18 July 2012

121 Megapixel Earth

(The Magic Sierpinski Triangle) Order dependent on randomness

Visual Search for Supporting Content Exploration in Large Document Collections

(Example) Projection Mapping (The building deformations and figures were controlled by the audience, using a microphone and an audio analysis algorythm.)

If You Win An Arts Award In Canada, No One Cares. Why?

Animated GIFs

Making Old-Fashioned Lenticular Images from Your Photos

Referenced at :  http://mrwilliamsmaths.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/great-map-fibonacci-zoom/

"If only you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. And the unutterable will be contained in what has been uttered." - Wittgenstein (remarked about language)
"The best opportunities appear when we are least prepared for them." - R.B. Wild
"I consider it one of the highest honors in the land to be 'Simpsonized.' To me it's the American equivalent of being knighted by the Queen of England.” - Robbie Conal
"The older the soul, the softer the glance, the quicker the smile and the sooner to say 'I love you'. Utterly fearless," - The Universe
"The very asking of the question, 'what causes stuff to have mass?', has more profound implications for understanding reality than when Isaac Newton first noticed that gravity was a thing." - Via

16 July 2012

Gotham City In 3D (Or Traditional) Online Map Form

3D printing will change our world

The Best Google Features You’re Probably Not Using

Why Is Artspeak So Full Of Hype? (Does Anyone Believe It?)

(Qualcomm shipped a new) contextual awareness platform for cell phones.

(Sample) art time-lapse video

The 'Before I Die' project

BlogRolled at toponymia.wordpress.com

"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?" - Marilyn Pittman
"It's not my art, but my mind that's on display." - R.B. Wild (after Gary Holland)
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790 (American Statesman, Inventor, Scientist)

"One of life's most elusive lessons is that there's nothing, ever, to be unhappy about (unless, of course, you lose sight of the big picture, think the illusions are real, or forget there's no such place as far away)." - The Universe
"God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Roh

13 July 2012

SpiderMan Map

4-Dimensional Typography (One Letter With Different Perspectives)

Origami iPhone Speaker

Startups that Catalyze Science
 
(Essay) Pixels to Paint

Rousseau: An Ideal Philosopher For The Facebook Generation
 
(How To) Save your MobileMe content to your computer

eCommerce PayPal Invoicing 

"What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke
"Everything we see hides another thing." -  Rene Magritte, Belgian surrealist (1898-1964)
"No one can see into your mind (but your thoughts eventually become things)." - TU
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." - Joseph Storey
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." - Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)

11 July 2012


Using Magnetic Variation for Indoor Mapping

The Higgs Boson: Why You Should Care About the God Particle (And, Sadly, Why You Don't)

http://www.openfontlibrary.org/

Math Anxiety? Scientists Have It Too

Superstars of American street art:
- Kenny Scharf came up in the East Village art scene in the 1980's and covered the walls at last year's amazing "Art in the Streets" show in L.A
- Ron English hacks popular brand images (think "Super Size Me" posters and 2008's groovy "Abraham Obama"), and favors billboards
- Shepard Fairey
- Robbie Conal is the genre's outlaw godfather — a whip-smart, wisecracking political satirist who's been wheat-pasting posters of white-collar bad guys (remember CONTRA DICTION and Cheney as the Energizer bunny?)

Making Lenticular Images from Your Photos

A Brief History of Rock N’ Roll (In 100 Riffs)

Why Boredom Is Good for Your Creativity

"He had a photographic memory which was never developed." - LexiPhile
"Herewith, some paintings that verge into kooky territory. That is to say, it’s hard to know exactly what they’re trying to say but the effort bears paying attention to: ... "maps" featuring cubes, chains and various geometric structures by Ron Wild." - http://www.dilettantesdiary.com/id208.html
"It's not the steps that matter but the path. And the path will take care of itself when you keep focused on your destination." - The Universe
"In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity;  and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution." - E.O. Wilson (Advice to young scientists)
"Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do." - Thomas Pynchon

09 July 2012

10 Free Map UI PSDs
 
Hexagonal circle packings  Gallery

http://www.rhino3d.com/ (modeling tool for designers)

Internet is spherical with a dense core

(TED Talk) Newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.

( Harpers Magazine article) "The Ecstasy of Influence"  (by Jonathan Lethem) on reuse in art and literature.

(For Beginners) How to Transfer Files to Your iPhone or iPad

The Real Story Behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign

"Like the laboratory, the studio is a domain of imaginative possibilities--as near to 'creation' as mankind is likely to go." - Robert Genn
"There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you've been passed by." - Clayton Christensen
"For every setback, disappointment and heartbreak, ask yourself, 'What does this create the opportunity for?' (And therein you will find its gift.)." - The Universe
"Never let your past experiences harm your future. Your past can not be altered and your future does not deserve the punishment!" - ?
"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original." - Ken Robinson

05 July 2012

Google Maps Coordinate

Mapping Utopia

What’s a Boson?

Fortuna was the goddess of fortune and personification of luck in Roman religion.

(Slide Show) Cubism : Photo Montage
 
(Paper Artist)  http://marshallalexander.net/

Have you fallen into the “busy” trap?

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans 

"The ideas of your friends are not always the friends of your ideas." - vgr@ribbonfarm.com
"Courageous, outrageous, audacious, bodacious--where art thou?" - Robert Genn
"The secret to productivity in so many fields — and in origami — is letting dead people do your work for you." - Robert Lang
"The best way to forgive, is not to blame." - The Universe
"There is sky enough for every vision." - Follows Bear

03 July 2012

How Maps Can Tell Stories

(Flickr Photo Maps) Buenos Aires and Santiago in a new style

Mathematicians propose periodic table of shapes

How new concepts and ideas are accepted, delayed, or rejected under various conditions of human societies

aakkozzll (App demo)  Normal Distribution Curve

Is the Internet an Arbiter of Peace?

(Comment) Disruptive innovation

An iPad Case That Folds Like Origami

"Paintings, like bars of gold, are assets of investment and hoarding; a treasury that may span generations." - Robert Genn
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated'" - John Donne Via
"Do you have any idea of how fast things can change for the better?" - TU
" La propriété, c'est le vol! (Property is theft!)" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (nineteenth century French anarchist and mutualis)  Via
"Chaos breeds life when order breeds habit."  - Henry Brooks Adams