As promised, here are some screenshots and photos taken during yesterday’s music awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall. Radian6 polled twitter data in real time, searching for MTV, VMA, and a few other event-related terms, as well as the names of all the celebrities that we knew would be at the event. The idea...
We’re happy to release two updates to the interactive map that address our most frequent feedback requests: you can now filter crime reports by time of day, and link to and view custom reports for the last two years of crime in Oakland. Hours The interface we’ve created to navigate through the hours of the...
Well, seeing as we’ve got a President who’s asserting the necessity of science (and that it will no longer be subject to political ideology, hooray, what a rock we’ve been under for the past eight years, doesn’t the day feel brighter?).. …it feels like as good a day as any to announce Stamen’s new work...
Our friends at Flickr (“almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world”) have launched Stamen’s new project with them, Flickr Clock. It’s a browser for the videos that people have recently started uploading to the site. They’re arranged chronologically, and drawn from videos that people have posted to theflickrclock group...
Over the weekend we released, for MSNBC, an interactive hurricane tracker. And just in time, because Hurricane Gustav is apparently “bearing down on Louisiana like a shotgun full of wind and rain.” I’m really pleased with how this project’s turned out; in particular I’ve not seen a map like this before that gives a sense...
MoMA acquires “Cabspotting: New Years Eve 2007” Holy shit! Cabspotting at MoMa Back in February I was happy to announce that Cabspotting, our project with Scott Snibbe and Amy Balkin, was to be included in theMuseum of Modern Art’s forthcoming Design and The Elastic Mind exhibition. In the meantime, the MoMA has decided to acquire...
Stamen’s new work with awesome real estate powerhouse Trulia (who’re going gangbusters btw) is live, at http://snapshot.trulia.com. It’s an interactive map (of course!) showing photos of homes for sale, and lets you browse across several vectors: most expensive, least expensive, newest on the market, and longest on the market. One of the things we strive...
We’re glad to be participating in W(e are )here, a gallery show/series of events/map-making party in Minneapolis put on by Solution Twin Cities and Intermedia Arts: Recent developments in technology are expanding the ways we communicate the concept of “where.” Online mapping and info-graphic applications are allowing artists, amateurs, and armchair cartographers to chart the...