And you are here why?

via You Are Here ,  the location of every coffee shop in San Francisco, and its Walkingshed Independent coffee shops are positive markers of a living community. They function as social spaces, urban offices, and places to see the world go by. Communities are often formed by having spaces in which people can have casual interactions, and local and walkable coffee shops create those conditions, not only in the coffee shop themselves, but on the sidewalks around them. We use maps to know where these coffee shop communities exist and where, by placing new coffee shops, we can help form them. Visualizations - use the power for good, never for evil :-)

Noah Veltman does yeoman's work in wading through the history of most SF Street Names - complete w/ Wiki links, interactivity, and whatnot. e.g., Did you know that Howard is named after William Davis Merry Howard , who was not only not a Brandybuck, but was " A sailor and early settler who served on San Francisco's first city council. He was also involved in the formation of the Committee of Vigilance in 1851. " The below is just an image, go here for the original interactive version hat-tip Nathan Yau

From the Tubes of You A remix video of over 100 science fiction movies. This took about a month of editing. In regards to the weird aspect ratio, we had to crop it because we were working with so many weird formats. The song is the Glitch Mob remix "Monday," original by Nalepa Mind you, I'm not too sure that these are all good SF movies, but hey, there are still plenty of iconic ones in there...