Visual Mapping + Storytelling
The world is speeding up. Or this year has. And there is a TON of stuff going on. I feel that given I am not 85, where it could make sense to be June already, I am able to make this statement. I’m wondering whether the antidote is to slow down. Be extra slow? Musings aside, I’m happy that thankfully, this crazy time hasn’t stopped people from creating and sharing wonderful things to help us visualize and capture and connect with all the stuff that’s going on. So here is a round up of just some of what I’ve caught in the past few weeks:
Chris Jordan’s new work, Running the Numbers II
Chris Jordan again challenges us “to confront the realty of our times”, with the hope that, “despite the complex mixtures of anger, fear, grief, and rage that this process can entail. Perhaps these uncomfortable feelings can become part of what connects us, serving as fuel for courageous individual and collective action as citizens of a new kind of global community.”
Gyre, 2009
“Every day we read of mass phenomena characterized by numbers in the millions, billions, even trillions.” “We are stuck with trying to comprehend the gravity of these phenomena through the anaesthetizing and emotionally barren language of statistics. - thanks Kenn for the link
6 billion others - A Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Project Earth from Above photographer Yann’s collection of testimonies from around the world. 
You may also enjoy his recent TED talk “We don’t want to believe what we know”.
Two maps I think work really well together (though I found them separately):
1. Web Trend Map 4 (2009) and 2. Dot.Com or Dot Gone - web 2.0 companies that got bought or vanished
A periodic table of typefaces:
via fabulous Colby
And finally, my new boyfriend (not really, but I love his work!), Peter Kirn’s Urbanism Study
Urbanism: Study III from Peter Kirn on Vimeo.
Hope you’ve enjoyed a slip into a different time & visual zone. Wishing you a delightful day.
Tags: art, digital storytelling, photography, visual mapping, web trends
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June 9th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
I want to find good pop music. Help me please.
June 13th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Wow, cool site. I’ll be back to read more that’s for sure.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Hey this is good stuff. So glad you posted this. I enjoy reading blogs like this.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I think i’ve seen this somewhere before…but it’s not bad at all
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 am
I had no idea this was happening. Very glad you have brought this out into the open so everyone in the blogosphere can be aware of this.