TED: Chris Jordan Picturing Excess

Take a few minutes to watch this video: Chris Jordan Pictures Excess - TED Talk 2008
Artist Chris Jordan talks about his work at the TED Conference earlier this spring - in his own words here from his website:
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a [...]

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Earth as Art

USGS has a neat collection of satellite images constituting Earth as Art, which you can also add as a Google Gadget to your iGoogle page or web site.

Image Name: Karman Vortices
Image Date: September 1999
Image Source: Landsat 7
Scale: 1″= 4.3 miles(6.9km)
Description: Each of these swirling clouds is a result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a [...]

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