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Visualizing Empires

02.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Here’s another great use of the Processing environment to represent data that would otherwise be difficult to illustrate in an animation. I happened upon this by accident while doing research for a class in media representations of the British empire.
From Pedro M. Cruz’s master thesis blog:
The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 [...]

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Google Reconsiders Operations in China

01.13.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Google may have finally realized the grand folly of  cooperating with a regime that was hostile to its interests the entire time. I can’t help but to wonder if their reconsideration has more to do with the potential theft of its intellectual property than any sense of remorse of having aided and abetted China’s oppression [...]

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E.O. Wilson Center Video

12.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

From a few months ago- the center was hosting the (non-streaming) on their site which practically guaranteed no one would ever see it so I converted it and hosted it through Vimeo:

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Phrenology

11.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

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Ghetto Macro

09.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

If you pull the reader lens out of a DVD player and tape it over the lens of your cellphone camera, you can make a pretty decent macro image. Try it.

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House of Cards

04.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

First of all, Radiohead have my eternal admiration as members of the “holy trinity” of the shoegazer set. Their release last year of In Rainbows as a “name your own price” download prior to the physical release of the album earned them even more respect, in my eyes, as innovators in the business of music [...]