TWITTER TRAFFIC MAP OF NEW YORK
“Other metropolitan areas of Fischer’s interested also seem to clustter around major roads and transit ways, except for when they don’t.”
http://animalnewyork.com/2012/01/twitter-traffic-map-of-new-york/
“Directed by Carroll Ballard (Never Cry Wolf, The Black Stallion), The Hello Machine is a short, wordless film-poem, in which he chronicles the building of an entire ESS Mainframe. It’s one of the best films in the AT&T Archives, a poetic musing on the connections between handwork and the act of communicating. In the film, he chronicles the act of making and building the mainframe with human hands so carefully that it becomes a handcraft, like weaving or sewing. As he elevates the frameworker to the status of craftperson, the mainframe itself becomes an artistic masterpiece, then brought to life by electricity. Ballard’s stance is that it takes humans to connect humans, not machines.
There’s a little irony in the title: “The Hello Machine” used to be a nickname for the telephone, but Alexander Graham Bell, the machine’s inventor, always thought that “Ahoy” would be a better greeting for a phone call than “Hello”. “Hello” was more of Thomas Edison’s idea, and is, of course, the one that stuck. In fact, the word wasn’t quite as popular as a greeting in English UNTIL the telephone became widely used.
Richard Rosmini’s superb soundtrack drives Ballard’s points home, with a composition heavy on the strings (like wires!)—old-timey-sounding 12-string guitar and banjo mixed with electronics.
Produced and Directed by Carroll Ballard Music by Richard Rosmini
Footage courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ”
“What would Das Kapital, The Iliad or Faust look like if they were printed on a single page? What about Macbeth? This set of four posters by All The World’s A Page can show you exactly that.”
Is data journalism? Is it journalism to publish a raw database? Here, at last, is the definitive two-part answer:
- Who cares?
- I hope my competitors waste their time arguing about this for as long as possible.
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Adrian Holovaty From the guardian’s e-book “Facts are sacred: the power of data” |
Woody Guthrie’s new year resolutions heading into 1942…
NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S
- WORK MORE AND BETTER
- WORK BY A SCHEDULE
- WASH TEETH IF ANY
- SHAVE
- TAKE BATH
- EAT GOOD - FRUIT - VEGETABLES - MILK
- DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY
- WRITE A SONG A DAY
- WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES - LOOK GOOD
- SHINE SHOES
- CHANGE SOCKS
- CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN
- READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS
- LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT
- LEARN PEOPLE BETTER
- KEEP RANCHO CLEAN
- DON’T GET LONESOME
- STAY GLAD
- KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING
- DREAM GOOD
- BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY
- SAVE DOUGH
- HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME
- SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY
- PLAY AND SING GOOD
- DANCE BETTER
- HELP WIN WAR - BEAT FASCISM
- LOVE MAMA
- LOVE PAPA
- LOVE PETE
- LOVE EVERYBODY
- MAKE UP YOUR MIND
- WAKE UP AND FIGHT
