Urban Times

Poster of the Week: Little by Little

Charlie Hilton — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:00:25 +0000

Here goes our new typographic poster series, which aims to help you get in touch with your inner designer… whether you know how to yet or not. Poster of the Week will be the kick start for a larger goal: giving you the tools, inspiration and guidance to become amateur designers yourself. A few days [...]

Ectstatic Meditations: The Human Condition

Alexander Phillips — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:41:02 +0000

The Human Condition Introducing “The Human Condition” the sixth and final release in the breathtaking “Ecstatic Meditations” series; explosive short films by filmaker, TV personality, futurist and epiphany addict Jason Silva delving into the human condition. We have been releasing one of Jasons’ shorts a day for the last week and this is the last. Consider them the online equivalent of a caffeine jolt—a metaphor which [...]

Bread and Circuses: Feeding the Masses at London 2012

Kosal Kong — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:28:12 +0000

How to host a party Every good host knows the secret to a successful event is that the guests are entertained, and that they are well fed and watered. At London 2012, the spectacle of competition will provide the entertainment, but what about the food? Feeding the massive numbers attending the Olympics is the biggest [...]

Soundbites And Images To Change The World: Stephen Hawking

Nicolas Sampson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:56:33 +0000

In this interview, Hawking discusses the origins of the universe as well as life on earth. He presents a few basic truisms regarding the expansion of the universe and the evolution of life, revealing how spectacular our existence really is.

Heinrich Hertz: For your 155th Birthday You Get a Google Doodle

Alexander Phillips — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:47:50 +0000

Happy Birthday Heinrich Rudolf Hertz who would turn 155 today. We only know this because continuing a long line of Google logo experimentation, Sophia Foster-Dimino (an illustrator and cartoonist who was hired by the Google Doodle team in 2010), has created the wonderfully termed Hertz doodle. Foster-Dimino said: “For this Doodle, we chose to create a [...]

Image of the Week: Storm Clouds Over Kitty Todd Nature Preserve

Mitch Labuda — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:30:58 +0000

This is a favorite image of many of the viewers of my portfolio and a favorite place of mine, to wander through. The Kitty Todd Nature Preserve, is a Nature Conservancy site, near Toledo, Ohio: home to endangered flora and fauna. I was lucky to be able to capture the storm as I was in [...]

Under The Microscope: Microscopic Terminators

Nicolas Sampson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:42 +0000

This is the sixth video in the series. Here we see a killer T-cell identify, target and eliminate a cancer cell.

Open Source Mapping: GIS For The Rest Of Us.

Paul Crickard — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:00:28 +0000

Data drives planning decisions, and those who have the data have the most power in making them. Unfortunately, it is usually governments and companies that have the data, and their decisions on planning and development impact our communities. The tools used to create and analyze data are expensive—for U.S. residents, a copy of ESRI’s ArcView [...]