Saturday, August 19, 2006
Graven images and modernity
This map is one of those 'Dot Your Spot' things, installed by a graphics marketplace site where I sometimes visit. It generates a dot automatically for each visitor, so it doesn't always know the location, and it's only been up for three days. Even so, it makes a pretty good map of Modernity. The US, Europe, and Australia / NZ are evenly represented; where there are people, there are graphic artists. (I'm a little sutprised by the high density in the rural Midwest, like Indiana and Ohio.) China, Japan and Korea are present in decent numbers, considering language barriers. Russia is missing, which isn't surprising considering its third-world status. But the most noticeable missing area is the entire Arab-influenced world. Plenty of people with plenty of money. But no graphics. One dot in Cairo, and one in Dubai, and that's it. ¶ 8:33 AM
This map is one of those 'Dot Your Spot' things, installed by a graphics marketplace site where I sometimes visit. It generates a dot automatically for each visitor, so it doesn't always know the location, and it's only been up for three days. Even so, it makes a pretty good map of Modernity. The US, Europe, and Australia / NZ are evenly represented; where there are people, there are graphic artists. (I'm a little sutprised by the high density in the rural Midwest, like Indiana and Ohio.) China, Japan and Korea are present in decent numbers, considering language barriers. Russia is missing, which isn't surprising considering its third-world status. But the most noticeable missing area is the entire Arab-influenced world. Plenty of people with plenty of money. But no graphics. One dot in Cairo, and one in Dubai, and that's it. ¶ 8:33 AM
