Against All Authority

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A glance of the street art murals of Sao Paulo

The video was made by Kico Santos and his team at Cinema de Rua. The current city policy towards the city's graffiti has been a complete joke, by the way. Thanks Vinicius Netto (Twitter) for the pointer.

Verticor from Cinema de Rua on Vimeo.

Income segregation at the block level

Herwig Scherabon, an incredibly talented graphic designer, has created this artistic representation of income segregation of Los Angeles, Chicago and New York at the block level. These pieces are shortlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards. Thanks Linda Regber for the pointer.

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                           Chicago                                                        Los Angeles

New York

My latest failed plot

Unintentionally creating abstract art in R using ggplot2. I fail my PhD, I'll try to sell my plots to an art gallery.

Assorted Links

1. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities in the USA
   
   
2. Neat 3D globe animation of atmospheric flow on Earth
   
   
3. Lego versions of Brutalist buildings (via Tyler Cowen)
   
   
4. An interactive tour to Bosch's “The Garden of Earthly Delights”
   
   
5. CityBikes API Documentation, via Leo Monasterio
   
   
6. Book: Batty & Longley (1994) Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function (ht Iury Lima)
   
   
7. What's really warming the world?
   
   
8. Top speeds of elevators in eight of the world's tallest buildings. I guess this proves that procrastination has no limits
   
   
9. Data-Mining photos from the Internet to create time-lapse videos - via Achim Tack

Assorted Links

1. The average price for a Manhattan residence is $1.7 million
   
   
2. A nice visual introduction to machine learning
   
   
3. Contemporary art with Classical Paintings
   
   
4. Interactive map with the delayed flights rates in Brazil, by Fabio Vasconcellos
   
   
5. John Lennon hanging out with Miles Davis
   
   
6. 27 Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS
   
   
7. What's the difference between Lyft and Uber
   
   
8. The future Internet of Cars and how Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway
   
   
9. Interactive Dot map visualizing where renters and owner occupiers live in the United States via Maps Mania

Street art + Satellite pictures

Street art + Satellite pictures = the world's largest GIF, by INSA

[image credit: BALLANTINES]

More info here:

Manhattan Inside the Grand Canyon

Gus Petro has an amazing artwork to illustrate what it would look like if you dropped Manhattan into the Grand Canyon (via Mark Byrnes). 

[image credit: Gus Petro]

[image credit: Gus Petro]

Petro has another amazing work putting London by the sea. You should check it out and consider this as a Christmas Gift for someone like me. #justsaying

[image credit: Gus Petro]

Assorted Links

1. What happens when you try to bring your Nobel Prize through airport security?
   
   
2. 1907-1915 - Russia Before the Revolution, in Color
   
   
3. Spain is the elevator capital of the world. ht Matt Phillips
4. Transport costs and inequalities in vaccine coverage in Africa
   
   
5. Heads Up: UC Berkeley seeks applications for faculty positions in Transportation Planning and in Housing and Urban Development
   
   
6. Vertical ballet
   
   
7. Sad pictures of the rapid deterioration of Detroit, captured by Google Street View
   
   
8. A camera filter that makes it possible to see carbon emissions, literally

FLIR: The Invisible Made Visible from Oceanic Preservation Society on Vimeo.

Assorted links

1. LSE Report - Cities and Energy: Urban Morphology and Heat Energy Demand
   
   
2. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through Facebook  (via MR)
   
   
3. 18th-century London paintings meet Google Street View
   
   
4. Did General Motors lead an automotive conspiracy to undermine streetcar lines in the US? Apparently not
   
   
5. The 10 world cities with the highest murder rates
   
   
6. Are UK migrating to the US and becoming lawyers in Illinois? This and other spurious correlations.
   
   
7. Free Statistical Software, SAS University Edition (thanks Bernardo Queiroz for the tip)
   
   
8. The first ever government census of schools in Mexico: “The Theft of the Century”
   
   
9. Range of average lengths of PhD dissertations across the disciplines

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[image credit: Marcus Beck]

Assorted links

1. 100 things we didn't know last year (via Bernardo L Queiroz)
   
   
2. Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward
   
   
3. The Economis: interactive guide to the world's housing markets
   
   
4. Where UK immigrants were born: 1951-2011
   
   
5. Brazil has more ATMs than any other country
   
   
6. The Google Art Project
   
   
7. Astrology and birth rates in East Asia
   
   
8. National Geographic Photo Contest 2013
   
   
9. The 52 publications most cited by sociologists in 2013 (Based on citation analysis of 1,166 articles published in 39 sociological journals)
   
   
10. Spatial Patterns of Household Car Ownership in London

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[image credit: Meead Saberi ]

 

Urban Picture

Garbage Piles in London, by Francisco de Pájaro (via John Metcalfe)

[Image Credit: "Art is Trash", by Francisco de Pájaro]

City's skyline from memory

What if you could draw a city's skyline from memory? Amazing work by Stephen Wiltshire (via hypeness)

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Dubai

Rome

Tokyo

Rio

Off-topic: photographic studies

A couple of interesting ‘photographic studies’ comparing (____) around the world.

(____):

• School classrooms
  
• Bureaucrats' Offices
• Average weekly food consumption of families
• Families and their material possessions
• Grandmothers’ special recipes
• Breakfasts

Bending Manhattan

Some of you probably remember the city bending scene from the movie Inception. Here is a similar idea applied to Manhattan (via Colossal by BERG).

[Image Credit: BERG]

Soundtrack: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem 

Urban Picture (painting)

(beautiful work by Jeremy Mann, via Colossal)

Related Links:

• What a Difference a Century Makes
• San Francisco - Fade to 1906, by Shawn Clover
• Streetview Kaleidoscope
• FILMography, by Christopher Moloney

Manufactured landscapes

Amazing photography work by Edward Burtynsky.

Some of my favorites: 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Related Link:

• Uncommon cemeteries

Off-topic: The most amazing 'beatbox' ever

Urban Picture

Beautiful aerial images by Alex Maclean (HT Joao Meirelles). Hard to pic one.

Off-topic: J. Hendrix’s First TV Appearance

Jimi Hendrix’s first TV appearance (1965) via Open Culture

Have a nice weekend!