The very first 5 things post was two years ago today (August 11, 2010 in case you are interested). In that time we've met an incredible set of people, been priviledged enough to work with some of the most talented photographers and video folk. Thank you. For your talent, intelligence, support, encouragement and interest. All the best things are in front of us.

(McFadden Creative; DevereauChumrau.com; Aren't We Clever Productions; SethSherman.com; SouloVisual; Gabriel Hernandez Photos)

Here are the 5 most visited links from all of the posts we've made.

1. Star Wars Paintings

(from April 3, 2011)

via World Famous Design Junkies

2. Cinemagraphs

(from June 12, 2011)

via My Modern Met

3. Photoshopped Celebrity Body Art

(from June 26, 2011)

via Thaeger

4. History of the World According to Wikipedia in 100 Seconds

(from March 21, 2011)

Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered. This won "Best Visualization" at Matt Patterson's History Hackday in January, 2011. To make it, we parsed an xml dump of all wikipedia articles (30Gb) and pulled out 424,000 articles with coordinates and 35,000 references to events. Cross referencing these produced 15,500 events with locations. Then we mapped them over time. More information and datasets: http://www.ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/

via Flowing Data