Hereford Mappa Mundi
Sound maps are in many ways the most effective auditory archive of an environment, touching on aspects political, artistic, cultural, historical, and technological.
The Montréal Sound Map is a web-based soundscape project that allows users to upload field recordings to a Google Map of Montréal. The soundscape is constantly changing, and this project acts as a sonic time capsule with the goal of preserving sounds before they disappear.
from Grandma with love by gabriele galimberti
Your rainbow panorama at ARoS _ Interview with Olafur Eliasson and Jens Erik Sørensen, director at ARoS, in connection with the opening of of Eliasson’s Your rainbow panorama ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum i Denmark.
Peter Root - Digital Detritus Dover, 2011. Digital Detritus Dover is part of an on-going series of digital installations situated in Google Earth. DDD was created by building 3D digital models and locating and animating them in Google earth using KML code. Images and video © Peter Root. Used here by kind permission from the artist. All rights reserved.
London’s 3D Tube Map
Created by the Londonist this 3Dimensional model of Harry Beck’s tube map demonstrates how truly complex the tube network is. You can download the SketchUp model from google Warehouse.
Here are some Undeground statistics:
- There are 289 km of tube lines, with 50% running under ground
- 970 million people travel on the tube every year
- 2.7 million passengers travel on the tube per day
- There are 275 tube stations
- The deepest station is Hampstead on the Northern Line at 58.5
- 33km/h is the average speed.
Hong Kong
Christophe Jacrot: “In my opinion, there are two ways of capturing the world for a photographer; on the one hand grasping its horror, and on the other sublimating it. I have chosen the second.”
Travel
By Canadian photographer David Burdeny
Dirk van den Heuvel sits in his home office contemplating the problem of stuff; more specifically, the rupture between the modern (architectural) urge to create a coherent interior space, and the modern (consumer) urge to accumulate and consume. From Andreas Angelidakis’ images of houses collapsing under the weight of piled up ‘things’, to the Smithsons’ efforts to reign in consumption through a form of ‘exquisite flower arrangement’, Dirk stares at has own unruly stacking of books, printers, and office supplies, adjusts his curtains, and begins his writing.
Destroying the house
Cloud Book Study by Heidi Neilson
“Cloud Book Study” by Heidi Neilson consists of a book that when flipped through at high speed, reveals a time-lapse film of clouds moving across the pages. The accompanying video shows the movement of the clouds across the sky in a way you couldn’t achieve by thumbing the book on your own.
(via staceythinx)
Island Map
by Timothy J. Reynolds
New York City and Paris ‘Map Cuts’ _ By removing the unnecessary, this New York City map-cut reveals the “paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets” of the greatest city in the world.
Each of the four 3′ x 4′ paper panels fit together like panes of window. Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx are all represented, but it’s only when they’re combined and placed against a colorful backdrop that the city begins to take shape.
