20 December 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

05 December 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


29 November 2023

WallBridge residency opportunity; https://www.spreepark-artspace.de/en/programme/permanent-works/ivan-argote-bridges-spreepark/

https://medium.com/exploring-history/7-horrifying-places-that-google-maps-didnt-want-you-to-see

SliceForm cone; https://pin.it/56NixfD

YouTube science explainer; https://www.cgpgrey.com/







"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life." - R. Buckminster Fuller
“It's not that folks act a certain way around you, but rather that you attract certain types of folks based upon your thoughts, beliefs, and expectations." - TU
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself." - Augustine of Hippo​​​​​​​
“Hexagons are the Bestagons.” - CGP Grey
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

27 October 2023

http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/maps/index.php 

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

Torus design; https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Villarceau-Circles-slot-together-torus-iR64PrVTsIu1

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/supreme-court-andy-warhol-decision-appropriation-artists-impact

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/12/1081607/brain-atlas

Rich Blundell; https://www.academia.edu/947467/Communicating_Science_A_Novel_Frame_of_Reverence

https://akimbo.ca/listings/remember-tomorrow-a-telidon-story/

https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/digital-accessibility/guides_tutorials/best_practices/alternative_text/

9/11 Full Flight Simulation | September 11th; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2hqvCfzVMM

Ways to Fight Fair in Relationships: https://spencecounselingcenter.com/hello-world/

"Looking fifty is great, if you're sixty." - Joan Rivers

“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit ” - John Updike

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinion, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” - Oscar Wilde

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.” - Ambrose Bierce

“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.” - M.C. Escher


12 October 2023

Cardboard designers: https://nordwerk.co/about-us/

https://fs.blog/complexity-bias

https://artthescience.com/magazine/

https://www.academia.edu/18072755/Fractals_and_Fractal_Architecture

https://www.designboom.com/tag/window-display/

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/194996/animating-a-plane-into-a-conical-shape

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HappyNumber.html 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323387639_The_Impact_of_Staging_Conditions_on_Residential_Real_Estate_Demand

Fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin 


"Where there is matter, there is geometry." - Johannes Kepler
"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.” - Peter_Kropotkin 
"I yam what I yam, a dat's all I yam, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!" - Popeye
“As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” - Joseph Campbell
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” -  Voltaire

11 October 2023

https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-old-conjecture-falls-making-spheres-a-lot-more-complicated

https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wheres-waldo-how-to-prove-you-found-him-without-revealing-where-he-is

https://slashdot.org/software/mind-mapping/iphone/

Art/Sci residency; https://galaxy.kikk.be/en/news/ecologicalfutures2023

https://www.instructables.com/Kirigami-Honeycombs/

https://all3dp.com/1/best-free-cad-software-2d-3d-cad-programs-design/

Online digital art site; https://moca.virtual.museum/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/11-best-cbd-stocks-buy

https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-is-at-maximum-crisis

“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” - Aldous Huxley

“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

"The Tao doesn’t take sides; it gives birth to both ying and yang. All is welcome, both light and dark." - Lao Tzu

“There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.” - Hermann Hesse


01 September 2023

Google/Sidewalk SmartCity opposition; https://www.globalvaccinepoem.com

https://makezine.com/article/home/fun-games/slicemodeler-fantasy-to-physical/

AR Art show; https://torontojunction.ca/window-wonderland

https://www.haliburtonsculptureforest.ca/artists-2

https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/our-projects/love-park

https://www.facebook.com/RawnWild

https://ttlmarket.com/products/in-depth-cnc-milling-saturdays-6-week-comprehensive-1

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alexander-graham-bell-s-tetrahedral-kites

https://hyperallergic.com/800957/a-day-with-the-ny-sanitation-departments-resident-artist

https://joinmastodon.org/

“The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they’re making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you’re talking to someone who wasn’t there. It’s hopeless.”
Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022)                 
“The aim of argument should not be victory, but progress.” - Karl Popper
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” - Aldous Huxley
"No matter how bad the world gets, everything I love is in it." - Video Game
“To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before." - The Universe

25 August 2023

Methane Bombs; https://apple.news/AtWAGFXjbRXW7-GGPlqYbOw

https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/more-profound-appreciation-complexity-natural-ice-formations

https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/isala-citizen-science-map-of-the-vaginal-microbiome/

Waste Diversion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jz-Dl-CZwTJmKDzijQ6D3Kf0fGknCdGOwi8mBPah3RY/edit

Light panels; https://app-h5.govee.com/user-manual/video/H6061

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/oct/29/xavier-bou-ornithographies-birds-patterns-flight-in-pictures

https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/11/08/meet-the-mama-of-dada

Trash Art; https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/catherine-telford-keogh-interview

TRE Intermittent Fasting; https://medium.com/invisible-illness/when-is-it-a-good-idea-to-starve-yourself

Digital Art and New Media: A Fairchain Partnership; https://links.post.saatchiart.com/clk

"The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing . . . He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths." - Carl Jung 
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” - Leonardo da Vinci
“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.” - William Shakespeare
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.” - Mortimer Adler
"...who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” - Hunter S. Thompson

24 August 2023



CERN Residency; 










"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." - M. C. Escher
"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was good thought; the second, a good word; and the third a good deed." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist)
"Recognize that which you don't yet have by giving thanks, in advance, for receiving it." - The Universe 
"Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.” - Paulo Coelho
"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” - Muhammad Ali

30 July 2023

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/london-underground-labyrinths

https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/07/27/2023-art-technology-lab-grant-recipients

https://esse.ca/en/columns/waste-as-a-narrative-device-in-contemporary-artworks

https://akimbo.ca/listings/wm-bill-perry-lost-found-telidon-art-of-the-early-80s/

https://www.instructables.com/Make-an-MC-Escher-Reptile-puzzle-on-your-CNC-router/

https://stepspublicart.org/i-heart-main-street-bia-program

https://mondediplo.com/2020/05/11icebreakers

 ACM (AluPanel) Presentation

COVID aftermath; https://nautil.us/the-comet-year

Types Of Stirrups in Column and Beam with Details✔ https://www.facebook.com/groups/721474924718645/permalink/2101892433343547/

“Nothing worth doing can be finished in one lifetime.” - Niebuhr

“Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse.” - Mary Carroll Nelson

“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: 1) Study the science of art. 2) Study the art of science. 3) Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. 4) Realize that everything connects to everything else.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.” - Noam Chomsky

“If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive.” - Paulo Coelho


11 June 2023




ARS Electronica Open Calls







“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
“Happiness isn't a crop that you harvest when your dreams come true. It's more like the fertilizer that makes them come true faster.” - The Universe 
"I stood outside all social circles, alone, beloved by none, mistrusted by many, in unceasing and bitter conflict with public opinion and morality; and though I lived in a bourgeois setting, I was all the same an utter stranger to this world in all I thought and felt…I walked on aimlessly." - Hermann Hesse (Steppenwolf)
"Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” - Lao Tzu
Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense.” - R.Buckminster Fuller

27 May 2023

(Torus) How to Think about Villarceau Circles; https://www.flickr.com/photos/oschene/12570504695

https://news.yahoo.com/icicles-form-why-perplex-physicists

https://aeon.co/essays/james-lovelock-the-death-of-scientific-independence

https://www.thejournal.ie/debunked-cows-problem-emissions-5842492-Aug2022/

https://www.waterfrontbia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Waterfront-Artist-Residency_2023_FULL-CALL8.pdf

Full text of "The Outlook For Intelligence"; https://archive.org/stream/outlookforintell013551mbp/outlookforintell013551mbp_djvu.txt

https://stepspublicart.org/steps-cultural-planning-team/

Paint by numbers; https://paintbyme.ca/

http://www.arcane-alchemy.com/blog/2020/3/25/how-to-make-a-sigil-witchcraft-101

Lebret Residential School investigations; https://youtu.be/pqEnlqbrLC4

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." - Henry David Thoreau.

“Maybe you are searching in the branches for what only appears in the roots." - Rumi

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” - Jean-Luc Godard

“Not all who wander are lost.” - J.R.R Tolkien

“ I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures; 

Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” - Lao Tzu 老子 (c. 604 - 531 B.C.)

22 May 2023

Set-based design: https://www.dirtt.com/insights/changemakers-on-teams

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

Geraci NetraMark; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dmKiUGIseY&fbclid=IwAR2M2hrDDEDX4rBxkyvaP-ht1l9AfY5C-g1IJKaxZ9YnrsdrlysF1SL8-ys

Collagist; http://voyagedenver.com/interview/meet-cecil-touchon-of-santa-fe-new-mexico

https://landing.twinkly.com/twinkly-squares-ca

https://www.torontosculpturegarden.ca/

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/lacma-experimental-computer-art-coded

mRNA effects on DNA; https://youtu.be/V0o_7fusKxM



“No one has ever become poor by giving.” - Anne Frank.
"When gazing up at the night sky, it is not you that sees the universe, but the universe seeing itself in human-form." - Sas-Leon King
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." - T.S Eliot
“What's most important is that you're here. A million times less important is what you do here, when, where and with whom." - TU
“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes." - R. Buckminster Fuller

27 March 2023

https://www.academia.edu/29028775/Mapping_the_Invisible_Creative_Cartography_as_a_Tool_for_Representing_the_Changing_Contemporary_City

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/06/17/albert-camus-the-rebel/

Dreaming; https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/exit-the-supersensorium

Your handle is @ronwild : https://www.youtube.com/handle

37 Years as an Algorithmic Artist (Jeffrey Ventrella) https://youtu.be/BkWdXIS4lNg

(Audio) Most Unwanted Song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08

https://hyperallergic.com/787096/only-8-percent-of-uk-artists-come-from-working-class-background

People struggling with long COVID face increased stigma, new University of Alberta study shows

(Definition) ‘Paraprosdokian’; is a sentence or statement with an unexpected ending. It means “against expectations” in Greek. (Will glass coffins be a success? Remains to be seen.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton_board

“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.” - Mark Twain

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” - Plato

"You have to learn to manage from the negative, not imagine the negative and start managing." - Osmin ReyMan

“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience." - Mark Rothko 

“Wanting something means you believe you don't have it. Which you don't want to believe or you may never get it.” - TU

09 February 2023



(Definition) ‘Anamorphosis’ is a distorted projection requiring the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices, or both to view a recognizable image. Types of projection

https://interaccess.org/studio Wednesday open houses 



https://www.saatchiart.com/collage/all?c_crid=collage

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/12/covid-science-data-bivalent-vaccines-paxlovid

https://blog.mindvalley.com/

Search finds remains of a child at former Qu’Appelle Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan; https://apple.news/AAfgiCBCeQVWi5RBpgi4XlQ

“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

“People can cry much easier than they can change.” - James Baldwin

"There is culture, which is the rule, and there is exception, which is art. They all say the rule - computers, T-shirts, TV. No one says the exception It is not said, it is written - Flaubert, Dostoevski; it is composed - Gershwin, Mozart; it is painted - Cezanne, Vermeer; it is recorded - Antonioni, Vigo. Or it is lived, and then it is the art of living. It is the rule to want the exception to die.” - Jean-Luc Godard

“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.” - Jon Stewart

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)


01 February 2023

Ten simple rules for hosting artists in a scientific lab; https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article

https://streetsoftoronto.com/secret-history-of-torontos-evergreen-brick-works/

AI drawing app; https://www.craiyon.com/

https://www.instructables.com/Design-and-Make-a-Table-in-a-Day-Assembly/

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ramsey_theory; ”Given enough items to play with, you can find pretty much any pattern you want.”

Indigenous artists; https://www.tvo.org/podcasts/the-art-of-sovereignty

Moia pattern; https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1233188349/papercraft-3d-moai-stone-statue-rapa-nui

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-coke-pepsi-plastic-recycling-climate-action/

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-eco-pocalyptic-predictions-the-so-called-experts-are-0-50/

https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/market-sectors/financials/cryptocurrency-stocks/ripple/

"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” - Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” - Imam Ali

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” - Carl Jung

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” - William James

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." - Martin Luther King Jr. 


06 January 2023

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221102-injustice-is-everywhere-so-what-are-our-moral-duties

https://www.instructables.com/Kirigami-Honeycombs/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/07/secrets-of-the-creative-brain

https://thehighestofthemountains.com/brainmaps

NeuroScience Art; https://connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca

Virtual Residency; http://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/calls-for-artists/call-to-artists-collage-illustration-the-awakening/

Kurt Cobain's art: Sound Collages; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rKsmxyIycF0&t=11s&fbclid

FreeCAD Wiki: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Main_Page  https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Installing_on_Mac

Antique a Mirror; https://pin.it/2qrUTvu

(Definition)  scoff·law /ˈskôflô/. a person who flouts the law, especially by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively.

“If we don't feel stupid, it means we're not really trying." - Dr. Martin A. Schwartz (source: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/121/11/1771/30038/The-importance-of-stupidity-in-scientific-research)
“The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.” - Chinese Proverb
“In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.” - Ernest Hemingway 
“We often hesitate to follow our intuition out of fear. Most usually, we are afraid of the changes in our own life that our actions will bring. Intuitive guidance, however, is all about change. It is energetic data ripe with the potential to influence the rest of the world.”  - Caroline Myss
“You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.” - ?