Mapping

An other eclectic collection of maps {and 'desk cleaning'}.

This picture is a visualisation of the entire tree of life (of a cellular organisms)

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The artist Kathy Prendergast -body map(Unfortunately i have found only one of her body maps for now)

via maphist

Minnesota Road Atlas XXIII is made also by Kathy Prendergast

Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.) ink on printed paper 2005

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Personal pies (self-examination/pie charts, 2007) is an other cool project by Craig Robinson

via serifpublishing

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The "Gran Manila"- Manila and its districts. 1884.

From A site devoted to Discovering the Philippines

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Lordy Rodriguez: New States

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New York and Environs.

New York and Environs. 1859 John Bachman. American lithographic firm, 1849–79. Color lithograph more at the NYPL Digital Gllery:

Birdseye View of Central Park - John Bachman - 1859:

via personism

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Historical Tsunami Travel Time Maps

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Fictitious southern continent

Map of a made-up southern continent, late 1500s via The British Library - Deception, lies, and made-up lands

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The Unveiling of Britain -from one of my favorites selection of maps (823 items) shows "views that traces the growing awareness of the form of British Isles and their place in the wider world during the years between 800 and 1600".

Plan of Brighton under Attack. Ink and tempera on parchment, 45x78 centimetres

A drawing of Calshot Castle near Weymouth, Dorset, dating from 1539

A Plan of Aymouth, or Eyemouth, [Berwickshire] taken in 1557, in which year it was fortified by Henri Clutin, Sieur d'Oysell et de Ville Parisis

A Coloured View of the North Cliffs, Dover, Showing the "Bulwerck in the Clyff", around 1541

the Tipping Point

Liz Strauss on bloGGing

"Blogging is the tipping point of communication because no other form of communication has been so immediate, so interactive, so far-reaching and so ready-made for relationships. "

"We are connectors and mavens at the tipping point of communication able to make relationships with people all over the planet."

NUDES

by Gary Schneider

Each image is rendered through a long exposure and by exploring the surfaces of the skin with a small handheld flashlight.

Gary Schneider. Paul 2002 Pigmented ink on canvas 80 x 40 in. 1/5

A Room of his own

Will Self’s writing room is a masterpiece of organised chaos - and photographer Phil Grey has captured it in a montage of 71 photos which pan 360 degrees around the room are available on the website. xxxxxxxxxx

More Than Words

Shown at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, 'More Than Words' exhibition consists of 58 hand-illustrated letters from such celebrated artists as Alexander Calder, Thomas Eakins, Andy Warhol, and Andrew Wyeth. {more images}

Artists often share models. In this note from sculptor Paul Manship to painter Leon Kroll, the sculptor recommends a model, Miss Miriam McCreedy, and sketches her voluptuous figure.

Eero Saarinen a Finish architect (1910–1961) to his fiancée - Alice Bernstein, who happen to be an art editor and later critic at The New York Times. via and dailypoetics

Three Horizontals

Louise Bourgeois left France in the 1930s and moved to America, where she frequented the art crowd of 1940s New York. This included Marcel Duchamp and other Surrealists.

via thinkingaboutart

nEuROTIC

provocative, sarcastic, and funny drawings by John Cuneo

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Drifting in the Weeds of Heaven...

by Mary Oliver

What I know

I could put into a pack

as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it

on one shoulder,

important and honorable, but so small!

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But mostly I just stand in the dark field,

in the middle of the world, breathing

in and out. Life so far doesn’t have any other name

but breath and light, wind and rain.

If there’s a temple, I haven’t found it yet.

I simply go on drifting, in the heaven of the grass and the weeds.

via rhizomes

Baby in Field

"...I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: "If your photographs aren't good enough, you weren't close enough". But in retrospect I add a corollary: If you're too close, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in events and their observer, witness, interpreter .The effort brings great frustration and equally great reward..."

Micha Bar - Am

Micha Bar - Am Baby in Field, 1973 - 2000

Tattooed Steel

Artist, engineer and wannabe surfer, Jared Van Orman, founded Tattooed Steel on the idea of applying art to metal and creating wearable tattoos.

via coolhunting and nathanabels

Erotica

MASAMI TERAOKA. SARA AND THE OCTOPUS/SEVENTH HEAVEN, 200129-color woodblock print

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Camel shape, with copulating people, Indian, 20th century Gouache on paper, 4.75 x 6.75 inches xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Walks"

Janet Cardiff (b. 1957) has gained international recognition for her audio and video "Walks" {which she has made in London, Florence, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, and elsewhere}. Visitors, while listening to a CD walkman or watching the screen of a camcorder, follow the artist’s directions through a site, become involved in the stories embedded in Cardiff’s recorded instructions and suggestions... and transforms an everyday stroll in the park into an absorbing psychological and physical experience. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Each person receives an audio kit that contains a CD player with headphones as well as a packet of photographs. As Cardiff's voice on the audio soundtrack guides listeners through the park, they are occasionally prompted to pull out and view one of the photographs. These images link the speaker and the listener within their shared physical surroundings of Central Park.

"It is difficult to know whether the listener assumes the role of participant in this work, because you are never quite in control of where you are going and are, therefore, not necessarily participating. Instead, it feels more like Cardiff has stage-managed all of reality and the world itself has become a huge theatrical production, filled with ambient sounds and a loose narrative about a woman wishing to "get lost". Cardiff herself admits she hasn't quite figured out the precise role of the participant. Instead, she is more interested in exploring how we interact with the city and what types of thought processes take place during that function. Thus, internal dialogues--much like those we carry on inside as we walk the city--become disembodied thought patterns that stream throughout the soundtrack. Sounds taken for granted as you cross the street or as you walk past a shop become disjointed from seen reality. In this way, a car horn beeping that plays on the CD forces you to watch out for approaching traffic that never materialises as you cross the street. On the other hand, some sounds become disturbing because they do correlate with the outside world, such as a band heard playing on a street corner. The band is really there and is playing the same tune as the one heard on the headphones, which is quite prescient and disturbing. The overall sensation is surreal, schizophrenic even...The piece creates an intimate experience even though it alienates you from the world, like the Walkman did in the 80?s and the Internet does today. It also effectively replicates the way society records reality to verify its own existence and conveys one of the pleasures of living in a big city: the ability to remain anonymous." Read more

The Sea Organ

The Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first pipe organ that is played by the sea.

via del.icio.us/diane.mar/ - whom i feel is my soul mate

Digging Flickr

From neogeography flickr group

by alabama_geographer

by selflesh

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Thai Buddhist Mural at Mutantfrog's photos at flickr - Some scenes from the murals in the Wat Phra Kaew temple (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) in Bangkok, built in 1782 but has been restored ever since several times. via mutantfrog

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Neuronal Network - Mark Mille's flickr quest via visualcomplexity

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An ever growing beautiful flickr album of studies of water droplets via dataisnature

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Invisible Cities

Curated by Fällt designers Fehler, 'Invisible Cities' offers the opportunity to experience a series of portraits of the world's cities painted with sound by Various Artists. samples of the works are available on line, and are rather intriguing others seems so familier, tangible or impossible, and Lisbon just as i would imagin it... (it does take some time to download each).

auto-origami

Sheets of plastic that fold into tiny pyramids, boxes and spheres when water is added have been created by French researchers. They think the technique could one day be used to mass-produce the microscopic 3D components used in found inside many different devices from printers to medical sensors.

José Bico and colleagues at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), in Paris, together with a team from the Paris Institute of Technology have shown that water droplets can be used to make flat shapes fold up to create more complex 3D structures. read on

via del.icio.us/diane.mar

Redoubt (yet) Take me There...

The Art of David Lefkowitz

The Fazeolo Archipelago, 2004; oil on canvas, 40 x 60 inches. wish i could set my eyes on yet other beautiful maps he made

Redoubt. watercolor on cardboard

Tangle 2. oil painitng from his latest exhibition "Tangle"

Artist gallery , and here.

camouflage

War, is horrifying, we all agree on that. I tend to depict it in my mind in black and white and lots of red. I was amazed to realize what importance and rich variety of colors and textures armies gives to their soldier uniforms

kamouflage.net is a Web­site dedicated to the sub­ject of military camouflage uniforms. Speci­fic­al­ly, it provides in­form­ation and pict­or­ial re­fer­ences for the bene­fit of col­lect­ors, de­sign­ers & graphic art­ists, histor­ians, military model­lers & other hob­byists, and vendors. Don't miss the thumbnails search.

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maps brik a brak II

This site imagines maps comparing the populations of various Phoenix Metropolitan area communities to cities whose populations are numerically similar. X

Phoenix Metropolitan Areas compared to cities around the world.

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London Poverty Map Booth's London Victorian poverty map records the divisions in wealth between the richest and poorest Londoners. more Wealth and Poverty. this section is a part of Mapping History online documantation.

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Distribution of Blood Types

Distribution of the B type blood allele in native populations of the world

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Noise map of London

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The

Size of Africa

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Maps on Stamps is a huge topic. here's a glimpse from this great site

Souvenir sheets were issued in 1992 by Iceland and the Faroe Islands commemorating the definitive voyages of European discovery across the Atlantic Ocean, that of Leif Erickson around 1000 and that of Columbus in 1492.

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The oldest map to appear on a stamp is the sixth century Medaba map. It is a mosaic which forms the floor of the chancel of the church in Madaba in what is now Jordan. This sixth century map is pictured on stamps from Argentina, Israel and Jordan.

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The first U.S. stamp to show a detailed map is the high value of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition set. It shows a map of the United States with the Louisiana Territory shaded. read more.

and more about united states stamps

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This unusual map stamps was issued by India in 2000 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the state of India. India had been a British colony and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was instrumental in shaping the emergence from colonial status to statehood. The stamp designed by Sri Ranga shows Gandhi as a silhouette in the shape of outline of India. Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, is represented as the nation itself. "Mahatma" is a title of honor, "Great Soul."

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In 1988 Guinea-Bissau issued a set of seven stamps featuring pictures of wild animasl on a background of maps showing part of their territory.

In this site a huge collection of design "error" maps on stamps via maphistory