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Geotagging the World – and What we Can Learn
Check out this cool visualization of how cities are photographed by Eric Fischer. The idea is to see how people’s experiences are documented and how locals and tourists see the same things through a different cultural lens. Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more). Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month). Take a look at San Francisco below. This is almost like looking at virus outbreaks in a city — explosions of culture…
San Francisco, CA
2010: A Cultural Space Odyssey
For those who aren’t following Japanese Astronaut Astro_Soichi on Twitter, then you’re missing out on an epic cultural narrative. We often get to our best thinking by perceptual re-organization and what better way to open these doors of perception than to look at our lives from space?
Looking at a man-made bridge in Greece...
Intersection of Culture and Design
Christoph Niemann’s illustrations are an amazing amalgamation of design and culture. The most recent images to appear in the NY Times are incredible. Niemann takes Google Maps to a whole new level…
Look familiar?
Riddle me this: The Madhatter meets Technology & Culture
Mobile? Traditional? Digital? Are we talking about different channels? How many screens do we have that we interact with each day? How is a “digital” creative different from a “traditional” creative? It sounds like a riddle…Why is a raven like a writing desk. Well, there is no clear-cut answer, but all I know is I want to be a part of the solution…Unfortunately as the ad industry grapples with this brave new world, this is the best take on modern technology and culture:
On a slightly more serious note, a nice convergence of traditional, digital and mobile is Google Biking Paths. They just annouced today that the mapping feature will now begin including biking directions…
Can you think of a better use of Google mobile maps?
How far can you get from a McDonalds?
Not far enough, it seems. Only 145 miles, which isn’t much in this vast country of ours — and that’s in North Dakota.
Jesus. There is nowhere to run.
