“Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist.” more
(Kyoto)
Map showing location of geotagged photographs. The photo locations come from the public Flickr and Picasa search APIs. more
“Radius Music combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound.
The device itself is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial distance and outputs it as a relative sonic frequency and a corresponding visual score.”
by Dave Young
“TurntablistPC is a server which third-party websites can access. A small file is hosted on the TurntablistPC. Subscribing websites place a short piece of code on their pages. This code sends information to the TurntablistPC. When somebody visits one of the subscribing websites, the TurntablistPC spins the record.
Control is remote and hidden. But output – audio – is local only (through speakers in the TurntablistPC).
The location of the remote website controls the direction of the spin. If the website is located east of the TurntablistPC, it spins clockwise. If it is located west of the TurntablistPC, the spin is counterclockwise.
The distance to the visiting user determines the amount of spin. If you are near the TurntablistPC, you will only scratch the vinyl. If you are far away, it will play a whole section of the record.”
In August 1976 at the Personal Computing show in Atlantic City, Bob Marsh of Processor Technology approached Bob Jones, the publisher of Interface Age magazine, about pressing software onto vinyl records.
The idea was to record the program on audio tape in the “Kansas City Standard” format then make a master record from the tape. Eva-Tone made “sound sheets” on thin vinyl that would hold one song.[7] These were inexpensive and could be bound in a magazine.
The May 1977 issue of Interface Age contained the first “Floppy-ROM”, a 33⅓ RPM record with about 6 minutes of “Kansas City standard” audio.
Length and vertical position show the velocity, the stripe’s width reflects the length of each note.
Notes belonging to one specific tonality always get colors from one specific area of the color wheel.
The NY times has an interactive info-graphic visualising the time separating athletes in each event.
I would like to have seen it with a different note for each event so as to produce a random score.
