Google News Timeline

"Timeline results are generated by a computer program, and we don't guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information you may see. Dates may be wrong." via infosthetics.com

Emotional Cartography

Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visulising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology.

stopmotion inside stopmotion

you may have seen something like this, but this is a particularly nice example:

Little Red Riding Hood, a new illustration.

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

Op-Video: Sex, Lies and Photoshop (NYTimes video)

Why magazines should let readers know if images have been retouched.

What do you think?

Interesting Essay on Writing and the Alphabet

Found this interesting essay on writing and it's effect on our thinking; seemed relevant to our discussion yesterday on the evolution of text.
On the Ecological Consequences of Alphabetic Literacy:
Reflections in the Shadow of Plato’s PHAEDRUS (David Abram)
what do you think?
(David Abram is author of "The Spell of the Sensuous," a wonderful book on environmental philosophy and our experience of the natural world, which includes some of his ideas about text's influence on our evolution)

Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar - Filthy Fluno - NYTimes.com

How a struggling Boston painter finally found success through his alter ego -- a hip, virtual-world art-scene maker.

Article - NYTimes.com.

Experience - Nikki Chung

"The number of pages in each book corresponds to the number of tourist arrivals in that country in 2005. When viewed on a shelf, one year's worth of 'experience' is presented in a condensed physical model that can be shifted and rearranged to visualize where tourists travel and where they don't." - via nikkichung.com

TimeSpace: World

"TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe."-washingtonpost.com

A Year in a Cage: A Life Shrunk to Expand Art

This form was extreme deprivation. For “Cage Piece” Mr. Hsieh deprived himself of nearly all contact with the world. In the next four pieces he eliminated, in succession, concentration, shelter, privacy and finally art itself. In each case he altered the nature of time radically for himself and, retrospectively, us. (NYTimes)

Do We Need a New Internet?

The Internet’s original designers never foresaw that the academic and military research network they created would one day bear the burden of carrying all the world’s communications and commerce.

via NYTimes

Being There - The Subtle Art of the Facebook Comment

People point out that there’s a significant sleight-of-hand in every status update, because the real answer to “What are you doing right now?” is always just “Updating my status.”

glocal.

The Glocal Project is a collaborative, multifaceted artist-led project that examines the changing role of digital image making today.

Rubens' Tube: Real Life Sound Visualization with Fire and Propane

geeky and pretty damn fun

a mirror with a memory

Errol Morris interviews Vincent Amalvy of the Agence France-Press on the photographic legacy of Bush

a mirror with a memory

Errol Morris interviews Vincent Amalvy of the Agence France-Press on the photographic legacy of Bush

a mirror with a memory

Errol Morris interviews Vincent Amalvy of the Agence France-Press on the photographic legacy of Bush

President Obama Inauguration: Captured in a Single Navigable Photo

Photosynth, the innovative Microsoft Live Labs application that was explained in a few online talks a while ago, shows off its spectacular capability of creating 3D navigable spaces from hundreds and thousands of 2D photos by capturing the exact moment of inauguration at CNN. One can relive this event by browsing from way back in the crowds, over to the very first row, to even right behind Barack Obama. If only that guy just one 1 meter away with the silver digital camera would submit his pictures... [via information aesthetics]

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