Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
NY Times Arts Dwell ARTstor BlogSuggestify is a new application for Flickr that allows you to suggest geotags for photos using a clean and simple map-based interface. The project, while still in beta or what the developer Aaron Land calls the “alpha-beta-disco-disco-danceball-revolution stage,” is an exciting step forward towards developing new ways to describe a photo’s location.
Read more on the blog IndiCommons
Before Henry Hudson landed on the shores of Manhattan island, the area’s biodiversity rivaled Yosemite and Yellowstone National Park. The Mannahatta Project seeks to understand what New York looked like before it became a city. To recreate Manhattan circa 1600, the project “used GIS software to layer spatial datasets (i.e. maps), to derive maps of topography, streams, and eventually species and ecological community types.” While the project explores the transition from an undeveloped to an urban landscape, it hope to inspire people to consider ways of living that are “compatible with wildlife and wild places and that will sustain people and planet Earth for the next 400 years.”
Detail of Greenwich Emotion Map
Christian Nold, an artist and activists, is developing new “models for communal representation.” For his Bio Mapping project, over 1,500 volunteers documented their physiological responses to the urban landscape. Armed with GPS devices that also measure galvanic skin response (GSR, a measure of emotional activity), individuals wandered through San Francisco, Paris and London. The integration of geographic with psychological data allowed Nold to map high and low arousal and pinpoint the places where people feel on edge or relaxed.
GeoCommons is a free, web-based service that allows you to create, customize and share interactive maps using your own data. Upload KML files, spreadsheets or utilize the vast amount of datasets already available on the website. The service is easy to use for anyone unfamiliar with more complicated mapping techniques.
Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100
Registration deadline: April 24, 2009
Submission deadline: May 1, 2009
This international ideas competition solicits bold visions that describe how the Bronx and the Grand Concourse can evolve in coming decades to cope with pressing needs for housing, green space, and transportation. The best ideas, designs, descriptions and images will be exhibited at The Bronx Museum in November-December 2009 as part of the Intersections: Grand Concourse at 100 exhibition.
2009 Fresh Wood Student Competition
Submission deadline: May 1, 2009
The design competition is open to students in an accredited woodworking or related program that are transitioning into a career in woodworking or design. Categories include chairs, tables, production, and reproduction. Projects entered in the competition must be completed at the time of entry with the exception of the finish coating. Finalist designs will be on display at the AWFS®Fair.
The James Dyson Award
Submission deadline: June 15, 2009
Design something that solves a problem. The competition is open to product design, industrial design, and engineering university level students.
Time to Design
Submission deadline: June 24, 2009
The Time to Design prize includes three months residency at the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, 50.000 DKK donated by The Danish Ministry of Culture, and two weeks exhibition at the Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store.
Design 09: Precast Design Awards Competition
Submission deadline: September 4, 2009
MAPA created Design 09 to honor architects and students who employ precast concrete to achieve design and performance objectives of in-design or completed projects in the mid-Atlantic region. Design 09 includes two separate competitions: one for projects designed by professional architects and one for students.
For information on these and other design competitions visit Metropolis.
The newest incarnation of Google Earth extends the boundaries of previous versions, catapulting users underwater, into outer space and into the past.
The underwater layer utilizes data from National Geographic, Cousteau Ocean World, and shipwrecks to render a 3D map of the ocean floor. Dive through the depths of a previously flat maritime map.
In collaboration with NASA, Google Earth now includes a representation of Mars.
Changes over time in topography and city construction have also been included – though the archive mainly extends back to the late 90s.
Users can also record a movie that traces their steps through Google Earth. Documentation of your trip, however, is limited to the Google Earth platform.
Wander through this depository of compact representations of projects that never came to fruition – a monumental palace of culture, unrealized settlements for Soviet citizens, numerous imaginings of Lenin’s mausoleum, and the Villa Claustrophobia. The Archive includes digital images of plans and drawings, photographs of architectural models, and essays and works of fiction that explore related themes.
OpenStreetMap is collaborative project and a wiki-style map of the world that allows you to view, edit and use geographical data. The data are gathered from out-of-copyright maps, aerial photography, and surveys done by individuals with GPS units.
The interactive website, Piero della Francesca: The Legend of the True Cross was created by the department of Art History at Princeton and allows the viewer to move through the chapel’s space and experience Piero Della Francesca’s fresco cycle of medieval legends from many different vantage points. The user can follow the narrative chronologically, view the frescoes in detail, and notice thematic connections teased out by the images’ relationship in space. (Image: Piero’s Triumph of Constantine at the Arezzo Chapel)
In honor of the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in New Orleans, the focus of this post will be on a few resources devoted to documenting the storm and its aftermath.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geodetic Survey’s Hurricane Katrina Images provides access to images of the Gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
The Skeleton Krewe has posted a set of images on Flickr documenting New Orleans three years after the storm.
GISuser.com has posted a set of images on Flickr that include satellite images, maps, graphs and GIS data not only for Hurricane Katrina but also Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis.
Banksy’s been to New Orleans; his official site documents the work he’s done there recently.
You can also find images of Banksy’s work on Flickr by searching “Banksy” and “New Orleans”.
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