Via howtobearetronaut.com
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
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