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Sha and I are here at GAFFTA after midnight the night before the show (and the place is packed! packed, I say, with smarties), finishing up the final details of our installation (which opens tomorrow), Alfonso and Julie (pictured below) are gracefully and delicately applying our wall-sized maps to the walls of the mezzanine, Josette...

Sha and I were walking along 6th Street in San Francisco the other day,and Sha noticed one of my favorite views:Stevenson Street from 6th towards 5th, recently enhanced by the monumental bulk of Morphosis’ new-ish San Francisco Federal Building looming up behind, all Blade Runner in San Francisco-style. Google shows it OK, Microsoft’s birds-eye is...

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...

I’ve been camped out on 51st Street next to Radio City Music Hall for the last two days with people from Twitter,Radian6, and MTV for the past two days (and nights), and we’re on deadline for tonight so a more complete post on this will have to wait, but in the meantime, there’s this to...

The State of California launched our most recent project today, a closer look at the $5.6 billion in Federal Stimulus funds that the State has received so far. There’s alot there and I hope you’ll go play with it yourself but the main thing I want to say is that you can slice and dice...

Stamen partner Mike Migurski wrote a few days ago about his experience running around on desert military bases, teaching the Army how to use Walking Papers in Afghanistan after an earthquake. It looks like that effort is paying off, in the form of maps of the current Afghan elections; this is from the Global Development...

Our old pal (and semi-recent collaborator) Mike Frumin has been doing some really interesting work on transportation statistics for the City of New York, and his most recent blog post is no exception. It’s about how many extra roads and parking lots you’d need to deploy on and around the island of Manhattan in order...

I know we mentioned it briefly in our post earlier this week about the design update to the Crimespotting project, but I’m so excited about how the project relates to day vs. night that I want to address it a little more directly: It’s pretty good: you can view crimes by time, turning hours on...

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...

Stamen eats together. Every day, the studio gets lunch and shares it as a group. Our Mission neighborhood is ground zero for a crazy variety of amazing food, and most of it’s available to-go. As we’ve grown over the years, we’ve started to generate progressively larger volume of packaging waste every day, and finally decided...