In the bathroom of my childhood home, an image of one of these formed an element of a full-room magazine-clip collage dating to summer 1974. Since we moved into that house in 1976, I have wanted to know what the hell it was. Now, I do.
Futuro
Fold
Paper Forest, via BoingBoing.
Bad Eject
Things posts a link to the back story to a series of the most striking images of aerial misfortune I’ve ever seen. I think Manuel linked to a picture of it a while ago – an A-6 aviator’s ejection seat went off in flight, partially ejecting him though the canopy of the plane. The link is about the incident and how he survived.
Starsongs
Coffee and Peanut Butter and Jelly
Jim points out this loving reminiscence of the Last Exit on Brooklyn at Seattle Wiki.
Hybrid
Awesome! I just noticed that Google Maps has a new view labeled “Hybrid” that lays their streetmap over a satellite view!
Empire
Jon Konrath passes along a link to the Google Maps satellite view of the Breaking Away quarry and the nearby complex of quarries. The linked review is a must-read, by the way. I thought it was interesting that he located it by searching for “Empire Mill Road,” as it was a staple of Bloomington folklore that Bloomington limestone is the stone used in the construction of the Empire State Building. I wonder, could these be the quarries that stone came from?
I have many memories of stumbling along a narrow path through the woods on our way to these quarries, the cleared areas of stone glimmering bluely in the cool light of a full summer moon.
Ken
Hard at work.
Holding forth on the subject of mattress copy.
Pointing out a possible error in historical attribution.
The League
There has been an invitation, brothers.
U2s over Indy
Sparked by Editor B’s remarking upon my Google Maps and Indiana post of yestereve, a denizen of the Hoosier state drops a line:
It is interesting how the term “satellite imagery” is thrown around fairly casually these days. Google would lead us to believe that all their imagery is satellite imagery. In fact, the Indiana images are part of a statewide aerial photography project that was undertaken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2003. Indiana looks different at small scales because this aerial photography is much different data than the majority of the course-scale satellite imagery displayed on Google Maps. Note the difference in resolution and color when you look close at an area near the state line.
The Illinois image probably has a 30-meter spatial resolution (each pixel is 30m x 30m), whereas the Indiana imagery has a 1-meter spatial resolution. This has a huge impact on the ability to view detail at large scale and the overall color of the image at small scale.
Note also that some areas of Indiana and other states have some areas of even higher resolution imagery.
I suspect much of this higher-resolution data is aerial photography–not that it matters much to the casual user.
You can view the same imagery for Indiana which runs on IU’s Research Database Complex.
Simply zoom in near Bloomington and turn on the 2003 Aerials (also need to turn off the 1998-1999 aerials).
Hope this clears things up a little.
The correspondent has been invited to provide self-attribution in the comments; if he does not, it’s due to privacy concerns.