flight patterns

oh the pretty!

24-year-old designer/artist Aaron Koblin makes a pretty (and, near the end, shows his age with the overkillkill!). He turned data of US domestic flight patterns into lights and added the requisite electronic music.

Check out his website for some other incredibly cool and technologically sophisticated projects, like this nifty mood threads visual, another project based on the mood tagging on livejournal.

In a few years, one hopes, he'll outgrow the gee whizickry and put these skills to use on projects with some actual bottom, by which term I mean "substance." (This is not a criticism. These projects are beautiful, witty, and neat. They just don't say much. Yet. Stay tuned.)