Quantcast
Viewing all 227 articles
Browse latest View live
↧

Mapping a World We Have Lost

May 9, 2013, 12:41 pm
$
0
0
Our way of moving through space determine the nature of our maps, and in a globalized world, it is both focussing and challenging to think about old ways of occupying and moving through or across space.  This map by a … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
Search

Java La Grande

May 12, 2013, 4:56 pm
$
0
0
The map “Java La Grande,” an imagined continent that invited close inspection from viewers, gives new meaning to the map being the territory.  The territory never existed, but as it was mapped, the medieval construction was transmitted into existence by … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
↧

Aquifers/Monocrops

May 23, 2013, 3:07 pm
$
0
0
Recent news of the quite devastating dwindling of the High Plains aquifers sent me back to how William Rankin charted the uneven distribution of monocrops in the United States.   For the authority with which maps render a depletion of High Plains … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Imploding Maps or the Artifice of Cinematic Apocalypse

May 25, 2013, 9:43 pm
$
0
0
It hardly is a coincidence that the narratives of many disaster films parallel less of a storyline than what might be described as an imploding map:  the destruction of familiar landmarks, the upending of orientational signs on a map, and … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

On Mapping Aggregates and Google Maps

May 28, 2013, 4:02 pm
$
0
0
A powerful tradition of critical cartography unites a variety of selectively sourced metadata in a single frame of reference that transforms our own knowledge of space:  their continuity and coherence orient viewers not only to their content, but to the … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
↧

Drawing Hypotheses on a Newly Mapped World

June 4, 2013, 8:21 pm
$
0
0
At the same time as maps offer guides to spatially orient their readers, they collect a record of known space for viewers to occupy, collecting and displaying relationships that allow viewers to draw hypotheses about their relation to a totality … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

The Lexical Landscape: Islands and Divides

June 6, 2013, 6:18 pm
$
0
0
With lines of civic dissent and division dominantly drawn in our media, it’s refreshing that the statistician Joshua Katz took measurements of usage to map more chromatic variations across the national landscape.  It’s striking that usage habits, for different reasons, … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Re-Writing Mapped Space: Maps as Texts

June 10, 2013, 6:49 am
$
0
0
The Atlas of True Names   (2008) promises a legible cartographic surface clarifying confusions–although this enterprise is, in fact, less of a rebuttal to the deceptions of maps than based on whimsical fancy, the placid surface and mutely authoritative capitals of its … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
Search

The World in Oakland

June 12, 2013, 9:59 pm
$
0
0
The black and white marquee of De Lauer’s Super News Stand seems a time-capsule of an earlier sense of Oakland as news entrepot, and of an era when newsprint provided a primary sense of immediate access to the wider world. … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
↧

Cartograms as Tools to Map an Over-Inhabited World

June 17, 2013, 2:17 pm
$
0
0
Terrestrial mapping has long focussed on the inhabited world and its limits.  If medieval maps testified to the variety of place and distribution of human populations over climates and within torrid zones, the post-Renaissance or post-Ortelian tradition invited their readers … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Assembling Globes from Plastic Bricks: the Medium is the Message

June 22, 2013, 3:15 pm
$
0
0
If the medium is the message, what happens when the medium is Lego?  The expressive value of all maps reflect their material media, from printed single-line engravings to digital images.  But plastic Lego pieces are rarely considered to have the … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Chief Justice Roberts Mismaps Voting Rights

June 26, 2013, 10:48 am
$
0
0
When Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. wrote the majority opinion to release  nine states based in the South from federal oversight of voting procures and practices, he objected to the use of maps to organize that federal oversight. His longstanding … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Mapping Reactions to Gay Marriage World-Wide and at Home

June 28, 2013, 1:27 pm
$
0
0
The ecumene as the world inhabited by legally recognized same-sex unions puts into context the recent reversal of DOMA in the United States:  we seem more than a bit retardaire in our legal codes in the Anglophone tradition, if you didn’t notice, … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
↧

The Will to Map

July 1, 2013, 9:01 pm
$
0
0
Navigating the necklace of highways that hug the Santa Cruz Mountains beyond San Jose with a GPS map, you become both disoriented from the panorama before your eyes and quickly aware of the token roadmap GPS offers the driver.  What … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

The Recent Resurgence of Manually Made Maps

July 3, 2013, 12:48 pm
$
0
0
A celebratory survey of the recent rage for manually-designed maps affords a veritable visual smorgasbord of aesthetic pleasure and graphic design.  It is interesting and tempting to compare them to the craftsmanship of manuscript maps, a subject discussed in an early post in … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
Search

Oakland Represented Variously: What We See When We Map Oakland’s Inhabitants

July 9, 2013, 9:25 am
$
0
0
How to map the inhabitants of Oakland, CA, given the considerable diversity across neighborhoods?  Does it exist as a unified social space, or what image of the city emerges? The sprawling city challenges the abilities of the social cartographer as … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Mapping License Plates/Maps in License Plates

July 13, 2013, 6:03 am
$
0
0
How to explain the newfound popularity adopting landscapes on automotive license plates?  States have long been counted by bored kids on interstates attempting to locate the full fifty for diversion, even as the dynamic two-tone color-schemes, emblems or logos used … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
↧

Mapping the New World from France: Savages, Vegetables, Animals, Pelts

July 20, 2013, 10:09 am
$
0
0
Cartographers are notoriously absent from their maps.   This is nowhere more apparent than the received image that glorifies Samuel de Champlain-shipmaster, sailor and the cartographer who mapped the geographic space much of New France–in the settlement of Canadian shores. … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Re-Writing Mapped Space: Maps as Texts

June 10, 2013, 6:49 am
$
0
0
The Atlas of True Names   (2008) promises a legible cartographic surface clarifying confusions–although this enterprise is, in fact, less of a rebuttal to the deceptions of maps than based on whimsical fancy, the placid surface and mutely authoritative capitals of its … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧

Mapping Land and Sea in Venice, circa 1500

July 18, 2013, 5:52 am
$
0
0
When Mercator in 1579 described his map as a synthesis of geographical maps and nautical charts, he created not only a new format of projection, but tried, for perhaps the first time, to reconcile the separate media of nautical charts … Continue reading →Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
↧
Viewing all 227 articles
Browse latest View live
Search