Wednesday 14 December 2011
Saturday 10 December 2011
Sunday 4 December 2011
Sunday 20 November 2011
Friday 11 November 2011
Inequality in America
http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-inequality-in-america-2011-11?op=1
A graphic analysis of the economic divide in the United States.
Thursday 10 November 2011
Wednesday 9 November 2011
GPX Riding
“GPX Riding” is a general term for using a GPS device to track and record my location while riding my bicycle. In short, I use GPS technology to record where I go in a planned effort to create massive images."
Via wallygpx.com
Via wallygpx.com
Monday 7 November 2011
Saturday 5 November 2011
Fukushima Fallout Map
An interactive map of the Fukushima fallout area from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Japan.
Via ramap.jaea.go.jp
Via ramap.jaea.go.jp
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Friday 28 October 2011
Genome Structure
”A new look at the human genome suggests that unappreciated variations in its fundamental architecture, rather than point-by-point mutations, may be responsible for most genetic difference among people.”
Via m.wired.com/wiredscience
Friday 14 October 2011
Monday 10 October 2011
Saturday 8 October 2011
Friday 30 September 2011
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Monday 19 September 2011
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Sunday 11 September 2011
Saturday 3 September 2011
Friday 2 September 2011
Google Correlate
Google correlate allows you to find search patterns which correspond with real-world trends bydrawing your own graph
How Old Is Your Globe?
Replogle is the world's largest globe manufacturer. One can discern the age of one's globe by checking their list of old vs present country names .
| Montenegro | 2006 | Serbia and Montenegro | E. of Italy |
| Serbia and Montenegro | 2003 | Yugoslavia (part)* | E. of Italy |
| East Timor | 1999 | Indonesia | isle N. of Australia |
| Congo, Dem. Repub. Of * | 1997 | Zaire * | Central Africa |
| Samoa | 1997 | Western Samoa | S. Pacific Ocean |
| Czech. Rep. | 1993 | Czechoslovakia | S. of Germany & Poland |
| Eritrea * | 1993 | Ethiopia (part) | N. of Ethiopia, S. end of Red Sea |
Monday 29 August 2011
Saturday 27 August 2011
The Making Of TimeScapes
Impressive time-lapse footage of the American Southwest for the film TimeScapes by Tom Lowe.
TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe on Vimeo.
Also Tempest Milky Way by Randy Halverson.
Tempest Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
Friday 26 August 2011
New York City Evacuation Zones
"There are three evacuation zones in New York City that are based on the strength of the hurricane making landfall." Via nytimes.com/interactive.
Thursday 25 August 2011
Jerry's Map
Jerry's Map from Jerry Gretzinger on Vimeo.
Jerry Gretzinger has has been building a map for decades through a process of procedural cartography.Saturday 20 August 2011
NASA Releases Full Map of Antarctic Ice Flows
"Vast rivers of ice flow from Antarctica’s inner regions out to the coasts, as shown in an animated map released by NASA. The map offers glaciologists and climate change researchers a full view of the speed and direction of moving ice on the continent, and reveals several new features."
Via www.wired.com
Previous post Navigating the Puzzle of Google Street View ‘Authorship’
"I decided to explore how a casual observer who hasn’t spent years thinking about authorship, photography and the nature of art and artist may dismiss the images as obviously identical, but an art history buff could fall down the conceptual rabbit hole lurking in that assumption. If you’re as intrigued as I was, take the red pill with me and read on. (Warning: No intellectual lifeguard on duty.)"
Via www.wired.com
Friday 19 August 2011
A Nice Place to Fly: Hexacopter in Cameroon
A nice place to fly: Hexhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifacopter in Cameroon / Africa from W. Thielicke on Vimeo.
"This micro air vehicle is a hobby project. Three MEMS gyroscopes and a two axis MEMS accelerometer are used as sensors. It performs very well in aerobatics ("acro mode"), but it can also hover on its own ("hover mode")."Via shrediquette.blogspot.com
Monday 15 August 2011
Monday 8 August 2011
Tunnel to Other Side of the Earth
"Have you every wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you? Find out using this map tunneling tool."
Via www.freemaptools.com
Diana Nyad Attempts to Swim From Cuba to the US
Diana Nyad in her quest to break the world record in open-water swimming.
"Diana Nyad is reaching for a record, swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, at age 61. Accomplishing that 103-mile swim would mean breaking the 32-year-old record, set by Diana in 1979, when she swam from the Bahamas to Florida. See her progress in near real-time..."
Via thechart.blogs.cnn.com
"Diana Nyad is reaching for a record, swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, at age 61. Accomplishing that 103-mile swim would mean breaking the 32-year-old record, set by Diana in 1979, when she swam from the Bahamas to Florida. See her progress in near real-time..."
Via thechart.blogs.cnn.com
Sunday 7 August 2011
Maps as Entertainment
"Maps have always had admirers: people collect them, display them, linger over them in museum exhibitions. Yet it is only in recent years that geography, organized not on paper but online, has really arrived as popular enterainment — as diverting as the latest stupid video your Facebook friends are linking to yet somehow more virtuous or, at times, titillating. Or both."
Via nytimes.com
Shown: Mapcrunch
Via nytimes.com
Shown: Mapcrunch
Friday 5 August 2011
One Day on Earth
One Day on Earth - Motion Picture Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo.
On October 10, 2010, 16,000 filmmakers throughout 190 countries filmed their day...
Wednesday 3 August 2011
Game of Thrones
Use of a map to quickly and convey information to the viewer in the opening sequence of HBO's Game of Thrones.
The visual effects BlueBolt created for the series.
The visual effects BlueBolt created for the series.
Tuesday 2 August 2011
The Power of Statistics
"A healthy skepticism of government statistics is one of those self-preservation mechanisms that keeps us from hurting ourselves. Misleading official statistics too often lead people and businesses to act contrary to their own best interests and plan for scenarios that never happen."
Via prisonplanet.com
Friday 15 July 2011
Lost Landscape Discovered off Scottish Coast
Geologists have discovered a vast new landscape that rose above the north Atlantic waves 56 million years ago.
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Crack The Surface
A series of documentaries following Urban Explorers.
Crack The Surface - Episode I from SilentUK on Vimeo.
Monday 11 July 2011
Krakatoa - The Day The World Exploded
Current reading:
"The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa."
Book summary and author's note via
Covering a volcanic event in extraordinary detail, this book touches on all things geographic; from plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions to the then location of undersea communication cables and the social geography of the world at the time.
"The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa."
Book summary and author's note via
Covering a volcanic event in extraordinary detail, this book touches on all things geographic; from plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions to the then location of undersea communication cables and the social geography of the world at the time.
Sunday 10 July 2011
Friday 8 July 2011
Good Maps, Bad Maps
The conflict in Sudan has resulted in many maps of the region attempting to clarify the complexities of the problems being faced there.
Here's one of oil consortiums：
Firstly, after going through all the trouble of assigning colours to the different areas the mapmaker has neglected to use them in the key, forcing the user to rely on on numbers to differentiate data in the legend.
Also, the inset map showing Sudan's location on the African continent could have been placed in an area a bit further from the part of the map in the bottom-right that is already laden with so much information.
The scale could have, in my opinion, been placed horizonally along the bottom of the map to free up some space.
And how bout a North arrow?
This one looks like it was thrown together in 2 minutes to meet a deadline using the Paint program.
Again, no North arrow.
Here's one showing the country's major tourist attractions and the route for the walking tour. Where's the zoo?
Apparently only four colours existed in the world when this map was made:
Why do the oil pipelines have to be the same colour as the Petronas section of the pie chart? Does Petronas control the pipeline?
Here's one of oil consortiums：
Firstly, after going through all the trouble of assigning colours to the different areas the mapmaker has neglected to use them in the key, forcing the user to rely on on numbers to differentiate data in the legend.
Also, the inset map showing Sudan's location on the African continent could have been placed in an area a bit further from the part of the map in the bottom-right that is already laden with so much information.
The scale could have, in my opinion, been placed horizonally along the bottom of the map to free up some space.
And how bout a North arrow?
This one looks like it was thrown together in 2 minutes to meet a deadline using the Paint program.
Again, no North arrow.
Here's one showing the country's major tourist attractions and the route for the walking tour. Where's the zoo?
Apparently only four colours existed in the world when this map was made:
Why do the oil pipelines have to be the same colour as the Petronas section of the pie chart? Does Petronas control the pipeline?
Friday 1 July 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The third trailer features a heavy dubstep soundtrack, featuring "Machine Gun Remix" by Noisia.
Here's Noisia's original video for "Machine Gun Remix".
The Transformers 3 sound production team went to great lengths to find original sounds for the movie..
Michael Bay has even sent a letter to projectionists with advice on how to avoid a repeat of the dark picture associated with the previous transformers movies as a result of the 3D technology.
The basejumping scene was filmed in downtown Chicago, with actual basejumpers leaping from the Sears Tower in Downtown Chicago.
During production Michael Bay mentioned that he was going to try to tone down the explosions and stuff in Transformers 3..
Right..
Here's Noisia's original video for "Machine Gun Remix".
The Transformers 3 sound production team went to great lengths to find original sounds for the movie..
Soundworks Collection: The Sound of Transformers:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Dark of the Moon from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
Michael Bay has even sent a letter to projectionists with advice on how to avoid a repeat of the dark picture associated with the previous transformers movies as a result of the 3D technology.
The basejumping scene was filmed in downtown Chicago, with actual basejumpers leaping from the Sears Tower in Downtown Chicago.
During production Michael Bay mentioned that he was going to try to tone down the explosions and stuff in Transformers 3..
Right..
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Saturday 18 June 2011
Effects of Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Ash Cloud
The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of the ash plume from the eruption of Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain spreading across South America on June 13 , 2011. The wind shifted from the day before and was now blowing from the west and southwest, pushing the plume east and northeast. (Reuters/NASA Goddard/MODIS Rapid Response, Jeff Schmaltz).
(More photos at The Atlantic).
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