03/30/07
A great collection of Swiss Posters with amazing typography (some are more amazing than others).
A great collection of Swiss Posters with amazing typography (some are more amazing than others).
The city’s Board of Supervisors approved groundbreaking legislation Tuesday to outlaw plastic checkout bags at large supermarkets in about six months and large chain pharmacies in about a year.
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Fifty years ago, plastic bags — starting first with the sandwich bag — were seen in the United States as a more sanitary and environmentally friendly alternative to the deforesting paper bag. Now an estimated 180 million plastic bags are distributed to shoppers each year in San Francisco. Made of filmy plastic, they are hard to recycle and easily blow into trees and waterways, where they are blamed for killing marine life. They also occupy much-needed landfill space.
Jonathan Harris has done it again. Universe is his latest masterpiece of internet data visualization:
Universe is a system that supports the exploration of personal mythology, allowing each of us to find our own constellations, based on our own interests and curiosities. Everyone’s path through Universe is different, just as everyone’s path through life is different. Using the metaphor of an interactive night sky, Universe presents an immersive environment for navigating the world’s contemporary mythology, as found online in global news and information from Daylife. Universe opens with a color-shifting aurora borealis, at the center of which is a moon, and through which thousands of stars slowly move. Each star has a specific counterpart in the physical world — a news story, a quote, an image, a person, a company, a team, a place — and moving the cursor across the star field causes different stars to connect, forming constellations. Any constellation can be selected, making it the center of the universe, and sending everything else into its orbit.
Universe is divided into nine “Stages”, titled: Stars, Shapes, Secrets, Stories, Statements, Snapshots, Superstars, Settings, and Time. Stars presents a cryptic star field; Shapes causes constellation outlines to emerge; Secrets extracts the most salient single words and presents them to scale; Stories extracts the sagas and events; Statements extracts the things people said; Snapshots extracts images; Superstars extracts the people, places, companies, teams, and organizations; Settings shows geographical distribution; Time shows how the universe has evolved over hours, days, months, and years. In the top left corner is a search box, which can be used to specify the scope of the current universe. The scope can be as broad as “2007″, as recent as “Today”, as precise as “Vermont on August 27, 2006″, or as open-ended as “War”, “Climate Change” or “Happiness”. The exact parameters of each universe are entirely up to the viewer, and unexpected paths unfold with exploration.
Universe does not suggest a single shared mythology. Instead, it provides a tool to explore many personal mythologies.
Get the Glass is seriously the coolest website I have ever seen, and I don’t even drink milk.
Tongues, the new album from Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid is out on Domino Records.
Also: “Domino have released two Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and Steve Reid remix 12″s. The remixes come courtesy of Audion and James Holden and other tracks included are an extended version of ‘Rhythm Dance’ and the album version of ‘The Sun Never Sets’.” Download ‘The Sun Never Sets’ free of charge from Domino now. Oh my.
