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The Beat of Shibuya

Andy — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:28:00 +0000

Shibuya in Tokyo is second only to Akihabara as one of our of favourite places to truly observe the urban phenomena. The movie was captured by darwinfish105 soon after the recent earthquake with a note from the author that despite the then fears of radioactive contamination the heartbeat of the city continued:

Lens : TS-E24mm f/3.5L
Lens : Canon EF50mm F1.8 II

Music : Those 3 Lovely Seconds (Original Mix) by Awakenas jamendo.com/en/track/617099

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Tweet-o-Meter adds San Francisco, Barcelona, Tokyo and Oslo to its Data Mine: Urban Tweets per Minute

Andy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:30:00 +0000

Due to various emails asking ‘where is xxx’ we have added four more cities to the Tweet-o-Meter which means more data to collect and analyse. Is it true that, New York is the city that never sleeps? Do Londoners send more Tweets than New Yorkians’? Is Oslo a bigger Tweeter than Munich? Is Tokyo into Tweets as much as Barcelona? Has San Francisco calmed down after that
Apple Event?

The Tweet-o-Meter measures the amount of tweets (measured in Tweets per Minute or TPM) received from various locations around the world. The gauges are updated every second giving you a live view of the TPM’s in each location.

Tweet-o-Meter is designed to mine data for later analysis relating to furthering our understanding of social and temporal dynamics for e-Social Science within the Twitter demographic. The system is under development here at CASA as part of a wider survey tool as part of the NeISS project in association with Urban Tick and coded by Steven Gray.

See yesterdays introduction to Tweet-o-Meter post for full details and the music video behind the original choice of cities or head direct to the Eight Cities Head-to Head Tweet-o-Meter Page.

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Tokyo Timelapse: Remanence

Andy — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:34:00 +0000

remanence : variance from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

The timelapse above is by Samuel Cockedey – In Samuels own words the clip is entitled Remanence referring to:

a. The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
b. The magnetic flux remaining in a substance after the magnetizing force has been withdrawn.

Variance
a. A difference between what is expected and what actually occurs.
b. The number of thermodynamic variables, such as temperature and pressure, required to specify a state of equilibrium of a system, given by the phase rule.

The sequences were shot in Tokyo with Canon DSLRs (mostly a 350d), processed with Lightroom (raw files color adjustment and resizing)/VirtualDub (deshaker/deflicker filters)/Sony Vegas (editing). Original rendered in full 1080 HD@30p.

Music: “Is That What Everybody Wants” from Cliff Martinez’s soundtrack for Solaris.