Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3orhattMY1qz4zhzo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/07/movies/avengers-digital-new-york-6.html">NYTimes.com</a>: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/07/movies/avengers-digital-new-york-6.html">A Digital Manhattan in ‘The Avengers’</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mappeal.com/post/22636248784/a-digital-manhattan-in-the-avengers">mappeal</a>):</p> <blockquote> <p>We also had a team doing something called LIDAR, which is being able to create geometry of the city by scanning it,” Mr. White said. “We take those spheres of photographs and we project them onto the geometry.</p> </blockquote> <p>Everyone likes LIDAR and 3D flat-textured 3D renderings, right?</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/22686625303http://notes.husk.org/post/22686625303Wed, 09 May 2012 01:55:44 +0100imagereblogmanhattannew yorknew york cityavengers assemblespecial effects3dflat shading<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wxfrMwTm1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao for Harlem in upper Manhattan.</span></p> <p><span>(I’ve seen the proposal for a <a href="http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/RETROFUTURE11.html">dome over Manhattan</a>, but these cooling-tower like structures are new to me.)</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20417493532http://notes.husk.org/post/20417493532Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:30:33 +0100imagebuckminster fullershoji sadaonew york citytowerskyscraperhousingharlemmanhattan19641960sblack and whiteillustrationdiagram<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1gznjdNRw1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Map of City of New York, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts” (1895). Each pattern reflects a different ethnicity. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Fernandez-Armesto-t.html?pagewanted=all">from</a>, <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/12/jf-ptak-this-map-pretty-well-tells-the-story-of-the-perilous-situation-of-europe-and-england-at-the-beginning-of-june-19.html">via</a>)</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20007177812http://notes.husk.org/post/20007177812Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:25:05 +0100imagemapnew yorknew york citymanhattanethnicityblack and whitediagramdatainfographic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxejc3LGKF1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m a sucker for the “looking up” genre, and this one’s particularly nice because of the nested shadows and reflections. Photograph by <a href="http://jeffmeyers.smugmug.com/">Jeffrey Meyers</a>.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/15454796822http://notes.husk.org/post/15454796822Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:09:05 +0000imagenew york citylooking upskyscrapersmanhattanglassreflectionshadow<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lojq1lFDnK1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hoboken railroads and New York’s skyline, by Berenice Abbot. From <a href="http://www.thinkingform.com/2011/07/17/4673/">Thinking Berenice Abbott, July 17 1898</a> (<a href="http://toffeemilkshake.tumblr.com/post/7761445506/via-thinking-berenice-abbott-july-17-1898">via</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/7775790834http://notes.husk.org/post/7775790834Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:47:06 +0100imagenew yorktrainskylinemanhattanberenice abbott1930snew york city<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ledloayeDS1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pruitt-igoe/5201691009/in/set-72157625329038445/">Lower Manhattan Expressway 384u</a> (by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pruitt-igoe">Pruitt-Igoe Film</a>, via <a href="http://twitter.com/agpublic/status/20687068912943104">Adam Greenfield</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/2561961543http://notes.husk.org/post/2561961543Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:28:57 +0000imagenew york cityplanningurban clearwaymotorwayfreewaymanhattan<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkq7go5omShyg2NTto1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://manhattanairport.org/?page_id=862">The Manhattan Airport Foundation</a> suggest putting an airport on Central Park. It’s an amazingly pretty and professional site, for what must surely be a prank.</p> <p>(It’s probably a bit worrying that my first technical objection is that airport runways are better aligned east-west than north-south, isn’t it?)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/146717005http://notes.husk.org/post/146717005Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:33:00 +0100imagenew york citymanhattanaxonometricwireframeairport<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2m8BXUfripuyaulvKOFy6ulko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://nevver.tumblr.com/post/140861396/manhattanhenge-ii">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/5817020/Pictures-of-the-day-13-July-2009.html?image=8">Manhattanhenge II</a></blockquote> <p>One year, I will make it to NYC for this.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/140884324http://notes.husk.org/post/140884324Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:11:13 +0100imagenew york citymanhattansunset<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkn42z9ipkgNWXFXco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USSMaconNYC.jpg">USS Macon over New York City</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/103711618http://notes.husk.org/post/103711618Tue, 05 May 2009 12:47:00 +0100airshipimagemanhattanus navyuss maconwikipedia1930s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkcy6yshrdgniSV0H_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Uss-akron-manhattan.jpg">Wikipedia - Image: USS Akron above lower Manhattan</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/46950023http://notes.husk.org/post/46950023Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:15:00 +0100airshipimagemanhattanuss akronwikipedia1930s