Accelerated through the fear from the attacks of 9/11 and all what followed, the so called ‘Western Society’ is constructing the greatest wall ever build on this planet. On different building sites on all five inhabitable continents, walls, fences and high-tech border surveillance are under construction in order to secure the citizens and their high quality of life within this system. The fall of the Berlin Wall was described as the historical moment that marks the demolition of world’s last barrier between nation states. Yet it took the European Union only six years to create with the Schengen Agreement in 1995 a new division only 80km offset to the east of Berlin.
Teyt and Map by Theo Deutinger
Not Always Right: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Maps
(via auan)
visual i/zer is awesome! You can connect lyrics from your favorite songs to other songs and just keep going with it forever and ever and ever… details explained here.
NYTimes: 365/360 - 2009 (via blprnt_van)
The most big personalities and organizations featured in The New York Times in 2009… comparable visualizations are available for 1984 and 2000s.
Temperature on the Tube in London
When I was there (and riding every day for long periods of time, all over and across the city wearing long dark pants, closed toed dark shoes, long sleeve dark sweaters and carrying twenty pounds of crap) they said that it was too hot for cattle on the Tube. I think their cattle tests explain why I had to stand so many times…
