Less Jack Sparrow more speed boat, AK-47 toting desperados, how piracy has changed from it’s toothless rogue image to modern day grand larceny on the high seas.
Thank insurance bonds for the Live Piracy Map then:
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Data visualization, is it wrong to love it so much and can I get help?
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Yes folks, 3 kinds of ‘Free’ to be exact, all extrapolated from the webiculturalosphere by that clever simian with a long tail, Chris Anderson {virtual applause}.
Chris asked for help and David answered with this rendering of his model in data visual form:
From Chris’ post:
1. Here’s the first, which dates back more than a century. It’s the razors-and-blades model, as well as loss leaders of all sorts, from “free gift inside” to “free toaster for opening an account”:
2. The second is the media business model, ranging from free-to-air broadcast radio and television to all ad-supported content online today:
3. The third is the new one, enabled by digital markets where the marginal cost of production and distribution is close to zero. This is the one that allows the “freemium” business model, where 90% of the users get the basic product for free and 10% chose to pay for a premium version. In economics this is called “versioning”…
I used the phrase ‘I love data visualization‘ in a meeting today with some creative bods at Mother and also muttered that their office was ‘like a Bond villain’s layer’.
Clearly I need to get out from behind, or in front of my computer and the internetocrack and interact with human beings once again.
But I learned the word, ‘versioning‘ and I’ll be using it with free abandon now, cheers Chrissie.
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Great Britain as a deranged Scotsman, hmmm, this is the stuff wars are made of.
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Just watch it, the last line ‘as is a good body and kissing’ should encourage, if encouragement is needed:
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1991 Hull Tower Ballroom, Radiohead were supporting Humberside’s answer to the Stone Roses, Kingmaker. They came on stage, they played Creep the room went wild, it was Hull. Hull is wild, come armed.
I promptly obtained a bootleg cassette tape of Creep and sent it to my then girlfriend. ‘Listen to this’, I wrote, she did, she called my sister and told her to tell me I was dumped for saying I was a creep and weirdo and that I couldn’t sing very well. She had mistaken me for Thom Yorke, but I wasn’t, I’m not, I’m from Hull which is near York where Thom isn’t from.
That was then, this is now, Radiohead have gone open source, sort of and for added geek appeal teamed up with Google to showcase a staggering video created entirely from data visualization.
This is digital creative porn and don’t Thom & Co. know it.
From Guardian:
‘Radiohead’s new single, House of Cards, features a promotional video that has been “filmed” without the use of a camera or conventional lighting. Instead the band has used two advanced visualisation techniques to produce an assembly of computer renderings in real time.
Radiohead has employed a scanning system, called Geometric Informatics, that produces structured light to capture three-dimensional images in close-up. Then, for some atmospheric location shots, an advanced Velodyne Lidar system, which uses multiple lasers to capture large environments, has been used to create scenes of suburban Los Angeles. The system uses 64 lasers rotating in 360 degrees at a rate of 900 times per minute.
The live action promo was created entirely with visualisations of that data. But what is most interesting is the way that Radiohead has decided to “open source” the project, allowing anyone to use the data to produce their own interpretation of the promo.’ (more)
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A collective experiment in brand perception, by querying online participants for keywords as a first reaction on a collection of popular brand logos. The collective results per individual brand are displayed as simple tag clouds. (via InfoAesthetics)
Herewith a sample from the Barclay’s tagcloud:
Interesting to see ‘booze’ and ‘cigarettes’ alongside, ‘boring’ and ‘british’.
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I’ve spent the last 10 minutes since the last post devouring Strange Maps, and with titles such as The Dykes of Doggerland it’s bowel obstructing stuff.
Here is a sample from Okeanos and Oikoumene: Homer’s Snowdome:
‘Homer (not the slouch of Springfield heralding the end of Western civilization, but the blind, semi-mythical poet at the dawn of Greek history) was seen by Strabo and the Stoics as the father of geography. His overarching geographic concept was of the world as a flat, round disk of land, completely encircled by Okeanos, the world sea.
All this was enclosed by the fixed dome of the Heavens, filled with cloud and mist close to the Earth, but with clear aether closer to the sky’s dome. Sun, Moon and stars rose from the eastern waters of the Ocean, moved along the dome and sank again into the western waters. The whole thing is reminiscent of nothing so much as of one of those snowdomes that are the staple of any self-respecting tourist trap.
This vision is expounded in the Iliad, in which Homer uses Achilles’ shield, forged by Hephaestos, to metaphorically describe the universe as a circular island, surrounded by water. Human activities, celestial objects and stellar motions are described on the shield, which is actually a map, on the threshold between a purely mythological and an nascent scientific view of the world.
Homer’s world vision is almost certainly meant to be symbolic rather than realistic – no ships are sailing on the all-encircling sea, which is intended to emphasise the unity of the Oikoumenè, the whole inhabited world. But this vision is based on real geographical knowledge, and shows the Greeks of the eighth century BC had a good grasp of the layout eastern Mediterranean – Homer’s Iliad and especially his Odyssey are replete with references to routes and places, both real and imagined (or at least not yet identified).’
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