(Interactive Mind Map) Fields of Mathematics

Laser-Cut Wood Maps

Artists 4 Genomics Award

BitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched for in 2012

(Audio) 'Dividing Line' : psychologically, we may feel the need to steel ourselves for the leap from the commonplace to the unknown; http://nula.cc/56275  (stream: http://soundcloud.com/nulacc/56275-dividing-line )

Trampled Snow Art

http://www.posterjack.ca/metalprints.php

http://www.allposters.com/-st/Wassily-Kandinsky-Posters_c25627_.htm

http://cdnba.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/the-final-results-for-the-2012-canadian-blog-awards/

"Effectively what they’re doing is focusing on some parts of information in the world and ignoring others." - Via
"The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does." - Don Miguel Ruiz
"We humans are living beings; we are fragile, irrational and unpredictable- just like life itself; though, we sometimes need to remind ourselves that this is the case." - Oron Catts (reading of project ’2.6g 329m/s’, a BioArt project by Artist Jalila Essaidi )
"Haven't things always changed fast for you?" - TU
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice." - Ernest Hemingway, American author

Fractal Polygon Tiler

Top Ten GIS Stories of 2012

MoMath: Manhattan's Museum of Mathematics opens

(Tutorial) Map artwork to 3D surfaces with Illustrator

How artists and scientists collaborate

How to Follow-Up (and Close More Art Sales)

http://www.dailyvowelmovements.com/search/label/The%20Art%20of%20Captioning

Interactive T-shirts

"Work is more fun than fun." - Noel Coward
"You don’t have to do it right. You just have to do something." - Via
"Anger is always a signal from your higher self that it's time for a reality check." - TU
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure." - Sven Göran Eriksson
"The messy artist puts her need for order into her art. Beauty, uniqueness, and personal joy are the result." - Robert Genn

New Views of Earth at Night

http://torontoist.com/2012/11/global-maps-the-homes-of-torontos-wwi-dead/

http://www.ultimateorigami.net/origami-diagrams/origami-shape-and-modular-diagrams

(Toronto startup) @InteraXon 's brain-sensing headband 'Muse' is funded and set to go! On the @MaRSDD's blog

[Hardcover] Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

 The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free

Contemporary French painter

(Video) The art of domino toppling

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Via
"Many come close, yet few dare so boldly, to live without judgment, to give without expecting, and to love for no reason." - The Universe
"We should be mapping information that in some ways has been historically unmappable because it is 1) not valued or is 2) actively seen as threatening or is 3) simply too hard to map using traditional tools." - Anselm Hook
"As a university president, Hutchins began by raising hell first with one aspect of education, then with another, and finally with everything and everybody." - Max Weismann
"It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill

http://www.greatbigcanvas.com/category/illustrations/illustrated-maps/

http://www.zefrank.com/snowflake/ Maker (3D rotate)

Art for the Geographically Inclined

Researchers have been using a visual approach to understand the brain for centuries

(Java Applet)   http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/force-states.html

http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/12/10/putting-visual-thinking-to-work/

(Book) WALLS, BORDERS, BOUNDARIES

http://pinterest.com/gennmonster/studios/

War Art

"If you don't know, say so (It's a simple statement that enhances credibility)." - W. Brett Wilson

"We need to understand the difference between location and place. Computers and mobiles are very good at location, but we describe where we are as place, where culture meets location." - Matt Jones
"Most "breakthroughs" in life are really 'break-withs'.Create a break with the mediocrity or mistakes of the past." - Davis-Ward
"I had to figure out painting by myself." - Alex Katz (Via video interview)
"Letting go is always easier than holding on. And it's how the new stuff will find you." - The Universe

Can't Lose

 

Slavery / Racism / Election Maps

Overall Search Top 10 of 2012 

Datamoshing (also know as Compression Artifacting), is a video editing technique that falls under the category of Glitch Art (involves the creation of intentional glitches that blur the borders between video frames, causing images to bleed into each other rather than having one cut cleanly to another).  Files  

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/degrees-of-freedom/2011/07/19/when-maths-turns-out-to-be-useful/

Art Experiment Published In International Physics Journal

(Definition) 'genius loci' : (In Roman antiquity the concept of ) spirit of place, was meant to refer to the protective atmosphere of a particular site or location.  The spirit of a place is like its most basic, essential character, a tangible atmospheric quality that is hard to put into words.  Via

Geometric Artworks
 
http://www.dailyvowelmovements.com/search/label/The%20Art%20of%20Captioning

"If America is deeply divided, that chasm is only as wide as the dinner table. We all live in purple states." - Ryan Carlyle
 "People who are up to Great Work have more nail-biting experiences than those who aren't; it's just part of the territory of learning, impact and innovation." - Jamie Broughton
"Real artists ship." - Steve Jobs, 1983
"God sees the big picture. When He removes someone from your life -- let them go." - #TheSW
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is a wonder." - M. C. Escher

Apple Maps problem sourced

Google Type uses the search result for each letter as a character for its typeface.

(Video) Reverse Origami

How to make a Cinemagraph (with Photoshop and After Effects)

Dream Cartography is a modification of Dream Journaling 

MIT establishes Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)

Martin Dodge is still going strong

'Reverse robbery' – there to “forcibly stock” stores with their product

Official Top Ten Spiritual Ways to Discover Your Purpose and Shine Your Light, are...
1. Start anywhere. 
2. Show up.
3. Take action.
4. Lean into it.
5. Keep busy.
6. Ask for help.
7. Get out more.
8. Shake more hands.
9. Give more hugs.
10. Don't stop.

http://www.artbizblog.com/2012/12/2012-review.html

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas
"Life is a series of interruptions interrupted by interruptions." - @pickover
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"Following your heart is the best way to help others." - TU
"The greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery." - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and lepidopterist