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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: Extreme ice time-lapse Bed cartography Extreme ice time-lapse May 02, 2012 12:31 am  •  Permalink Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is happening if you stare at one for a while. The Extreme Ice Survey, founded by James Balog in 2007, aims to provide the ice with a "visual voice" using time-lapse photography. One aspect of EIS is an extensive portfolio of single-frame photos celebrating the beauty–the art and architecture–of ice. The other aspect of EIS is time-lapse photography; currently, 27 cameras are deployed at 18 glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, the Nepalese Himalaya, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. These cameras record changes in the glaciers every half hour, year-round during daylight, yielding approximately 8,000 frames per camera per year. We edit the time-lapse images into stunning videos that reveal how fast climate change is transforming large regions of the planet. Some of the videos span four years, from 2007 to 2011, and it's amazing to see the sped-up dynamic of the ice. I like this one, which Balog refers to as the cat's paw. It looks like a big paw of ice reaching into the ocean. [via Boing Boing] Bed cartography May 01, 2012 11:12 am  •  Permalink Doghouse Diaries maps bed regions. I relate to this. [Thanks, Robert] Sponsored by: More to read: Agreement groups in the US Senate Open source Data Journalism Handbook launched Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated Data and visualization blogs worth following Members Only: How to Make a Sankey Diagram to Show Flow  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences