12 May 2011

Map of political financing in Canada

Difference between Art and Design Methods

Genomics Sector Innovation Network

Isometric ClipArt

http://www.flickr.com/groups/fractals

C100 hosts Canadian companies in the Valley

Francis Bacon Art & quotes

Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic

"Always remember that what to drag, where to drag, and where to drop is the essence of art-like communication whether you are dragging pixels or paint." - Michael P.
"And the Lord spake, saying, ‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"No surprise for the artist, no surprise for the viewer." - R.B. Wild (after Robert Frost)
"While our work has job-like elements, it's not really a job. It's a calling. It's a supreme opportunity to honour and make permanent our time and place in the nature of things." - Robert Genn
"No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." – Thomas Jefferson

11 May 2011

(Example) LinkedIn Map

Overview on 3D graphics

World's Largest Atlas

(Forum) The "Art" in Cartography

Things Marketers Need to Know About QR Codes

How to Create Coloring Book Pages from Photos

Analogue artists defying the digital age

"Play is a state of mind, rather than an activity." - Stuart Brown
"Around the bend, in the unseen, arising from the very uncertainties that may now seem to taunt you, there are some amazing surprises, awesome twists, and spellbinding coincidences about to emerge that you can't even now imagine." - The Universe
"Nature's great book is written in mathematical symbols." ~ Galileo
"Data is only free if the time you took to create it is worth nothing." - @JeffHarrison
"Fail often in order to succeed sooner." - Robert Genn

10 May 2011

Ontario Universities to Adopt e-Learning

A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge

Why Great Designers Steal—and Are Proud of It

http://mapillustrations.co.uk/category/map-art

Android Is Destroying Everyone (Especially RIM) - iPhone Dead In Water

(Art Show) The Importance of Being Earnest: Tessar Lo’s Maps

http://www.thegreatideas.org/mortimer_adler_videos/index.html

We 'brototyped' txt2hold.ca at http://www.sciencerendezvous.ca/2011/treehouse-group/

"Like… how do you get from here to the rest of the world? - Dukie, The Wire
"If we pick stocks based on extensive research, we invest only after a stock has proven to be successful (thereby missing its real growth phase)." - R.B. Wild
"I didn’t speak up when they came for the appropriationists…" - Brian Dupon t Via
"Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware." - Martin Buber
"I’m a simple man with complex tastes." - Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

09 May 2011

(Google Places) more than 20 percent of search queries have a regional specifier

Map Of The Human Brain Is Completed

http://www.creativeapplications.net/category/processing/ Project Examples

Using colour as a language

NXNE Interactive
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http://www.playart.org/content/playart-philosophy

Last blog post by guy who died

The Web is shaking up the art world (but some see it as selling out).

"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought." - Albert Einstein
"An artist can come from anywhere." - Ratatouille (great moral fable)
"Are we traveling this road to the end? Yes. But you said the road has no end. That’s true
How can it be true? From a certain point of view, the universe seems to be composed of paradoxes. But everything resolves. That is the function of contradiction.
I don’t understand. When you see everything from every imaginable point of view, you might begin to understand." -Ben Okri, The Famished Road Via
"When you don't know what you want, it's probably time to begin enjoying what you have." - The Universe
"Opportunities present themselves every day, they will begin to reveal themselves to you if you train your mind to recognize them and expect them to be there." - Karl Warren

06 May 2011

(Contest) Storytelling with Maps Via

Wow, is this really what a knowledge map looks like?

(Next?) Discovery Engines

The Tree of Life: Tangled Roots and Sexy Shoots

http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/how-genius-works/

(Definition)"datamoshing" : allows for the composition of one video shot to be carried over to the next, and transformed by that shot's movement. The image becomes unstable and littered with digital artifacts and traces of previous shots. Colours are swept across the frame like the stroke of a paintbrush, and bleed into one another. ... All that remains is form, colour and movement.

Modernist Map Maker Artist : Eric Walker

Make and Send Tiny Photo Postcard

The Tweet That Broke the News of Bin Laden's Death

"Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, singing and dancing." - Plato
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." - Kahlil Gibran
"In our game (art), character is the confluence of four virtues: high motivation, high curiosity, high work habits and high ego force. Funnily, among the folks I compete with, those four virtues are most often found among the unschooled." - Robert Genn
"Travel far, Travel wide, the Gods are always by my side." - Wiccan safe travel spell magic amulet
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." – Charles Kettering

04 May 2011

MapOmatic shows you where your friends are (mobile map replacement)

(Java applets show) some of the major forms for the Hexoctahedral Class

Tweet Topic Explorer (Twitter word-cloud)

... ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve ...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/origamitessellations/

http://makerfairetoronto.ca/

How to Get Clear Stills from Video

(Dreaming) what happens when we’re asleep ?

"... this is still so your year!" - TU
"... In the event that none show interest, archive the work in a clean, dry environment. Further fame and acceptance may become the task of another generation." - Robert Genn
"There's no place like N43, W79." - Toronto Area Geocachers
"Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarves are not Happy." - Yarn
"Whoever wants to understand much must play much." - Gottfried Benn

02 May 2011

Osama Bin Laden's Compound Already Mapped on Google

Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You’ve Been, All The Time

'Serendipitor' is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone (free) that helps you find something by looking for somethin...g else. Video

(Animated Map) http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/users/nikolai/2011/Pacific_Islands/Simulation_of_Debris_from_March_11_2011_Japan_tsunami.gif

The Honeycomb Conjecture (Proving mathematically that honeybee constructors are on the right track)

(Apart from being dead) Art and Science are strong in web cartography.

Animated GIF Borders

(Official Trailer) "Between The Folds"

How to Pay it Forward

The PC Backup & Restore Guide

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G. K. Chesterton
"... one of the biggest impediments one has to discovering their own seeds, these days, is their fascination with the gardens of others..." - TU
"When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past." -
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…." - Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale Of Two Cities
"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." - Johann Sebastian Bach