28 January 2009

(Animation) Ultimate Zoom-In Shot

(Book: 'Everything is Miscellaneous') "...the work of knowing is more complicated than Adler’s quadripartite division of information-knowledge-understanding-and-wisdom allows..." Via : http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/06/from-great-ideas-to-our-greatest-opportunity-the-internet/

Move your mouse/cursor over the hotspots (the small yellow lightbulbs) on this map, then CLICK to read, view, and hear the conversations (and add your comments in the blog). Via

Loneliness Map

Movie (Mind)Map

Grid Round Up

Magick Symbols : Their Meanings and Uses

(Advanced Search) 'inblogtitle:Map'

Magnetic Photo Rope

This ad firm was interested

"Twilight is that time of day between day and night; limbo. I call it limbo,and sometimes when I take my ideas to my homeboys they say, well Twilight, that's something you can't do right now, that's an idea before its time." - Anna Deavere Smith, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
"Miracles are great, but they are so damned unpredictable." - Old Polish Proverb
"Thinking different thoughts than you have ever thought before, is the only path to answers, healing, new jeans, or anything that glitters." - The Universe
"Maybe we can say, we are making technology in order to understand it, and understanding technology in order to make our own." - Kristina Anderson (Digital Artists' handbook) Via
"Give me ambiguity or give me something else. " - Via

27 January 2009

MeetWays : http://www.meetways.com/ (Find a point of interest between two given addresses)

VGMap is a new library (created by Eyebeam R&D) that allows mapping geeks to overlay data on top of Google Maps by adding vector-drawing capability to the already-awesome GMap API.

The Collaborative Map (Best Online Collaboration Tools 2008)

Irrigation Map of the World

Isometric Movie

Structured Visual Thinking

Very popular Infographic / Poster

(Animated tesselation) Animated Reptiles

(50 Ways to) Tell a Digital Story

Purple Dialogue is the process of bringing two diametrically-opposing points-of-view (represented here by the colors red and blue) into alignment such that they both UNDERSTAND each other's point-of-view.

"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit." - Ansel Adams
"Wonderful things can happen if you put your brush down and let your painting be your teacher." - Charles Reid
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” - Anatole France
"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be." - ?
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."- Richard M. Nixon

26 January 2009

Participatory-map-making

Cubicon Model : http://www.coretalk.net/

Visualizing Artikulation (used shapes and colors instead of notes on a staff )

(French blog) http://www.serialmapper.com/

Softpedia -the encyclopedia of free software downloads

Moon Flag

Map Paintings

Suprematism represents a logical continuation of Cubism in its striving to give substance to the new non-objective cosmic concept of a spatially integrated world and its structural unity.

120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

Book self-publishing discussion

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."- Rachel Carson
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau
"The ordinary citizen ought to be able to get information freely about all subjects in which he is interested, just as he can get geographical knowledge from maps and atlases. There is no field where humanisation of knowledge through the eye would not be possible." - Otto Neurath
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. " - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Everything that is faced will not change, but nothing will change unless it is faced." - James Baldwin

23 January 2009

Interactive Map of the Hamas/Israel War

(Flash) Zoom/Pan example

Happier travels through Street View with Pegman

(Executive Summary) Explanation of Mind Mapping

Cows automatically point to the north

Translate text or web page

Our brain must be properly hydrated if it is to function properly.

Tony Fitzpatrick-Master Collage Artist

(Rap) Map Your Psyche

Listed under 'Bloggar om kartor'

"If you can do something about it, why worry? If you can't do something about it, why worry?" - Old Indian Proverb
"Your work is to discover your world, and then with all your heart, give yourself to it." - Buddha
"Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them." -Ralph W. Gerard
"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it."- Bill Nye

22 January 2009

Madrid Metro Map

THE MAP OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

Make a (better) foldable map

The word symbol derives from the Greek, meaning `to throw together'.

The Power of 10

MovieImage Collage

Mapish Artist

(Flickr) Who calls you a Contact?

Conditions for Giving?

Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits

"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely." - Erma Bombeck
"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau
"There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives." - Josephine Hart
"Meandering leads to perfection." - Lao Tzu
"You don't have to better than everyone else; just better than the day before." - ?

21 January 2009

From 2D to isometric

"Border Talk," Hybridity, and Performativity (Cultural Theory and Identity in the Spaces between Difference)

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers : large collection of geo-referenced (done by adding XML tags following the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines) travel writing.

(Flickr) public group : You Are Here (Maps)

The Diamond Theory of Truth

http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/category/maps/

The Wiki Way to Getting Things Done

(Self-) Publishing an Art Book

Chumbawamba "Tubthumping", Tubthumper

(Example) 'Links to this post'

"When your heart speaks, take good notes." - Judith Campbell
"Availability of web-based mapping tools makes me a cartographer/geographer as much as the availability of a power saw and drill makes me a carpenter." - Puneet Kishor
"If you cannot, in the long run, tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless." - Schrodinger
"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."- Leonard Bernstein
"People are allergic to text." - Via

20 January 2009

Do Maps Create or Represent Reality?

Hyperpanometrics (MS Word - View as HTML) is about establishing alternative universes or micro world simulations (where the laws of nature are rewritten to allow observations of how different variables react within a bounded rational and then transposed back to the real world).

(Map) United States of Mind : Researchers Identify Regional Personality Traits Across America

‘Everything, Everything’ delivers an undulating landscape through a procedural triangulation technique creating an angular web... Via

Re-imagining the Science Poster (full version here)

(Video) TriGrid game (Trism)

Tinkering at the Margins

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars

http://www.theradio.com/ : Just type in any song that was ever played, or click on "Channels" and pick your favorite genre of music.

(Blog Comment?) mention here "Ror, I've got another map site for you."

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."- Randall Jarrell
"The best lesson life has taught me is that the idiots in many cases are right." - W. Churchill
"The notion that the future can enhance the present is a wonderful and insightful concept." - Don Norman
"One must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he is ever to learn to choose right." - Josiah C. Wedgewood
"One day soon you will be exceedingly glad for this very path you now tread." - TU