Inspiration

I'm not accounting for everything:

Jennifer Price's Flight Maps, Joan Fontcuberta, Mark Dion, Erich Jarvis, The Life of Birds, Leonardo Da Vinci, Ernst Haeckel, J.J. Audubon, Charles Darwin, Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH, David Goodsell, The Birds, Minority Report, The Matrix, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Edward Muybridge, Eric Loyer's Lair of the Marrow Monkey, Xiaowei Zuang, Google, Blogger, Powerbook G4, Zire 72(blue), Earth

Advisors

May vidGod bless them: Nick Tobier, Heidi Kumao, Malcolm McCullough, Sheila Murphy

Consulting

Aside from advisors, here's the flock:

Timothy Day, Andrea Landau, Frank Landa, Jamie Cope, John Siegel, Sadie Wilcox, Zack Denfeld, Gabriel Harp, Alison Byrnes, Brad Smith, Phoebe Gloeckner, Andy Kirshner, Brent Fogt, Toby Millman, Bobby Campbell, Ben Van Dyke, Anna Perricci, Carrie Morris, Kat Hartman, Rich Pell, Michael Rodemer, Hannah Smotrich, Jim Cogswell, Robert Gero, Holly Hughes, Amy Harris, Janet Hinshaw, John Gaydos, Kenton Sem, Jacob Richman, Jason Yoh, Sreshta Premnath

Images

Brain Slices (p 16, 35): from Avian Brain Nomenclature Exchange

Bird Specimens (p9, 34, 38): from University of Michigan, Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Bird Division

Watershed Maps (p 11): from nbc4.com, WEATHERNET 4

Drawings by Chris Landau inspired by J.J. Audubon (p 7, 32): from University of Michigan Graduate Library, Special Collections.

All other images created by Chris Landau, copyright 2006

Sound

All sound was scripted by Chris Landau with timbres and much inspiration from the good Timothy Day.