roomthily

pardalote:

Jupiter embroidery - done! My own design, loosely based on a series of photos by NASA showing the Great Red Spot devouring nearby little spots :-) Chain stitch in cotton, silk and specialty threads.

all american girls - percentage of women who voted for each candidate by state

via roopa vasudevan

Solar System Quilt, 1876 (Ellen Harding Baker, Cedar County, Iowa)

via Boing Boing

population of Russia from 1500 to 2000. in crochet.

via RUSSIAN SPHINX

The main adventages of this method of data visualization is:
- it’s environment friendly, you don’t need electricity
- it’s cat-entertaining
- cold-protective
- easy to create

Big friendly moon

by ButterflyLove1

Cutie Pie Chart (Red, Green & Blue)

by ButterflyLove1

superlinguo:

I’ve finally finished what started out as my Easter weekend craft project!

I cross stitched the pulmonic consonants of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It ended up taking so long not because of the individual characters but because it took forever to grey out the areas that aren’t physiologically possible. 

If you’re not familiar with the IPA I’ll give you my patented 30 second lesson. The vertical categories vary by the place of articulation - that is where in the mouth they are made. The first are ‘bi-labial’, made with the lips. The ‘p’ and ‘b’ are more or less exactly as you make them in English, by time you get to the question-marky think you’re at your glottis, where you make sounds. If you say ‘uh-oh’ that gap in the middle is a glottal stop. See, you make them without even knowing! Good work you! On the horizontal the difference is manner of articulation - that is how you make the sounds. The first ones are ‘stops’, which you make by closing your mouth fully at some point and releasing it.  below that are nasals, such as ‘m’ and ‘n’ and ‘ng’ in English. And so on. A chart with all those labels can be found here. Linguists, and especially phoneticians, use these symbols to accurately represent the same sounds across many different languages.

Next I’ll have to start on the vowels!

sweater of the color-coded prime factorization of every number from 2-100 (Sondra Eklund)

via Neatorama

prostheticknowledge:

Woodcut Maps 

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Frame a composition around any special spot in the world, just as if you were taking a photo.

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Two weeks later, a hand-crafted wood-inlay map of your own design arrives at your home for hanging or framing.

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lucipherous:

pardalote:

Jupiter embroidery - done! My own design, loosely based on a series of photos by NASA showing the Great Red Spot devouring nearby little spots :-) Chain stitch in cotton, silk and specialty threads.

my god