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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Photographer: John Fellers Event: Gardens

Location: Lewiston-Porter School Campus, Lewiston, New York, USA Photographer: David Schaubert Event: Community

Location: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA Photographer: Jonny Donut Carroll Event: Community

Visualising cities over time is a great way to portray a sense of life/speed and the general hustle of the urban landscape. Albee, a grad student from Atlanta, has created an inspiring movie containing timelapse sequences of cities:



The music is Telepopmusik, Just Breathe.

We are looking into a tutorial on using the Nokia N95 to create HD timelapse movies, we should have some examples online soon...

The animation below by Leo de Wijs tells the story of a tree outgrown by an evolving city, it is both unique and charming:

Location: Sonnenberg Gardens, Canandaigua, New York, USA Photographer: Julie Pecenco Event: Gardens

Maps represent a moment in time and when your creating a mood map of the United Kingdom. In relation to the countries on the impact of the Credit Crunch, 24 hours can be a long time, as we explore below.

Our work with BBC Radio 4's PM show is yielding interesting results with the fuel prices coming out as the nations biggest concern in these times of tight credit. Yet look closer at the data and it becomes clear that the nations mood has shifted over the last few weeks.

To recap, listener's are being asked to answer the following question:

What single factor is hurting you most about the credit crunch?

Please select one of the answers below:

Mortgage or Rent
Fuel
Food Prices
Holidays
Other
The Credit Crunch is not affecting me

We generated a new map every 30 minutes, providing an up to date view of the nations mood.

In addition to mapping the data it can also be analysed over time, the image below represents the percentage of answers on May 1st:
On May 1st the nations biggest concern was the price of food, yet by May 3rd fuel had taken over with food slipping back down in terms of overall percentage:
The nations mood over the last few weeks has been changing quite notably over time, perhaps in relations to the amount of media coverage anyone topic has received. Food prices were in the news earlier in the month and now fuel prices are hitting the headlines with the current blockage of London by lorry drivers.

At the present time fuel prices are again leading the poll, you can view the timeline using the interactive version embedded below. Annoyingly Google Docs does not save the viewing preferences when embedding motion graphs so to match our set up simply:

Click below to set both size and colour to view by percentage and move the time slider to gain a unique insight to the nations mood over time.

If you click each circle it will highlight each category in turn to match the images above:



The data poses the question if we as a nation are indeed worried about the credit crunch or is it the media inducing worry by the the amount of coverage given and shock headlines?

You can view the map at http://www.maptube.org with full details on the BBC's iPM page.

Location: Aquarium, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Photographer: Iñaki Rezola Event: Water

Click HERE to view the full screen panorama.

The bustle of life at one of the bathing Ghats in Varanasi. The ghats are where the people come to bathe, wash, and generally cleanse their souls, if not their bodies, each morning in the holy river. The water is far from physically clean! This would be a fairly quiet morning I’d imagine. Click the image [...]

Oklahoma City, founded in the Land Run of 1889, is the capitol of the State of Oklahoma. With a population of over one-half million within the city limits and over 1,200,000 in the greater metropolitan area Oklahoma City is the 30th largest city in the United States. The Oklahoma State Capitol Building is located in State [...]

Click image to open Full screen Panoramas! This is one of the “must sees” of Brugge. Modest white houses watch out over a grassy courtyard and rustling trees, creating a soothing atmosphere for the weary and burnt-out sightseer.It was founded [...]

Click image to open Fullscreen Panorama! Home of the Mayor of Turin. Luci d’Artista: Daniel Buren, “Flying carpet”

Location: Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Photographer: Francois Cochin Event: Best of 2007

Click HERE to view the full screen panorama.

The bronze statue on the right hand side was called Reina Mariana.
The head statue on the left hand side was called Portrait of Nam.

The Art HK offical website.
http://www.hongkongartfair.com/home/index.php

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA Photographer: William M. Delabarre Event: Sustenance

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Location: Budapest, Hungary Photographer: András L. Frenyo Event: Marketplace

Over the last few weeks Radio 4's PM show has been carrying out a survey on the UK's fears on the Credit Crunch. In association with our MapTube site at CASA listeners were asked for the first part of their postcode and to answer the following question:

What single factor is hurting you most about the credit crunch?

Please select one of the answers below:

Mortgage or Rent
Fuel
Food Prices
Holidays
Other
The Credit Crunch is not affecting me

We generated a new map every 30 minutes, providing an up to date view of the nations mood.


The results are fascinating, with over 22,000 responses 49% were most worried about fuel price with food running in second at 19%. The interesting part for us is to view these results both statistically and geographically as the results come in, to date the breakdown is as follows:


You can view the map at http://www.maptube.org with full details on the BBC's iPM page - of note is the rural/urban split with urban areas being notably more worried about mortgage or rent payments compared to other areas of the UK.