Robert Willim writes to tell us about his wonderful-looking Surreal Scania project and wonders if there might be some surreal connection to another Swedish vizualization project? (I think so.)
Surreal Scania
“The films can be seen as comments to process of place marketing and branding. In choosing the places, the aim has been to […]
Flickr, All time most popular tags
Update 20 Feb 06
e-tat says: “I’ve divided the tag list into rough categories and calculated percentages of each category as part of the whole. Here’s what I came up with:
32% are place names (New York…)19% are place types (home, church…)6% are place-based activities (camping, party…)6% are placed objects (tree, clouds…)
Thats […]
COMICS JAMAvant-Garde Bar, OttawaFeb 28, 2006
“The Comics Jam is an opportunity for people to share the creative powers of imagination and to have in their hands, a tangible product of this process, by the end of the night. It’s a new kind of group activity where participants get together to create an illustrated story born […]
In my urban cultures seminar we’ve been following global responses to the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed - it’s proving to be a very interesting way to engage the more theoretical readings on mobility, community and citizenship.
A Muslim student brought copies of the cartoons to one class, and we had a very thoughtful and […]
“Öyvind Fahlström was a Swedish artist who spent his childhood in Brazil, and died in the U.S.A. His World Map was painted in 1972, not long after Fuller imagined his utopia. Fahlström’s map recalls the Mercator projection: but the oceans have practically disappeared, the continents are crushed or swollen by the political pressures that the […]