(Presentation)  Verbally_Annotated_Tactile_Maps

http://canadianartjunkie.com/2013/03/24/nicolas-ruel-8-second-micromovie-photographs/  assembles key moments in a single take, then prints the large-scale works

Map Chests

RFID Activist projects

Why is science so obsessed with beauty?

http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/free_science_fiction_fantasy_dystopian_classics_on_the_web.html

[Video]  How to Use Photoshop Layer Masks (important for non-destructive photo editing)

“cir­cum­ven­ting one’s limi­ta­tions”

The USA is FUBAR

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing." - Pablo Picasso
"An updated notion of genius would have to center around one’s mastery of information and its dissemination." -  Kenneth Goldsmith
"It's okay to be a little stream flowing around stones when you'll be the river carrying the rocks later."      - @DragonGraeme
"It's no accident that when you look closely into the eyes of another, the very first thing you see, is yourself. That when you hold their hand, you can feel your own warmth. And that when you give of yourself, you give to yourself." - The Universe
"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve." - Lao Tzu

(Photo Map) 'Around the Bay' Race

(Webinar Highlights)  The Knowledge Web with James Burke

(RFID)  OpenBeacon tags and readers are very hackable and offer a variety of API's (http/json and C) used with a variety of hacks/visualizations.

10 of the Best Photo Editing Sites

http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/archive

(PDF) "How to be creative" Manifesto

(Two-minute video) The Mirroring Mind (inspired by the ideas explored in Douglas Hofstadter’s influential book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid)

Unseen Graffiti From The Corners of The Globe

How to Walk the Not Knowing Path

When we map a crisis, are we engaging in human-rights advocacy? Or are we providing a humanitarian necessity?

"When the stars align, don't overlook the view." - R.B. Wild
"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process." - Thomas Edison
"The litmus test that will reveal whether or not those in your company are truly enlightened, is whether or not they treat everyone else as if they, too, are enlightened (best to assume they are)." - The Universe
"Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only." - Henry Miller
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." - Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Knowledge Mapping: Networks Versus Hierarchies

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/I/illusions_and_impossible_figures.html

(Map Art Show)  MAPPAMUNDI  (Summary)

Create an Animated .GIF in Photoshop CS5/6

http://www.rfidjournal.com/how-tos/

http://www.openculture.com/science_videos

http://mydesignstories.com/microscopic-images-of-snow-crystals/

http://www.openculture.com/category/comics

Expositions photos sur le thème '' j'habite ici''

Altered Book Art

"Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand." - Henry Miller
"What is the use of a book without pictures?” - Lewis Carroll’s Alice
"Eventually you will know if you were pushing too hard.  Unfortunately you never know when you aren't pushing hard enough." - R.B. Wild
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island
"In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing, about the dark times." - Berthold Brecht

Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it was very illegal)  Hi-Res images

http://network.bepress.com/physical-sciences-and-mathematics/mathematics/geometry-and-topology/

('Bring the) Happy' Map

https://vimeo.com/enhancer

(Essay) Mathematical Platonism and Its Opposites (Harvard University mathematician Barry Mazur) (debating) Discovery and Invention  Via

TagTool (for iPad)

Science-themed Prints

http://www.flickr.com/groups/daphotoshopcollages/pool/with/7244682520/

http://www.business2community.com/marketing/5-marketing-lessons-from-spinal-tap-0427936

Learn French for free online

"Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it." - Henry Miller
"Street art is a culture of taking other works of art; appropriation feeds underground culture." - Ben Eine, street artist  Via
"Unless you fail regularly, you're really not experimenting." - R.B. Wild
"Most breakthrough innovations are the result of combining concepts or ideas that at first glance would have no relationship with each other." - Via
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." - Berthold Brecht

Cezanne Aix Map   (PDF)

http://jenniferbrial.com/art/category/maps

(Tutorials) Adobe After Effects

(Montreal 1-5 May)  http://www.elektrafestival.ca/pdf/ELEKTRA14_14march2013_EN.pdf

LAb[au] laboratory for Architecture and Urbanism lab-au.com/

Raphael’s School of Athens: A Theorem in a Painting?

(Definition) 'Orthographic projection' : depictions of objects where the axis or plane of the object is also parallel with the projection plane

http://www.digitalartguild.com/

Creative Thinking Style can be measured

Tricks Your Left Brain is Playing On You

"IT'S GOING TO BE HARD FOR ANYONE TO MAKE REAL MONEY 'WITHOUT SELLING LOTS AND LOTS OF ADS'." - Via
"Or is your story a tribute to your process and your way of working--mannerisms that softly or harshly speak your name to yourself and others?" - Robert Genn
"Even if you don't physically alter the image, isn't composition itself a form of manipulation?" - Via
"To look 10 years younger, smile.  20 years, laugh.  30, often." -  R.B.Wild
"Whenever an escalator to "success" ascends without you  (just "swoosh-h-h-h-h-h!" right into the sky leaving you on the ground), it's always because there's another one on the way that will go even higher, with your name plastered all over it." - The Universe

Food Access Research Atlas

http://www.mappingfestival.com/2013/2012-photos/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/08/100-ideas-that-changed-graphic-design/

Public domain 20,000 paintings

Geometric sculptures and installations 

Geometric Vortex of Colored Tape

Mashup for Innovation Success

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-98) : foremost French mural painter (largely independent of the major artistic currents of his time) of the second half of the 19th century; remains important however because of his influence on younger artists.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/

RFP: Reasons Not To Respond

"Yes, I sometimes fail, but at least I'm willing to experiment." - Bono
"Isn't there always an elephant just outside the frame?" -  Errol Morris, film director
"It's going to be bigger than you thought, you're going to be happier than you imagined, and your friends are all going to be like, "No-o-o-o way! That's so cool! How did you do it? (Because all earthly manifestations appear larger in real life than they do in one's mind)." - The Universe
"The pancreatic cancer that killed (Steve Jobs) our prophet, also killed our profit." - R.B. Wild
"All education is self-education." - Robert Henri

(Great Britain): Ordnance Survey 25K Explorer Maps (PAPER EDITIONS)

(Book) "A Map of the World"

(YouTube) Adobe Premiere Pro Beginners Guide

Method and madness in science and art

http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/clipping-masks.html

http://rojoprojects.co/projects

Nietzsche’s Existentialism (explained to 5 year olds)

Art that helps raise awareness, communicate, stimulate debate and transform our understanding of war, violent conflict and social upheaval.

(Mash-up)  Four Chords  by Axis of Awesomeness (comedy band)

Write Down Three Positive Things About Each Day

" ... (tracing) additional courses over spaces that before were blank ...threading a maze of currents and eddies..." - Melville, Moby Dick

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." - Carl Sandburg, Poet
"It’s been my fantasy project for years and years. I thought, ‘What could I do that would be totally inaccessible and non-commercial that nobody would see, let alone understand?’ And this is it." - Andrew Bujalski, director of the surrealist techno-indie movie Computer Chess
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
"Sometimes, what's really cool is giving profuse thanks for the good fortunes that befall others - no matter who they are - because, invariably, your joy for them will yield the same good fortunes for you." - TU