Discovered on August 18, 2008
Domed
Knitted Dome
More photos (along with the above two) from my summer. [2008]
Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father
Dealing with memory lost.
aka Franglais in tunez.
Working Class Hero (Found exploring the TumblrSphere.)
Canadian Tories Continue to Cut Federal Arts Funding
Contributions cut this week by the conservative government:
- $300,000 cut from the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, which archives and makes available for distribution film, television and musical recordings.
- $1.5 million cut from the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, which helps top up the budgets of independent films and triggers private investment.
- $2.5 million cut from the National Training Program in the Film and Video Sector.
Federal programs canceled this week by the conservative government:
- The ProMart program, an artists’ travel support fund. ($4.7 million)
- The Trade Routes program that supports film and music exports. ($9 million)
- The Stabilization Project and Capacity Building program, which provides financial and administrative support to art groups.
[source]
Tories cut funding for artists touring abroad. — CBC:
Ideology played a role in decision, spokesperson acknowledges.
Want a ‘culture of innovation’? Fund our artists. — Globe and Mail:
First we have Bill C-10, the bid to deny tax credits to what the Heritage Minister calls “indecent material.” Meanwhile, other art forms have been told they are insufficiently “mainstream” and their funding has been cut through the cancellation of Trade Routes and PromArt.
‘Left-wing’ writer denies applying for travel grant — Globe and Mail:
The cuts to arts programs hit on a favourite theme of the Tories - cutting spending that appears wasteful and elitist - to gain political advantage in some target markets.
Discovered on August 16, 2008
Written and illustrated by a hive mind.
[pdf] - An html version is also available.
Face Swapping: Automatically Replacing Faces in Photographs
Wikiabet
Found searching Blogonia for “propositional calculus”:
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part I
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part II
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part III
“A translation of lecture notes from a course on Logic delivered by Alain Badiou in 1980 - 81. It is rather short and deals specifically with Gödel and his theorem of incompleteness.”
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Also: Alphabet Images.
Discovered on August 14, 2008
Make colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Some explanations, plus a link to a modernized translation of Gödel’s original paper.
Discovered on August 13, 2008
“Solar panels heat the water, and a wind turbine on the roof generates electricity. Rainwater is collected in a 3,000-gallon cistern, then filtered, treated and pumped through the house for cleaning purposes.”
Discovered on August 12, 2008
Choose.
Discovered on August 11, 2008
Photos of my home town. Many of them were shot in HDR.
Best (and Worst) from the same photographer.
The building on the left is the Winnipeg Clinic. My parents would bring me here to visit our pediatrician.
I remember elevator buttons that weren’t actually buttons but some sort of 1940s high-tech touch sensor. (Or is this actually a memory from The Bay?)
Sitting in the waiting room I would stare out from below one of those beautifully curved awnings, fascinated by the mirrored surface of the building across the street. I searched the grid for a pattern to explain the positions of the different coloured windows.
Discovered on August 10, 2008
An Interview with Guy Maddin [Aug 2008]
superimpose
Bridges 2008 - Leeuwarden, NL
Annual conference on mathematical connections in Art, Music, and Science celebrating the 110th Birth Year of M.C. Escher in his Birthplace.