fakeisthenewreal + london   24

Boris Bikes redux on Vimeo
"animation of Boris Bikes on the day of a tube strike"
bikes  london  map  animation  visualization 
march 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
London V2 Rocket Sites...Mapped
"Autumn 1944, and London was under attack from space. Hitler's 'vengeance' rocket, the V-2, was the world's first ballistic missile, and the first man-made object to make a sub-orbital spaceflight. Over 1400 were launched at Britain, with more than 500 striking London. The 13 tonne rocket impacted at over 3000 miles per hour. There was no warning; the missile descended faster than the speed of sound and survivors would only hear the approach and sonic booms after the blast." For reference the next time you read Gravity's Rainbow.
london  map  google  history  uk  war 
january 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Housing Prototypes: Golden Lane/Barbican Estates
"The greatly elongated historical timeline results in stylistic time gap between the period when the sites and buildings were designed and when they were actually built resulting in the irony of Brutalist buildings being constructed in a Post Modernist ep
urban  planning  architecture  housing  london 
january 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Tom Phillips: 20 Sites n Years
20 years of photographs in 16 London spots. Too bad all photos aren't online.
art  london  time  photography  awesome 
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
assembling
internet playground projects & such
design  blog  art  london 
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
mySociety Travel-time Maps and their Uses
UK travel time maps. Really a proof of concept - they'll send you their software if you ask. NYC, anyone?
uk  london  travel  time  mapping  hidden_patterns 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
BBC NEWS | Magazine | London's heart of stone
"The stone is a listed structure, part of our visible Roman history and an important part of the street scene." (via rodcorp)
london  history  uk  news  viarodcorp 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
23 and 24 Leinster Gardens - London, UK
google satellite of dummy row houses in London. Built in 1867 to hide an open cut for the Tube.
london  map 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
GPSdiary.org
"online archive of an art project, in which artist Thorsten Knaub recorded his daily movements over the course of a year [using] GPS."
space  london  art  uk 
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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