Emily Chang – Designer

Launched a new site today, 99 Windows, an art project about windows and the idea of looking in, looking through, and reflecting — seeing both the imaginary and the real, the periphery and the obvious. My hope is to evoke a filmic, emotional or psychological state in one short instance online, in a loop.

Looking west towards the Metreon, the Moscone Center (the brightly-lit glass building), and the Civic Center dome in the distance.  Notice how the various metal cranes, though separated by many blocks, all point in the same direction.  At night, they’re free to sway in the wind, some 30 stories up in the air—slow-motion, synchronized, robotic arms in the sky.

1) On Bush’s plan to turn America into an ownership society at the New Yorker.

“The ownership society promises freedom, but at the price of a huge shift in risk, away from government and society and onto individual citizens.”

2) Chart showing the average IQ in states voting for Kerry or Bush.

[via kottke and caterina]

Switched from East Coast small-town greenery to West Coast city views. I’m loving it.

Looking down at Market and 2nd St.

The BBC has a map that shows red and blue states from past elections dating back to 1948 (click on the tab “Past Elections”).  Now how do we get the map to look like 1964 again?

2004 – too much red for me.

1964

Couldn’t wait to get my vote in, so I voted early today at city hall.  Hope you have or will tomorrow!