Paunce [N: Pansy]

Ever Write Your Thoughts Out on a Napkin?

Paunce — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:38:36 +0000

Is it a napkin or a PC? You decide.

Superhero Tutorial: How to Become Invisible!

Paunce — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:11:08 +0000

Artist Desiree Palmen has a real eye for situations and crafts her costumes and picks her camera angles accordingly. These shots were, of course, all set up and completely customized - but would you believe they are also all done without post-production modifications? For her work and others check out this collection of bizarre and creative urban camouflage.

Animals Do the Strangest Things

Paunce — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:31:43 +0000

Sure, mostly people focus on cats, but there are a lot of animals out there doing all kinds of wacky, weird and interesting things. Here are some of the most viewed animal videos on YouTube - ever - so you might recognize one here and there but they’re all worth checking out!

Amazing Digital Artwork by Tony Ariawan

Paunce — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:10:14 +0000

Tony Ariawan is an adept digital artist from Yogyakarta, Indonesia with work on various sites including Behance and DeviantArt. He specializes in motion graphics, design and illustration and his homepage can be found here.

11 Brilliantly Bizarre Guerilla Marketing Campaigns

Paunce — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:46:35 +0000

The biggest question is: by publishing and republishing their work, are we simply supporting these mainstream advertisers? And if it entertains us, does that at least make it alright?

When He Died, His Wife Commissioned This to Show her Love

Paunce — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:30:45 +0000

How to Make Pancakes Like a Crackhead

Paunce — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:32:21 +0000

Gather your junkiesque supplies
Cut up your pancake mix (Junk).
Next steps here!

An Exceedingly Brief History of Religious Geography

Paunce — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:24:47 +0000

What a Truly Terrible Website

Paunce — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:43:55 +0000

It seems almost hard to believe that such things were ever popular, let alone successful. This site is a (horribly) great still-working example of just how bad web design can be. Flashing this, scrolling that, the eye doesn’t even know where to begin to try and settle down. As a testament to just how bad it is, consider that it is an old and established site and only has a PageRank of 1. Absolutely terrible on so many levels (click to visit):

10 Compelling Cartograms of World Statistics and US Politics

Paunce — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:09:45 +0000

A great many interesting cartograms have been floating around the internet recently without much in the way of explanation. Sure, they are neat images, but they are also compelling ways to view the world and understand statistical data in a graphic way

Wikipedia: “A cartogram is a map in which area is not preserved. Instead, another thematic mapping variable like travel time or Gross National Product is substituted for land area. In other words, the geometry or space of the map is distorted in order to convey the information of this alternate variable. There are two main types of cartograms: area and distance cartograms.”

Gross Domestic Product:

Child Mortality Rate:

People living with HIV/AIDS:

Total Spending on Healthcare:
Energy Consumption:
Greenhouse Gas Emissions:

An area cartogram is sometimes referred to as value-by-area map or an isodemographic map. The latter particularly for a population cartogram, which illustrates the relative sizes of the populations of the countries of the world by scaling the area of each country in proportion to its population; the shape and relative location of each country is retained to as large an extent as possible, but inevitably a large amount of distortion results. More world cartograms can be found at WorldMapper.Here are a series of cartograms representing data (by political party) for the 2004 US Elections:

County-level election results: Using red, blue, and shades of purple to indicate percentages of voters: And here’s what the cartogram looks like: Sources: 1, 2, 3