elzr: Credit Crisis visualized

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This is such a great animated explanation of the credit crisis—a success in using new media in the service of clarity. It almost makes me angry of all the sweet hours I spent in the Economist, Answers, Wikipedia wrangling with finance jargon.

It’s also, interestingly, very much in the style —fast pacing, soothing, professional voice, electronic soundtrack, swooshes, a galore of icons, symbols and visual metaphors (that touch of houses as arrows was brilliant!)— of recent nonfiction (!) animations—that famous anti-trusted computing video, EPIC, The Machine...

Jonathan Jarvis is one man to watch…

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1. chemito on March 08, 2009:

Ya lo vimos, esta mil!
haha

2. Barnaby Claydon on April 03, 2009:

That was lovely Eli! I wonder how long it took…

Incidentally I’m eagerly awaiting your 3rd installment of 500 beautiful photos over yonder in Flickr land. :D

Hope the trip (life, at this point?) is going well!

3. elzr on April 05, 2009:

@Barnaby: Hey man, thanks for dropping by.

Life (you’re right, “trip” is too paltry a word at this point) is going well! Hope you’re well too!

Sooner rather than later I shall be back in the States!
That is one thing I discovered, much to my surprise, when she gave me back my courage.

^_^

Credit Crisis visualized 2009 Mar06

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