With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.
GeoGuessr
This is like CSI for geography dorks: you’re plopped into a random location on Google Street View and you have to guess where in the world you are. So much fun…you get to say “wait, zoom in, enhance, whoa, back up” to yourself while playing. My top score is 14103…what’d you get? p.s. Using Google in another tab is cheating! (thx, nick)
gq:
If you’re going to pitch your city to the X Games, here’s the way to do it. Go get ‘em, Detroit.
Vertical Horizon, Hong Kong (photo by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze)
Happy birthday, Saul Bass, greatest graphic designer of all time.
Photographs, by Melinda, of the China Danxia, a unique landform between the Guizhou and Zhejiang Provinces in China. Via Double Takes
early 1800, Alexandre-Isidore Leroy De Barde, Crystallized Minerals
Minimalist pictogram summaries of Pulp Fiction and other pop culture fixtures.
Gorgeous altimetric radar image map of the Ishtar Terra region of Venus. Pair with a visual history of mapping the cosmos.
Big Men - documentary film by Rachel Boynton
It seems like everyone is trying to be the “big men,” the Texas landmen, the Nigerian militants, the Ghanaian people, the politicians… .
The tag line on the poster is ‘Everyone wants to be big.’ And it’s funny because the term ‘big man’ or ‘big men’ is a very common term in Nigeria and in Ghana. There it’s an every day phrase. But it’s not just everyone in Nigeria or everyone in Ghana. It’s Milton Friedman. Everyone wants to be big, everyone wants more for his own people. And so then the question becomes how do we define who our own is?
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