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“Google had never done anything in the Amazon before, but it made perfect...
*That’s the Amazon rainforest – not Amazon.com! Check out this interview from MAKE with Google’s Rebecca Moore, who helped an Amazon chief use Google Earth to fight illegal logging. Lots more here.
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DIY: Vintage-style wooden MRI brain map
Somebody in charge of pulling flickr illustrations for Wired’s website has a good eye – they used this photo by Stephen Hampshire. A quick visit to flickr, and it turns out the photo is of Hampshire’s...
View ArticleThe Human Industrial Palace In Action
Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from Henning Lederer on Vimeo. So awesome! Fritz Kahn’s poster reimagined as an animation by Henning Lederer. Via Bora.
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Weekend video break: Journalism in the age of data
Knight Fellow Geoff McGhee created this polished video documentary series about how data visualization is infiltrating and transforming journalism. Interviews with Many Eyes creators Fernanda Viegas...
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Body Voyaging: Fantastic Anatomical and Physiological Journeys Through the Body
Observatory is hosting another great event tonight: From Heumann Heilmittel, “Eine Reise durch den menschlichen Körper” (1941) Body Voyaging: an illustrated lecture with Kristen Ann Ehrenberger Date:...
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Subway lines as cello strings; an atlas of loneliness
I get mail with wonderful links in it, but I’m hard pressed to find the time to post them, so my apologizes to those who’ve sent me things and not heard back. I’m beyond swamped. In the meantime,...
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Photopic Sky Survey: the Milky Way, as it was meant to be seen
If you haven’t already seen the Photopic Sky Survey, you really should. Nick Risinger toured the world’s least light-polluted sites to photograph and stitch together this 37,440 exposure, 5000...
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Ribbons of water: vintage maps of the wandering Mississippi
Via Alexis Madrigal’s Mississippi explainer at the Atlantic, this beautiful map of the Mississippi’s historic meanderings is like a carelessly draped cluster of silk ribbons. Madrigal says, If the...
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Randy Hage’s Manhattan Wonder Cabinet
Nick’s Luncheonette Randy Hage Via the eye-candy blog How to Be a Retronaut (thanks Miles for first sending me a link there), the painstakingly accurate miniature Manhattan streetscapes of LA artist...
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Seeing the invisible? There’s an app for that
This video from Xperia Studio very effectively conveys how data visualization can both leverage and challenge our conceptions of “reality.” The night sky we’ve seen since childhood, like everything...
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