Excerpt from the end of his speech to the 1952 Republican National Convention:

"We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans:
'My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring!'
That's exactly what we mean—from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia—let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the persecuted of Europe, for the rejected of Asia, disfranchised of South Africa and for the disinherited of all the earth—may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, 'LET FREEDOM RING.'"

artist with generative-ish triangulation paintings, actual generative stuff.

maps and animated visualizations

yay internet for learning about awesome/random historical characters

Little late for Memorial Day.

Kio's new site is up! Can't wait to see "Follow Me Down" on shelves soon.

How did I never bookmark this before? Show me a photograph of a motel that I don't love. No, really some good stuff in the fine new topographics tradition. [flickr: .bijou]

geographer and "father of the quadrangle"

Includes diptych of high/low points in LA Co.

Anthony Graves is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York

First great American mathematician, despite being English. Coined the term 'graph.'

So nice to see Hektor pop up again! Especially making a Neu! graphic.

"Neil Donnelly is a graphic designer who makes books, posters, printed matter, websites, exhibitions, videos, and more"

artist behind the "Canner Tribute" shopping cart sculptures installed around Bk.

ian's new portfolio site. nice css3 animation going on.

rachelberger.info. SF graphic designer / 100 paint chips project, etc

Don't think I ever linked to Marian's comics before. They're great.

"Charles Komanoff is widely known for his work as an energy-policy analyst, transport economist and environmental activist in New York City. He “re-founded” NYC’s bike-advocacy group Transportation Alternatives in the 1980s..."

"JK Keller is an artist, designer and obsessive-compulsive. Through his New York based studio practice, JK creates work that lies near the intersection of design, code, & craft. By dictating logical (logic does not beget sense) systems, the work focuses on transcending the everyday via the every day."

jessicabridger.com

interaction and visualization. @ITP

"Stevin's goal was to bring about a second age of wisdom, in which mankind would have recovered all of its earlier knowledge. He had deduced that the language spoken in this age would have had to be Dutch, because, as he had showed empirically, in that language, more concepts could be indicated with monosyllabic words than in any of the (European) languages he had compared it with."

She of the Most Complete tree collection on flickr.

depictions of romantically overgrown ruins earned him the nickname Robert des ruines

teacher of Ken Jackson, who says: “He started a movement. There are hundreds of books on cities now, and in a sense he is their grandfather. The only reason I took urban history was because of him; I had never heard of such a thing.”

Landscape writer & early critic of Victor Gruen, apparently. To read

up and coming landscape architect

Walter A. Netsch Jr. 1920 – 2008. Architect of UIC, Air Force Academy, Regenstein Library, Inland Steel Building.

co-creator of the diffusion method for creating cartograms. page has C code implementing the algorithm for shp files.

"Dismissed from Penn in 1915 because of his public opposition to child labor." Radical & public intellectual (1883-1983)

molly's mom

long exposures of entire films, and other great bw photography

2001 obids for founder of MIT Visual Studies program

"Lisa Greenfield is an artist and urban planner."

guy with the 'nice name' on meta-markets. involved in loopcity, wegzeit, etc

gent behind Meta-Markets and Real Time Rome

Smoot became president of the ISO! hilarious

personal website: total self-surveillance. [Hasan Elahi]

The source for the word. 18th c. French Controller-General. His progressive taxation policies made the rich complain that they had been 'reduced to mere shadows'.

and the dimmer switch!

Rumors of his abandonment of 'to be' are greatly exaggerated. Coined 'map is not the territory.' See dog biscuit story.

Good photographer, crappy website (don't bother clicking, no pix)

"Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective allonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935"

"murdered in the bathroom of the Divinity School, U of Chicago, shot once in the back of the head." "Speculation arose that he had been killed by former Securitate agents"..."There are also various claims that Culianu was killed by an occult grouping."

A top translator of hermetic texts. At Colgate Music Dept (?)

"current book project investigates ... American remembrance of World War II or how the “good war” became 'good.'" Also teaches a course called 'Elvis and Postwar America'.

art from the proprietor of vvork.

Danish artist in the UK. New acoustic mirrors facing each other across the Eng Channel, Christiana research, more

inventor of Perlin Noise, which he won an Oscar for!

team joe from brown. 'Theogeny of Wal-Mart' is excellent

yo! awesome mapping, global social justice art projets. Australian-flavored. thx k. [bc: I'm going to put anything aussie in your for box.]

international small town illinois, so close but so far

spying on spies, tracking torture planes, and other art-geography.

"A more notable instance of this behavior was demonstrated in his interruption of a performance of The Merchant of Venice, in which Clare verbally assaulted Shylock." In one of his poems, he mentions an 'aeroplane.' I'd love a citation. (He died in 186x)

"Work rescues & converts discarded objects, ... reanimates them [as] a simple model of ... [history, architecture, or mountains]." (A movable circus tent, an infinite addition to a museum, potato print of the Unité, faux wood flooring w/ ideas)

Nice to run into someone after a couple of years, only remember the name of their website, but not be made too embarrassed by it.

nice

kids these days, with their framesets, collecting random gifs off the web and calling it their work. oh, wait.

At 17 "he began to study what he thought was a new class of numbers, but instead he had independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers". Hate it when that happens. Superhuman genius.

"Funniest man I ever saw, saddest man I ever knew." – W. C. Fields

Tragedy: Man saves President's life, has life ruined (by prejudice) in turn

"also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to visit the Americas" c.1820's Shipwrecked 14-year old fisherman makes good. Map of his travels is great.

"I began to see the built environment ... as less than real and more like stage sets" Photographer/painter, saw speak @ Cleve Museum in 2002. Site is a dense archive of visual detritus, incl wordless logos

Nike missile cozy is great.

as the stars go by, abstracted quilts [via slavin (you're right - it's damn good)]

sculpture from cut paper. A better/more elaborate Yuken Teruya.