Author Archives: carmen

Globe drawing


I’ve just finished the Globe wall drawing, tomorrow must be send to the printing place, this one will be 200x120cm.
Now starting to work on a new version, regading the global earth wind currents.

Interesting ways of unfolding the Earth

How can we unfold the Earth? Making a map of the earth is an ancient problem. For thousands of years cartographers, mathematicians, and inventors have developed methods to flatten the curved surface of the earth into a 2D plane.
Visualization professor Jack van Wijk developed a new method of unfolding the earth: Myriahedral projections. The video below shows ten variations, which tend to get stranger and stranger.
Via Next Nature.

The bicycle acrobat

Filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh by Dave Sowerby, this video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill features probably the best collection of street trials riding ever seen. There’s some huge riding, but also some of the most technically difficult and imaginative lines you will ever see.