2013-04-16
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Google Street View, captured at night. If you move one step forward, it goes back to the usual day view.
Has anyone else seen an outdoors Street View captured at night?
2013-03-08
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I have something of an obsession with the image above, considering it the “canonical” image of a drone.
I had some suspicions about the Canon Drone, and research bears these out.
Good stuff from James Bridle (ht to Timo for the link).
2012-12-05
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Favourite Slide from Today’s Presentation ‘Death and the Maiden’
I’m really hoping some of the thinking here gets written up. (If you haven’t see the full length videos for Ride, National Anthem, and Blue Jeans, it’s worth the 25 or so minutes.)
2012-04-13
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Transmission by Dan Holdsworth, via Architizer:
At first glance, British artist Dan Holdsworth’s work might depict any number of things: crumpled up paper napkins, a washed-out image from the surface of Mars, or even microscopic fractal patterns.
In fact, the images are 3D renderings of America’s most famous natural wonders. There’s the Grand Canyon, Mount Saint Helens, and the Great Salt Lake: by cloaking the models in a featureless white, Holdsworth shows us America’s “backyard” as a scaleless study in texture and detail.
Holdsworth worked from digital terrain models created by the United States Geological Survey Data to create the series, called Transmission: New Remote Earth Views.
There’s a lot more at the artist’s site, including more conventional in-landscape views. The series is being exhibited at the Brancolini Grimaldi gallery in London until 19 May 2012.
2012-03-26
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Shuffling of map tiles using the Pinterest bookmarklet: London edition.
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More shuffling of map tiles using the Pinterest bookmarklet. This time it’s Google satellite tiles of the San Francisco Bay Area.
2012-01-18
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BBC News: a satellite image of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy. (Thanks, Chris. Also available on Flickr; thanks, Dan.)
2009-04-12
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Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME’s, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by.
As in Semiconductors previous work ‘Brilliant Noise’ which looked into the sun, they work with raw scientific satellite data which has not yet been cleaned and processed for public consumption.
