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8-bit cities
Posted February 4th, 2011 at 1:22 pm. There are 0 comments.
8-bit City is an awesome Kickstarter funded project by Brett Camper. Videogame graphic inspired slippy maps built on top of Openstreetmap data.
The 8-Bit Cities project, which started with 8-Bit NYC, is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space: the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that drives today’s web maps and GPS navigation. I hope to evoke the same urge for exploration, abstract sense of scale, and perhaps most importantly unbounded excitement that many of us remember experiencing on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Commodore 64, or any other number of 8-bit microcomputers. Maps offer us visual architectures of the world, encouraging us to think about and interact with space in particularly constrained ways. Take some time to think about your surroundings a little differently. Set out on a quest. Be an adventurer
the universal now
Posted January 13th, 2011 at 1:40 pm. There are 0 comments.
The Universal Now by Abigail Reynolds.
Relief sculptures using found photographs of the same place taken at different times.
I love these. She has other folded photographs,some awesome crochet work. and currently has a solo show in Seattle at Ambach & Rice
paris metro infiltration
Posted December 23rd, 2010 at 10:42 am. There is 1 comment.
Back in October 2007 sometime after midnight and before the first trains rolled into regular service, qx and I took our first timid steps onto the tracks of the Paris metro. With more nervousness and care than I’d like to admit we gingerly stepped down between the metal rails just off the end of a platform wondering what madness had possessed us to do so. We’d never done Metro like this before and this scary new world was full of elements we didn’t understand at all. Looking at every rail critically working out which carried the power, asking ourselves so many questions: how far could the electricity arc, would that even happen, could the cameras on the platform see us, did security wait in the tunnels after hours, were there any trains after service, if so how fast did they go, did anyone live in the tunnels, would we encounter writers? We’d heard lots of stories about RATP security forgoing the usual legal punishments and simply beating up those found in the tunnels and kicking them out onto the street. We weren’t packing paint but would that matter?
Sleepycity’s travelogue from an illicit exploration of the Paris Metro.
breaking up with los angeles
Posted December 21st, 2010 at 11:07 am. There are 0 comments.
Designer Jon Jackson is moving cross country to take a new job in NY. Rather than slip away under the cover of the night he said, Adios LA, with five public billboards.
London-on-Sea
Posted December 13th, 2010 at 12:52 pm. There are 0 comments.
Practical Action has a slightly modified London tube map showing the impact of rising sea levels predicted for the the year 2100.
via bldgblog
is this the new google maps ui
Posted December 3rd, 2010 at 5:33 pm. There are 0 comments.Check out that sweet ‘other’ view option window in the upper right.
via 41 latitude
stopping the world
Posted December 2nd, 2010 at 10:42 am. There are 0 comments.via kottke
electric mountain
Posted November 30th, 2010 at 7:14 pm. There are 0 comments.
photo via ben cooper’s flickr
Deep inside the mountain is an 800m shaft, about 30m wide. During times of excess energy on the National Grid, water from the lake below is pumped up into the reservoir above the shaft. And when a surge of energy is needed on the grid, (say during a football match half-time), it’s released back into the lake, hurtling through the turbines and generating up to 1,320 MW from standstill in 12 seconds.
This isn’t all that surprising, after all it is how all watertowers work, but the name, Electric Mountain, the description of the semi-audible humming present at the site which is somewhere between hearing and feeling, gives the whole place a Tarkovskian type feeling of the Zone.
The wikipedia article about the Dinorwig Power Station has more details.
After we climbed out, I asked about the lake below. “You could say that it’s tidal, but with the television schedules, rather than the moon.”
Mind is blown.
via tom taylor
paths of flight
Posted November 29th, 2010 at 3:48 pm. There are 0 comments.more from GE
google street view coverage
Posted November 15th, 2010 at 10:27 pm. There are 0 comments.
Google map showing all areas covered by Street View
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