Map of Moon Exploration - How Far Did Armstrong and Aldrin Walk?
Image from Strange Maps (source from NASA)

Good data visualization should convey simple messages to viewers. Quite often I see examples of information design that are overly complex or focus too much on presentation than communication goals. I think the mistake is that these designs fail to tell a comprehensible story, or to say, lack of a central idea that explains the purpose of the data.

This is probably why Map is such a unique and compelling form of communication. Not only it visualizes the relationships between elements, but also it represents one’s mind. It is the journey behind the lines and numbers that fascinates people who love to explore.

Link: Strange Maps

It was almost 10 years ago when I first became really interested in audio technologies and started playing around with music equipments such as synthesizers and software sequencers. Although it was never meant to be serious, there was a point that I felt comfortable enough to include these music clips in my works, and by coincidence, a few of them were later included in a commercial video project for a trade show, which is a rewarding experience form an amateur’s perspective.

The recording setup was long gone. I accidentally found these clips while cleaning up my hard drive the other day, made some edit and put them up as a reminder of how much fun I had with the now-outdated sound module Roland JV-1010.