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Wavefield at Storm King
Posted March 10th, 2009 at 10:19 am. There are 0 comments.
Storm King Wavefield by Maya Lin
Opening at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY, in May 2009
The Wavefield is comprised of seven rows of undulating, rolling waves of earth and grass. The waves range in height from ten to fifteen feet, with a trough-to-trough distance of approximately forty feet. The work at Storm King is the largest site-specific art installation that Lin has created, and it marks a culmination in her series dedicated to the exploration of water-wave formations. Because it is executed in the same scale as an actual set of waves, the viewer’s experience is similar to that of being at sea, where one loses visual contact with adjacent waves. Compound curves allow for a complex and subtle reading of the space in the form of an environment that pulls the viewer into its interior and creates a sense of total immersion.
Maya Lin (warning, typically annoying architect flash site)
eyescapes
Posted March 9th, 2009 at 10:37 pm. There are 0 comments.
eyescapes by Rankin
Gerd Arntz
Posted March 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 pm. There are 0 comments.
food isotype samples
Gerd Arntz designed over 4000 isotype pictograms in his lifetime. Collected in the Gerd Arntz Archive, these drawings gave the proletariat knowledge of the world.
This knowledge should not be shrined in opaque scientific language, but directly illustrated in straightforward images and a clear structure, also for people who could not, or hardly, read. Another outspoken goal of this method of visual statistics was to overcome barriers of language and culture, and to be universally understood.
New York Times Map of Readers’ Photos of the Snow
Posted March 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 am. There are 0 comments.
The sparseness of the information on the map is almost unsettling. New York Times readers were asked to submit their photos from the snowstorm that came through the area on Monday, but it would seem that very few did.
100 matchsticks grid16: 16/28
Posted February 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am. There are 0 comments.
I glued 100 matchsticks in 10X10 grid.
my favorite thing-a-day made thus far.
vehicle motion drawings
Posted February 16th, 2009 at 8:54 pm. There are 0 comments.
Monaco Grand Prix Track Drawing by Tim Knowles
A series of drawings generated by an apparatus in the back of a moving vehicle, a system of sliding rails and elastic holds a pen
on to paper and records the forces at work within the vehicle. As the car moves much like a ball on the back seat of a car,
as you break the pen moves forward, you turn left the pen moves right, etc.
paper visualization of daylight
Posted February 13th, 2009 at 11:58 am. There are 0 comments.
Made by Charlene Lam the outer loop represents the 24 hours of the day for each of the 12 months. The inner loop shows the length of daylight for the first of that month.
Beautiful.
furniture made of ice and snow
Posted February 11th, 2009 at 9:55 am. There are 0 comments.
'ice and snow furniture' image © hongtao zhou
Furniture made from the surrounding terrain always excites me. Blending in to the surroundings and the manner in which it will return to the earth, or water in this case, make these even more beautiful.
Created by Hongtao Zhou on Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
via designboom
superbowl twitter timeline on nyt.com
Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am. There are 0 comments.
Wonderful map + timeline showing most popular ‘tweets’ during the superbowl. You can look at all ‘tweets’ or seperate categories such as ads (Cash4Gold and GoDaddy being ones I personally contributed too, in as much as I thought they were aweful) or the ever useful emoticon map.
Grid: Thing-A-Day 1/28
Posted February 1st, 2009 at 9:00 pm. There are 0 comments.
Thing-A-Day 2009 kicked off today. This is my first of what will be 28 days of grids. Follow all the action at thing-a-day.com
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