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yellow pictures might be by either

this fascinating geo-tagging project looks a lot better than the one mentioned earlier today… shown here are amsterdam, tokyo and london…

…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).

Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.

The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken by locals….

(link via ‘information is beautiful’)

m / 23-06-2010 12:38 - tags: , ,  

double fringe

my friend ‘andré thijssen’ is finally releasing his fringe phenomenon as a double edition book (designed by the talented ‘sabine verschueren’) which will be released during the opening of his show at the nederlands fotomuseum on july the 10th, looking forward to that…

m / 23-06-2010 12:30 - tags: , ,  

can we trust each other?

…that was the subject of the first emails to the people Vandejong communications wanted to get involved with their project; Creating Trustville. The Amsterdam based agency has detected a decline in the societal discussion regarding vision and development of society and culture.
Positions on the political spectrum -both left and right, are deepening and are increasingly rigid; politics and media alike. The empty arguments find a desolate no-man’s land that is ‘the people’ – and more often, completely misses them. Where do we base trust if we can base it at all? What is it made of; this trust?

intriguing newspaper direct mail piece which i received from design agency ‘vandejong’ introducing their new project ‘creating trustville’

m / 23-06-2010 12:22 - tags: , , ,  

start stop end

another stop-motion piece from ‘ok go’

m / 23-06-2010 12:08 - tags: ,  

underground geo-tagging

not very attractive but pretty interesting to see: a real-time map of the tube trains riding around london

m / 23-06-2010 12:02 - tags: ,