Credit Crisis visualized
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This is such a great animated explanation of the credit crisis — a success in using new media in the service of clarity. It almost makes me angry of all the sweet hours I spent in the Economist, Answers, Wikipedia wrangling with finance jargon.
It’s also, interestingly, very much in the style —fast pacing, soothing, professional voice, electronic soundtrack, swooshes, a galore of icons, symbols and visual metaphors ((that touch of houses as arrows was brilliant!)— of recent nonfiction ( animations — that famous anti-trusted computing video, EPIC, The Machine…
Jonathan Jarvis is one man to watch…
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Ya lo vimos, esta mil!
haha
That was lovely Eli! I wonder how long it took…
Incidentally I’m eagerly awaiting your 3rd installment of 500 beautiful photos over yonder in Flickr land. :DHope the trip (life, at this point?) is going well!
@Barnaby: Hey man, thanks for dropping by.
Life (you’re right, “trip” is too paltry a word at this point) is going well! Hope you’re well too!Sooner rather than later I shall be back in the States!
That is one thing I discovered, much to my surprise, when she gave me back my courage.
^_^