Britain from above.
This looks amazing. It is strange how everything here reminds me of something else: the taxis finding a shorter route is like blood suffusing through tissue again once the pressure has been removed; the taxis waiting above airports is like a child scribbling; the telephone network waking in the morning grows like mould on an agar plate. It is as if each part of our biological system is a fractal; the same patterns can be found again in something larger and in something smaller.
posted by Clare Dudman at 2:05 pm
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I just saw this on the news, and it seems to reinforce the importance of connections and contact to human behaviour so much better than almost anything else.
Great way of putting it, Stu - yes, it is all about connections.
One particular overhead simulation shows all the transactions from people's bank accounts into the BBC's TV Licensing accounts.
Aha, I was thinking of you when I wrote this post, Gordon - I thought it might be something that might interest you.
Another interesting one would be telephone voting on TV programmes - and whether they come from any particular place... I think I might start a (stuff for other people) to do list. Second would be MRI scans of shamans in a trance.
This looks like one of those much watch things. I'm still dancing about from that Channel 4 thing about what would happen after humans died out :)
Interesting what you wrote. I just commented on someones post the other day about map reading and how it reminds me of palm reading. All those lines that mean something to someone!
I think this might have something to do with the poetic/scientific mindset, Jem - sometimes there seems to be metaphors wherever we look.
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