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La surconsommation

La surconsommation désigne un niveau de consommation situé au-dessus de celui des besoins normaux ou d'une consommation moyenne.

Image provenant du film Samsara : Samsara est un mot tibétain qui signifie la roue de la vie, un concept à la fois intime et vaste, qui définit l'âme de chacun.

 

Start Up Universe - data visualization of start-ups from 1990 to present

Start Up Universe [visual.ly], developed by information design agency Accurat and graphic designerBen Willers for visualization community aggregator Visually, provides a comprehensive view of the relationships between startup companies and their founders and investors (venture capitalists) since the year 1990.

Based on the extensive CrunchBase database, the interactive visualization allows access to more than 12,000 venture capitalists, 29,000 startups and 34,000 founders.

 

 

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WE ARE WATCHDOGS

Watch Dogs - We Are Data, developed by the French global video game publisher Ubisoft, is the first website to gather publicly available and real-time data about Paris, London and Berlin in a single interface.

More specifically, all available data originating from the three cities is visualized on an interactive 3D map, allowing users to discover a data-centric view of their city.

DAN BAILEY'S DISPOSABLE LIVES SERIES

When in doubt, turn to Tokyo. And there's half a dozen prominent stylists who will testify to that. TOKYO DANDY's co-founder Dan Bailey, along with Joe Kazuaki have done an inspiring job of encapsulating and re-selling Japanese Street Culture back to global luxury purveyors like Vuitton and Dom Perignon.

Original Post on the Imagist

 

 

THE ART GALLERY AS THE NEW DEFINING SPACE OF POP CULTURE.

Self Portraits of Travel

Les auto-portraits d’Alicia Savage sont emprunts de poésie et de délicatesse. Entre poses lascives et envols vaporeux, elle se met en scène et laisse le spectateur entrer dans son monde aux frontières de la réalité. Des clichés superbes dont les couleurs et la lumière incitent à la fois au voyage et à l’introspection.

PHOTO RAILS

Interesting information graphic/aesthetic project : 

Phototrails is a joint project between the department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunication and Information, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.


50,000 Instagram photos from NYC, organized by hue mean (radius) and brightness mean (perimeter).

50,000 Instagram photos from NYC, organized by hue mean (radius) and brightness mean (perimeter).

Fashion from a 3-D printer

“Dita’s Gown,” a dress designed for Dita Von Teese using 3-D printing technology — which is most often used to create objects and architectural models — caused a stir when it was first shown at a symposium on 3-D design in New York last March. On June 12, it will be the West Coast’s turn to marvel, when one of its masterminds, the costume and jewelry designer Michael Schmidt, discusses the dress.