urbanTick LOG: Archive

urbanTick LOG

February 2012

1 post

January 2012

11 posts

December 2011

2 posts

November 2011

8 posts

Britney Spears’ Toxic video translated into a treemap (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_map) by Christopher Warnow.

October 2011

3 posts

On Facebook, Recalling Neighborhoods as They Once... →

infoneer-pulse: New York City neighborhoods have always been in nonstop flux, but many are now being frozen in time on Facebook, where current and former residents have banded together to post photographs, documents and other memorabilia of their neighborhoods as they used to be. These virtual sections of the city have drawn thousands of contributors, particularly in parts of Brooklyn like...

September 2011

6 posts

"Getting lost on the way to Farmville". Virtual,... →

Session at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011. for details also see urbanTick.

The Royal Geographical Society Annual... →

August 2011

3 posts

A timeLapse of the setting up of the current art installation at the Roundhouse in London by artist Ron Arad. The installation Curtain Call is a 18 metre-wide cylinder of 5600 hanging silicon rods plays host to films, live performances and interactive installations. Via Dezeen Screen.

A week of Twitter activity around London. Each yello dot is a tweet and links are established through sharing information via re-tweeting - RT. The detailed interactive map can be found HERE.

July 2011

20 posts

A week of Twitter activity around the city of Geneva in Switzerland. The detailed inteactive map can be found HERE.

Barcelona twitter landscape animated.

Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs” →

Visualising location based tweets in the Ljubljana area. Over the period of one week messages sent from within a 30km radius were logged and are here replayed superimposed as a 24 hour clip. The lines indicate connections established by RT retweets as a form of information dissemination. The area really wakes up at 8am and is active in the morning as well as after work betwee seven and 10.