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