The Loveland project is a curious experiment in micro-property ownership and augmented reality. You buy square inches in Detroit (and simultaneously on the internet), to build as you please. It’s picking up lots of momentum and interest, so follow the ongoing saga at the blog, 7 Billion Friends, and inchvest here!
I’ve been talking with Jerry about how to visualize inches and inchvestors and give people something to explore and play with, using Stamen‘s SFMOMA ArtScope as inspiration with its zoomy grid and magnifier. The viewer I sketched in Processing.js feels like a good start and should be live within a few days!
Over coffee today we talked visual storytelling and map presentation styles, and I remarked how much tiled inch-rectangles resemble fields like these Dutch tulips.
oh noes, yet another $1M home page
Love your work.
Inchmap is genius.
Thanks, I had fun with it!
[...] viz at the Marsh Cafe in the Mission, where they happen to be producing a show called Loveland. Last time I mentioned a 2D-yet-linear progress bar, showing each inchvestor’s share with colors! and [...]