Data visualization

The cost of art/Il costo dell’arte

(EN) GoodMagazine has posted a usefull infographic comparing the cost of the entrance fee of 20 museums in USA, with the cost to the museum per visitor and the square feets of the exhibitions. ——— (IT) GoodMagazine è pubblicato un’infografica utile per comparare il costo dell’entrata in 20 musei negli USA, con il costo che sostiene il museo per ciascun visitatore e i metri quadri dedicati alle mostre.

Olympic Medals on maps/Mappe di Medaglie Olimpiche

(EN) 29th Olympic Games started yesterday in China with a breathtaking ceremony seen by 4 billions people. If you are going to follow the games and are into medals, take a look at the interactive maps published on NYT: you can compare medals via geography and ranking. —————– (IT) La 29ma edizione dei Giochi Olimpici è iniziata ieri con una cerimonia che ha tolto il fiato a 4 miliardi di persone davanti ai teleschermi. Se vi interessano i giochi e la conta delle medaglie, il New York Times ha pubblicato due mappe interattive con cui comparare le medaglie vinte sulla base del paese e della quantità.

Is “friends with benefits” the future?/”Friends with benefits” è il futuro?

(EN) In Plato’s Symposium Aristophanes explains that humans were originally round, composed of two people joined together in a perfect sphere with four arms, four legs, and two faces. Only later, Zeus cleaved them in two to punish them for their arrogance and ambition…Love collects the halves of this original nature, and tries to make a single thing out of the two parts so as to restore our natural condition. This conception of love was taken up by medieval theologians, flourished even more in the Romanticism and arrives to 21st century. But there is a new configuration of relationships spreading among men and women of the generations born after the 70′. It’s called “Friends with benefits”: Two friends who have a sexual relationship without being emotionally involved. Typically two good friends who have casual sex without a monogomous relationship or any kind of commitment (urbandictionary). If you want to know more about it just take a look at this Benefit

read more Is “friends with benefits” the future?/”Friends with benefits” è il futuro?

Radiohead goes Data/I Radiohead scelgono solo dati

(EN) Radiohead’s new video didn’t use any camera or camcorder. Their song “House of Cards” goes visual through technologies able to capture data in real-time: In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes. To learn more about this experiment you can read director James Frost’s interview on the topic and watch the video of the making of. ——– (IT) L’ultimo video dei Radiohead non ha utilizzato alcuna macchina fotografica o telecamera per la sua realizzazione. La canzone “House of Cards” è infatti accompagnata da visuals realizzati attraverso tecnologie in grado di catturare dati in real-time: In questo video tutte le scene sono state prodotte con 64 laser che ruotando catturano dati a 360 gradi, 900 volte al minuto. Per i dettagli dell’esperimento potete leggervi l’intervista al regista James Frost e guardarvi il video del “making of“.