Centripetal Notion: category

Click through for larger images and a lot of variations. Drawings were collected from 250 participants in a research project who were asked to draw what various emotions felt like, what direction that emotions travels, etc. The result is revealing.
LINK/IMAGES Emotionally}Vague website, via infosthetics

Confirms my theory that skin color is a function of the earth’s axis and exposure to solar radiation. Duh.

Around the webs Robert is known as Flight404. This piece and many others by him are made with Processing. Tons more at his blog and Vimeo account. DVD release forthcoming.

Microphones record an ongoing conversation, graphing the audio in concentric rings, differentiating voices by color. The further inward the rings, the further back in the conversation. Patterns reveal themselves such as individual people not speaking, interrupting, dominating, etc. Arguments and group silences become immediately tangible. (…)

Trulia Hindsight takes property construction data and animates the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities in the US over the last couple centuries.

After letting Last.fm track his music listening habits for over a year, Lee Byron took the data generated and through some clever math and plotting, produced this beautiful, organic representation of his history. Artists ebb and flow as the seasons and his preferences change.

A National Geographic study reveals the distribution of single men and women around the country. Blue and red represent an excess of single men and women respectively. It’s middle school all over again — the boys grouping up on one side of the continent and the girls on the other.

Waxxi, an up-and-coming “presenter and producer of live and archived interactive podcasts” is hosting a Q&A session with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, this Thursday at 1:30 PM et.

“an interactive & quite extensive size comparison of the perception of our universe, starting from a proton (1 femtometer) over to a hydrogen atom (100 picometers), a protein nanometer (10 nanometer), & a red blood cell (7-8 micrometer), to the moon (3,764km), a nebula (30 light years), & the outer limits of our universe (13,7 billion light years).”

Some hot new footage of Jeff Han’s multi-touch interfaces from TED 2007 which came and went a little over a week ago. I’m sure there will be more of the same surfacing soon.