A Pair of Springsteen Infographics: A Street Map & Word Cloud

Today is Bruce's birthday.  To celebrate, I'm pulling out to interested ways to visualize his work that were found on the web.  From the beginning, Springsteen's songs told rich, and involved stories, and many feature places and names. The first addresses the places.  Brooklyn based artist Dan Cassaro created a high quality poster that represents a fictional map of the places found in his repertoire.  He warns, "this map is not to scale and should not be used on a drive, last chance power or otherwise."  Click the image for a larger view.

The second takes a simpler route.  Blogger Matt Wurstsimply counted mentions of the women's names in Springsteen's songs and assembled into a word cloud.  Apparently, there's something about Mary...

For fun, here's a little more "Sally"...

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