All the best for the new year, anyway!

All exotic symbols from all flags of all countries in the 'South'. Duplicate symbols are ignored.

It's a composite of all the outlines of all countries in 'The South'. Well, almost. The outlines came from About.com and South Sudan is missing.
The countries were abstracted from Wikipedia.

Comparing internet penetration rates with suicide rates. You can find the data here, which was taken from Wikipedia.

Like many, I enjoy long distance train travel and, like many, look back in awe at Rhodes' attempt at building a Cape to Cairo railway. Rhodes never completed his vision, but the, somewhat romantic, idea of being able to take the train from the Mediterranean, say Alexandria, to Cape Town, still fascinates many.

I've somewhat traveled in Africa myself, including having taken some of the few remaining long distance train connections. Even though many of the train lines are in dire traits, it's still an eventful and reasonably comfortable way to travel, when possible, and, on these long distances, certainly beats being holed up in a bus, with goats breathing down your... read more

My submission for the first Information is Beautiful awards, themed Stock Check. The underlying data was provided, I aggragated them per industry, showing how, over the next 150 years, everything around us will slowly come to a halt.

What do you think?

It's been a while since I did a mosaic, but when having more time than projects, I'm easily distracted. The three mosaics are comprised of stills from porn movies. The stills were extracted using MPEG Streamclip, the mosaics were made with Mazaika (which finally has a Mac client).



The dog consists of stills... read more