Mapping the airways

Two million flights pass through New York's airspace each year. Artist Aaron Koblin used images from his piece, Flight Patterns, to create a Google map of US air traffic over a 24-hour period. Pretty cool. So, a bit like the airline route maps in the back of inflight magazines, only with this you're not being sold Toblerone or a toy aeroplane on a stand.

Giant Markers

Here's a Google Maps art thing from our friend Aram (see post below), up to his old tricks. Very old, in this case. From 2006. Bleeding-edge blogging at its bloodiest.

Google Portraits

OK so this is from a while ago, but I've only just encountered it. Ahead of the curve, as ever. Adam Bartholl is a German artist who's done some pretty cool projects around online intersecting with offline.

The painting above is a Google Portrait, which contains the Google search string of the portrayed person, in encoded form. Taking a picture of it on your phone leads to your phone browser doing a Google search on the portrayed person’s name. The National Portrait Gallery would be a bit weirded out if all their portraits looked like this, but personally I think I look better in this format.

Paper Rocks (with Scissors)

Here are some great data visualizations using paper. I love that 3D Google Map.

YouChoose on YouTube

Interactive YouTube game, based on the Oscars:



Not the first such game I've blogged about. Here are some others.