Is there enough color in your life?
Someone is spraypainting these signs all over Jerusalem for some (still) unknown event in September. Does anybody have an idea?
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Persepolis 2.0
Persepolis re-imagined as a comment on Iran’s post-election uprising, spreadpersepolis.com
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Plastic Ocean
Take a look at the Pacific Gyre and the plastic floating in it.
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If the world were a village of 100 people
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The web on a map
You can already order it from Information Architets.
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The Future is a Thing of the Past
Perhaps the only certain prediction about the future is that all predictions will be false. This, however, has not stopped people from trying. Ranging from dreams of giant electric ships plying the world’s skies in the 1800s to the 1980s commercials where computers and automation make life endlessly convenient, the Paleo-Future blog has an incredibly diverse selection of plausible, fantastic, dark, utopic, or just plain weird future visions. I wonder how many of our future predictions will be left standing in fifteen, twenty-five years’ time.
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Strange Maps
The map on this picture shows the number of patients per doctor in in various parts of the world, but the breathtaking collection at Strange Maps is home to thousands of more interesting, enlightening, humorous or just plain weird maps. What if Italy had won World War 2? A map of the “Hollow Earth.” A detailed chart showing all the places in Europe “where goblins live.” These are just some of the maps and charts featured in this truly original selection.
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