27 April 2019

https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/30-year-old-compromise-divides-usa-and-canada


(Video) Leonardo Bridge ; https://youtu.be/bnzIhY_2wfo

TetraFoldUp

https://www.mcluhancentre.ca/research

Sacred Geometry: https://bouldermasterbuilders.com/certification/

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/what-s-an-art-installation-and-why-do-they-make-people-mad

http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf

(Definition) ‘polemic’: contentious rhetoric that is intended to support a specific position by aggressive claims and undermining of the opposing position. Polemics are mostly seen in arguments about controversial topics.

https://ironcladgraphics.com/knit-toques/

“When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen.” - Leni Reifenstahl (close friend of Adolf Hitler)
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."- M. C. Escher"
" To see a World in a Grain of Sand
 And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
 Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
 And Eternity in an hour." -  William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
"Some will hear, but not listen. Some will listen, but not understand. And some will understand, but not act." - The Universe
"I'm gonna do what I want and I'm gonna get paid." - Tom Waits, Going Out West

19 April 2019

https://mappinginjustice.org/

https://canadianartjunkie.com/2016/03/21/dauphinee-embroidered-maps/

https://observer.com/2019/03/blockchain-art-trade-qa-with-french-entreprenuer

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/researchers-trick-tesla-autopilot-into-steering-into-oncoming-traffic/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/when-the-frontier-becomes-the-wall

https://www.ascb.org/careers/art-science-collaborations-what-are-they-good-for/

Cartography artists; Guillermo Kuitca, Alighiero Boetti, Juan Downey, Mona Hatoum, Hong Hao, Barrett Lyon, The Opte Project, Grayson Perry, Rirkrit Tiravanija (all of them at a certain point work on maps).

Sacred Geometry; https://bouldermasterbuilders.com/magical-brittany-tour/

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/missing-murdered-native-women

https://themindunleashed.com/2019/03/doctor-cures-deafness-middle-ear-transplant.html

"Think of every single thing that you 'have to' do to get through a day, as things you 'get to' do, before 'your turn' is over." - The Universe
“For us to let their deaths to just go unnoticed; for people not to know that we have missing women in our communities, for their voices not to be heard - to me was unacceptable." - Abigail Echo-Hawk, chief research officer at the Seattle Indian Health Board, and the director of UIHI
"Go where you're drawn." -  Raw'n'
"You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clear it up.” - Indian Proverb
“Sew the seeds of discontent [without which] there would be no advance towards civilisation." - Oscar Wilde

10 April 2019

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/these-beautiful-maps-capture-rivers-that-pulse-through-our-world

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/border-barriers/global-illegal-immigration-prevention

https://bouldermasterbuilders.com/energy-vortexes/

https://canadianartjunkie.com/2019/04/03/quick-hits-art-of-the-cane/

http://artbridges.ca/community/community_map

Art Podcasts;  http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-artists-silicone-create-strange-radical-artworks

(Collagist) https://www.laterbloomer.com/mary-granville-delany/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/business/poland-spring-water

(Inflammation) https://biologyandlife.com/2019/03/22/smoldering-tissue/

"If all is not lost, where is it?" - Via
"There's always a price to be paid for doing, being, and having more, but it has little to do with working harder or knowing the 'right' people ... it often boils down to simply 'getting out more.' - The Universe
"It's a big club and you ain't in it.” - George Carlin
“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.” - Banksy
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. " - A. A. Milne

04 April 2019

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mississippi-river-ribbon-map

(Digital Art Biennial)  https://thewrong.org/

Wire Sculpture Artist https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/01/hybrid-sculptures-by-yuichi-ikehata/

https://bouldermasterbuilders.com/energy-vortexes/

Google Drive Sharing: https://support.google.com

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273179/apple-icloud-itunes-app-store-music-services-businesses

(Collage) http://www.ovenall.com/copyright/

Engineering Ethics Art http://www.akimbo.ca/128824

http://www.elisplace.org/about/

(Hex-shaped) https://mymodernmet.com/wood-wool-wall-tiles-form-us-with-love/

"It takes a lot of guts to stand anonymously in a wstern democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom." - Banksy
"All that you need to have all that you want will be provided, as if by magic, once you know what you want and do something about it every day." - The Universe
"You can only be what you are.” - Jon Batiste
"He looked into the hole, and like any hole it said, Jump.” - Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance
"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." - Socrates

22 March 2019

https://mymodernmet.com/history-of-cartography-university-of-chicago-press/

https://hyperallergic.com/489724/collaging-with-the-rijksmuseums-entire-collection-at-your-fingertips/

https://cp4space.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/proto-penrose-tilings/

Plastic Bottle Petition:  https://storyofstuff.org/blog/

(DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILY INCOME) - GINI INDEX : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html

(TTL woodworking class) https://www.universe.com/dashboard/order/5c7849e34d915a003968a8c7

http://tensileshadeproducts.com/gallery.php

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-plastics-ban-1.5050539

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/lifestyle/why-scientists-say-experiencing-awe-can-help-you-live-your-ncna961826?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

"The greatest glory in living is not in falling, but in rising every time we fall."- Nelson Mandela
"Every work of art is the child of its time, while often it is the parent of our emotions." - Wassily Kandinsky
"I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower." - Banksy
"It's not the path you have to know, but the destination." - The Universe
"Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."-Wlliam Blake

14 March 2019

https://mappinginjustice.org/

https://cramtoronto.com/

http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/how-walking-fosters-creativity.html

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/get-the-most-from-the-macos-preview-app/
https://macpaw.com/how-to/how-to-find-duplicates-on-mac
https://macpaw.com/how-to/clean-up-years-of-storage

https://macpaw.com/download/gemini

https://all3dp.com/1/best-3d-slicer-software-3d-printer/

https://purchase.xyfindit.com/xy4-single-pack/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-05/single-use-plastic-ban-wwf-report/9918870

http://www.rene-magritte.com/not-to-be-reproduced/

https://driving.ca/volvo/features/feature-story/motor-mouth-volvo-polestar-2-takes-on-tesla-model-3

"For a very long time in Czechoslovakia, we lived in sort of prison behind that huge wall that was the Iron Curtain – we weren’t allowed to be free. But there's also another wall inside many of us, and in me especially. The prison of my anxieties, my fears, and taboos.” - Jan Saudek
"There are some thoughts that can’t become things and others that are assured." - TU
"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.” - Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
“Art imitates life.You just don’t understand the biting satire.' Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce(
"The first thing you need to understand about persuasion, is that what you’re saying matters far less than who you are.“ - Robert Cialdini, author of 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion'

08 March 2019

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/bold-plan-replace-the-border-wall-with-an-energy-water-corridor/

Smart Communities Roadshow 2019

Tate Modern have an Olafur Eliasson retrospective scheduled for this summer – his Ice Watch project was recently invited to melt away outside the museum

(China Sculpture Residency) http://www.ocat.org.cn/index.php/Studio/?aid=538&lang=en

(Banksy) www.walledoffhotel.com/

https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2019/02/podcast-technopolis/583096/

(Book) https://themindisthemap.com/product/the-mind-is-the-map/#reviews

(TSA class) https://tsa-art.com/courses/beyond-flat-photograph-material-and-object/

(Fencing for WallBridge) https://customdecktoronto.com/fences

(Polio anti-vaxer?) https://realnewsaustralia.com/2019/02/27/the-real-history-of-polio-20-things-you-didnt-know/

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
"You only have to get things right a few times." - Warren Buffett
"No matter where you go in time and space, you only ever have to be yourself - as courageous, vulnerable, bold, or afraid as you may feel - to find yourself amongst friends." - The Universe
“Strong beliefs, loosely held.” - Marc Andreessen
“I’m interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.” - Alfonso Cuarón