Category Archives: Self

Great Visualizers: Michael Paukner

I’m really loving this guy’s visualization style. And the esoteric subjects too. I’ve got a bunch of esoteria visualized in my book. Sadly, for me, I think Michael does a better job.

The Great Circle

The Great Circle by Michael Paukner
Spook! Many of the ancient ‘wonders of the world’ are apparently on the same latitude.

Precession

Precession by Michael Paukner
A key idea in the current Mayan 2012 end-of-the-world meme is that December 21st, 2012 coincides with the end of the Precession of the Equinox, a 26,000 galactic cycle. Hmmmmmm…

Mayan Interdimension Starmap

Mayan Interdimensional StarMap by Michael Paukner
What would a Monday morning be without some Mayan mind mank?

Check out his Photostream on Flickr. Let me know if you find any other cool visualizers.

Also posted in Esoteria, Great Visualizers, InfoVisualisation, World Map |
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What Does Your Soul Look Like?

What Does Your Soul Look Like?
I’m trying to create a piece of interactive art. Can you help by drawing something? It should only take 5 minutes.

I’d like you to draw a picture of your soul. How you imagine it to look.

Nothing sinister intended. I’m curious about how different people perceive their ‘soul’.

If enough people do this, it could be really interesting. Because we’ll all be blind to other peoples’ drawings, there’s a chance here to spot patterns, commonalities and any interesting coincidences that might appear across all the souls.

Cooler, we may even be able to build a taxonomy of souls.

At the least, it should be a fascinating, crowd-sourced image…

(This idea was inspired by Waxy’s toyings with Mechanical Turk and The Sheep Market by Aaron Koblin.)

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Also posted in Crowd Sourcing, Fun, Group MInd, Taxonomy |
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