Video of a single day's of US flights
This is lovely: Aaron Koblin took what appears to be a single day's worth of air-traffic over the US, and turned the data for each flight into a gorgeously shifting and moving video of dots. My favorite point in the video comes halfway through, when he zooms in on the west coast and points out that ...
WITHOUT GEOGRAPHY
LANDMARKS AND PATTERNS
EMERGE
... which itself is like a nice little psychogeographic haiku. it's also literally true: In the video, you watch as the locations of Los Angeles and Hawaii emerge out of the darkness, sketched out solely by the air traffic between the two.
(Thanks to Jakob Wikman for this one!)
Posted by Clive Thompson at February 13, 2007 10:22 PM
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Very cool and neatly done. Odd that you've got two bits of aircraft glorification up today, though - snow making you pine for sunnier climes? (I can't help but remember that the Videocracy list on Onion AV had up a jet video set to some choice Nirvana, prompting their comment that such was just the way that Kurt Cobain would have wanted it...)
But watching this clip, I couldn't help but remember someone's declaration that one transoceanic flight would use up somebody's carbon allotment for an entire year. (I'm pretty sure it's Manbiot, but don't quote me.) I wonder how clips like this will be viewed in fifty years...
Posted by: Rollen at February 14, 2007 8:45 AM
Yeah, last night was airflight porn night, for sure.
As for the carbon quota -- there's some new airline doing business-class only to the UK that apparently pays part of your ticket price to a carbon-trading board, offsetting the greenhouses gases generated by your share of the flight.
Posted by: Clive at February 14, 2007 11:56 AM
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Very cool and neatly done. Odd that you've got two bits of aircraft glorification up today, though - snow making you pine for sunnier climes? (I can't help but remember that the Videocracy list on Onion AV had up a jet video set to some choice Nirvana, prompting their comment that such was just the way that Kurt Cobain would have wanted it...)
But watching this clip, I couldn't help but remember someone's declaration that one transoceanic flight would use up somebody's carbon allotment for an entire year. (I'm pretty sure it's Manbiot, but don't quote me.) I wonder how clips like this will be viewed in fifty years...
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at February 14, 2007 8:45 AM
Yeah, last night was airflight porn night, for sure.
As for the carbon quota -- there's some new airline doing business-class only to the UK that apparently pays part of your ticket price to a carbon-trading board, offsetting the greenhouses gases generated by your share of the flight.
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