postarchitectural

i really want to write more about these projects at some point but for now, links to remind myself:

Flickr Clock
LogMeIn Live Connections
LogMeIn Connection Endpoints
California Stimulus Map
MTV VMA Twitter Tracker

I started a map of subway stops I’d been to in New York a while ago, but never really finished it. I was scrubbing away the names of the stops but preserving the lines, so there’s sort of this preserved mess of text in Lower Manhattan and Williamsbug. I’ve always thought of the subway map as a great piece of architecture — that is, it takes site and context into account, vs the Vignelli version — but this sort of made me amazed at the density of the text.

What’s also nice is this sort of fog of war that happens when I make all of my masks black:

And especially cool will be when Alicia will be able to generate ‘fog of war’ maps like these to chart unexplored waters..

Playing with Instamapper for the iPhone

This was my contribution to the song chart meme.

I’ve lived in quite a few places. I realized a while ago that I don’t remember how old I was when X happened, I remember what address we were living at. But looking at it this way, sized by roughly by time, I wonder if all this moving is becoming a bad habit for me, a weird seasonal restlessness.

And these are the places I’ve flown to. It was weird, coming back from Beijing this year, recognizing a lot of parts of the Narita airport only to realize I’ve only really been to Tokyo once, and that this familiarity with Narita was only a result of passing by. Oh, nonplaces…