Filed under: GraphMaps
Heard about this guy on a recent episode of This American Life devoted to mapping. He’s trying to come up with creative ways to map his neigborhood.
Filed under: Knowledge
The current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about endowment spending at universities, and while it essentially has nothing to do with the rest of the discussion on this blog, those of you who went (or go) to universities with endowments might be interested in it.
To summarize briefly Charles Grassley wants to force universities to spend at least 5% of their endowments every year with the assumption that this will lower tuition. The Chronicle disagrees.
Filed under: ART!
Henk Wildschut has a project in which he’s photographing the “housing” that illegal immigrants in Europe have built. Not sure the pictures are that amazing, but its worth a look. via Mrs. Dean
Filed under: Visual Detritus
Chris Rodriguez I thought of you when I came across these pictures on ffffound. Its a whole bunch of houses in pretty unbelievable locations.
Filed under: ART!
I was back at Princeton and went to hear Fazal speak. He was amazing, and I highly recommend going to see him if he speaks near you. He’s a Macarthur Genius grant winning photographer/activist/Princeton alum. You can see much of his work, including digital editions of some of the books he’s published on his website.
These people created a “map” of the entire internet showing who all IP addresses are registered to. via infosthetics
Filed under: Visual Detritus
Apparently they wanted to get their message out in movie form…
Filed under: Visual Detritus
Comics that teach kids how to do stuff, pretty awesome.
Filed under: ART!
So its more elaborate than that, but Tom Gallant makes “hand-cut floral prints out of archived pornographic magazines”. Found on coolhunting.
Filed under: Improve my city
Saw this on bldgblog today, some folks are coming up with architecture that brings agricultural production into residential bulidings.
