselves can be understood as a story we're telling ourselves about who we are and how the world works." - Charles Eisenstein
"I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” -  Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Stretch yourself, scoff at the odds, get the ball rolling so that the magic can then come alive and sweep you off your feet with its infinite grace and glory." - TU
“When the storm starts talking, no ocean can sleep!” - Mehmet Murat

19 May 2020

(Film) The Hero's Journey: A Biographical Portrait

https://qz.com/1835237/amsterdam-adopted-a-new-economic-model-for-life-after-covid-19/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pg7n7y/it-was-like-a-cult-leaving-the-world-of-online-conspiracy-theories

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2017/06/26/there-are-only-15-pentagonal-tilings-probably

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/10/heres-how-body-gains-immunity-coronavirus

Algorithmic Accountabilit:y https://boingboing.net/2019/12/04/fundamental-critique.html

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200406-why-smart-people-believe-coronavirus-myths?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook

https://www.iwm.at/closedbutacitve/corona-focus/albena-azmanova-our-neoliberal-war-on-the-pandemic/

Ontario’s Triage COVID-19 Protocol

https://areomagazine.com/2020/04/01/a-time-for-heroes/

"There are moments in our lives, moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual - become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom." - Robert Henri (The Art Spirit p.45)
"Look and you will find it; what is unsought will go undetected." - Sophocles
"You have to go there. You have to choose your stage. You have to do your dance. Putting yourself in place, to any degree that you can, even if it scares you, even when it's 'hard',  even if it's just your big toe." - TU
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn
"We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” - John A. Wheeler (quoted in John Horgan’s “The New Challenges,” Scientific American, 1992)


09 May 2020

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/ai-weiwei-expanding-on-covid-19-18-march-2020

https://datagraver.com/case/tracking-the-worldwide-covid-19-pandemic

Video (Pandemic Exponential Growth)

https://thequarantimes.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/herd-immunity-is-epidemiological-neoliberalism/

(Populism) http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming?utm_source=pocket-newtab

https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/news/odds-favor-2020-olympics-canceled-italy-us-china-france-spain-

https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/drugs-need-be-properly-tested-being-put-use

Dana carver teenage bullshit https://youtu.be/tN-LJ7w5pwQ. Last few seconds

Health care system could be total collapse

(SMorris)  https://imgflip.com/meme/162372564/Domino-Effect

“Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.” - Alexis de Tocqueville (wrote of Americans in 1830)
"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease;” - Jianzhi Sengcan
"In moments of existential crisis, time has a tendency to collapse, whole chains of events that may usually require years and decades too unfold, suddenly happen overnight.” - Farid Moslehi
“Sometimes when you look back at the trail you've tread, it's actually hard to believe you were as scared or confused or uncertain as you were, yet still you rocked it. You're on fire." - The Universe
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

25 April 2020

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/google-maps-canada-coronavirus-data

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/tips-make-your-zoom-gatherings-more-private/?

https://theconversation.com/stop-calling-coronavirus-pandemic-a-war

(NBA leadership) Leafs https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-toronto-maple-leafs-kyle-dubas-speaks-1.5516708

Dylan 24 hour Dolly Timelapse

https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/resolving-disputes-within-adversarial-systems

https://www.wired.com/story/worried-5g-health-effects-dont-be

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actress-activist-shirley-douglas-daughter-of-medicare-s-tommy-douglas-dies

AntiVaxxers   https://apple.news/AuCxD-U_FQfSKjg3fduu44Q

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/08/refuse_to_be_terrori.html

“Invariably, when big dreams come true, and I mean 'BIG', there is a total metamorphosis of one's life. Thoughts change, words change, decisions are made differently. Gratitude is tossed about like rice at a wedding. ... But would you have guessed that these changes invariably come about before, not after, the big dream's manifestation? " -  The Universe
"It was an uncertain spring." - Virginia Woolf
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell, 1984
"There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness." - Jalaluddin Rumi, 13th century Sufi Poet
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.” - Charles Baudelaire,  Friday recommendations from 19th Century poets

14 April 2020


https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-very-special-triangles/

https://www.bachelorandmaster.com/creationofknowledge/myth-of-sisyphus.html#.XnoH3oUnl_I

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/13/815502262/flattening-a-pandemics-curve-why-staying-home-now-can-save-lives

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/why-was-it-so-hard-to-raise-the-alarm-on-coronavirus.html

“It only takes a one-day difference in action to see a 40 percent reduction in cases — that’s enormous. It really conveys the urgency of the situation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/science/coronavirus-math-mitigation-distancing.html

https://www.complex.com/style/2013/10/famous-street-artists/escif

https://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/creativity-and-distraction

https://www.wjtv.com/news/nike-closing-all-us-stores-for-two-weeks-due-to-coronavirus/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-03-10/corey-feldman-documentary-sexual-abuse

“Happiness is a direction, not a place." - Sydney J. Harris
 "You can teach a kid to canoe, but you can't teach them how to spend time in a canoe." - John Latimer, former Canadian Camping Associaton President
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“The trick is remembering that at all times far more is happening on your behalf than your physical senses will ever reveal. Like right now." -The Universe
"Man with a strong enough why can get through anyhow!" - Freidrich Nietzsche

03 April 2020

https://creativefuture.org/eff-rebuttal-dmca/

https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion

https://triz-journal.com/differentiating-among-the-five-levels-of-solutions/

(Video) Square Tube rounded corner

(Recycled chopsticks) https://chopvalue.com/products/wall-decor

https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/what-if-nestle-and-coke-had-clean-their-own-plastic-pollution

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5495328/london-artists-don-makeup-to-thwart-facial-recognition-technology

Cancer paintings; https://www.verdict.co.uk/science-art-ayse-akarca/

https://www.cnet.com/news/best-smart-home-devices-not-made-by-amazon-or-google/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-03-10/corey-feldman-documentary-sexual-abuse

"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.” ― G.K. Chesterton
“As tough as we are, is as loving as we are” - Andrew Cuomo
“If you just start dancing the music will be added." - TU
"What sparks human greatness? I believe it arises the moment we stop believing we are powerless and start trusting that while we may only be a single individual, we have within us the power to change the world." - Buckminster Fuller
“Spot on Ron.” - Dr. S. Lowden (20 March 2020)



24 March 2020

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-songs-about-maps/reference?ref=rltdlsts_collection

https://hyperallergic.com/544854/1700-3d-models-of-cultural-heritage-objects-now-available-in-public-domain/

Taking Appropriation Too Far

Artists Profile: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/topic/Tag/Paper%20Cuts

https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Tao-Teh-Ching.pdf

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/100-little-ideas/

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/a-short-introduction-to-the-two-row-wampum

https://ppost24.com/post/698/the-palestinian-artist-jailed-by-israel-for-the-crime-of-inspirin

https://faceidmasks.com/#info

https://buildingthebridge.eu/

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu
"All emotion is involuntary when genuine.” - Mark Twain
“The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.” - Stephen Wright
“All you have to do is be. Be yourself. There’s nothing to prove." - The Universe
“Every hand that we don’t shake must become a phone call that we place. Every embrace that we avoid must become a verbal expression of warmth and concern. Every inch and every foot that we physically place between ourselves and another, must become a thought as to how we might be of help to that other, should the need arise.” - Rabbi Yosef Kanofsky, Los Angeles

17 March 2020

http://lenticularimagecreator.com/

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416531/brains-gps-system-toggles-between-present-and-possible-future-paths-real-time

https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/04/jigsaw-detects-doctored-images/

http://socialistreview.org.uk/402/philanthropy-capitalist-art-deception

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Peace-to-Prosperity-0120.pdf

(Video) How To Join Objects in Blender

https://www.reliance-foundry.com/blog/skateboarding-public-spaces

The Specials (Ska music)

https://www.972mag.com/bassem-tamimi-one-state/

https://wakeup-world.com/2016/05/13/a-brief-history-of-the-rockefellerrothschild-empire

“Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.” - Nietzsche
“…if I could make a statement that makes a difference, and the influence could be preserved through the generations to come, that means that my stay here on earth has a meaning." - McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938 - March 6, 2020)
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde
“History never repeats itself; man always does.” - Voltaire
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” - Chief Seattle

07 March 2020

(Blender Tutorial)  How to Model a Mobius Strip 

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-mystery-of-why-some-people-become-sudden-geniuses?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Security questions and CAPTCHA don’t just verify our identities but subtly reshape them

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/jared-kushner-25-books-read-palestine

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/28/trump-netanyahu-dictate-terms-palestinian-surrender-israel-call-peace

(Lenticular software) https://triaxes.com/products/3d-software/3dmasterkit/

https://digg.com/video/ames-window-optical-illusion

https://www.handeyesociety.com/call-for-submissions/call-for-artists-bentway-games/

https://storyofstuff.org/unbottle-water

https://truthout.org/articles/fourteen-propaganda-techniques-fox-news-uses-to-brainwash-americans/

"The world doesn't make sense, so why should my works have one." - Pablo Picasso
"Of all the joys on Earth, few compare to the crowning glory of achieving against the odds, succeeding in the face of peril, or triumphing over adversity. Yet in every such case, without exception, the poor odds, the peril, and the adversity must come first." - The Universe
“We must be different. We must have opposites... We depend on our outermost shell for stability... We will not violate this principle..." - Wolfgang Pauli's Exclusion Principle
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” - Hanlon’s Razor
“True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own Way. It cannot be gained by interfering.” - Lao Tzu

27 February 2020

Force a German Museum to Publicly Release Its 3-D Scan of a Bust of Nefertiti

https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/darwin-competition-collaboration-evolutionary-biology

https://mymodernmet.com/hsu-tung-han-pixelated-wood-sculpture/

https://actions.sumofus.org/a/coca-cola-just-said-people-still-want-plastic-bottles-let-s-prove-them-wrong?sp_ref

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PatternsBasedOnAHexagonalLattice/

(Lenticular printing) https://triaxes.com/products/3d-software/3dmasterkit/

https://earthlymission.com/the-famous-easter-island-head-statues-actually-have-bodies/

http://portfolios.risd.edu/gallery/33953124/Modular-systems-Parametric-design

https://www.cbc.ca/news/haydn-watters-1.3608022

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-expected-to-offer-palestinians-conditional-statehood/ar-BBZpjWE?ocid=spartandhp

“Of course, you and I know that this unbounded faith in the integrity of the photograph is often rudely shaken, for, while photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.” - Lewis Wickes Hine, ‘Social Photography: How the Camera May Help in the Social Uplift’ (1909)
“The more equal the options, the harder the decision.” - Fredkin’s Paradox
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” - Daniel Kahneman
“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“Collage is a material practice of selection and arrangement that spurs discovery and makes new knowledge. - Via

18 February 2020

https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/adobe-creative-cloud-free-alternatives/

https://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/love/index.html

https://speckyboy.com/stunning-qr-codes-that-prove-usability-does-not-equal-boring/amp/

(Video artist) https://www.jimcampbell.tv/ (Vaughan digital wall project)

https://hyperallergic.com/535239/julie-mehretus-sublime-abstractions-of-history/

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-2020/banksy-and-the-triumph-of-banality/

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/elizabeth-zvonar/ Collagist

http://www.chinese-word.com/keyword/beyond.html

(Video) Plastic bottle house

https://www.boredpanda.com/study-cat-boxes-stress-university-of-utrecht/

“The Absence of effort is the Presence of no-effort (effortlessness)." - FB
"The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.” - Niall Ferguson
“Whatever anyone is,  they become more of." - The Universe
"Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn." - Sophie Scholl
“Honestly seek to know, yet rest only in the 'I don't know’." - RM

08 February 2020

(Laser cutting problem) Using paths in an SVG is preferential to using(circle) shapes

https://interaccess.org/workshop/2019/nov/hyperreal-sensations

Experimental Film Out of GIFs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-cuban-cartoonist-drew-cold-war-mad-magazine

https://www.dealfuel.com/seller/mandala-ornaments-dealclub-special

(Swatch) https://research.swtch.com/qart

http://www.hamiltonwaterfront.com/public-art finalists

(Printed glass supplier) http://www.verrage.com/index.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costs-administration/more-than-a-third-of-us-healthcare-costs-go-to-bureaucracy-idUSKBN1Z5261

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb-mlbpa-dismiss-wild-claims-that-mike-trout-received-exemption-for-hgh-004620844.html

"What a bitter struggle is waged between talent and fate." - Nguyen Du, author of The Tale of Kieu
"The most important element of art is mystery.” - Lee Mullican
“This is the real secret of life; to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” - Alan Watts
"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.” - A.H.
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” - Kurt Vonnegut



31 January 2020

(Waveform Art)  https://www.soundwavepic.com/

ArtSci. https://hyperallergic.com/533757/the-ornate-objects-of-early-european-technology/

(Public artworks)  https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/2019

https://www.boredpanda.com/mosque-ceilings/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saved-avro-arrow-blueprints-ordered-destroyed

http://www.andysowards.com/blog/2012/40-epic-qr-code-art/amp/

(Shadow Art)  https://www.adweek.com/creativity/this-bloody-clever-dracula-ad-gets-creepier-as-the-sun-goes-down/

https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/29449/how-to-create-a-qr-code-in-4-quick-steps.aspx

https://www.sadanduseless.com/godzilla-haiku-list/

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/how-to-use-your-phone-to-spot-fake-images-surrounding-the-u-s-iran-conflict/

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” - E. F. Schumacher
“When you don't know what you want it's probably time to begin enjoying what you have." - The Universe
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.” - Hermann Hesse
“If you travelled far enough to the left, you met and embraced the right coming the other way.” - WallBridge
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

23 January 2020

https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/12/map-memories-reader-essays/601693/

https://www.theexplorer.no/stories/ocean/movers--shakers-kjetil-thorsen-on-radical-ecological-thinking-in-architecture/

https://www.trendhunter.com/amp/slideshow/bewildering-barcode-discoveries

(Video) The Man Who Saved Geometry

(muqarna). https://www.designboom.com/art/iran-architectural-photography

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dealing-creative-block-deck-cards-help

Generate a CSS Color Gradient

https://theconversation.com/mounting-evidence-the-tide-is-turning-on-news-corp-and-its-owner-116892

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/creeping-militarisation-of-police-why-experts-are-concerned

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/we-call-it-a-rescue-vehicle-growing-number-of-canadian-police-forces-bulking-up-with-armoured-vehicles

“Don’t let them build walls promising you security instead of bridges giving you prosperity.” - Via
“Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ‘Testament of Hope’
<3army br="">“The truth is the truth, even if no one believes it. A lie is a lie, even if everyone believes it.” - Via
“Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.” - Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Nelson Mandela

16 January 2020

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/01/trump-border-wall-confederate-monuments-white-supremacy

https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/qr-code-artworks/amp/

https://www.thestar.com/business/technology/2019/12/11/meet-the-scholar-who-diagnosed-surveillance-capitalism.html

(Tom Waits) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus'_Blood_Never_Failed_Me_Yet

https://anywhere.ca/galleries/sask-grain-elevators/

https://bitterwinter.org/the-story-of-the-lonely-jew-standing-up-for-the-uyghurs-in-london/

http://www.openculture.com/2019/09/the-wisdom-of-ram-dass-is-now-online.html

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/the-stunning-beauty-of-islamic-geometric-patterns

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-murray-sinclair-has-tried-for-years-to-shock-canada-into-confronting/#c-image-7

(Rotary pingPong table) Precast concrete supplier; https://www.alphaprecasts.com/

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
"The snowgoose need not bathe itself to make itself white, neither you need do anything but be yourself.” - Lao Tzu
“Today you have as many opportunities to be happy as you ever will." - TU
“Recursivity is characterised by the looping movement of returning to itself in order to determine itself, while every movement is open to contingency, which in turn determines its singularity.” -Yuk Hui Via
"I don't want to have to hard-sell myself." - RW

08 January 2020

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/12/decade-in-review-data-trends-smart-cities-tech-surveillance

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/the-fractal-dimension-of-zip-codes/

https://www.deviantart.com/apprenticeofart/art/Love-in-Isometric-3D-QR-Code

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/3d/

(Shadow QR code) http://www.andysowards.com/blog/2012/40-epic-qr-code-art/amp/

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-paper-triangle-from-a-square/

https://hyperallergic.com/535572/artist-arrested-in-china-on-charges-of-supporting-hong-kong-protests-online/

https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/israeli-palestinian-conflict-101/

https://truthout.org/section/war-and-peace/

https://theheartysoul.com/ways-to-stimulate-your-vagus-nerve

“The axe forgets but the tree remembers." - Malawi
“Past and future are in the mind only; I am now.” - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"Where there is matter, there is geometry." - Johannes Kepler
“Attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox.” - Kenneth Arrow
“When you start taking life too seriously it becomes more difficult to saunter." - The Universe