Projects from elsewhere

Sharedegg
With the goal of representing the cultural similarities between random people, the authors asked 32 participants to list some of the products, and activities that they are involved with. After collecting all this information from each participant, they asked them to categorize those products and activities into preset subcultural categories. For example light blue for casual, blue for trendy, dark blue for punk…etc. (Source)

The inner mind of a brand geek
This map illustrates the intricate, interwoven relationship between businesses and their brands. (Source)

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Growth and Topology of the NLANR Caching Hierarchy
Plankton offers a visualization of the international cache topology as seen from the perspective of the NLANR root caches.(Source)

Twingly

Twingly screensaver tries to map the global activity of the blogosphere in a dynamic 3D globe view of the Earth. The engaging visualization is a real time rendering of blog posts represented as bars standing over the continents. (Source)

The Lost Object Project

This is similar to what I would like to map for my seminar: 

The Lost Object Project is a blog “collecting text and images about objects that are lost, missing, or otherwise no longer in our possession for an ongoing online exhibition of virtual memorials.”

(Source: The Lost Object Project)

Anyone can contribute to this project by filling out a submission form, including the contributor’s current location, a short description of the object and the last time their have been seen. It claims to be the virtual memorials for inanimate objects.

I found the entries in the blog were quite fascinating even though the objects/participants were unrelated us at all.

Maybe It is not the lost objects that fascinated us, but the story behind their disappearance did.

How to find lost objects

Professional help on how to find anything you’ve lost:

(Source: ‘Professor’ Solomon, How to Find Lost Objects)

I like the Eureka Zone theory, in which he suggests that “objects tend to travel no more than eighteen inches from their original location”.

Free download of the entire book here.

Babel Tales

Babel Tales is a project by Denmark photographer Peter Funch. His works show everyone doing the same thing on the NYC streets (so-called “Pedestrian Emulation Art”). I think it can possibly be read as a map of people’s urban activities.

…Funch chose a street corner in the Big Apple and, for two weeks, took a series of photos that capture the ambiance of the city. With the help of Photoshop, Peter Funch doctored these ‘Babel Tales’ images into a team story about modern urban life.
(Source)

Memory Lane by Peter Funch