United Nations for Libyan Oil. Infographic about foreign oil plants.
Data visualization. Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.
Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
Debtris (UK version). Animation by: Miles Tudor, Dom Del Torto. Music: Daniel Pemberton. Sources: NY Times, The Guardian, BBC. Data here: http://bit.ly/debtris. via | infobeautiful
2000 to 2010: Charting How the World Has Changed. Stephanie Fox designed this chart for i09. It examines the differences between life 2000 and life in 2010. Not only are there nearly a billion more people on the planet, but more people than ever currently live in cities (rather than rural areas). Technology, predictably, has continued to shrink and accelerate. Click to enlarge.
Inception, Explained. Click the infographic below to view all layers of Inception (2010), film directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Optical Geometric Street Art
John McCracken
Guillaume Kayacan
