January 2011
12 posts
Meredith's Googlemap of my bike ride to and from... →
beirut or bust: Helpful Mapping Tools →
beirumi:
Here are a couple of sites that I love to look at for inspiration in infographics:
Information is Beautiful
Visual Complexity
Also, a couple of other alternatives to making customized, open-source mapping:
7scenes - you can make a custom map based on various themes (tour, game, etc..)…
Introductory Lecture NYC - 1/27/11 →
1. Open the slideshow in Slide Share or as a browseable magazine in ISSUU and keep the City as Lab Tumblr blog open.
2. Open this audio file.
3. Listen and click along with the slides.
4. Links I refer to in the lecture:
- Google My Maps Tutorial - See the previous link posts to infographics and venn diagrams as examples for diagramming as opposed to mapping.
- Liz Kueneke’s Urban...
American Energy Flows →
Venn diagrams of ethnic food stereotypes →
Lebanon's new PM is not Hezbollah and not Iran →
theresepostel:
Who exactly is PM Najib Mikati?
At the Edge of the City →
A book about Beirut’s park and public space; it is a genuine, non-academic research and advocacy effort to document and critique park closure in Beirut (Lebanon) for almost 20 years now, advancing a “landscape” approach and framework to analyze semi-organized, quasi-connected events.
WatchPhotographer Dalia Khamissy attempts to uncover what happened to the thousands of people who were kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war.
Global Urban Art Forms
1. Muto wall painted animation by BLU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT- gO4&feature=PlayList&p=E015FF480A20CB98&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&in dex=28 2. New York Graffiti history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0bOxs0IIgY 3. Graffiti exported http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkM3WUTAB0&feature=related Large scale urban art / Global awareness and activism 4. JR:...
