Changing Tides

Thanks to everyone from CPAS for your support and the flowers!

My elbow with the screws holding it back together:

The Gerd Arntz Web Archive has over 600 examples of Isotype symbols designed by him:

The International System Of TYpographic Picture Education was developed by the Viennese social scientist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945) as a method for visual statistics. Gerd Arntz was the designer tasked with making Isotype’s pictograms and visual signs. Eventually, Arntz designed around 4000 such signs, which symbolized keydata from industry, demographics, politics and economy.

This is his symbol for a scientist:

The Isotype visual dictionary was created using linocut images hand printed onto paper.  These have been scanned and the backgrounds corrected to white from the original brown or brownish paper.

(Found via Randy Krum writing about Gerd Arntz today).

Cockatoos
Originally uploaded by bmoon

Cockatoos feeding in the rain.

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  (tags: 3D programming)
• MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2008 | Design and the Elastic Mind
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  (tags: Visualisation design exhibition innovation)

Our cat sometimes finds very strange ways to sleep…

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  (tags: science_communication science blogging)
• Starclouds - Mitch Waldrop
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  (tags: science_communication science blogging)

• Teachers’ Domain
  Featuring public television content, Teachers’ Domain provides multimedia classroom resources and professional development courses to K-12 educators.
  (tags: education science multimedia video)
• Rheingold.com
  Howard Rheingold’s website with links to his writing, art and videos.
• Mechanics with animations and film clips: Physclips.
  Kinematics and dynamics are presented here in multimedia, at introductory and also at deeper levels. Individual video clips and animations are suitable for use by teachers, while students may use the whole package for self instruction or for reference.
  (tags: education physics science animation)

• The Shoebox — Ruby-Processing
  A Ruby wrapper that lets you harness Processing’s awesome power. It makes Processing act in a slightly more Shoes-like way, and replaces the ol’ crusty faux-Java-1.4-syntax sandals that Processing usually wears with some new Ruby slippers.
  (tags: programming)