Visualizations of our great continent, because a picture says a thousand words:
The contiguous United States, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald's.
From the artist:
As I hurtled down the highway, a pair of golden arches crept over the horizon, and the proverbial lightbulb smacked me in the forehead. To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there’s no better barometer than McDonald’s – ubiquitous fast food chain and inaugural megacorporate colonizer of small towns nationwide.
Artist Aaron Kobin’s animation of the paths of air traffic over North America visualized in color and form.