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google mail envelopes
Posted April 12th, 2010 at 1:27 pm. There are 0 comments.
Love the idea of making maps into envelopes, even with the limitations of having to send all snail mail south-easterly to get the return address and the recipient’s address properly positioned.
Like when Reason magazine did custom magazine covers with aerial photographs for each of their subscribers homes – in June 2004
US Interstate system as a tube map
Posted November 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm. There are 0 comments.
Senex Prime on flickr
the sea level rises and Switzerland becomes a series of islands
Posted October 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm. There are 0 comments.
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
setting an alarm for a where rather than a when
Posted October 14th, 2009 at 7:28 pm. There is 1 comment.
Proximity is a simple iPhone app that works as an alarm clock except the alarm is not set for a time but rather a location. It is aimed at commuters and others that end up sleeping while they are moving in some sort of transport. It is a great mobilization of two things that are usually understood as fixed: You sleeping in bed and your alarm clock on the bedside table are in a fixed location. A standard proximity sensor that is fixed in location sensing when moving things get closer than a pre-selected distance threshold.
I really like the transposition of a specific location where one would usually have a specific time, attaching an alarm to a where rather then a when. It is a bit of genius.
discovery in the city via mariolife and street art
Posted July 24th, 2009 at 8:52 am. There are 0 comments.
Walking home the other day I decided to play Mariolife, a real life GPS game on my iPhone. Playing in this case, is walking around in the real world gathering up virtual coins and mushrooms and rescuing princesses. In my quest to gather up coins I found myself walking on streets I had never walked, at least with any kind of noticing, and running into bits of street art I had not yet seen as well. My real life adventure was being guided by the placement of coins that existed only on the screen of my iPhone. So in spending a couple of hours wandering around collecting virtual coins and real street art (in photos) I realized that there was something really special about the collision of very different real world expereinces that was happening here.
Mariolife on iTunes
dead pixel for google earth
Posted April 30th, 2009 at 11:50 am. There are 0 comments.
82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.
A real life dead pixel by Helmut Smits. Digital display technologies affecting the real physical world with it’s intentions of affecting the digital representation of the physical world. See also.
tokyo jogging
Posted April 15th, 2009 at 12:18 pm. There are 0 comments.
Try to run on the google street view like a jogging game of wii fit from katsuma on Vimeo.
tokyo jogging is a mashup of wiimote and google streetview. Lets you “run” in Tokyo, in your web browser.
The possibilities of this are pretty interesting. Combined with the tv screen on the treadmill or exercise bike at the gym you could run world famous marathon routes and in places where running isn’t usually feasible, say, run the length of the New York Thruway.
via @oliver76
Born at 30,000 feet
Posted January 20th, 2009 at 7:08 pm. There are 0 comments.BLDGBLOG points to the interesting status bestowed upon a newly born baby girl. While flying from Amsterdam to Boston, a Ugandan women went into labor and gave birth to a child, which was subsequently deemed to be Canadian by US Customs officials. It was determined that the birth occurred over eastern Canada.
Extrapolating from this situation, BLDGBLOG speculates further:
Of course, one wonders what citizenship this baby would have been given if they had been flying over the middle of the ocean, for instance, or across the tangled borders of an enclave or exclave. A complicated mathematics of trajectory, speed, and height is unleashed by terrestrial scholars below in order to find the exact location of the plane at the moment of childbirth.
Like something out of Borges, imperial trigonometricians are called in for consultation. Their calculations take days and arguments break out.
Perhaps the child goes on to be famous – a political leader, a poet, a revolutionary, the next pope – and his or her exact aerial origin becomes increasingly important to find out. Weather data and wind speed, the weight of fellow passengers, tiny aerodynamic imperfections in the wings, and even gravitational anomalies in the earth’s crust are brought to bear: how fast was the airplane traveling?
Shifting Boundries
Posted January 19th, 2009 at 3:54 pm. There are 0 comments.
Since seeing this first post on the Shape of Alpha on the code.flickr blog many many weeks ago I have thought about what it means nearly everyday. Future geographical boundries are becoming more flexible as we define them with our metadata. We are where we think we are, even if that particular there isn’t exactly right. These zones are the questionable locales located between conventional boundries as defined by geographical coordinates recorded in maps and property deeds and the line we have drawn for ourselves, collectively, where once place ends and another begins.
2008 edits at OpenStreetMap.org
Posted January 7th, 2009 at 5:42 pm. There are 0 comments.
OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
Very nice animation showing the activity on the maps at OpenStreetMap.org
If you look closely you can see the edits I made in Jersey City last year.
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