IBM Puts On A Big Data Viz Show, Streaming Real-Time Data About NYC
But it was still surprising to wander down Broadway late last week and find a 123 x 12 foot digital wall sloping down below street level displaying what looked like a bathtub’s worth of blue LED bubbles draining into the parking garage.
That’s but one image that sparkles across this massive screen, mounted in conjunction with an exhibit celebrating IBM’s 100th anniversary, which visualizes, in real time, the live data streaming from the systems surrounding the exhibit, from traffic on Broadway, to solar energy, to credit card fraud, to air quality—to the amount of water that is systematically leaking from New York’s aqueduct system.
(via Co. Design)
Awesome Interactive design
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Who decides what you see on the Internet?
The short answer: not you.
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Get Mad. Give a Fuck.
we can all decide to see what’s going on here — the perversion of our judicial system, our political system, our economy; the corruption and upending of our folkways and mores; the greatness that makes these the UNITED States of America coming apart at the edges while simultaneously being rended apart from within — we can all decide to see this and give up on our country, or our society. It’s so fucking easy to just throw your hands up and walk away from the problem, right?
Or we can start giving a fuck about each other and start fixing the whole God-damned mess. I vote for that latter. Because with patience and perseverance, all of this bullshit, all of this fucking man-made nonsense? It’s fixable. We just need to start being God-damned decent to »
Cricket Trailer
The Cricket Trailer is a modern lightweight camper designed + built by founder Garret Finney (a previous designer & architect at NASA). It was designed to be very lightweight so even smaller cars can tow it. This is my dream camper folks.
The base models start at $13,700 in two different layout options. Take the time to go look at all of the details because they really thought of everything.
What is Gravity?
I can think of no better way to answer this question than fire and a trebuchet. Thank you, BBC.
(by BBC)
Science video done right.
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Your greatest impact as an engineer comes through hiring someone who is as good as you or better.
Urz Hölzle, I’m Feeling Lucky: Confessions of Google Employee Number 59.
Designers, too.
(via petervidani)
Movies are beautiful. We need to stop our TVs from ruining them.
Movies are beautiful. We need to stop our TVs from ruining them.
Your TV will try very, very hard to make whatever movies you watch on it look not just bad, but aggressively, satanically, puppy-drowningly bad.
Take Better Travel Photos
- Face your fear and lose the addiction to your beloved long lens.
- Let fast prime lenses take you on an adventure into the twilight.
- Take back control of your camera by learning to manually expose.
- Get up early, keep shooting until late and stay out of the midday sun.
- Try back button auto focus. It worked for me and thousands of others.
(Source: Timothy Allen)
Steam room on Flickr.
Fighters from the “Shuhadaa al-Asima” battalion from Nalut pose in one of the steam rooms inside Mutassim Gaddafi’s residence in Bin Ashur, Tripoli.
Small World News’ Guide to Safely and Securely Producing Media
As the uprising in the Middle East has become an eye opener for all of us, it’s the citizens of these countries who can best tell their story. For us living in the western world, we often take for granted our safety in picking up a camera, filming whatever we want, and sharing it with the world. In these conflict countries, this could be a matter of life and death. With this in mind, I’m happy to have taken part in the development of Small World News’ Guide to Safely and Securely Producing Media. This guide helps provide a background into producing media effectively and safely. The guide is designed with these revolutionaries in mind and easily assessable on a cell phone, e-book reader, or computer. Currently the version »
FCP X: Didn’t We Ask For This? by Jeremy Garchow
CTG: I want to commend Jeremy Garchow for this excellent piece on FCP X. A lot of people are torching him for it in the comments section, yet most of them don’t use any specifics on why they believe the program isn’t what we (“editors”) asked for. Good work Jeremy, you make a lot of great points and the article really delves into the new functions of FCP X. It’s absolutely worth a read fellow Tumblr’s. I know FCP X has been polarizing, but it’s time to stop kicking and screaming and start trying to wrap our heads around the software.
(above article link via: creativecow.net)
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
Peter O’Toole, on what he wants written on his gravestone.
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
Via alltheflowersshonelikeflames:
An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into oblivion.
As one European country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here’s why:
Five years of a pure neo-liberal regime had made Iceland, (population 320 thousand, no army), one of the richest countries in the world. In 2003 all the country’s banks »