Olivo Barbieri takes aerial photographs using a tilt-shift lens, which he says “allows me to choose what I really like in focus: like in a written page, we don’t read [it as an] image but one line at a time.” The result makes city landscapes look like intricate models.
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Sundance 2006 Shorts
The Sundance Film Festival has over 50 documentary, film, and animation shorts available to watch on their website for free, with more on the way.
Celestia
Google Earth, for space. Celesita overlays modern telescope and spacecraft photography on a surprisingly detailed working model of the known universe. You can fly around like a flight simulator and change the flow of time — watching cities light up as the night sweeps across Earth one minute and zooming out past the Milky Way the next.
Organic Data Visualization
Treemaps are a method for visualizing information that completely and recursively subdivide a given area into cells, where each cell’s area corresponds to certain attributes in the data set. In other words, you can look at an otherwise large set of data, and instantly distinguish trends and patterns from the wealth of information in front of you. (…)
Building on that idea are Michael Balzer and Oliver Deussen from the University of Konstanz, Germany, who use an algorithm based on Voronoi tessellations, a method which allows for organizing data into more complex shapes like shown in the image above, producing a more intuitive and flexible treemap that closely resembles the patterns formed by soap bubbles or living cells.
Ice Cream Creatures
“Ice Cream Creatures music is vocal, dreamy, experimental electronic glitched up guitar ballads for space children. The sound can range from soft and ambient drones to songs composed only of manipulated vocals to full on drum and bass.”
Zipdecode
Understand how and where zip codes are assigned and located in seconds. Just load the website and start typing your zip code; it will narrow your search the more you type and widen it when you hit backspace.
Created by Ben Fry at the MIT Media Laboratory. Check out his website for other interesting information design as well.
First Moments Of Atomic Explosion
These images were taken by Harold Edgerton, seven miles from the blast, with the shutter speed set to 1/1000,000,000 of a second, capturing the explosion before mushroom cloud formation.
Natalie Dee
I’m freaking crying her comics are so funny. Her blog is just as good.
Early Man Hunted By Birds
“Can you imagine what it must have been like back then? Not only were we afraid of cats, and leopards – you had to watch for aerial attacks from these ferocious predators preying on your young.”
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