One of the winners of the Information is Beautiful award for 2018 was this project called “Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration 1790-2016,” which visualizes US immigration data over time as tree rings. (It was recognized in two categories: People, Language & Identity and Most Beautiful.) This is the animated version of the data set growing over the decades. Created by students at Northeastern University with National Geographic.
(Source: kottke.org)
Gifaanisqatsi is a tool built by Rico Monkeon that creates a trailer for the 1982 experimental film by Godfrey Reggio. The film was comprised of slow motion and time-lapse footage with a Philip Glass soundtrack, so Gifaanisqatsi pulls random gifs that are tagged slow motion or time-lapse, compiling a different combination every time. Jason Kottke posted an example of a generated trailer.
(Source: kottke.org)
Karl Hermann Haupt, Untitled, 1925. Watercolour. Germany. Via Nosbüsch Stucke.
Haupt (1904-1983) was a German painter, graphic artist, photographer and designer, who also spent some time at the Bauhaus.
found via swissmiss
(Source: design-is-fine)
Unreal photo of Mt Mayon in the Philippines on the verge of a major eruption.
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
in a Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, 1986
Beautiful photos of NYC from Joseph Rodriguez (in a self-portrait above), who drove a cab in the city from 1977 to 1985.
