In the Category interesting
found functions
Posted February 23rd, 2010 at 2:04 pm. There are 0 comments.
Photographer and Mathematician Nikki Graziano photographs math found in nature
flying 101
Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 7:15 pm. There are 0 comments.
Kulula airlines from South Africa has rebranded with some nice information rich livery.
pixels
Posted January 14th, 2010 at 11:05 am. There are 0 comments.
Artist Jörg M. Colberg creates images that are compressed with a customized jpeg compression scheme.
ajpegis 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.
data to hang on the christmas tree
Posted January 11th, 2010 at 3:42 pm. There are 0 comments.
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
US Interstate system as a tube map
Posted November 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm. There are 0 comments.
Senex Prime on flickr
james hopkins
Posted November 5th, 2009 at 11:04 am. There are 0 comments.
Seriously awesome work by James Hopkins. Be sure to checkout the Balanced Works on his website.
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.
CLOUD
Posted October 1st, 2009 at 8:01 pm. There are 0 comments.
Ron English takes graffiti to new heights this morning by skywriting the word CLOUD five times across lower Manhattan. The text soon dissipates into… actual clouds.
As quoted from his website.
Museum of the Phantom City
Posted October 1st, 2009 at 12:26 pm. There are 0 comments.
New York City of today isn’t exactly as we had imagined it. Through history there have been many possible futures that have gone unrealized. The Museum of the Phantom City presents these Architectural and Urban Design proposals as one moves through the city to the intended locations via an iPhone app that is available no in the app store. The Van Alen Institute is holding a walking tour on Sturday October 3rd, the day the full site launches.
Get the Museum of the Phantom City: Other Futures iPhone app