29 May 2009

Visual tracert tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a specified destination.

(Class) Digital Images in Painting

Interactive Map of Human Sexuality http://www.humansexmap.com/

Canceled Map (Twittered)

Disappeared and Forgotten: Imaginary Space and the Emptiness of Empty Maps

(Researcher) the social and cultural impact of videogames

Work on Stuff that Matters

(Examples) Artistic / Creative Resumes: http://tinyurl.com/owhwc3

100 Cereal Box Covers

♫ Dido – White Flag

"I think by exploring the bad side you're really just mapping the envelope of the system... you're getting a sense of how far off you can go." Will Wright
"Pretending is so powerful; look how far it's already taken you." - TU
"If we live only in our only existing mental map we cannot see what is changing around us." - Nancy Ramsey
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." - Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
"I will work my own way, according to the light that is in me." - Lydia Maria Child

28 May 2009

GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping in 2010

The case for a Visual Mapping Body of Knowledge

Exploring Medical Librarianship (and Web Geekery )

Questioning the Frame : Thoughts about maps and spatial logic

Google Maps Pedometer

Visualization Blog : http://visualizeit.wordpress.com/

Singularity University is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, AI, etc.)...

(Definintion) 'cobbling' means working outside of what a product or system was originally designed to do... When cobbling happens, it looks like breaking out, and mashups & remixing;
Workarounds - people working outside the system
Adaptations - making a product custom fit to people’s lives
Explorations
- pushing the boundaries to see what’s possible
... a sense of roughness and capability. It may not be pretty, but it works.

New community service approach ; http://www.timeraiser.ca./

SkyPilot

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt
"Mindless productivity (and) infomania erode our capacity for significance." - Michael Heim, (Cyberspace: First Steps, 1993: 10) Via
"For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows." - Mother Meera
"Some things should just be done for the fun of it." - TU
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." - Baba Ram Dass

27 May 2009

(CASE STUDY) Christian Nold’s Bio Mapping project

Subversive Cartography : challenging the accuracy of the official map

(Review) Amode takes a fresh approach to visual mapping, information management

(Video) Transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from a cube.

Google knows more about you "than your mother does".

Reasons why you'll like Windows 7

A quilt that's a map (or a map that's a quilt?) Pillows and Cushions

How to write a personal(?) artist’s statement (make into http://www.wordle.net/create)

(Flickr) Slideshow (embedded);


♫ Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire

"Pedras no caminho? Guardo todas, um dia vou construir um castelo… or Stones in my path? I keep them all, one day I’m going to build a castle." - Fernando Pessoa, Early 20th Century Portuguese Poet
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." - Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
"...the act of art is at its best when the interaction simply takes place between the artist and the work itself--outside the world of criticism and inside the world of inner knowledge." - Robert Genn
"I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself." - Colin Farrell
"To encounter is to find, to capture, to steal, but there is no method for finding, only a long preparation." - Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues Cartography

26 May 2009

Visualize Google Search Results in a Mind Map

First comprehensive geological Arctic map published

CO2 Storage map : http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/ccsmap

Sentimental Cartography / Suely Rolnik

It Happened on this Map: where great plays, novels, film scripts or poems were written.

Mind Map of 100 Uses for Mind Maps

(Very basic) tutorial and example of ActionScript code for a simple version of the way to typically code panning and zooming.

In Defense of Eye Candy

Microsoft tells companies to kill Vista plans

Make a Tetrahedral Kite

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week." - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
"And then I stumbled on another kind of tune. What I call the fractal tune. It had a very different quality to it. It was less of an entertainment, and more of a sacrament. This was music that came to me from a different place." - Oliver Schroer Via
"Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day." - Mario Andretti
"Here's a hint on figuring out the next step to take on the path of your wildest dreams... it almost never lies behind the doors marked, WOW, SEXY, or GLAMOROUS." - The Universe
"What kills life, is the absence of mystery." - Anais Nin

25 May 2009

PhotoProto : to design a GUI using Photoshop

(20-minute talk from) Web2.0 Expo : how technology has enabled massive amounts of data to be recorded, stored, and analyzed.

(Forums) User Interface Design : http://www.devx.com/DevX/Door/20776

Cartography of Excess (PDF)

10 Online Photography Magazines

(A Daily Aggregation) http://clicks.robertgenn.com/painters_post.php that Artists and Other Creative People may find Useful

(Launch Projects Review) "...he “takes the figure and makes it all ground,” representing/performing one of the biggest paradigm shifts in our digital age, i.e. that everything is now available for appropriation and sampling. Mashing together text, graphics, icons, clip art and anything else you can imagine into a democracy of images, old concepts of foreground and background dissolve, while the over-population of content over-signifies to such a degree that each thing both counts and does not count. And it all happens on one surface."

Response to comments made on the article, JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS…..Why So Many?

(Adyashanti Video) "Causeless Happiness"

♫ The Waterboys – Strange Boat

"Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there." - Rumi
"Curiosity and experimentation are adopted attitudes, and while they fluctuate and at times appear loony, they're largely voluntary." - Robert Genn
"Life expands or shrinks in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
"This must be done, I have no doubt this is the right thing to do, and I happen to be in a position to do it. My motivation comes from the heart and I am willing to answer its call." - Via
"Regularity, order and the desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art." - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

22 May 2009

Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design?

(US) Wind Map

Visuality and the Semiotics of Chemistry

Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well

Creating new digital media

Explore / Comics A to Z

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

Are Creative People Different?

(Definition) "Synthesis" : the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole.

♫ Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World

"..to be a tramp rather than lose his freedom to sleep as late as he liked, to eat what he could find at the time he wanted, to paint only when the passion to work took him." - ANAIS NIN - The Chanchiquito
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." - Confucius
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"It's not what's happening around you that determines your health, finances, or hotness, but what's happening inside of you - exclusively." - The Universe
"Because we can we must." - Ben Hammersley (roughly quoted on opening the BBC's vaults)

21 May 2009

Google is currently running a results prototype showing a “wonder wheel navigation” - highlighting (mindmap-ish?) nodes and connections within search results.

(Map) putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.

Photosynth Public and Live

Big Art Map

The 4D Conversation Starter

THE BATTLE BETWEEN PICTURES AND WORDS

...before they can begin designing, they must make order out of the chaotic mess of research. The connections that can be formed during this synthesis phase frequently hold the keys to "innovation". Designers visually explore large quantities of data in an effort to find and understand hidden relationships.

Nikola Tesla (The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century)

Discovery Quotes

♫ The Beatles – Twist & Shout

"It is from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born." - Odilon Redon
"Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got." - FarmBoy
"When your peeps ask you what you do all day every day you do tell them, 'Whatever I want.' Right? Because you do." - The Universe
"... once you start looking through the lens you see things you couldn’t possibly see without the camera." - Peter Van Rhijn
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi