how many did you know already? how great is that ‘because’ symbol? i’d never heard of or seen it before… it is great, yes
me news
3,449,527,133rd
two interesting infographics (or data visualisation, or interesting diagrams… or whatever the current term is) i came across this week: one from rolling stone entitled the new economics of the music industry, say wat appl egets 40 cents on every itunes dollar-euro sale!!! that is really smart and absolutely scandalous…
plus a great interactive graph from the ‘beeb’, that tells you which number you drew when you entered the ever-growing human race… it appears that my daughter is the 82,818,190,587th person alive since history began, so there you go
black money
young student joris van megen visited the studio last week and one of the projects he showed me was his ‘zwart geld’ or rather ‘black money’ the dutch term for black market money, a series of banknotes made with black copy toner on black paper
the dutch term for laundering illegal money is ‘witwassen’ or rather ‘whitewashing’, joris experimented with different techniques before coming up with bleach as a means of transforming the notes to ‘visible’ money, the bleach appears to affect the dyes used in the paper without affecting the black toner, creating this literal ‘reveal effect’, very nice…
he left a copy behind, which gives me a dilemma: do i tell the taxman or not?
a smile in the mind
lovely little ‘takeover’ of a fire hydrant, no idea who made it i nabbed it from facebook (via ‘jona rotting’) very nice…