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Times review of the Carmen Will and I went to on Tuesday at the Royal Opera House.
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Telegraph review of the Carmen Will and I went to on Tuesday at the Royal Opera House.
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Financial Times review of the Carmen Will and I went to on Tuesday at the Royal Opera House.
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Guardian review of the Carmen Will and I went to on Tuesday at the Royal Opera House.
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Great resource (I hope) for gleaning what papers to read on advances in visualizing social networks
Archive for March, 2008
links for 2008-03-29
29/03/08Extreme Needlecraft
28/03/08
“Lenin… with mittens!” from majorbonnet
Over the weekend I made the mistake of uttering the sentence “I’ve been keenly following the knitting blogs, and it turns out extreme knitting is quite the thing in the U.S. of A. at the moment”. Needless to say the kids fell around laughing and have ridiculed me often since. I just wanted to shout out the kind of thing I’ve been enjoying:
Red gloves for Lenin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/majorbonnet/305317350/
Tank cosy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fremsley/131004905/
Knit a big flag: http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424603828/423788845/the-knitting-machine.html
Embroidered graffiti: http://www.ulrikaerdes.se/public_embroidery.html
And today Mie Nørgaard showed me Anders Bonnesen‘s great work: http://www.andersbonnesen.dk/My_Homepage_Files/Page32.html – I want to add that to my list.
One subset of this stuff was covered by Rose White in a brilliant talk she gave at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) on “The History of Guerilla Knitting”. There’s a BitTorrent download of the talk available which is what I watched, it’s a great talk, worth downloading BitTorrent and an MKV player for!
I am partial to just plain old cute too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96575205@N00/465970090/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96575205@N00/511981611/
links for 2008-03-21
21/03/08-
There was a piece in We Make Money Not Art about embroidery recently that reminded me of this worderful exhibition of subversively erotic lace at the London Printworks Trust in 2005 (it was in the Observer colour supplement but I cannot find that article)
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I found the Observer article I was after – but it doesn’t contain the photos it did in print
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Polish post with pictures of Urh Sobočan’s lace work featured in Nov/Dec 2007’s Crafts Magazine
Bible Visualizations
17/03/08
A while ago Anab posted about the Institute for the Future of the Book, which lead to a discussion of information visualizations of book texts. One book that receives repeated attention is The Bible. This interest stems in part from the religious nature of the book itself (i.e. believers and academics are keen to gain new perspectives and new study aides), and in part from the ready availability of multiple versions of the text (e.g. through The Online Parallel Bible Project or The Bible Gateway). Over the years I’ve come across a number of inspiring abstract visualizations of the Bible, for example:
Linda Becker’s ‘In Translation’
Philipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller’s "Similar Diversity"
Recently two more have popped up on Andrew Vande Moere’s information aesthetics blog.
The first is old and not computer based. It’s Clarence Larkin’s "Dispensational Charts". Done over 75 years ago they map out various concepts by visually plotting the relevant biblical passages. E.g.:
Clarence Larkin’s "Dispensational Charts"
The second gives rise to the picture heading this post. It’s Chris Harrison’s "Visualizing The Bible". Chris starts with an arc diagram plotting cross-references through the bible and then adds some network graphs of the people and places in the bible.
Chris Harrison’s "Visualizing The Bible"
Although Chris develops a visual aesthetic reminiscent of much of the work done with Processing he is in fact just using the Java 2D libraries.
links for 2008-03-09
09/03/08-
I’m just listenning to “Symphonies of Wind Turbines” on BBC Radio 3’s “Between The Ears” with Kevin Crossley-Holland narrating and providing poems. They are excellent evocations of the East Anglian landscape, and sound almost from another age.
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