Gorgeous T for T Magazine made enitrely from legos. It took eleven days in 16-hour shifts. Whoa.
“But, he proposed, substantive conversation seemed to hold the key to happiness for two main reasons: both because human beings are driven to find and create meaning in their lives, and because we are social animals who want and need to connect with other people.” I totally agree.
Saved for when I start traveling a bit more again.
“Examine Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities.” Truly fascinating interactive graphic. The Mad Men pattern is particularly interesting.
Gorgeous.
But is it T Incorporated?
Blegh.
Maureen Dowd comes across as defensive, angry and just plain mean when interviewing Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
A nice little article in the New York Times talking about The Impossible Project.
I’m a bit late on this, but it’s yet another fantastic interactive graphic from the New York Times showing the water landing of flight 1549.
“The only way to get warmer during a season of sloth is to be active.”
“our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the eve of the birth of the iPod and iTunes. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into a book-store chain on the eve of the birth of Amazon.com and the Kindle. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into improving typewriters on the eve of the birth of the PC and the Internet.” - Thomas Friedman
Intriguing interactive graphic showing how Obama won.
“By placing one of the quarterbacks at least seven yards behind the line of scrimmage, and no one under center to receive the snap, the A-11 qualifies as a scrimmage kick formation — the alignments used for punts and extra points. Thus interior linemen are granted an exception from having to wear jersey numbers 50 through 79. (The exception was intended to allow a team’s deep snapper not to have to switch to a lineman’s jersey if he was a back or an end.) Any player wearing jersey numbers 1 through 49 and 80 through 99 is potentially eligible to receive a pass.” It looks crazy, and I want to see it in action, but I think I might be a fan. The bit about it looking like basketball on grass might have won me over.
Yet another great infographic from the NY Times illustrating who voted against the $700 billion financial bailout plan.
“Break’s over.”
“People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything.” Does anyone know where I could get a feed of just the fantastic interactive graphics the New York Times puts out? I absolutely love this stuff.
I absolutely love this interactive graphic depicting the medal counts since the modern games inception in 1896. Big kudos for representing the different regions using color and a rough “map” via large circles. It’s great that you can quickly flip to just a straight numerical order too though.
Incredible panorama of the Olympic Water Cube. Thomas Finchum does a great job describing incredible it is to be up on that platform.
Enthralling interactive graphic from the New York Times showing torch designs throughout the history of the modern games.
Shigeru Miyamoto really is a gaming god with Donkey Kong, Mario, and now the Wii.
Another well designed interactive infographic showing how different groups voted during the Obama/Clinton presidential primary race.
Makes me want to pack up all my belongings, hop on a plane and move down south.