Art from remote sensing

Data for decision

[via TomC]
The video’s about how they did GIS in the punchcard era.

Sensity by Stanza
[via anne]

This artwork visualizes the dynamic data around my environment as an audio visual artwork. I set up a wireless sensor network around my house in London. I live nearby a railway line, a factory, some trees and a mobile phone mast. (This is using real data).

The city is made up of bits of data that change. This artwork captures this change to try to understand the underlying fabric of city space. The artwork monitors the environment for change and relays these changes via the sensors.

Terminus, the god
[via blackbeltjones]

In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker.

Ancient writers believed that the worship of Terminus had been introduced to Rome during the reign of the first king Romulus (traditionally 753–717 BC) or his successor Numa (717–673 BC). Modern scholars have variously seen it as the survival of an early animistic reverence for the power inherent in the boundary marker, or as the Roman development of proto-Indo-European belief in a god concerned with the division of property.

Incidentally, Terminus was the first name for the settlement now known as Atlanta.

Torque Control
[via jbushnell]
“This is the blog of the editorial staff of Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association.”