prosthetic knowledge

Flat Earth Society

Sound art project from Art of Failure places geophysical-scale grooves onto a vinyl record:

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY proposes a transposition of the earth elevation at the scale of a microgroove record. This engraving of elevation’s data on the surface of the disk generates in consequence a subtle image of the earth. When played on a turntable, the chain of elevation data crossed by the needle can be heard.

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Abstract Season Changes by Le Rane Acide

A Tumblr blog which collects examples of seasonal differences found on Google Maps.

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The Amazing iOS 6 Maps 

Inevitable Tumblr blog of the day, subtitled “The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not.”

It works on various levels - a blog of mockery, glitch art, incorrect information, and plenty of sarcasm.

You can check out the blog here

Lu Xinjian: City DNA 

First of two posts looking at the work of artist Lu Xinjan from Shanghai.

Lu creates works based on abstract arrangements of symbols aesthetically, which are actually based on information and reality. In the City DNA series, maps of famous cities from around the world are codified with Lu’s unique design grammar.

You can check out all of Lu’s current collection of the ongoing series here

Next post on the artist’s work: Invisible Poems

Urban Arteries

Interactive browser-based geographic data visualization renders 3D roads with height information.

Here you see a representation of the city around you,
the tridimensional arteries through which you move every day

Interesting that it shows road information with height, and a depth-of-field effect - you can also enter an address to see different locations.

You can try it out here

Blocky Earth 

WebGL browser based experimental demo turns Google Maps data into 3D cubic blocks. By Jaume Sánchez:

A representation of terrain, using cubic blocks to render google maps, with texture and elevation.

It shows your current location or a specific location, in different levels of zoom and sizes.

Technology:
WebGL, Fullscreen API, Canvas, Javascript.

Links and other information can be found here

It is also worth checking out Jamie’s other online demos. Also, this was found via roomthily’s interesting tumblr blog, which I can fully recommend.

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Music/Technology: The Hip-Hop Word Count (HHWC)  

The Hip-Hop Word Count (HHWC) is a new Kickstarter project that aims to build a database that will allow for the analysis of hip-hop lyrics – to ultimately ‘chart the migration of ideas and build a geography of language’ that will serve as the engine for a K-12 teaching curriculum. 

/via psfk.com

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• OpenInvo: A Marketplace For Innovation (techcrunch.com)

• Fund Your Next Music Album With Kickstarter (jasonkeath.com)

Zoom In: Mt. Hood - paintings from Google Maps by megan scheminske (via roomthily)

(e)space & fiction mapped - about the relations between space and fiction (novels, movies, paintings, music, comics, art works …). We collect spatial machineries used to represent space in fiction, as maps or narratives, and places that inspire fiction and where imaginary objects may end by materializing. You will find also news, analysis and references.

via roomthily

Mappiness - free iPhone app

Psychogeographic tool, asking what your modd is which is then (anonymously) recorded.

What’s in it for us?

• We’re particularly interested in how people’s happiness is affected by their local environment — air pollution, noise, green spaces, and so on — which the data from mappiness will be absolutely great for investigating
• We hope to have results published in academic journals and elsewhere — whatever we produce will be linked from here

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Postcrossing - The Postcard Crossing Project

“send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!”

It’s a project that allows anyone to receive postcards (real ones, not electronic) from random places in the world. Learn more.

How does it work?

1. Request an address and a Postcard ID
2. Mail the postcard to that address
3. Receive a postcard from another postcrosser!
4. Register the Postcard ID you have received
5. Go to number 1 to receive more postcards!

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Fata Morgana by Damon Zucconi via today and tomorrow + roomthily

google maps without the maps

Space Photography by NASA via Best Bookmarks

Fantastic collection of photos, at various stages of missions. Hard not to be impressed.

In 1957, sociologist, Paul Henry De Lauwe mapped the movements of a student made over one year. Her Paris itinerary formed a small triangle with no significant deviations showing the narrowness of the city in which each individual lives out their lives.

via shriyashriyashriya