prosthetic knowledge

A Timeline of 20th Century Art and New Media, via Kyle McDonald

[Click for Hi Res version here]

Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Data visualisation + Art (via datavis)

Bigger version here

Definitive Timeline to the film ‘Primer’ via Unreality Magazine

Primer is a great sci-fi film, but one of the most confusing movies ever made. It takes the subject of time travel, and all the implications that follow, and lays them out in the most complicated, but accurate fashion possible. It takes a LOT of analysis to fully understand the film, and even though I thought I did, this chart proves me wrong.

Link to original post, which includes the high definition image of the timeline, can be found here

Visual.ly Personal Twitter Infographic Generator

Just tried this out - some of it works ok, not so much others (maybe because of a Firefox update, not sure), but one of the things that is generates is this illustration of you, based on the contents of your tweets.

http://visual.ly/twitter

Infoviz + Graffiti: a Pie Chart Stencil via F.A.T

The pattern includes a complete set of re-arrangeable letters and numbers.
Changing the stencil’s message and pie-chart percentage is straightforward.

The stencil has a few noteworthy design features:

• The letters are designed to be held in place with adhesive tape.
• The pie chart pointer is held in place by an adjustable-tension bolt and wing-nut.
• A small cutout arrow indicates which portion of the pie chart is described by your text.
• The perimeter of the pie chart is etched with 100 tick-marks, making it easy to adjust.
• The letters (a new stencilized version of Trade Gothic) preserve correct character widths and are provided in proportion to letter frequency (e.g. ETAOIN SHRDLU).

For more info, including links to download template pdf files, can be found here

uk voting system explained… (via agsystems)

(FPTP means ‘First Past The Post’, if anyone didn’t know)

Another colour music scale chart (to compliment the previous post) from Reaktorplayer

(this one is better)

Above - A chart of proposed colour scales for music in history

taken from this page about Music and Colour, a look at the history of the subject (via ReaktorPlayer)

Rhythms of life data replayed in art (via New Scientist)

Sleep Patterns, a Los Angeles exhibition by Laurie Frick, converts EEG traces, recorded from the artist as she slept, into wood and watercolour (Image: Laurie Frick)

More here

Hangul Chart

(via fyeahkorea)

theeconomist:

Daily chart: global alcohol consumption. In 2005, the world drank 6.5 litres of pure alcohol per person. Moldovans drink more than anyone else, beating the Czechs into second place. 30% of the world’s liquor was brewed at home.

The Wire’s alignment chart (via youmightfindyourself)

British Regions defined by Telephone Calls (via BBC News)

Social networks could provide the key to redrawing the regional map of Britain, producing areas with strong social cohesion.

That’s the idea of an international team, who have created a social map of Great Britain.

They used more than 12 billion landline calls to create a map of Britons’ connections.

This social apporach to delineating regions sees parts of Wales merged with the West Midlands.

Regional boundaries are useful for governments, said Carlo Ratti, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who led the work. “But they don’t say anything about how people in those regions interact.”

His team used records of more than 12 bilion anonymised landline telephone calls, to model who Britons frequently spoke to.

Link

Inception Map hand-drawn by Christopher Nolan via Cinema Blend

We’ve all seen charts of this by others, but this is the original one.

Cage Against The Machine Album ready for pre-order

Thanks to the success of last years Facebook campaign to get Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name Of’ to the UK Christmas No. 1, this year there is an attempt to get John Cage’s musical experiment 4’ 33” there. Why? So Simon Cowell doesn’t get his way again ….

If you don’t know about 4’ 33”

4′33″ (pronounced Four, thirty-three^[1]) is a three-movement composition^[2][3] by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992). It was composed in 1952 for any instrument (or combination of instruments), and the score instructs the performer not to play the instrument during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements (the first being thirty seconds, the second being two minutes and twenty-three seconds, and the third being one minute and forty seconds). Although commonly perceived as “four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence”,^[4][5] the piece actually consists of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed.^[6] Over the years, 4′33″ became Cage’s most famous and most controversial composition.^[2]

An experimental musical art piece based on immediate ambience.