Here are some pics from some of the installations that I saw during this year’s NB event.
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Really big numbers…
Your odds of winning 6/49 I was thinking of a way that I could visualize the odds of winning 6/49. I decided to use pixels as a unit to describe a 2d surface that would represent the sample space. Unfortunately. The scale difference is so large that you can’t really see the single pixel unless […]
Behold, The Image Fulgurator
I just dugg this up and it’s darn near the niftiest bit of guerrilla street art kit that I’ve seen since Evan Roth’s GRL projected graffiti system. It’s a camera/flash hybrid that’s been rigged as a projector. It’s capable of projecting a image into a photograph at the instant that the photographer snaps the shot. […]
hikaru dorodango
Surfing around this morning over coffee and bagels I came across an article about the recent resurgence in popularity, both in Japan and abroad, of a children’s craft/art called dorodango. Basically, these are mud balls. But, there’s an art to making them and a wide range of qualities and effects can be achieved given the […]
The Mashups Session at Museums on the Web 2008
Mike Ellis, formerly of http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ put together a cracking good run-through of what a cultural organization needs to get up and running with Mashups. Much of what’s being produced in this arena is map based, which works great for me because I’m absolutely nuts about visualizing data on maps, but the major thing I took […]
XKCD: The Data So Far
Than you XKCD.
Fall Bridge
As the leaves on the trees started to change colour, I found myself taking the long route into work just so I could cross the bridge. I shot this back in October when the leaves were still on the trees. It’s amazing how much the view would change from day to day.
Celestial Mechanics
This is a depiction of air traffic over Canada and the US created by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. It uses the Processing programing language to visualize the flight data.
12 year-old vacuum savant
And, the prize for the day’s weirdest story goes to…
Guido with a doozy of a takeoff.
It’s not the terrorists that are the true threat to in-flight safety, it’s hosers who forget to shut the door before they take off. I took this shot a couple days ago at my mum’s on Pender Island.