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I’m Emma and this is where I assemble things I think are worth sharing. I’m a designer, I like shiny things and silliness :-)
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Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins. Beautiful.
Via Flowing Data.
Essentially, Google Street View inside some of the world’s best art galleries. Via Creative Review, which explains it in more detail.
I’ve walked into the doors expecting them to open like in a computer game a couple of times now. I do not believe this to be an unrealistic expectation!
I happened upon this again. I like this image because it makes me wonder about things. I like it when online meets offline.
London paper cut map. Coooooooooool. I love maps! There’s a Paris one too, but London is better than Paris - I refer you to the 2012 Olympic bid if you need proof.
Via Oh Joy.
Visualisations rule.
This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.
“According to Flickr, New York is the world’s most photographed city. But London contains four of the seven most photographed landmarks in the world – Trafalgar Square, the Tate Modern art gallery, Big Ben and the London Eye.”
Mmmmm, maps :-)
