www.lifemapping.ca

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/1-001

Topographical Maps Carved from Electrical Tape

(Fake It 'Til You Make It) What Came Before Photoshop

Register Expected To Call For Reduction In Copyright Term

STEAM Journal, a transdisciplinary, international, theory-practice, peer-reviewed, academic, open access, online journal with a focus on the intersection of the sciences and the arts. 

Fractal Wood-Burning Pattern

Collection of e-mails sent to people who post classified ads ( to mess with them, confuse them, and/or piss them off).

Why The Plasticiens Matter

Stay Young Enough to Try Anything

"An artist is someone who likes eating soup right out of the pot." - R.B. Wild
"Do you know what it sometimes means when you feel a bit bummed out and aren't sure why? ... When you sometimes wonder what's taking so long? It means you're normal (as anyone can be who possesses superpowers, commands legions, and rearranges physical circumstances simply with thought)." - The Universe
"You have to be willing to get happy about nothing." - Andy Warhol
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - @VL_mars
"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again." - Groucho Marx

(Interactive) Tour Of Everest

(Map) Contemporary Toronto homes

(Definition) 'anamorphosis' : a distorted projection or drawing that appears normal when viewed from a particular point or with a suitable mirror or lens.

(6th International Symposium on) Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2013)

The math as invention vs. discovery controversy

PAPer' Art Project;  http://www.gudgi.org/assets/journal250213w.pdf

Comic Strip Documentary Scared Fair Use Won't Protect Them

http://lifehacker.com/5981970/mits-free-creative-learning-class-teaches-you-how-to-learn-almost-anything?tag=creativity

The rise of the sharing economy

On The Fringes Of The Art World

"... telling a story would have trivialized the art. Peggy Guggenheim swooned. No story, or a story so obscure it might never be fathomed, was the best story of all." - Robert Genn
"Inspiration is like food poisoning. It just kind of sprays at you when you don’t need it." - Matthew 'The Oatmeal' Inman (Keynote Speaker at SxSW)
"Claiming to be an expert is an easy thing. The rules in the field of art expertise are so flimsy and undefined that anything is possible, ..." - Michele Vasarely
"... we never could get the 'do-over' button to work." - TU
"Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to [map] is not nearly as important as the [mapping] itself." - R.B.Wild (after Henry Miller)

Off the Map - an interactive tour of backyard paradises

Toronto’s Geographic Centre

Why things don’t go viral on the Internet by accident

Cut-out Paper Artist

Slab Sculpture (containing a child representative of Diane Arbus’ Boy with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park )

Physical manifestation (using 3D printing) of the 'digital wo/man

http://aluminyze.com/Products/Art


https://www.facebook.com/celebritybookends/photos_stream

(Another review)  http://fashionecstasy.com/11-outstanding-contemporary-artists-at-the-artist-project-2013-opening-night-preview-party/#

(Teddy Talk). Restore Your Natural Sitting and Standing Posture 

"Fuck the audience. We’ll make what we want." - Tim Heidecker
"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein
"Sometimes the more joy you fake ('life changes' you want to manifest), the more joy you make." - The Universe
"Able to get this high on creativity; never want to go to rehab." - R.B. Wild
"[The Blogosphere] is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top." - Edward Abbey

(Higher) Sea-level Maps

(Antipodes) Ever wondered where you’d end up if you drilled through the Earth?

http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2013/3/13/beautiful-animated-wind-maps.html

(Failed)  The Molecular Sculpture Project  (Discussed)

(Use N=3 for) Triangular Projection

(PBS Video)  Art in the Era of the Internet  (KickStarter, Creative Commons, CreatorsProject)

(Laser cut) Paper Sculptures

(Link to page translation of)  Qu’est-ce que l’art brut

Meme Posters

(Example) Use of Adword in gMail header

"The most essential gift for a good [blogger] is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector."  - Ernest Hemingway
"Even the geniuses produced several masterpieces, and hundreds that weren't." - R.B.Wild
"We're exactly where we're supposed to be (and there are still more hands to hold, bridges to cross, lives to touch, and 'happys' to dance)." - TU
"You only THOUGHT that person ignored or rejected you. It was really God protecting you. " -    #TheSW
"Art does not reproduce what is real, it makes it visible." - Paul Klee

Innovative Map Projections

(Douglas Edric Stanley) http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/  at ESA in Aix.

Origami Science Links

(Book) The Fourth Dimension And Non-Euclidean Geometry In Modern Art (Revised Edition)

Turn the world into a real 2D video game

(Open House)  http://www.ecole-art-aix.fr/rubrique1634.html

The Year Picasso Experimented With Style

(Call for Papers for) Art and Atoms

The French Outsiders

Stone-Soup (for the Capitalist’s Soul)

"Anticipation is the main difference between 'have' and 'have not' (and this you have total control over)." - TU
"At different times I am some combination of colleague, collaborator, educator, mentor, facilitator, archivist, witness, and activist. And all of those roles are part of my way of being an artist." - Marguerite Perret
"A work of art is ...'a corner of nature seen through a temperament'." - Emile Zola
"... this is really how you die...one minute you're just cooking up someone's order of french fries and the next minute you're laying on the floor and they blow your brains out. There's no music, there's no significance, it's just random." - Wayne Coyne 
"Wherever our heart is, there we will find our treasure." - @paulocoelho

(Journal)  http://artandatoms.com/

(Video)  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2013/03/08/animating-anthropomorphism-giving-minds-to-geometric-shapes-video/

Avoid being beholden to the vagaries of Apple’s and Google’s app stores and focus development efforts on Web apps from now on.

Including Vasarely installation pics

(Creator of TreeMaker)  LangOrigami.com  (and his Modern Origami TedTalk)

http://oddspaces.ca/2013/01/01/tweet-garden/

GigaPan Order Prints

Nice (traditional) Press Coverage

Wild Toronto (Collector’s Edition)

(According to Slate’s gun-death tracker) an estimated 2,605 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.  Via

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too." - Thomas Fuller
"... The rotation of some squares, their mutation into rhombuses makes the surface vibrate, by adding space, time and movement to the two-dimensional base." - Vasarely
"Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare." - Overheard during the 1997 Boston Marathon
"It's impossible to make anything look more real than reality (so don't even try)." - R.B.Wild
"You've done great things, you're going to do far greater things, and you knew what you were doing when you chose to be... you." - TU

(Animation)  Map Projection Transitions

Will 3D Printing Change the World?

Snowflakes Under a Microscope

(Art and Architecture  Gigapixel Imaging) for Science Gallery Show, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

http://ulfa.free.fr/art/vasarely.htm

(Magazine)  http://www.rawvision.com/

(Art Show Review) ΔRMΩRΨ 2013  (Also)

Silicon Valley power players are beginning to buy art

(Creative Lips ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Coyne

YouTube Doubler

"I have a headache, no man said ever." -  Anon
"More love means laughing longer, living lighter, running faster, jumping higher, starting sooner, staying later and ..." - The Universe
"Someone not seen around much anymore, may have gone on further." - R.B. Wild
"Great art comes from great discipline rather than from inspiration." - Via
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain