13 February 2008

US Plutonium Map Via

InfoGraphic Maps

Designorati: Cartography : http://designorati.com/articles/t1/cartography/ To explore the origins, view the state of the art, and guess at the future of the common (and uncommon) map.

Public Participation GIS : http://www.diva-gis.org/

Are You A Curation King? (They're identifiable subject matter experts who dive through mountains of digital information and distill it down to its most relevant, essential parts).

Firefox Recommended Add-ons : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/recommended

Use #40 effect to draw pixelated line

Reflections on plausible crop-circle creator theories

Submit to COMPETITION 2008 (see Expressions of Nakba on Facebook) Via

Received a direct visit from this interesting place : http://www.artcenter.edu/

"A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory. " - ?
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost." -Isak Dineson, Babette's Feast
"GIVE TO OTHERS THE SAME LOVE & BEAUTY & HARMONY THAT YOU & OTHERS ARE RECEIVING FROM THE WHOLE." - Via
"All of us have been classically trained, and now we’re in a jazz age. - Rishad Tobaccowala, chief innovation officer of Publicis, one of the world’s biggest advertising groups (quoted in The Economist)
"Do not try to prove yourself. Quietly pursue your aims and you will get what is due." - I.Ching Via

11 February 2008

subversive cartographies : a series of presentations organized by Chris Perkins (University of Manchester) for the upcoming 2008 Association of American Geographers meeting (Boston, April 15-19 2008).

Dealing with the (Virtual) World in our Minds : http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/15475

Interactive Tree View of the LexisNexis Directory of Online Sources

zMapper : http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmapper/zmapperinfo.htm is general purpose Map database creation program. Overlay your map database on any graphical image. Enhance maps with shapes, icons, and text. Supports Cartesian, hexagonal, or octagonal map layouts.

Web 3.0 : http://www.digitalsolid.com/2007/07/23/if-there-is-ever-a-web-30-mount-rushmore-blaise-aguera-y-arcas-face-will-be-next-to-jeff-hans/

Optical Illusion Categories : Escher Style, Impossible Objects, Stereograms>, Multiple Meanings, Anamorphism , Tests Via

(Free moderated discussion on the convergence of art and science) Discuss the interrelations among art, science, technology and visual studies.

Design of an Unfolded Hypercube House created in genius work environment : http://laffoley.com/index2.html

(Blog) http://coolinfographics.blogspot.com/search/label/map?max-results=100

http://www.farmboyfinearts.com/products/

Received favorable mention here : http://youareherehon.blogspot.com/2008/02/another-tip-of-tiara.html (but no side-bar listing? yet?)

"Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' " - Joey Adams
"Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings." - Edward Said (1994) Via
"Maintain stability and integrity without being willful. Success will come without effort in its own time." - The Oracle
"Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments. Collage was like an image of the revolution within me—not as it was, but as it might have been." - Kurt Schwitters
"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

08 February 2008

One of the few 'Conference Maps" drawn since : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/KnowledgeMap.htm (the first one ever?) at UCI 5 years ago. Via

Elementary Honeycombs


Crimespotting : http://www.stamen.com/oakland_crime_map is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland (and a tool for understanding crime).

MORPHEUS Photo Morpher

Recut, Reframe, Recycle : http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/recut_reframe_recycle/
(Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video)

(151,038) Flickr results for photos matching perspectives.

BurkeMap referenced : http://likeherdingchickens.blogspot.com/2008/01/blast-from-past.html

Festival of Arts and Creativity :

Giant fractal pecan pie : http://www.instructables.com/id/giant-fractal-pecan-pie/

http://www.apartheidweek.org/toronto.html supported by http://caia.tyo.ca/

"Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way." - Francis Bacon
"I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it." - ?
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao Tzu Via
"Truth was a pathless land." - Jeddu Krishnamurti (1896-1986)
"(True brilliance is not a function of understanding one's view of the world and finding order, logic, and spirituality in it.) True brilliance is understanding that your view of order, logic, and spirituality is what created your world. And therefore being forever capable of changing everything." - The Universe

06 February 2008

3D Sierpinski fractal renderer : http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/524310/3D-Sierpinski-fractal-generator.html
with several attractor shapes.

San Francisco Emotion Map : (Christian Nold, 2007) Via : http://www.newmuseum.org/events/124

Landscapes beyond land : http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/landscapeseminar2.shtml new ethnographies of landscape and environment

CollageMachine : http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm

L(A)TTITUDES : Ten contemporary artists explore mapping borders and boundaries of Israel and Palestine at Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery (Music/Arts - Opening) Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:00pm - 7:00pm Washington, DC Jewish Community Center

(Definition) 'pastiche : The word has two competing meanings, either meaning a "hodge-podge" or an imitation (describing a literary or other artistic genre). For other uses, see Pastiche (disambiguation).

Changed the DNS settings of existing domain (pre-registered) with the following "domain name server" information: Primary Hostname: ns1.meganameservers.com

Their first Flickr Image favorite

Most glowing review to date : http://visual-mapping.blogspot.com/2008/02/ron-wild-incredible-information-mapping.html

"Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation." - Sant Kirpal Singh, Emanationism and Non-Duality
"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient." - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician

04 February 2008

Hyperbolic Space (Introduction) : http://theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1.html (Like the blind man and the elephant, hyperbolic space appears in different guises depending on how we approach it). Via

The Museum of Play Maps

TOURIST ATTRACTION ...OR PSYCHO-PATH? Tales from the underground

Abstract thoughts stop motion animation... over photo of paintings

(Definition) "Visualizing" : the surest, fastest, most ingenious way, between here and there.

Side-barred under 'Map Sites' : http://creativestratgies.blogspot.com/2008/01/antique-map.html

"The child, but dimly aware at the time -- Remembers all his life The shock of being born." - Bradford Shank
"If, as the Moors believed, repeated patterns connote the divine, we might conclude that Heaven itself would be a hyperbolic space." - Via
"Let the lion give one roar and the brains of the little foxes will split open." - Radical Talk from Rinzai

01 February 2008

Mapping Public Media : http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/mapping_public_media_inside_and_out/
Inside and Out

Rink Map

(Image) Fractal Window Panes : http://www.paul-brown.com/GALLERY/GALL90/SERPINSKI.HTM

MAPPING THE HOLOCAUST: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/maps/

Visual Encryption : http://fractalbeanstalk.blogspot.com/2006/12/visual-encryption.html

Edutainment? : http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/edutainment.pdf ( No Thanks. I Prefer Playful Learning)

(Inspirational? video) IdeaBlob - What is an Idea? : http://www.ideablob.com

ROM Programs : http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/lectures/pdf/romlife_win08.pdf

Son on Peace Mission

wildmaps now listed under MAPS

"The road to Heaven may not be a road at all." - Peter Holleran
"Art from New Places." - Andy Warhol
"You can meditate for fifteen years and get one inch closer to God; or you can be really angry and be with Him instantly." - Sufi proverb
"The future may be unknowable, but it's not unthinkable." - Richard Koshalek, President, Art Center College of Design
"You can have more, you can even have it all, when you begin seeing perspectives you have never seen before." - TU

30 January 2008

5 great map add-ons for Firefox : http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/16/5-great-map-add-ons-for-firefox-getting-lost-is-now-optional/ - getting lost is now optional

Interactive Pandemic Map provides access to planning information.

Antipodes Map : http://www.antipodemap.com/ (See the other side of the world).

Strange things in Google Maps : http://www.mapofstrange.com/index.php?tag=strange

MAPPING THE NEW WORLD : http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/tern/Map/humanist.htm HUMANISM

Gestalt theory : http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~ffl/MSC101/Vision/Gestalt.html (Computational theories of Visual Perception)

Labyrinth and maze images

In 'The Future of Ideas' Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect.

Blogger visual mapping - phillip boukobza

Rogers Hosting Solutions:
http://your.rogers.com/business/productsservices/internetservices/hostingsupport.asp

Team turns over a new leaf --------->>>>>>>

"The real Short Path is really the discovery that there is no path at all: only a being still and thus letting the Overself do the work needed. This is the meaning of grace." - from The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
"BIG, life-changing ideas rarely first appear as BIG life-changing ideas. They usually show up as plain, little ideas that when given a bit of muscle, gradually evolve into things like eBay, Google, or ....? (which means they can often sneak right under the radar and go completely undetected). - TU