culturite:

The Physical Internet:

“Halifax, Canada — The Internet surrounds us like air, saturating our offices and our homes. But it’s not confined to the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph it.

This modest indentation on the Canadian coastline is a major Internet landmark, a sort of Ellis Island of the Web: It’s where a submarine cable owned by Hibernia Atlantic comes ashore. (Eleven major lines cross the Atlantic, and this one lands under the manhole, above left.) This particular bit started at a Hibernia sister station in Southport, England, and traversed the ocean in about 0.0028 second. It will then skip along one of two fiber-optic thoroughfares: the cross-Canada pipe, which goes to Montreal and points west, or the southern route, down the East Coast, through Boston to New York City. An injection laser diode encodes the information as superbright pulses of light.”

value added.

via jeannr:

My new project: turning money into Lichtenstein paintings.

“Map Hole is a new road guidance tool designed to direct pedestrians and travelers to their final destination using existing elements in the urban landscape. It locates the pedestrian with a starting point and provides information on the exact distance or average walk time to the listed landmarks.”

- Yanko Design (h/t The Daily What)

from 2004, this is culturemodding (love friendly celebrations that involve enabling pedestrian pathways).

tumblelikeyougiveadamn:

Another temporally green bridge, this one in Budapest.

Paris Métro as a star map—“the wonderful design mind that goes by the name Clémentine Tantet decided to see it in space.”

“Water rose through its interior mysteriously and collected in a font, glazed over the top and down its sides and into the ground where the cycle began again.”

- David Licata, “His children came to him but his wife, bird-like and sad-looking, did not.” hitotoki.

Very taken with these “short narratives describing pivotal moments of elation, confusion, absurdity, love or grief — or anything in between — inseparably tied to a specific place.”

soft maps, using touch because her mother could no longer see, think these are beautiful (and another reason to go to the DUMBO Brooklyn Flea)…

via abangupjob:

Want one of these Haptic Labs Brooklyn neighborhood quilt maps.

(p.s. thanks for the tip, Kelsey!)

temporary, airlifted in, these are “canopy nets” and so full of possibility—

via tumblelikeyougiveadamn:

Let’s have a slumber party on top of a rainforest. (via startmeup)

“Psychogeographers probe patterns of behavior, often in collaborative terms, in urban environments, working over a period of time…individual actualities come to the fore; the artist/cartographer is the enabler, subverter, and documenter of experience.”

-from Katharine Harmon’s introduction to her The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

Note: I’m not in total agreement with the definition, partly because I think we do some psychogeography here, and I’m unconvinced it is only in urban areas. Great new book, though.

lightpainting as a flow map. I’m into flow maps this week.

via lightpaint:

benjaminf:

theantidote:

Tokyo at Night, Japan (via Amarjeet Rai)