This is lovely: Aaron Koblin took what appears to be a single day’s worth of air-traffic over the US, and turned the data for each flight into a gorgeously shifting and moving video of dots. My favorite point in the video comes halfway through, when he zooms in on the west coast and points out that …

WITHOUT GEOGRAPHY

LANDMARKS AND PATTERNS

EMERGE

… which itself is like a nice little psychogeographic haiku. it’s also literally true: In the video, you watch as the locations of Los Angeles and Hawaii emerge out of the darkness, sketched out solely by the air traffic between the two.

(Thanks to Jakob Wikman for this one!)