7th
January
2005
“I’m ‘that guy wot draws’ currently employed by the Boeing Commercial Airplane Division, where I’m actually paid to be a ‘visual practitioner’ …My essential skill is simply ó If you can explain it to me, I can draw a picture of it. It doesn’t matter if it’s something totally new to me, if you can make a coherent explanation, and let me understand it. I can ‘visualize it’ and make a picture that shows you what you said.”
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7th
January
2005
“Nineteenth century engineers used a variety of scientific instruments in gathering the data to complete their maps. These included the following items…” (Thanks The Map Room!)
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7th
January
2005
“Indie Comic artist Johnny Ryan, known for his ‘Angry Youth’ Comics and general poor-taste, has been skewering the elder statesmen of indie comics in his ‘Shouldn’t You be Working?’ strip. These strips are mostly not safe for work, and are archived on his website, though some URL-archaeology was necessary to get to some of the older ones. You should probably have an unhealthy knowledge of the indie comics ’scene,’ and a high tolerance for extreme vulgarity to appreciate most of them.”
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7th
January
2005
“In an effort to see more (information) with the less (our normal vision system) that we humans are endowed with, Axel Kilian did some interesting basic research in 2000. He posited the ability of looking at a space of complex information by placing specific points of focus throughout the space. Usually when we look at a space of information, we look at one particular area. In Axel’s vision (no pun intended), you can point to three or more spots in the space where you can request specific attention to clarity. The result is being able to see at more places than one, simultaneously.”
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