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C'è stato un tempo in cui i numeri mi facevano più male di quanto Jim Carey possa raccontare. Qui ci ero dentro fino al collo.
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Guerilla-Marketing in Shanghai. As far as I know, the people on the other end of the line can get you anything. Anything. An intriguing concept.
I shared a bed. Some man came and said
he hadn't slept all his life. I gave him some of my night
hours without
even thinking. Wish someone would have warned me.
Now I dream a man's blue-
shaven visions. I can't tell if I'm a woman
or a man in the dreams, but it doesn't matter.
What happens when they mix:
soil, Sister. That's all we've
become. Man plus Woman equals
Ditch Dirt. And this is supposed to be beautiful,
the strongest tonic.
Stephanie N. Johnson
░▒▓▌ ◊ Mission 24: Numbers ◊ ▐▓▒░
Because what good would one do?
They say there's strength in them.
Not what you would expect from someone with a B.S. in Mathematics.
Oh, wished I'd thought to add this earlier -
Please Use This As A FREE Texture If You'd Like
and there is no need to reference back to me. It's a little choppy in places because I just erased black with Magic Wand set to 30 to make addition layers.
Sorry to any Texture groups that ask for no Photoshopped pieces, I can't keep everybody's rules straight.
Explore #415
LENS: Zeiss 150mm Sonnar T* f/4 (old manual lens made for Hassleblad 6x6 film camera).
CAMERA: Olympus E-P3
In terms of length now.
No. Wait.
She is now two inches taller than me.
Darn.
She used to look up to me, now it is the reverse...
“How many people have ever lived?” That's the question this graphic tries to answer. I've recently updated it for 2011.
The numbers in this piece are speculative but are as accurate as modern research allows. It’s widely accepted that prior to 2002 there had been somewhere between 106 and 140 billion homo sapiens born to the world. The graphic below uses the conservative number (106 bn) as the basis for a circle graph. The center dot represents how many people are currently living (red) versus the dead (white). The dashed vertical line shows how much time passed between milestones. The spectral graph immediately below this text illustrates the population ‘benchmarks’ that were used to estimate the population over time. Adding the population numbers gets you to 106 billion. The red sphere is then used to compare against other data.
What's different in the 2011 version of Population of the Dead? To start I've included both all time population estimates. White represents the 106 billion conservative estimate while the more liberal estimation of 140 billion is represented by the gray outer zone.
A number of corrections have been included this time around. First, the red circle is actually to scale throughout the image, so all the circles can be easily compared to one another.
When I originally published this, I was eviscerated by a few select mathematicians who pointed out that using the radius or diameter as the basis for scaling the circles was incorrect. One blogger gave me a much appreciated math lesson which motivated me to update the graphic. I'm still not a math guy, so if the numbers are still wrong forgive me. I did use the area this time, not the diameter.
However, I'd also like to restate that proper math isn't exactly the point of this image. One viewer, Andrew Liebchen, says this far more elegantly than I can in a comment he left for me, "In some ways, the circle within the circle is poetic. It implies that in time, all the living will die; the that is red will become white. Meanwhile, new births will forever increase the overall area." In short, the point is to reflect on the scale of life and death. ;-)
Finally, I'd like to thank everyone who's viewed or promoted this image! 111,920 have viewed it on Flickr alone, but it's been posted and reposted all over the web on sites like Visual.ly, Digg, Reddit, Dzone, and DesignFloat. I've also spotted prints in the wild. Thanks everyone, truly flattering!
Research Notes: The research used to create largely came from this article from The Scientific American, published by Ciara Curtin on March 1, 2007. Her article cites Carl Haub, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, and Joel Cohen, a professor of populations at the Rockefeller and Columbia Universities in New York City, as sources. A number of other sources were used including research from the Forum of the Future, the Population Reference Bureau, Jeffery Sachs Blog and publications by the United Nations.
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Update Jan 29, 2010: Fixed Spelling Mistake
Update Feb 11, 2010: Proceeds from this graphic now being donated to One Million Bones
Update Aug 27, 2011: 2011 version released
Originally published at appfrica.net/blog/2009/11/16/population-of-the-dead/
A short Film by Cristobal Vila inspired on Geometry, Numbers and Nature. Eterea Studios.
www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/nbyn_htm/intro.htm
More : iesalbasit.es/blogs/seccioneuropea/files/NatureByNumbers.pdf
Music Composed and Arranged by Win Mertens www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVtfe2D_iu8
Choosing lottery tickets in Thailand is a complex business. Many people have very individual and sophisticated systems for predicting the winning numbers. Significant events can be taken as signs - the date/time of a death or birth, the last two digits of a car number plate involved in a crash - and commonly, numbers that might appear in some form in dreams.
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This is the holocaust memorial in Boston. Etched into the glass are the serial numbers of all who died in the concentration camps.
(this image has not been photoshopped)