Katelyn M. Thompson's Blog http://ktomdesign.com/blog Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:28:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Underwater “Attack” Dog Photos http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2012/02/underwater-attack-dog-photos/ http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2012/02/underwater-attack-dog-photos/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:50:46 +0000 kmtom http://ktomdesign.com/blog/?p=1402 Little Friends Photos has managed to capture dogs looking as mean and frightening as sharks. Some of these are seriously scary. Maybe sharks wouldn’t be as scary if they were on land? Happy to see these pooches are attacking nothing more than a fetch ball.

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Björn Johansson created this very interesting typeface called Typeface Anatomy using the human skeleton as reference.

               

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Perhaps even the stop motion and stamping techniques can be combined?

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]]> http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2011/12/stamping-with-lego/feed/ 0 My Plea: help me Help Allison Weiss Make a Record http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2011/12/my-plea-help-me-help-allison-weiss-make-a-record/ http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2011/12/my-plea-help-me-help-allison-weiss-make-a-record/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:14:06 +0000 kmtom http://ktomdesign.com/blog/?p=1347 ]]> http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2011/12/my-plea-help-me-help-allison-weiss-make-a-record/feed/ 0 A Day In the Life of MBTA Buses http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2011/11/a-day-in-the-life-of-mbta-buses/ http://ktomdesign.com/blog/2011/11/a-day-in-the-life-of-mbta-buses/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:13:43 +0000 kmtom http://ktomdesign.com/blog/?p=1338 A beautiful depiction of the location/speed of MBTA buses from last Friday. Bostonography used the NextBus data to create this map of the bus routes. The colors indicate the speed the bus is traveling: blue = >25 MPH, yellow = 10-25 MPH and red = <10 MPH. The lack of blue frightens me! I will continue to be glad that I neither have to drive nor take a bus in downtown Boston very often.

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For the most part buses on this day had average speeds predictably somewhere below the normal city street speed limit, with the very slow spots being around major intersections and hubs like Ruggles or Harvard Square. There are also some generally slow areas besides those, such as most of downtown. As you can see, most of the MBTA system would be toast if faced with the classic Speed scenario. The “fast” (and remember this category goes all the way down to 25 mph) lines are mostly confined to the rush hour expressway routes and some suburban roads. I expected to see more red than there is, though. I don’t often ride the bus, but the experiences burned in my mind are things like watching pedestrians cross the Mass Ave bridge more quickly than my #1. - Andy Woodruff

It would be interesting to include more data and create an interactive model to show patterns over days/weeks for certain times or events. (I’m sure a Red Sox game would create a lot more red in the Fenway area!) This really makes me want to take some cartography classes!

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