Shiny
This is an elegant and beautiful example of the kind of thing Wired was talking about in the article I mentioned earlier. Artist Todd Falkowsky has processed thousands of photographs of all the Canadian capital cities into the three most predominant colours present in each.
It’s interesting, and a sincerely impressive feat of applying technology to art and culture, and there’s not much else to it. If you’re from TO, you might recognize the cherry red of the TTC in its palette: but only if you access a preexisting model of information, boo.
Lots of compelling data, zero meaningful content. I’m being impetuous, I realize, but I’m a politics student. It is extremely cool.
BIT PART 
Well, I, for one, feel as though my life has been enriched tenfold by this revelation.
June 25, 2008 at 6:32 pm
In scientific terms, I hypothesize that has more to do with the content of your life than the magnitude of the project. But that might just be a bad model talking!
June 25, 2008 at 6:40 pm