January 12, 2009, 10:24 am
Ahead of Our Time?
By Matt DeMeis
I came across this video recently titled “Did You Know” that was created by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and XPLANE. It reminded me of a project dD created almost 8 years prior called “Global Village”. I dug around in our archive and after some careful cross converting and video capturing (the first generation ActionScript didn’t want to play nice), I was able to resurrect the presentation. Some of the sound effects were lost due to the age of the file but it’s enough to show the similarities between the two. It’s not as fancy as the 2007 “Did You Know” but the way the visual statistics are represented has much more of an impact. Have a look…
“Global Village” 1999-2000
“Did You Know” 2007
Comments
I should be more sympathetic, but both of these presentations bring to mind Benjamin Disreali’s quote — popularized by Mark Twain — that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.”
Twain himself wrote: “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.” These presentations offer some pretty compelling facts — but the facts are overwhelmed by the static of statistics.”
Posted by Henry Woodbury on January 12, 2009 at 11:12 am