Internet picks of the week

Marwencol

After being beaten up by five men outside a bar leading to a brain-damaging coma, Mark Hogancamp built a 1/6th scale miniature second world war-era town in his back garden. The town, which he calls Marwencol, is populated with Barbie dolls and action toys representing himself – Captain Hogancamp – and all his friends and neighbours whom he photographs, creating stories that are straight out of 1950s pulp fiction. The results are somewhat bizarre, disturbing (the horror of war is not shirked), sweet and awe-inspiring. In time this homemade therapy has helped him deal with the psychological wounds and recover his hand-eye coordination. Unsurprisingly, Mark and his creation have become the subject matter of a documentary, also called Marwencol, which premiered earlier this month at Austin's SXSW festival.

Charting The Beatles

We're used to seeing information graphics, diagrams and timelines on GDP, the effects of global warming or crime scenes, but this modern way of simplifying information is just as effective when applied to matters outside of current affairs. Here the statistical source of this open collaborative project is the Beatles, the object being to explore their history and music through the wonder of graphics. One chart tracks the song keys of all of their albums, another analyses their working schedule between 1963 and 1966. Elsewhere, a venn diagram attempts to make sense of I Am The Walrus and a graph of Google searches demonstrates that the Fab Four really are still bigger than Jesus.