Disney business strategy chart, 1957
This is Walt Disney’s corporate strategy from 1957. The theatrical films serve as a foundation, and everything else — TV, music, Disneyland, etc — feed off of and back into the Disney universe. I like how each little Mickey Mouse runs in the direction of the arrow he is on and holds something unique to the place he’s running to. See also: the Disney org chart.
Evolution of movies
We know that movies have changed over the decades. We’ve seen it in declining ratings and box office hits versus Oscar winners. However, these are changes that come along with movies rather than the movies themselves. Cornell University psychologist James Cutting looked closer at the construction of movies over the years, such as shot length, amount of motion, and use of light. The charts above sh
Independent coffee shops and community
As part of the You Are Here project from the MIT Media Lab, an exploration of independent coffee shops in San Francisco: Independent coffee shops are positive markers of a living community. They function as social spaces, urban offices, and places to see the world go by. Communities are often formed by having spaces in which people can have casual interactions, and local and walkable coffee shops
Google search suggestions by country
Google search suggestions have transformed into a never-ending source of entertainment and a candid peek into what people look for in the world. We’ve seen insecurities change with age and stereotypes of states in the US. Noah Veltman banked on the locality of suggestions for a country-specific view of the world. He shows suggestions for the same query for the United States, Canada, the United Kin
Disney Research makes plants interactive
Botanicus Interacticus from Disney Research turns plants into multi-touch surfaces, simply by placing an electrode in the soil. Botanicus Interacticus has a number of unique properties. This instrumentation of living plants is simple, non-invasive, and does not damage the plants: it requires only a single wire placed anywhere in the plant soil. Botanicus Interacticus allows for rich and expressive
History of the sky
Ken Murphy installed a camera on top of the Exploratorium in San Francisco and set it to take a picture every ten seconds for a year. A History of the Sky is those pictures as a series of time-lapse movies where each day is represented with a grid. So what you see 360 skies at once: Time-lapse movies are compelling because they give us a glimpse of events that are continually occurring around us,
Dynamic run paintings with Nike+
Personal data collection can be a tough sell at times, but with the Nike+, which lets you record your runs, thousands have taken part in measuring their performance and digitally racing with others. For the most recent Nike+ campaign, interactive collective YesYesNo mapped a year’s worth of runs from the Nike+ site and invited people to plug in their own runs. For the launch of the Nike Free Run+
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Life expectancy by state, against the US average
Searching for stock market spoofers
Out, liar.
Visual Microphone estimates sound from vibrations in objects
Music preference by region
How people really read and share online
Using slime mold to find the best motorway routes
Why you should buy the bigger pizza
How a cab driver makes money
silenc: Removing the silent letters from a body of text
Mitt Romney losing likes on Facebook, in real-time
Data in a human context
Google Streetview stop motion
