find public art

I sure do moan and groan a lot about living here, but for some things, like art, Minneapolis is a really cool place.
I just found this map that identifies all the public art around the city.
Impressive.
And Start Seeing Art has a google maps mashup.
All via: Minneapolis Metblogs (which is also super cool, btw.)

Web Trend Map

Information Architects of Japan has produced the internet web trend map.



Via: Visual Complexity
Link: Information Architects

Visualize the English language

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University have developed a visualization of the English language that uses almost 80 million images.



Via: readwriteweb

Link: Visual Dictionary

cutting edge maps

I just found this via monoscope. Cutting edge maps.

gracenote maps

Gracenote lets you see who is listening to what displayed through a map.

death maps

There are some utterly fascinating maps on National Geographic's website depicting the various mortality causes around the world and their disproportionality to population numbers. The information is really fascinating, but even more I was enthralled by the graphics. Whoever did these is a very effective visual communicator.

Here's just one example. The top shows deaths related to war combat and landmines and the bottom compares it to world population:

photography and google maps

Amy Stein is a genius. Her project, stranded, uses road trips, photographs and google maps. Exploring it is like flipping through her travel journals.

flickrvision

I love flickrvision.com.

rendering

This is a beef rendering facility outside of Greeley, CO. The red shape kind of freaks me out.

circles in the desert

Look at how weird Utah is from the sky. Green circles in the desert.

GeoGreetings

A U of MN grad student made a site where you can write greetings with aerial photos of buildings.