sarah sosiak

No Fixed Address

At Ocean Beach.

addLibbing

I’ve been having a lot of fun with the addLib iPhone app this weekend. From the developer’s site:

addLib mixes the Grid System, a fractal theory, the golden ratio and the Facial Recognition System, and then creates graphic design. It seems the layout is made at random, but it comes from the rigorous calculated system. These theories have been made through the process that people has been trying to find new expression, and they are also the ways, to capture very ordinary “beauty” in nature, namely algorithm.

$1.99 well spent. More photos on Flickr.

Update: Group pool on Flickr. Add yours.

Where I’m Going / Where I’ve Been

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A few weeks ago, friends and I were talking about how far north/east/south/west we’d each travelled. I started plotting places on a map to figure out my extremes, then continued until I had a relatively* exhaustive map and started adding places I’d like to go.

My NESW extremes (as measured from San Francisco) are:

• North = Gullfoss, Iceland (64° 19′ 34″ N)
• East = Helsinki, Finland (24° 56′ 15″ E)
• South = Xelhá, Mexico (20°19'2.22"N)
• West = Honolulu, USA (157° 49′ 34″ W)

Legend:

* Major-metropolitan areas are collapsed to a single city, I still need to fill out California, and I’ve not included every city/town/village I’ve spent time in in Ontario or stopped in while driving the Trans-Canada Highway. (That would make for a rather long (and tedious) list. Assume most of Eastern Ontario and the larger places between Sydney, Nova Scotia and Edmonton, Alberta along the TCH.) I’ve also spent a night in a small ski-town in Austria whose name I don’t remember.