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Friday, April 8, 2011

Networking Images, 3

I mean "networking" in the broad sense, as you can see, including communication technologies (practical tools) and design that connect people and ideas.

See also Networking Images 1, and Networking Images 2

Below, top: 1794, The Great Chain, Covenant, or George Washington Belt, wampum, 1794, presented by Washington to the Haudenosaunee [Iroquois]"; ganondagan.org/wampum.html

Below, bottom: 1974, The Arecibo Message, radio signal (of 1679 binary digits) sent into space; wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message


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BELOW: Reproduction of the "Belt Representing the Union of the Four Eastern Tribes";
nativetech.org/wampum/wamphist.htm
"…with a dark background denoting former or potential hostility among the tribes, lightened on the margins with white borders denoting the bonds of friendship that now surround them. The alternating panels of blue and white at the ends are evidently a convention imitated from the Iroquois. The four white triangles are tribal "wigwams," the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Malecite, and Micmac. In the center is the pipe which is the symbol of peace by which the allies re joined" (Leavitt & Francis 1990: 17-18).
BELOW: Drawer of lead type at Em-Space Books Arts Center; bangback.com/print-matters/portland-letterpress-printers-fair
BELOW: The Game of Life, penny-cheap broadside (printed paper) version for American colonies; history.org/foundation/journal/spring08/pop.cfm
BELOW: Three versions of Morse Code (mid-1800s). The dots and dashes are digital technology (on-and-off, not continuous); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
BELOW: Catholic rosary (prayer beads); sacredheartpinellaspark.com/faith-formation/the-rosary
BELOW: House of Cards, by Charles and Ray Eames, 1954; interlocking slotted cards depict objects from the animal, mineral, or vegetable kingdoms.
BELOW: The City Plate Collection from Rios Clementi Hale Studios (2010?); vertigohome.us/collections/notneutral
BELOW: Illustration of DNA binary code (Shutterstock)
BELOW: Smartphone-readable QR (Quick Readable) code; billboard ad for restaurant in Minneapolis, MN
BELOW: DNA binary code as a tattoo; hubpages.com/hub/Tattoo_Ideas_Geeks_Video_Games_Math_DNA
BELOW: "Mark Miller vs Astrophysicists," 2006. Nerves in brain on left - Universe on right; mangrovevens.blogspot.com/2009/03/charles-and-ray-eames-powers-of-ten.html