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The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

From Mishka Henner's "Dutch Landscapes" series. Via new-aesthetic.tumblr.com.

The New Aesthetic Movement announces itself not with a manifesto, but with a tumblr. James Bridle's modest microblog "The New Aesthetic," which has recently enjoyed considerable attention thanks to a panel at the SXSW interactive conference, a Wired essay response by Bruce Sterling, and a series of responses to both at The Creators Project--not to mention dozens more replies all around the web.

What is the New Aesthetic? One accurate answer would be: things James Bridle posts to its tumblr. Another doubled as the subtitle for Bridle's SXSW panel, and it amounts to a generalization of the same thing: "seeing like digital devices." Pixel art, data visualizations, computer vision sensor aids--these are the worldly residue that computers have left behind as they alter our lived experience

The Tableau Machine

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Geological Maps as Pattern | PATTERN INSPIRATION

Geological Maps as Pattern | PATTERN INSPIRATION:

from WIRED Science Magazine – a scientific magazine full of some of the most amazing images. Ignoring all the scientific information, I think these images beautiful viewed simply as pattern and/or inspiration for further development. Make sure you read the comments on the post in Wired too – very entertaining!

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China’s Area 51? Mysterious site spotted from space | SmartPlanet

China’s Area 51? Mysterious site spotted from space | SmartPlanet:

Missile target practice? Stonehenge reboot?

...discovery last week of massive and mysterious man-made structures that appear as scribbled white lines from outer space. Satellite photos from Google Earth pinpoint the coordinates at a location in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, in the Gobi Desert. The site, which covers a mile long expanse of land and 3,000 feet in width, is reportedly in close proximity to the headquarters of China’s space program and an old Chinese nuclear test site.

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Modern Persian Rugs Using Google Earth @odditycentral.com

Designer Creates Modern Persian Rugs Using Google Earth:

Hanauer first began working on his “Worldwide Carpets” project in 2008, after finding himself fascinated with Las Vegas’ uniform, top-down suburban planning. After he got the idea of using aerials images of the city as prints for a modern Persian carpet, he needed to find the best aerial views, and what better alternative than the free-to-use Google Earth? And since our eyes are used to a horizontal view, rather than seeing things from above, at first most people assume it’s just an abstract pattern, instead of a Las Vegas building block.

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One day of Taxi trips in Vienna visualizing.org

visualizing.org:

Sense of Patterns is an on-going project, a series of printed visualizations aiming to depict ... the patterns of moving entities in public like commuters, cars and public transportation vehicles as well ... physical structures like roads, sidewalks, buildings and parks. The project intends to provide strong visuals on what we all experience in our daily lives in different cities.

Visualizing.org is a community of creative people working to make sense of complex issues through data and design… and it’s a shared space and free resource to help you achieve this goal.

fishbone patterns Preserve the Amazon with road construction | Discovery News

Road Trip Through the Amazon Forest : Discovery News:

 

"One of the most concrete examples of how government planning can preserve the Amazon is in organization of road construction. A well-planned grid of roads can preserve the forest much more than haphazard, meandering roads, concluded Walker."

A grid of roads forms a “fishbone” pattern on maps that allow wildlife corridors and reduce forest fragmentation. The meandering or “dendritic” roads can cut the forest into disconnected chunks and isolate wildlife in pockets.

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#Baby name diagram and Twitter streams: Data visualization & Analytics | Twitter StreamGraphs

Twitter StreamGraphs - enter search term or @twittername

You can enter any search term or enter a Twitter ID (preceded by the '@' symbol) to see the latest tweets from that user.



This chart reminded me of this interactive baby name diagram that operates in

Baby Name Voyager:Names starting with 'PATRICK' per million babies

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Nuclear power posters from the 50s + Nitsche Graphic Designer + GIS analysis (via -but does it float) - but does it float

In the early fifties, the spin on nuclear power was that it heralded... - but does it float:

"“Nitsche’s books, annual reports, and other sequential printed material rely on meticulous attention to the details of page composition, the elegance of simple type presentation, and the expressive juxtaposition of historical and contemporary artifacts on a page."


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