MARBLE RUN

Remember that scene in Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom when Indy outruns that giant rolling stone?.. well, keep that in mind as you watch this fun little video of a marble rolling around the streets of 'google maps'.

Note: if you like this, you might also like my previous post: toothpick marble-run

WHAT THE FRAC?!

This image taken from Google Earth is part of a collection compiled by Paul Bourke that attempts to reveal the fractals of Earth. A 'fractal' if you don't already know; is a recurring pattern ie theoretically you can keep zooming in to an area, and it will be similar to the zoomed out area - which is great in mapping terms as we really only need to map the Earth at the highest level.. and just make up the rest!

GENERAL MAPPING

This rather regal looking chap is Stanislaw Maczek. Impressive medals right? Yep! However, even more impressive than this Polish tank general's military achievements though, is his efforts in constructing the world's largest outdoor relief map... of Scotland.

COLOUR ME BAD

Flickr as a paintbrush is a work-in-progress project that attempts to 'average' the colour of thousands of user uploaded photos to produce a map that visualises the colour vibe of an area. Click here for more details.

THE WAY TO A WOMAN'S HEART

Women are pretty easy to figure out, I don't know what all this confusion is about?!  D. W. Kellogg had them figured out in the 1830s, and even went so far as to create this map of a womans heart. Ok, so, possibly a little dated now, but it has such elegant old-school cartography that it makes up for any offence that it will probably cause.

JUST COZ

You know how there are some people that claim that when you die you leave a ghostly residual presence behind (?) - well, what if the same were true for your virtual 'life' in computer games?! For one thing, those spooky zeros could then be mapped to reveal where we live our lives - like in this map of Just Cause 2

OK LEGO GOODTIMES

Lego maps, we've seen them before - yes they're old news, but they're also still cool. This one is a map of Japan, created by 5,000 Japenese kids who usually only ever play digital games - so, kudos for this Lego Map effort right?!

LIVEHOOD

Defining the extent of a suburb is a tricky endeavour indeed - how does one draw a line in the sand; limiting the extent of a community?! Traditionally we think in terms of real-estate, but isn't it the behaviours' of the people within a particular area that really define it? Well, thats what Livehoods reckons anyway... they have applied a clustering algorithm to the 18 million 'check-ins' collected from the location-based social network foursquare

PRIMORDIAL SOUP

Live! Live my precious! Yes, you are small now.. but soon you will grow large enough to sustain rich life. A new world, a utopia will be created. In eons to come, generations will look back at this humble beginning and marvel at your vision.
You are a living map

ELEVATIONAL MUSIC

ipods and mp3 players are probably the dominant form of music playback today, but there is still most definitely a place for vinyl records. The tangible, almost visceral experience, produces a warm white-noise sound. Thats about all I can really say about this project that has substituted 'music' for the topography of Earth. When I listen to it; I imagine myself flying through space and encountering Earth as its spins.
what do you hear?