I’m currently watching a new series on Discovery called “We Built This City.” What’s so marvelous about it is that it uses sophisticated and beautiful computer graphics to enlighten rather than dazzle. An image of New Amsterdam seamlessly flows into an image of modern-day New York; footage of skyscrapers in water shows the extent of reclaimed land on the island; and a seamless camera move from bottom to top shows the techniques used to landfill the area. It’s a perfect example of making complex concepts easy to understand visually, the kind of thing that I aspire to almost every day.
2 comments
You may also like
End of the phone company? I don’t think so
In Business 2.0, Erick Schonfeld opines that Apple’s iChat AV will mean the end for phone companies: The folks who should be the most worried about this development are the phone companies. While video IM works [more...]
June 30, 2003
Better than Prozac™
The annual arrival of the popcorn here at my office couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s almost impossible to concentrate on being depressed at a break up when you’re shoveling cheese popcorn into [more...]
December 13, 2004
Oh, the places you’ll see
Here’s how I wasted my night yesterday, playing with Google Earth. Equator.kmz: I made my way around the globe at the equator, and this is the only thing I could see that was a monument of any kind — at [more...]
January 13, 2006
I missed the NYC and London shows, but I caught 3/4 of the Paris. That was one of the best shows ever. So cool! Can’t wait to see the other two!
Just watched the New York City one. Yeah, it was fantastic! The grid system, Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge… all fascinating.