Flight Patterns As Art: The Sky Above Us Set to Music

San Francisco artist Aaron Koblin created this gorgeous video that uses flight tracking data from the FAA to create this magical piece of art.

This is just one piece of art that Koblin has completed by creating, as his web site puts it, "software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data."  His work is shown all over the world and is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.  I'm particularly a fan of his "New York Talk Exchange," a graphic representation of the amount of voice and data communication emanating from New York to other major cities around the world.  It's in the "Work" section of his website.