There is a staggering amount of data powering this pretty map, which depicts ongoing population changes across the entire earth between 1990 and 2015.
However, the coolest thing about it, I think, is that it bares a remarkable likeness to one of my favourite album covers; Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures.
Were Joy Division clandestine cartographers? Population prophets alluding to some Armageddon?!
Is it too spookily coincidental that their album cover in actuality is a printout of a pulsar star’s emissions
Is it too spookily coincidental that their album cover in actuality is a printout of a pulsar star’s emissions
– not unlike LIDAR which are laser emissions used in mapping!
More importantly, perhaps, how cool are these shoes?
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