March 11, 2010

Illustration: Fun with Google Maps

• Christoph Niemann has excellent fun riffing on the visual language of Google Maps.

  

• Neven Mrgan asks, “What’s next for Google Maps now that they’ve added Bicycling Directions?,” providing some tongue-in-cheek answers.

[Previously: See Niemann's great Lego NYC illustrations.]

$118,000, 1,000fps, & Stephen Hawking

“Sure, it costs as much as 47 Canon 5D MK IIs,” writes Uncrate,” but you’d need nearly that many — configured in some sort of crazy, Matrix-like setup — to match the unbelievable 1,052 fps high-speed 1080p recording of the Phantom HD Camera ($118,000).”
I have no idea what’s going on here, but I like it:

Oh, and it’s good for capturing dogs jumping at 1000fps. [Via]