Blue pictures are by locals. Red pictures are by tourists. Yellow pictures might be by either. (Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA)
A gorgeous info visualization map by Flickr user Eric Fischer. {Thank you for sending this to me, Kevin}
Orange wednesdays !
State of the vector art
Just found Vector Magic, a free webapp [trial] that easily converts bitmap images to clean vector art. (Desktop edition also available.)
I found this via this excellent post on Lifehacker: Top 10 Photo Fixing and Image Editing Tricks.
If you’ve used Vector Magic before, please post a photo reply and show us your work.
Art & the Artists
My favorite Sunday in London is a stroll of the lovely Columbia Road Flower Market. The flowers are beautiful, the people watching sublime, and Cockney accents are just as an expat would hope. Best thing about it I think is the relaxed pace, which makes it distinctly different than any market I’ve ever been to in the U.S.
My find this weekend was this bit of collaborative street art. This piece is mixed media – colored paint & poster-size photocopy image looks done by the first artist, sharpie embellishments done by the second.
Doubt the first artist intended for her to ever wear nipples drawn up so high on her chest (or are those a second pair of eyeballs?) but it adds to it, I think.
{…does anyone know the anything about this one’s artist(s)? please reply…}
This Stone Rolls forever.
Mick Jagger. Childlike, raw, beautiful, and perverse. Mick’s existence suggests a truth we have all secretly always hoped for; that if unleashed, our inner rockstar would be… transcendent. {photo link: The Many Roles of Mick Jagger, via moviemorlocks.com}
Book Recommendation – The Art of Choosing
The Art of Choosing – not every culture values choice like Americans (Sheena Iyengar’s new book) http://shar.es/mAkyd