twitter new york

Ever wonder what happens to all the data you supply online? Maybe someone makes a pretty map of it.

Eric Fischer did with twitter location data in New York.

animalnewyork.com via this isn't happiness

Looks Del.icio.us is a collection of different Delicious bookmark visualizations. They’re created with a python-based graphics library and layout engine:

webdesignerdepot.com

design a city

group exercise.

characteristics of moments from our everyday:

	DOG	Free roaming
	ROLLING CHAIR	Directed roaming
	GUMBOOT	Protective roaming
	TRAIN	Directed
	CUP	Delivery
	COMPUTER	Free roaming	Free roaming	Delivery
	DISHES	Cleanliness	Place
	AFTERNOONS	Chill time	Other time Own time	Sunny	Relaxed
	iPOD	Free roaming (not fixed)	Delivery	Transportation	identity
	JUMPER	Warmth	Wind protection
	TIN ROOF	Shelter	Phenomenological	Experiential	sound

Use these characteristics to design a city.

Afternoon: what are the material properties of an "afternoon" site?
Where would you put the afternoon?
If this is a plan of a street, then:


Put the afternoon on top of a hill so it gets lots of sunlight. Then the morning is down the bottom, so you don't have to walk so far, and the evening is on the south side, away from the sun, because there isn't any then. Move between the different times of day.
A localized delivery system at the bottom of the hill for internet access, might become a transfer station: cold water moving down hill might capture heat produced by an internet service provider hub, and use that warm water to...warm a green house: transfer of enegry from isp to growing plants. Localised energy production at these sites, related to needs for each part of the day.


Move between days of the week. A circle of hills is a city layout, so that you move gradually from one day to the next.
Hill Friday might have a longer profile to accomodate the larger number of people there, and the delevery systems needed to supply what constitutes Friday, like alcohol, comfy couches, dance music...

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