WEATHER PERMITTING Weather Permitting investigates the phenomena of weather, from tornadoes in trailer parks to drifting ice shelves in the Antarctic. The project focuses on the culture and technologies of communication that are used to capture and transmit weather events. Conducted by Kathryn Yusoff and Jennifer Gabrys, two researchers with experience in geography, … [Read more...]
Art exhibit addresses weather
The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination is pleased to present the exhibition, Pathetic Fallacy: Weather and Imagination, which examines diverse ways in which artists and scientists record, capture and analyze the phenomenology of weather. How do actual weather conditions affect the sensibility of an artist? How does the climate influence his or her … [Read more...]
David Lynch’s daily weather report
Every day, on his website, David Lynch reads the weather.http://www.davidlynch.com/ … [Read more...]
Tufte on weather icons, iPhone
from 2005, Tufte's picks for the National Weather Service's worst proposed new weather icons (and feedback) part of a more recent post is an analysis of the iPhone's display that uses weather data display that proposes more reliance on the screen's high resolution. things are always so clear if you are Edward Tufte. thanks to … [Read more...]