Wanderlust

Reflecting on our Earth Day prints we came across Breathing Earth, an interactive real-time web simulation of humankind’s environmental impact.  Displaying estimated CO2 emissions and population statistics within an easy to use web interface, when prompted by a mouse cursor, specific country information is displayed, offering detailed birth / death and carbon emission statistics.  Countries flash red when they emit over one-thousand tonnes of carbon-dioxide.

Sourcing their information from the CIA World Factbook and United Nations Statistics Division, the Breathing Earth simulation is an innovative big-picture education tool on our global carbon footprint and environmental impact.

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For those of you not in the UK you can check out some of the amazing maps featured on BBC 4’s ‘The Beauty of Maps’ on YouTube. This clip features maps created in the digital world including the most complete map on the Internet and the largest map of the universe.

The Wanderlust Earth Series was created in part using data capture software which tracked mouse movements over a period of hours and days. The resulting images produced the crater like shapes seen below in a draft of Antarctica, freezing time in a static frame.

The Sprüth Magers gallery in Berlin is currently showing a new series of work by Andreas Gursky, the exhibition features six new large-scale works by the German artist inspired by the blue void of ocean displayed on an in-flight monitor during a flight from Dubai to Melbourne. A true cut and paste style assemblage “Gursky used high-definition satellite photographs which he augmented from various picture sources on the Internet,”. There is something familiar about this image… Maybe its this.

We wanted to say thanks to our friends for supporting the Wanderlust Earth Print series. We have been getting some great comments about the prints, help spread the world and  pop over to say hello.

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