Great Map

Clicking here will take you to this interactive map for further exploration...

"This is a rough sketch of a more advanced knowledge map that has never been drawn." - R.B.Wild ("Non-Geo" Graphical Information Systems, with a particular focus on Mapping Knowledge Domains.I'm interested in creating visualizations of 'ideas' that do not necessarily have a geo basis to them). For examples, click on the map sketch above, and here for the whole mapping story. ♫ What's He Building In There? "A story about a boy in a wolf costume who sails away and tames ferocious beasts and then returns to learn that the best thing of all is dinner." -----> Best Movie Trailer --> Official Trailer---> Listen to the Score Free ----> ( Buy the Sound ♫ Track )
13 November 2009
 
http://www.toronto.ca/open/ : The City of Toronto's official data set catalogue

(Video) Information Visualization Talks

Giant Traveling Maps

Why Is It Called The Hague? (And why is it in the Netherlands?)

Panorama of Fractals and Their Uses

(Example) Twitter List : http://twitter.com/nytimesscience/general-science

Why teach the arts? Art inspires learning

(Definition) "Visual Collaboration" : the act of representing the normally invisible and intangible aspects of work into visual frameworks that establish shared contexts for team understanding and action. Via Tom Wujwc

http://www.royalfair.org/RoyalFineArtShowcase

New TomWaits album "Glitter and Doom Live" ( arriving November 24th). Check out the first 8 songs for free, including a roaring version of 'Get Behind the Mule'...

"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"Who teaches, learns." - John Amos Comenius
"In your dealings with others, if you haven't already noticed: hoping for, expecting, or even asking for a simple "Thank You" is often way out of the question. And quite frankly, bad form." - TU
"Form floating on formlessness takes on more form." - Robert Genn
"Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors." - Elizabeth Bishop

12 November 2009
 
OpenAerialMap Project : will store Free and Open georeferenced photographic imagery for the entire world.

(ManyEyes) Visualization of Layoffs (in the US)

(TEDTalk) Visualizing Our World

MapCloud

(xkcd) – Movie Narrative Charts

Giant Crack Will Create a New Ocean

Visual notes from the Playful 09 conference.

(Book) Cartography 2.0 - Online Guide/Textbook for Animated and Interactive Maps : http://cartography2.org/Chapters/Chapters.html Via @geoparadigm

Pixel Face(Paint)

He gave peace a chant

"Yes, science relies on facts, but also on speculation and inspiration." - License to Wonder
"Hailin' from the bottom of the map, But standin' at the top of the game..." - Tweet
". . . [E]verything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Viktor E. Frankl (Psychiatrist, who suffered unspeakable horrors in Nazi death camps), from his 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning
"To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France
"Research doesn’t have to be good, but it has to be new.” - Via

11 November 2009
 
Landscapes of GIS Knowledge : http://geoblogwm.blogspot.com/ (Maps about geoblogs)

Cellular Zoom

Revealing Infographics about the Web

Apophysis - powerful program leverages user-input scripts to crank out amazing fractals (resources to help). Via

Timeline of 20th Century Art & New Media

Idling Mind Is Mother of Invention

(Video) "Collaboration Between Art & Science" (Aled Edwards and Sara Diamond)

MaRS Discovery District events

http://www.powerpointninja.com/for-fun/dilbert-on-powerpoint-presentations/

Hedgehog bonding : http://bit.ly/Ggblw

"The most exotic journey would not be to see a thousand different places, but to see a single place through a thousand person's eyes." - Via
"Be calmly active and actively calm." - Via
"People who live only for dessert very rarely enjoy the main course. And sometimes a meal is like life. Bon appétit." - The Universe
"If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone." - Alfred Korzybski
"Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more." - Colton
10 November 2009
 
Make a Google Map from a GPS file

Wow, is this really what a knowledge map looks like?

Vedea: new language for creating interactive data-driven visualizations

Interactive map of Beijing : showing which sections of Beijing's old city have been demolished and which have been designated as historic conservation areas.

(Infographic Timeline) Movie Box Office Sales

(648 MegaPixel) Image of the Sky

You Can Get There From Here 'a good website enables learning through the thrill of discoverability' (via @KathySierra) If such visual, interactive maps could become part of a website’s wayfinding framework, they could dramatically change the way learners find information online.

Mind-blowing music video using autotuned clips from science videos (first video here).

http://democamp.com/about/: monthly gathering for designers, developers and entrepreneurs to get together and demonstrate the cool stuff they had been working on.

The National Post interviews Katharine Harmon (Author of The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography )

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"If one thing matters, everything matters." - Wolfgang Tillmans
"The relentless focus on the known gave him the impression that almost everything had already been discovered." - Via
"He who carries a light burden can dance." - Ancient Sumerian Proverb
"The thing that's totally different between children and adults, is that children have the ability to spontaneously use their imagination to forget what's bothering them and be inspired by every pony, feather, or bug that crosses their path." - The Universe

09 November 2009
 
Algorithm that processes images (on Flickr for a specific geographical area) and builds a colormap, similar to a heatmap, of the various colors found in that area. Via

(Canadian) The Stimulus Map

Visualizing MLB hit locations on a Google Map

Sparkmaps?

JAVA Geometry Explorer

(Reflective Response to) 10 facts about learning

Canada’s Top Research Universities

(Unrealart) Computer Generated Art Via

(Book) Lives of the Artists

smART Maps cause/affect(?) amazing geometrical hallucinations (like those experienced under the influence of DMT?)

"Can I Interest You In Some Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Discussion?" - Jon Stewart
"It may not matter how many universes exist - just how many a single observer can tell apart." - Via
"More of everything is on the way.... " - TU
"When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Ideas have a better chance of coming true if you say them." - #poptech takeaway (Via AllysonHewitt)
06 November 2009
 
The Once and Future Map: The Destiny of GIS

Bir Tawil is the only piece of land on Earth that is not claimed by any country.

Political Speech Mapping

Privacy is dead

100 Years of Movie Visual SFX (Special Effects) in 5 Minutes

Playing with the unexpected – the creativity of Brian Eno

The Automatiste Revolution (Montreal 1941-1960)

Windows 7: Review roundup

Friendships on Facebook : http://peace.facebook.com/ (connections created each day between people of different countries, religions, and political affiliations).

http://www.workmanarts.com/SupportUs/index.cfm

"Come, my friends,‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." - Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), “Ulysses”
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh (Via MildlyCreative)
"Peace is not only in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace is in the midst of things as they are, when there is calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace." - Via
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." - James Redfern Via
"When you create a work of art, you create a world." - Vasily Kandinsky (Via mindmapdrawer)
05 November 2009
 
The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions (image)

Results for "map" in All Creative Fields


(Lecture)- Mathematical Art and Artistic Mathematicians

Non-Euclidean Geometry

Urban exploration tips

Chernoff Faces

Rubik's Cube Solver Robot

(Links) http://math.alltop.com/

MDES IN STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND INNOVATION

(Definition) "True self esteem" : Immune to criticism and flattery. Beneath no one, superior to none. Fearless (ViaDeepak_Chopra)

"I think of being an artist as being a researcher. Art is research and development for humanity." - Zach Lieberman (at #poptech) Via AllysonHewitt
"Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst." - Miguel de Cervantes
"It must exist," he said, "look carefully. Otherwise," he says, "your books and maps are of no use if there's no land of righteousness." - Maxim Gorky
"
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.” - Steven Wright
"Success depends on using your talents, not just having them." - Via
"The end he (the artist) strives for is something else than a perfectly executed print. His aim is to depict dreams, ideas, or problems in such a way that other people can observe and consider them." - M.C. Escher

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