Centripetal Notion

Solstice to Solstice

Jim Bumgardner, coauthor of the book Flickr Hacks and self-described “absent-minded geek with music skills & an obsession with radial symmetry” has made all kinds of generative art with Flickr, some of which can be purchased as posters.

His latest takes 40,000 photos tagged “sunset” last year, each positioned horizontally according to the day taken, and vertically according to the hour. You can watch the year progress as the summer and winter solstices fade back and forth. Grab the full res version or you’re only kidding yourself.

IMAGE (Flickr)
LINK [Jim's website]

Previously: Summer Solstice

The Conversation {4 comments}

Jordan 03 January, 07 @ 7:08 pm

Is it just me or is the font used in these posters extremely lacking?
Justin Ruckman 03 January, 07 @ 10:03 pm

Looks like Garamond, which is a nice Adobe typeface, though it could be any number of similar looking ones. It’s not used very well though.

For something like this I would have gone with a sans-serif, made the type a little smaller, and given them each a little background shade to increase contrast.
Jordan 03 January, 07 @ 10:33 pm

Ah, I was mostly talking to the script-ish one on the “All kinds of generative art” link… but also, I shouldn’t be so critical.
Justin Ruckman 04 January, 07 @ 1:08 am

No you’re right about the script.