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Almost there.

The Last.fm Spirals project was something I did over the summer, after mucking around with the iTunes visualization earlier in the year. It’s been broken for a while, so I’m posting some screenshots here until I fix it.

The idea behind the project was to explore trends biased based on time. Last.fm keeps track of your top artists every given week, month, or year, so the Spirals project just needs a valid username to generate the graphic. 

The images are also posted to a tumblr site, where now a few thousand of them live. They can be embedded into Last.fm profiles, etc. It’s sort of great to look at a whole collection of them. The more artists someone listens to, the more varied the colors get, and the more volatile a user’s top 10 is every week, the more the peaks and valleys get. 

Playing with Instamapper for the iPhone