OPENSTUDIO

OPENSTUDIO is web + art + community + economics. It is an open-ended experiment that couples a very simple drawing tool with an economy of artists, curators, collectors, dealers and viewers. Members can create and modify drawings, set prices and licenses, exchange and exhibit work, view financial records, and commission one another. It is a conceptual foundation from which we're continuing to develop further work in creative tools, collaboration, licenses, participatory media, law, and trust.
- Brent Fitzgerald

Interview via we make money not art found here.

worldmapper: the world as you've never seen it before

funky non-geographical maps based on a wide variety of statistics

Sports Artist Sued for Mixing Crimson and Tide

who says you can't make money making art? this guy makes enough to become a target of a lawsuit by his subject.

"Daniel A. Moore, a sports artist for more than 25 years, used to get sideline passes from Alabama, but now he is not welcome on game day."

New York Times article, registration might be req'd, but free.

GPS visualizer

here's a neat-o site for GPS users - GPSvisualizer.com.

upload your tracklogs and choose a variety of mapping methods to produce visualizations.

saturday night i went for a walk around the perimeter of campus, GPS in hand (well, actually in my hood). i uploaded to tracklog to the site and made a couple maps. unfortunately, the aerial photos offerings on the site are pretty slim, so the tracklogs are overlaid on an image from 1991:

elevation

speed

Statistics Mapping

Breathing Earth shows the approximate number of people being born, dying, and the amount of CO2 emmisions for any country in the world.



Neighboroo shows statistics from politics to race of every county in the US.

radical cartography

yes, we're also using this site for some assigned readings, but the whole site is a collection of, well, radical cartography.

information aesthetics

Check out this blog on the aesthetics of information. It's mainly about new ways to convey information but there are some great posts about mapping. Best way to find them is on the right hand side under "EXPLORE," choose the heading "locative."

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