Vanishing Point, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

The goal of this project is to decipher the world that news media reconfigures and to observe if media coverage, or lack thereof, is creating a new cartography.

Vanishing Point consists of a map of the world connected to a database fed by news coming from several international newspapers. The visibility of each country on the map results from the quantity of media coverage the country receives, so those countries that do not make the news disappear progressively.
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From Influx division of BSSP newsletter Information implosion“Every event has… more

“Everything-I-Touch”., originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Jan Chipchase’s photo-ethnographic research strategy “Everything-I-Touch”.

“Using a digital camera, the participant is asked to take a photo of everything they touch for at least half a day sometimes from the moment they get up. If you like user research data, the results are a rich orgy of the mundane. The method was successful enough in achieving its original aims, but also yielded other interesting data such as highlighting the flow of the day, the order in which tasks were completed – people likely to pee before checking the weather in the mornings, and understanding the range of contexts where the user spends time.”

Using the Lev Manovich‘s definition, we suggest Information Aesthetics, a site that collects examples of creative information visualization

Think Globally, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Thomas Friedman says the world is flat. Ingo Gùnther proves otherwise. In his Worldprocessor series, the New York artist maps geosocial and scientific data from newspapers and NGOs onto 12-inch-diameter plastic globes. The result is part infographic, part networking diagram, part humanistic commentary. So far, Gùnther has crafted some 300 globes, more than a third of which go on display in August at Kyushu University in Japan. His biggest challenge? Keeping his worldviews up-to-date. Because the underlying statistics are always changing, Gùnther’s work can be quickly rendered obsolete, so much so that he rarely sells it. “I once considered putting expiration dates on the pieces,” he says. “I’d rather lease them and then retrieve them for updating.”

(via Wired)

corel001, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

N.EST, EastNaples, is a lay out on urban imaginary, a database of artworks that are index-linked on a geographical grid of a real ground – the Eastern part of Naples – at which artists are requested to inspire themselves. EastNaples is the (art)work of recognition over a place through digital and visual arts, creativity and research. It will re give a multiple vision of the metamorphosis of the urban scene during the next future. N.EST is an hybrid half art, half research and everyday experience; it is a talk place and develops itself as a cultural active subject: N.EST records the present and its perceptions.

N.EST is database linked to the map if East Naples: a symbolic space located at napoliest.it, napoliest.com, napoliest.net, eastnaples.it, areaest.com. N.EST is a multilayer project: by basing on two function levels, N.EST works through art project and involves different creativities. N.EST is either an urban critic artwork and an originator of contents and expressions, a reflection base and a contemporaries archive born for a confrontation with a space with the aim of meet it intimately: to understand and therefore to interpret/modify also in a non – digital way.
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Dumpster, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator: 4. If its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb), tap or punch it on the snout.

Though it’s being marketed as a humorous title–after all, it’s unlikely you’ll be called upon to land a plane, jump from a motorcycle to a moving car, or win a swordfight–the information contained in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is all quite sound. Authors Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht consulted numerous experts in their fields (they’re cited at the end of the book) to discover how to survive various and sundry awful events. Parachute doesn’t open? Your best bet for survival is to hook your arms through the straps of a fellow jumper’s chute–and even then you’re likely to dislocate both shoulders and break both legs. Car sinking in water? Open the window immediately to equalize pressure, then open the car door and swim to the surface. Buried in an avalanche? Spit on the snow–it will tell you which direction is really up.