Peter von Stackelberg’s correlated timeline of social, technological, economic and political events and trends from 1750 to 2100. Each time series shows graphs, events and categories on a common scale. Peter says:
It is important to emphasize that the timeline is intended to provoke thought and speculation about the future. Information about the future that is charted on the timeline is intended not as an absolute prediction of what the future will hold, but rather a representation of possibilities that need to be further examined using other futures research methods.
via roomthily, Eric Blue, The Gallery of Data Visualization
Magical Tattoos of Thailand’s Mahouts: Elephant Trainers of Ayuthaya by Lars Krutak:
Generally speaking, there are three classes of tattoos that can be received at Wat Bang Phra: those that act on others, causing them to like or fear the bearer; those that act on the bearer, increasing his skill with words causing the listener to do as he asks and instilling him with courage; and tattoos that create a protective barrier around the person that prevent animals of all sorts from biting, knives from cutting, bullets from entering the body, and fire from burning the body. Magical tattoos, whether for these or other purposes (e.g., for eternal health), are in a sense like preventive medicine and can be thought of as kinds of vaccinations against various diseases and misfortunes.
via plsj
How to Survive an Atom Bomb, a Cold War ad courtesy of Mutual of Omaha
via propagandery, my-ear-trumpet. atompunk, dengedenge
via freshphotons, renzgarcia, patricianpbautista, robcham, Geekologie
via samsaramotel
Photoseries on the visual quality of the vegetables by Christoph Brach and Daniera ter Haar
Also: Raw Color No.1 Raw Color No.2
via robingoodfellow
Walter Vasconcelos, for a book review of “Googled: The End of the World as We Know it” by Ken Auletta
Loquacious Llama Captioned Critters Note Cards by papervictory @Etsy
via PJLS Field Notes
:
More unusually, the Dymaxion map does not have any “right way up”. [Buckminster] Fuller argued frequently that in the universe there is no “up” and “down”, or “north” and “south”: only “in” and “out”. Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created “in”, meaning ‘towards the gravitational center’, and “out”, meaning “away from the gravitational center”. He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.](http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktuj14nlE51qz4t8no1_500.jpg)
Dymaxion Map, Michael Faukner
the Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map_of_the_Earth):
More unusually, the Dymaxion map does not have any “right way up”. [Buckminster] Fuller argued frequently that in the universe there is no “up” and “down”, or “north” and “south”: only “in” and “out”. Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created “in”, meaning ‘towards the gravitational center’, and “out”, meaning “away from the gravitational center”. He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.
Prime Number Circle, Michael Paukner
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the mind will never penetrate.
Map of the Future (we will be here), Superstruct (Superstruct ‘vt 1.To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation), visual findings of Superstruct, an MMORPG used by the Institute of the Future to identify the superstructures of our future.
via fuckyeahinfo, Behance Network
things happen
via fuckyeahinfo, mikearauz, oliveisgreen.blogspot.com
you = 1 pixel everyone else (as of 2006) = 65 million pixels
via fuckyeahinfo, roomthily
