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Intriguing way to look for trends: analyze top-selling images of the last year ... produced five visual trends that are key to the visual language of sustainability across a broad range of industries.

If you have any doubt that there is value in look at data visually, visit immersion.media.mit.edu to see a visual representation of your own email. Imagine this kind of network display applied to museum visitors...who is connected to whom and how often do they communicate.

Data visualizations give rise to new and different ideas in many fields and are now being appreciated for their aesthetics as well.

"More of the news we are likely to consume today is visually driven," he says. "A lot of knowledge is non-verbal." How do we use powerful images to convey knowledge and feeling, not just illustrate?

"By measuring brain activity, interviewing test persons about thoughts and reactions, and charting their artistic knowledge, it's possible to gain new and exciting insight into what makes people appreciate good works of art. The model can be used for visual art, music, theatre and literature"

this is one of those interesting angle on trends in neuroscience / quantification; push back will be on 'why do we need to measure everything' ; push towards this world will say - but if we know how people process arts experience we can improve the level of engagement.. Great scan hit!

Where will this lead us? Photosharing is so ubiquitous we've stopped thinking about what we want to photograph and why we want to share. We just do it.

it's the images, stupid ;-)

Gets to the human context at ~13:30 mins. Great illustration of how to make meaning from the seemingly meaningless, or at least from data that we don't usually connect to our daily experience.

1. Participants were less accurate in recognizing the objects they had photographed compared to those they had only observed 2. Participants weren't able to answer as many questions about the objects' visual details for those objects they had photographed

in the quarter century since, the rise of digital photography and image manipulation software has increasingly transmogrified the photographer into a constructor of reality, a reality in which believing is seeing

no doubt there has been good measure of skepticism and backlash; idea of walking around 'distracted' - or possibility of always recording-- lends to some dystopian images of the future... I'd say the TV was a similar technology that led to distraction/couch potato culture. (But we've moved on) This is more mobile - and in the world. I think it's exciting -- and needs some healthy skepticism. For CAMLF-- I look at these glasses- in more specific applications--where context is more controlled. Imagine the 'layering' of experiences. Providing visual learning element to the objects inside our walls Museum environments seem perfect--- even more so than (what I think is a poor vision) walking around public streets. In private situations for Google Goggles seems more ideal.. Maybe?