weather is created by sean salmon. weather is interesting. weather is changing. weather is the same.
I spend days working as a User Experience Designer at Schematic.
I have a portfolio of my work at seanaes.com


History of the Sky captures the fluid atmospheric phenomena above the San Francisco Exploratorium in timelapse format. Each frame is a single day, shots taken every 10 seconds.
Stunning.
tags:sky video weather
Photographer and Mathematician Nikki Graziano photographs math found in nature
tags:art photography
Kulula airlines from South Africa has rebranded with some nice information rich livery.
tags:airplanes branding
Artist Jörg M. Colberg creates images that are compressed with a customized jpeg compression scheme.
tags:computation photographyajpegis a new image compression algorithm where the focus is not on making its compression efficient but, rather, on making its result interesting.
ajpeg is intended to go the opposite way: Instead of creating an image artificially with the intent of making it look as photo-realistic as possible, it takes an image captured from life and transforms it into something that looks real and not real at the same time.

Personalized custom christmas tree ornaments made by Really Interesting Group for their friends with each friend’s own social network data. Snowman’s head is number is Twitter followers, length of drips from cloud is Dopplr data, horizontal red bars for number of tracks scrobbled monthly on last.fm and the blue one shows the aperatures used on photos posted to flickr. Friends without data on a particular network got a 404.

Of course Really Interesting Group are the ones behind the excellent Newspaper Club.
More pictures and details over at russell davies: datadecs
tags:craft data infoviz memory personal dataNot too much travel this year. Again.
▪ New York City
▪ Jersey City
▪ Killington VT
▪ North Creek NY
▪ Montreal
▪ London
▪ Dorset VT
▪ Bennington VT
▪ Buffalo NY
tags:2009 citiesSenex Prime on flickr
tags:mapping maps

Seriously awesome work by James Hopkins. Be sure to checkout the Balanced Works on his website.
tags:art
shoe box by aya masuda
This shoe box could not be more perfect. It is from a series of workshops and exhibitions called Without Thought organized by Naoto Fukasawa, the latest focused on the Box.
Box – Without Thought Vol. 10
More boxes from the workshop at designboom
tags:box design shoes
I don’t remember seeing this in particular at the Swiss EXPO.02 but a number of artists working together under the name Waterproof “imagined a(n) (im)possible scenario wherein the water level in Switzerland rises to 1400 meters (4600 feet), turning the landlocked, Alpine country into an island nation, its rocky peaks rising above a vast ocean.”
The series of images over at Pruned show an imaginative take on how the Swiss might deal with their new situation.
via Pruned
tags:alpine climate mapping the future