Great Map

2026-03-14T13:02:00.004-06:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/well/us-measles-record-outbreaks

"Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.” - Anni Albers

“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.” - Henry Moore

“Above all, art should be fun." - Alexander Calder

“Unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint or clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living." – Madeleine L'Engle

“The main reason someone moves mountains, wins friends, influences people, amasses a fortune, or anything else, … is because they thought they would." - The Universe

2026-02-12T03:30:00.001-07:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/well/microplastics-health-risks.html

Indigenous data sovereignty; https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/

https://designto.org/how-to-participate-in-designto

https://readfoyer.com/article/ago-125-when-seven-became-one-group

Impact of Experiential Memory in the Evaluation of Consumer Products

https://imagine5.com/articles/what-is-urban-rewilding/

https://www.showtechproductions.com/best-video-mapping-software-programs/

https://sketchfab.com/importers (3D tools, Game Engines, VR, AR )

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/health/measles-treatments-vaccines-kennedy

https://maps.org/psychedelic-fundamentals/

“Mount up with wings, as eagles.” - Isaiah 40:31

"What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do." - Arthur Schopenhauer

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” - G K Chesterton

“All you ever have to do, to change absolutely everything is think differently." - The Universe

“To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science. But to accept them, or at least our experiences of them, and yet give them a scientific explanation: there's a task worthy of our art." - Kevin Simler (Melting Asphalt blog)

2026-01-16T10:05:00.001-07:00

Tensegritree; https://tensegritywiki.com/index.php?title=Tree @ University of Kent

(Documentary Film-making) Science Awe https://nautil.us/more-than-a-feeling

Mobile Artist; https://www.yukonishikawa.com

Canada approves expensive new drug that can slow Alzheimer’s disease; https://apple.news/AUCo6n7j4RFqqS8xAt7dfiQ

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/infamous-antidepressant-drug-trial-back-in-spotlight-after-journal-sued/

https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/work-worth-doing-a-letter-from-the-ruins-of-public-health

Stencil animation; https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15pZqLKwBM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2025/09/19/elon-musks-neuralink-brain-chip-clinical-trial-at-toronto-hospital-raises-ethical-questions/

https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/informed-consent-is-alive-and-well-despite-what-youve-been-told-bdc66cbf864

Annual Report; https://www.baycrest.org/BARE-2023-2025

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

"The person born with a talent they were meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it"- Goethe

“I went out of the way and walked, because the soul does not walk in a straight line.” - Montse Arias

“I’ll know my song well before I start singin’.” - Bob Dylan

“Can you sit in discomfort long enough for it to turn into competence?” - ?

2025-12-05T03:30:00.003-07:00

KIAC Art Residency; https://kiac.ca/artist-in-residence-program/residence-application-guidelines/

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/paul-saltzman-beatles-in-india

(YouTube) Bohemian SodBusters series

Mask-making; https://www.instructables.com/Paperfy-Your-Face-The-Easy-Method/

Stencil Artist; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blek_le_Rat

https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/280-characters-of-chaos-how-rfk-jr-is-rewriting-vaccine-policy-on-x

https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/when-science-becomes-the-enemy

https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/vaccine-shedding-is-real-but-not-what-you-think

https://nowtoronto.com/news/ford-commends-london-hospitals-decision-to-end-experiments-on-dogs/

EthicsBot: Fine-Tuning Open-Source LLMs to Assist Scientific Investigators in Analyzing Ethical Issues in Research

“Sovereignty does not mean solitude.” - Zen koan

"The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily." - Charlie Munger

"The artistry in maps is part of their essence and communicative capacity as 'the effective use of line, color, and symbol can transform maps that might otherwise be dull, mechanical records into dynamic complexes charged with meaning.' - Ronald Rees (observed in a seminal paper on the “Historical Links between Cartography and Art", 1980, p. 63)

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”- Socrates

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” - Alan Watts

2025-09-12T05:00:00.002-06:00

Camino; https://www.gronze.com/gronze-maps

https://zapier.com/blog/chatgpt-alternatives/

https://jgassen.shinyapps.io/legoartmosaic/

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-meet-artists-reinventing-pointillism-19th-century-technique

Pixel Art Generator; https://pirillo.com/arcade/css-art

https://www.artbasel.com/stories/julie-mehretu

https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/on-scientific-brainwashing-a-public-health-scientist-s-reflection

https://www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engineering-reports-didnt-suggest-closure-of-ontario-science-centre-new-documents-reveal

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/recycling-organics-garbage/waste-management/waste-strategy

https://breachmedia.ca/bubble-zone-protest-bans-threaten-palestine-solidarity-public-dissent

“Luck writes the first chapter, but your actions write the rest.” - ID

"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today." – Robert McKee

“Some people see creatures. Some people see creation. Some people see the creator.” - Alan West

“If you skip the discomfort of doubt, you also skip the chance to learn.” - Charles Sanders Peirce

“For every setback, disappointment, and heartbreak, ask ‘what does this create the opportunity for? …and therein you will find its gift.” -TU

2025-07-31T03:00:00.001-06:00

https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2025/03/06/the-art-of-knowledge-transfer/

https://www.jolt.film/watch/the-bibi-files

https://stepspublicart.org/project/createspace-forum-2025

Animation Oscar winner 'Flow" (made exclusively with Blender)

Rotary resolutions https://my.rotary.org/en/council/cor/vote

https://povmagazine.com/terence-macartney-filgate-doc-pioneer/

https://blog.medium.com/how-vaccines-became-victims-of-their-own-success

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/category/vaccines/?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us

https://www.blender3darchitect.com/python-scripts-for-archviz/how-to-import-sketchup-2023-skp-files-into-blender-4-0/

“Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait.” - Rebecca Solnit

"The discovery that one is in error is one of the best things that can happen to a man, provided he acknowledges it and tries to correct it; for it is only through the recognition of our mistakes that we can grow in knowledge and improve our actions." - Karl Popper, The Open Universe (1982)

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” - Rudiger Dornbusch

2025-06-18T03:00:00.001-06:00

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-02-12/google-apple-rename-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america-on-maps

https://leonardo.info/review/2024/10/pathology-and-visual-culture-the-scientific-artworks-of-dr-jean-martin-charcot

Small Things, Big Climate; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySDPsi2jv4U

https://stepspublicart.org/fieldnotes-creative-city-ideas/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/how-robert-f-kennedy-jr-will-undermine-and-ultimately-destroy-us vaccination programs

https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/22/visual-clutter-alters-information-flow-brain

https://www.cureusjournals.com/articles/364-a-strategic-roadmap-for-mitigating-generative-artificial-intelligence-hallucinations#!/

AIR https://xinresidence.com/ (sponsored by Simon Cooper Cole)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/20/1109087/childhood-vaccines-public-health-success

https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/decision-time-in-the-west-bank-bracing-for-smotrichs-plan

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived, and lived well." Ralph Waldo Emerson

“"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam" (I shall either find a way or I shall make one” - Hannibal

“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.” - Aldus Huxley

“Pray and move your feet.” - The Universe

“A farmer and his son had a beloved horse who helped the family earn a living. One day, the horse ran away and their neighbors exclaimed:

Neighbor: “Your horse ran away, what terrible luck!”

The farmer replied: “Maybe so, maybe not.” A few days later, the horse returned home, leading a few wild horses back to the farm as well.

The neighbors shouted out: “Your horse has returned, and brought several horses home with him. What great luck!”

The farmer replied: “Maybe so, maybe not.” Later that week, the farmer’s son was trying to break one of the horses and she threw him to the ground, breaking his leg.

The neighbors replied: “Your son broke his leg, what terrible luck!”

The farmer replied: “Maybe so, maybe not.” A few weeks later, soldiers from the national army marched through town, recruiting all boys for the army. They did not take the farmer’s son, because he had a broken leg.

The neighbors shouted: “Your boy is spared, what tremendous luck!

To which the farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” Whenever something happens to you can you tell if it is good or bad?”

The Story of a Chinese Farmer is a classic Chinese proverb that showcases we never know whether an event is good or bad and what fortunes or misfortunes an event can bring us. It also is a great way to showcase that there is no easy way to answer this question.

2025-06-14T03:30:00.001-06:00

Brain Mapping; https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01088-x

https://www.simplypsychology.org/normal-distribution.html

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/class-action-lawsuit-ai-generators-deviantart-midjourney-stable-diffusion-2246770

https://themindcircle.com/news-from-the-future/

https://engineerscanada.ca/nem2025/feature-stories/100-years-of-the-iron-ring

Cobalt Connects leadership change

Birdo Artist; https://www.jerryrugg.com/murals

History of Digital Sculpture: Bruce Beasley: Part One

Cardboard doll house

https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/new-study-shows-shingles-vaccine-tied-to-reduced-dementia-risk

“Navigating the geography of a creative life requires a compass , not a map." - Medium Blog

“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.” - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“The power of people is greater than the people in power." - Cory Booker

“Raise your sights and broaden your steps. Because doing one without the other is the same as doing neither.” - TU

“Listen carefully to just criticisms made of your work. Note what it is about your work that critics don’t like….then cultivate it.” - Jean Cocteau

2025-05-28T03:30:00.003-06:00

PubMed Map; https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(24)00076-X

https://labs.google/tools/image-FX AI image generator

https://www.academia.edu/947467/Communicating_Science_A_Novel_Frame_of_Reverence

Wall builder; https://www.facebook.com/realJeffRainforth?

https://leonardo.info/review/2024/10/pathology-and-visual-culture-the-scientific-artworks-of-dr-jean-martin-charcot

https://medium.com/the-spike/2024-a-review-of-the-year-in-neuroscience

(RW referenced) https://stepspublicart.org/fieldnotes-sustainable-art/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-global-waste-trade

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/best-of-2024-the-covid-lies-they-told-us-continue-to-warp-our-lives

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/20/1109087/childhood-vaccines-public-health-success

“When bad things happen, ask: Did the negative event force you to grow or do something you otherwise wouldn’t have had the courage, urgency, or motivation to do? If so, it wasn’t all bad.” - May Pang

“Slow is fake. If no urgency exists, impose some.” - Nabeel Qureshi

"When I composed that poem only God and I knew what it meant. Now, only God knows." - Robert Browning

"In a time of destructions, create something." - Maxine Hong Kingston

“Simple fact that you gave your dream this time and attention means you did it correctly, you did it long enough, and that by the time you open your eyes huge wheels have begun turning." - The Universe

2025-04-16T03:00:00.001-06:00

GPS pointsmap; https://www.queeringthemap

DARC video artists; https://digitalartsresourcecentre.ca/led-exhibition-october-2024/?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/16/1096276/spotify-algorithms-music-discovery

https://www.pressreader.com news aggregator

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/childhood-anti-vaccination-messages-rewiring-mind

How diversity is driving insights into the brain

(In 2020 Dr. Clark co-founded the) Adversarial Collaboration Project at Pennsylvania University;

https://web.sas.upenn.edu/adcollabproject/about/

(Video) Wild Horses Ridge; https://fb.watch/vecY2rGuLc/?

Kumano Kodo; an ancient pilgrimage route in the southern Ki peninsula (it’s the sister trail to the Camino de Santiago); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumano_Kodō

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/katerina-akassoglou-blood-clots-brain

“Our economic models are built on the assumption of endless growth. There is something fundamentally flawed about this equation.” - Harris Sockel

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we create the capacity to receive it.” - Rabindranath Tagore

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” - Leonardo DaVinci

“To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live.” - Maria Popova, essayist

“Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam” - Hannibal (I will either find a way, or I will make one)

2025-03-21T03:00:00.001-06:00

(COVID) https://blog.medium.com/the-great-barrington-declaration-and-how-polarized-we-are

How Societies Collapse

https://www.outsourceaccelerator.com/glossary/judgmental-forecasting/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/18/instagram-posts/dont-blame-ronald-reagan-for-fox-news-the-fairness/?

https://stepspublicart.org/fieldnotes-sustainable-art

https://www.flexagon.net/

https://www.slac.stanford.edu/gen/com/ retrieve the hidden texts of the Archimedes Palimpsest project

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/walkable-neighborhoods-suburban-sprawl-pollution/

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability

AlterEgo Chris Gaines (Garth Brooks); https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=876407601368230&set=a.555665943442399&type=3&mibextid=WC7FNe

“Everything simple is false. Everything which is complex is unusable.” Paul Valéry

“The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.” - Arshile Gorky

“Never leave for tomorrow, that which you are willing to die having left undone.” - Picasso

“Do things fast. Things don’t actually take much time (as measured by a stopwatch); resistance/procrastination does.” - Nabeel Qureshi

“Do not expect the beneficiary of your kindness to be the bringer of your new blessings - very rare; not their job.” - TU

2025-02-27T03:00:00.001-07:00

https://thinkingispower.com/guide-to-the-most-common-cognitive-biases-and-heuristics

What seeing a face in this picture says about your brain;
https://apple.news/A6w6FmzGdR3-geoGNreijLw

https://www.theworldismycountry.com/ (Rotary moderator)

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/01/steamboat-willie-is-now-in-the-public-domain-what-does-that-mean-for-mickey-mouse

Pixel art basics; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu7xtenFnNQ (Making fewer pixels look good)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-14/a-dallas-sculpture-exhibit-explores-the-dark-side-of-childhood

Science artist; https://www.danielabrillestrada.com/

https://www.apega.ca/news/2024/07/30/apega-initiating-practice-review-on-city-of-calgary-following-water-main-failure

https://assets.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/GTI%20-%20Phase%201%20report%20Executive%20Summary.pdf Chapter 23; https://assets.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/GTI%20-%20Phase%201%20full%20report%20-%20volume%204.pdf (ACM factor)

https://www.textstudio.com/logo/drips-text-effect-1020

“Progress is not triumph.” Caitlin Rivers

“A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.” - Leonardo da Vinci

"One of the oldest adages in Washington is that if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu." - US business leaders

“The trick is learning to maintain an unwavering focus upon your desired end result (your completed dream, the "finish line"), without insisting upon or contemplating its means of attainment (or who else will be involved, no matter how logical, obvious, or tempting it may seem).” - The Universe

“Be where your feet are.” - Mark Aoyagi

2025-01-17T02:53:00.084-07:00

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/the-rise-of-3d-gaussian-splatting

https://braincanada.ca/about/what-we-do/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/creative-explorations/201506/the-janusian-process-in-creativity

https://www.williamoslerhs.ca/en/research-and-outreach/research-events.aspx#Selected-works-and-artists

https://archive.aec.at/startsprize/ (art, science, and technology)

https://stopproject2025comic.org

Journal of the History of Ideas; https://www.jhiblog.org/

Nonlinear dynamics of aging; https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00692-2

(people have lost trust in public health science) https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5188676/trump-election-2024-vaccines-rfk

Parkinson’s Disease; https://fb.watch/vDsXdgTkl3/? Drug repurposing

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat across.” - Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not." - Epicurus

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - TU

"Do something, do it today, something you wouldn't normally do.” - The Universe

2024-12-28T06:00:00.001-07:00

https://muralroutes.ca/map/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawa-buys-arctic-hangar-next-to-norad-base-after-chinese-russian/ interests

https://agakhanmuseum.org/whats-on/muqarnas/Aga+Khan+Museum

Danger! Negative memories ahead: the effect of warnings on reactions to and recall of negative memories;

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2021.1892147

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/07/03/science-world-dome-upgrade-announced/

Camus /Sisyphus; https://iai.tv/articles/lifes-absurdity-is-a-cause-for-happiness

https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/study-shows-increased-rates-of-dementia-in-9-11-responders-with-more-exposure-to-toxins/?

Art/Science conference; https://www.transmeet-festival.org/schedule-eng

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/facebook-parent-company-ending-ban-on-use-of-shaheed/

https://baos.pub/the-365-most-famous-quotes-of-all-time

“Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam” - Hannibal (I will either find a way, or I will make one)

“You are different with the gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it. You are another subject because you hold the gun; the gun is another object because it has entered into a relationship with you.” - Bruno Latour (1999)

“Everything in some way connects to everything else." – Leonardo Da Vinci

“Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. 'But which is the stone that supports the bridge?' Kublai Khan asks. 'The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,' Marco answers, 'but by the line of the arch that they form.' Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: 'Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.' Polo answers: 'Without stones there is no arch.’"

“You're already strong, rich, and among friends. Yet, at times, dream that you're not.” - The Universe

2024-11-13T03:30:00.001-07:00

DesignTO installation; http://www.safourazahedi.com/journey-through-geometry

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-yeah-yeah-yeahs-maps-podcast-greatest-songs

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/the-arctic-is-warming-faster-than-anywhere-else-on-the-planet

https://hbr.org/2024/05/the-art-of-asking-smarter-questions

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/the-rise-of-3d-gaussian-splatting

https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/13-14/artsci_salon/

https://www.theworks.ab.ca/instant-places Bell curve

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/astra-zeneca-covid-vaccine

https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/how-plastic-can-harm-your-health

Malaria vaccine; https://archive.ph/cZSeC

“What we play is life." - Louis Armstrong

“Art is not about decadence, hipness or living life on the edge, art is about pushing your mind as far as it will go and then to observe what is on the other side.” - Buckhouse

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

“I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened! Mark Twain

“Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've been told, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced, but how you've remembered it. It's not what you've forged, but what you've allowed. And it's not who's appeared, but who you've summoned… And this should serve you well until you find what you already have.” - The Universe

2024-10-09T03:00:00.000-06:00

Tensegrity Protest Towers; https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/16/extinction-rebellions-high-tech-stirling-prize/amp/

Enlightening falsehoods: a modal view of scientific understanding; https://philosophie.ens.fr/IMG/MU-Routledge.pdf

https://www.fourthwallcontent.com/blog/the-fourth-wall-and-why-its-relevant-to-content

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/israeli-park-a-lesson-in-forgotten-history-1.518950

https://aldacenter.org/ for Communicating Science

https://www.aldacommunicationtraining.com/2022/03/14/an-interesting-insight-into-the-alda-method/

https://inverteum.com/p/capital-in-the-twenty-first-century

https://istss.org/education-research/istss-research-guidelines/ethical-issues-in-trauma-research

Eco/ art/science pioneers; https://www.theharrisonstudio.net/

https://www.sculptorssocietyofcanada.org/

Upcycling group; https://www.vikingrecycling.ca/resources

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one feels young. Inside this aging body there is a heart still as curious, as hungry, still as full of longing as it was in youth." - Albert Camus, The Fall

“The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most because they’re the ones who try the most.” - Adam Grant

“Whatever your problem or challenge may be laugh at it. Laugh long and hard. Because you are forever and it is temporary.” - The Universe

“… the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.” - Kierkegaard

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” - Richard Feynman

2024-09-17T03:00:00.000-06:00

https://savesciencecentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/osc-building-a-to-c-raac-roof-panel-assessment-en-final-june-18-2024.pdf

https://www.afro.who.int/countries/south-africa/news/south-africas-sugar-tax-success-amid-controversy

MMIW Map; https://apple.news/A_s8JUI7URea5T9rhYWjopA

https://archive.ph/2024.04.24-111903/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israels-forever-war-gaza-tom-segev

https://theconversation.com/microplastics-and-nanoplastics-have-been-found-throughout-the-human-body-how-worried-should-we-be

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-defies-sec-forking-over (BitStamp takeover)

Cyprus digital A-I-R; https://makerspace.cyens.org.cy/cyens-artist-in-residence-program/

https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2024/06/24/artistic-explorations-in-science/W

(Definition) ‘What is Immunisation vs vaccination?’

Immunisation is the process of becoming immune to a disease as a result of a vaccine. Vaccination is when you receive a vaccine either by a needle or drops in the mouth. Vaccines work by producing an immune response in the body without causing illness.

https://www.webmd.com/arthritis/gout-diet-curb-flares

“... it's not enough to be outstanding at what you do. You also have to be willing to stand out." - Marianne Gobeil

"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values." - Marshall McLuhan, 1964

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it." - Albert Einstein

"Those who are truly kind, thoughtful, and generous always attract lots of kind, thoughtful, and generous people into their own lives." - The Universe

"Knowledge, imparted through education, is the conduit for generational wealth." - Inverteum

2024-08-30T06:00:00.001-06:00

https://aokistudio.com/50-arguments-against-the-use-of-ai-in-creative-fields.html

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-first-nations-leaders-decry-lack-of-progress-five-years-after-release

3D models; https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/plia-folding-chair

Anti-Vax conspiracy spreaders

Soundtrack only I don't want to grow up (Tom Waits)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/plastics-canada-registry-1.7181037

https://www.janvaneyck.nl/participants/sujin-moon AIR

https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/photoshop/using/generative-fill

https://www.ae911truth.org/news/988-wechts-position-on-wtc-explosions-a-lasting-legacy-for-911-truth

https://theconversation.com/how-rich-philanthropists-exert-undue-influence-over-pro-palestinian-activism-at-universities

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” - Dostoyevsky

“No matter how long it takes, once it happens it'll seem as if time flew, you'll wonder how you ever doubted yourself, and you'll feel like you should have aimed a little higher. Aim a little higher.” - The Universe

“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." - Werner Herzog

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." - Aristotle

“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” - unknown

2024-07-30T03:30:00.003-06:00

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/my-friend-benoit-mandelbrot

Sustainable Development Goals; https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Long COVID

https://designto.org/awards/2024

Fields Institute; https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/how-launched-career-astronomy-alum-kirsten-vanstone

A certain world; a commonplace book; https://archive.org/details/certainworldcomm00aude/page/n1/mode/2up

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-dada-art-movement/

https://www.leekranefuss.com/2019/04/why-you-should-use-logarithmic-scales-to-make-investment-decisions/

https://artreview.com/what-is-the-purpose-of-protest-posting-gaza-social-media/

https://peacestoriesblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/canada-park/ Palestine

“If my art doesn’t leave a mark, I’d at least like it to cast a shadow.” - Raw'n' Wild

"MEANINGLESSNESS; Points, holes, Solids, surfaces, Straight lines, planes, Instantaneous, simultaneous, Things, nouns, Congruence, 'at rest', The words artificial and fa"

“If someone wants ‘A’ to happen, yet they prepare for ‘B,’ they will always get ‘B’. Prepare for ‘A’.” - The Universe

"Sometimes, the most beautiful destinations are those we discover without a map.” - Kent

“The ability to recognize failure is the most important talent of an artist.” - Agnes Martin

2024-07-12T03:30:00.001-06:00

https://www.noemamag.com/a-single-small-map-is-enough-for-a-lifetime/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gaussian-splatting-next-big-thing-3d

Zeynep paper; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2022.2134539

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/icicle-machine-toronto

Daphne and Charles Maurer: https://prettyugly.info/. book

https://www.theculturalintifada.com/

Bottled Water Boycott: https://www.facebook.com/share/

AI; https://theobot.ai/description_challenge

Burlington Sculpture Walk; https://www.bwst.ca/the-artists

Canadian Sculpture Centre; https://www.artoronto.ca

"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't." - R. Buckminster Fuller

“You’ve also left your mark, and had an impact on more lives than either of us can count. Remember that when you look in the mirror, and into your own eyes.” - Mira, Imitation In Death

"The greatest trick and most subtle secret to doing anything really, really well, is loving that you get to do it at all." - The Universe

"If revolution were a movie, I think art would be mentioned in the credits, not as the main force of change." - Tamer Nafar, hip-hop group DAM, from Lyd, Palestine

“The easiest way to avoid letdowns and disappointments is never tricking yourself into thinking that your happiness is dependent upon the things and events of time and space or what other people think, say, and do." -TU

2024-07-04T03:00:00.002-06:00

https://theartistproject.com/home/installations/

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/heinz-ketchup-bottle-cap-recyclable/

Google MediaPipe; https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lugsAbiZZYwR3XHJopbQ-JbKDn0wEWY8 from TMU TouchDesigner workshop

https://www.sacred-geometry.es/?q=en/content/3d-models

AIR; https://imagine5.com/artists-in-residency/

https://toaf.ca/art-nest-toaf artists

https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/dopamine-everything-you-need-to-know

https://artsandlettersclub.ca/members-spring-exhibition-2024/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccine-side-effects-takeaways https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(22)00012-8/fulltext

The Israel-Palestine conflict: a reading list; Six books that shed light on a century of violence; https://archive.is/BOE4W

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller

“There are no mistakes; just unappreciated discoveries.” - Raw’n’Wild

“Art is not bought, it’s sold.” - Anonymous

“Did you know that you can interpret any and all of the past events of your life as ones that have unfolded in your greatest favour?" - The Universe

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

2024-05-03T04:00:00.002-06:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga–Hunga_Haʻapai_eruption_and_tsunami

Sustainable Development Goals; https://sdgs.un.org/goals

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/interrupted-sinusoidal/ Globe sheaves

https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2023/gun-control

https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox

DaDa; https://www.thecollector.com/who-was-elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven/?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/humanitarian-ethnic-cleansing-from-herzl-netanyahu-zionist-bazian-yekzc

Miami digital art space; https://www.locustprojectscloserlook.org/

https:// How to separate faces into new objects in Blender

The etymological origin of the word KŌAN is derived from Japanese: kō, public + an, proposition. A kōan is a question or statement used in Zen Buddhist teaching to help liberate students from their rigid, restrictive ways of viewing themselves and the world around them. A kōan is not a a riddle or problem to be solved. Kōans are not about wit or cleverness. Kōans are about life and death, about our deepest question and concerns in the here and now. A kōan directs us to see the world as it is, where nothing is superfluous, nothing is separate.

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Geometry will draw the soul toward the truth.” - Plato

“Today is way more important than tomorrow. Be here now.” - The Universe

“Don’t dream your life, live your dreams." - Mark Twain

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, war the terrorism of the rich." - Peter Ustinov

2024-04-05T03:30:00.001-06:00

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/

https://www.academia.edu/10242744/Discontinuous_Double_shell_Domes_through_Islamic_eras_in_the_Middle_East_and_Central_Asia_History_Morphology_Typologies_Geometry

Reckoning; http://gigapan.com/gigapans/121333

Ethical analysis of vulnerabilities in cluster randomized trials involving people living with dementia in long-term care homes | Charles Weijer MD, PhD. ; https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jgs.18128

Green ball through the hourglass; https://fb.watch/q7bh7U03m6/?

Regression to the mean; https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-magnificent-stocks-created-many-141500051.html need to be bankrupted

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/humanitarian-ethnic-cleansing-from-herzl-netanyahu-zionist

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/lighting-up-long-covid

Multi-media Artist; https://shihabmian.com/

Gideon Levy: Israelis “live so easily” because of these 3 principles; https://youtu.be/1YBJ0Jl9BPw?si=dvfI9rrWgAswxmrK

"War is a dirty business. It's always been that way. It is possibly the oldest, clearly the most profitable and certainly the most evil.” - Smedley Butler (1881-1940)

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” - Thomas Paine

"… fairy-tales perpetrate a hoax on kids. They teach that if you want to have something good happen to you, you first have to be a big enough victim to deserve it.” - I. Stewart & V. Joines

“Ignorance causes such a state of confusion that one clings to any explanation in order to feel a little less embarrassed. That's why the less knowledge we have, the more certainties we have.” - Boris Cyrulnik

“Those in the unseen wonder without end, why didn't they dream bigger? It’s never too late.” - The Universe

2024-03-23T03:30:00.002-06:00

The Behaviourome / Mental Map Project; https://www.eubios.info/menmap.htm

https://coolinfographics.com/blog/2023/12/18/the-problem-with-plastics

Gaussian (normal) distribution Bell curve

HCI failure; https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/one-hundred-seconds-of-confusion-the-crash-of-china-airlines-flight from https://reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/s/4jImkRTXIP

Solidarity Art project; https://artforces.org/

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-29/rfk-jr-s-town-hall-showed-the-folly-of-trying-to-fact-check-quackery-in-real-time

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/justin-trudeau-vowed-to-end-boil-water-advisories-in-indigenous-communities-but-a-new-plan/

https://cfccreates.com/content-hub/heart-of-stars/

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case South Africa v. Israel - Oral argument of South Africa; https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/

Middle East Report; https://merip.org/magazine/309/

“In Zen, we don't find the answers. We lose the questions.” - Zen saying

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.” -Julian Barnes

“When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides.” - Blaise Pascal (https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/20/blaise-pascal-pensees-persuasion)

“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.” - Stephen Spender

“ One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.” - James Lovelock

2024-03-06T03:30:00.001-07:00

James Burke Connections; https://curiositystream.com/connections/

Telidon Pioneer; https://www.paulpetro.com/#

https://time.com/6292191/robert-f-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-vaccines-essay

COVID summer ‘23; https://apple.news/AlITnzDOkTgy1XxEaGBlLCA

https://nautil.us/the-5-most-common-delusions-worldwide

https://mindisthemaster.com/unalome-meaning/

https://montycasinos.com/montypython/scripts/architect fail sketch

GreatMap citation; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6679561_Autonomy_as_a_universal_expectation_a_review_and_a_research_proposal

January Art Music (background); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0orz_C33I

https://www.bitstamp.net/learn/bitstamp-tutorials/how-to-send-and-receive-ripple-xrp/

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.” - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Once you at least do what you can, no matter how seemingly insignificant, everything changes.” - The Universe

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The wave, is not the water. The water simply commented to us that the wave was moving." - Buckminster Fuller