The Greens of Summer

flickr: Locals and Tourists

Using geotagging to determine what tourists photograph vs what the locals photograph.

Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).

Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.

What Superman Sees

X-Ray of speech

This is me (female subject) saying “både” (“both”). The sequence is an excerpt from a 20 second X-Ray film registred at the Danderyd Hospital in Stockholm in March 1997.

In this sequence I noticed that the lips form an interesting image as the mouth opens; I assume it’s from lipstick of uneven thickness and application, which can be seen when the mouth is fully open. I wonder what kind of heavy elements are in there that help screen higher-energy photons. The effect is absent for the male subject (and apparently “pion” in Swedish means “peony” rather than “meson made of up and down quarks.” Silly Swedes.)