foucault map

Thomas Hirschhorn, foucault map, 2004, cardboard, paper, plastic, foil, tape, prints, marker pen, 454x274 cm

Mapping Gothic France

With a database of images, texts, charts and historical maps, Mapping Gothic France lets you explore parallel stories of Gothic architecture and the formation of France in the 12th and 13th centuries, and in other way, one can get lost in this Labyrinth of Knowledge and magnificante imageries of Gothic Churches,

spread-map of gothic franch via steven green

Amsterdam RealTime: Diary in Traces

The most beautiful example of cartography in motion is Esther Polak’s “Amsterdam RealTime: Diary in Traces,” where GPS-equipped pedestrians sketch out the city plan of Amsterdam as a record of their everyday itineraries. Their paths appear as lines of light on a black ground, only to be gradually effaced, giving way to the traces of other walkers. But the work is a fragile gesture, fraught with ambiguity: the individual’s wavering life-line appears at once as testimony of human singularity in time, and proof of infallible performance by the satellite mapping system.

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Map of London as a Tree

by Liam Roberts via

Cartographies of Time

New book about the history of graphic representations of time, 'Cartographies of Time - A History of the Timeline', by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, writes about the subjects while handing us some rare and beautiful maps, charts and diagrams.

'Spiegazione della Carta Istorica dell'Italia' (Historical map of Italy) by Girolamo Andrea Martignoni

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Edward Quin’s 1828 “Historical Atlas” used a series of maps to show changes in the world’s political divisions. In successive maps, the clouds roll back to reveal how much of the world was known to the West at the time. The map at left shows the state of the West at the time of the death of Emperor Constantine, in 337.

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islandic map 600s

Pre-banking overleverage, Iceland looked like a pretty happy place.

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On The Road

Jack Kerouac. “NIGHT NOTES & Diagrams for ON THE ROAD.” Manuscript notes for the novel, November 1949. New York Public Library, Berg Collection, Jack Kerouac Archive.

GEOLOGY OF THE MOON

Gems of pure beauty, found buried in a government website. and found at the radicalcartography web site

Made of America

while i was looking for inspirational ideas for a new books case for my new appartement, i stumbled upon the Ron arad's made of America book case.

Made of America: Bookcase Shaped Like the 50 States via 2leep

On Formal Autonomy

sevensixfive geeking out at the abstract textures and hand drawn detail of an old (1926) map of Baltimore. via ffffound

an outside map (view) of Ulleungdo

The following map was made by Lee Gyu-won after his inspection of Ulleungdo in 1882. The name of the map is “Ulleungdo Woido”, and essentially means “an outside map (view) of Ulleungdo.” In other words, the map focuses on the shoreline and neighboring islands, islets, and rocks. Notice how the mountain peaks slant inward, which suggests that you are viewing them from the “outside.” read on

Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491 – c. 1534), was an Italian navigator. He paid a large sum of money to accompany and assist the Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan and his Spanish crew on their trip around the world. During the voyage, he kept an accurate journal.

Always Coming Home

This Stone From the Serpentine heyimas of Telina-na; by Wordriver

by Ursula Le Guin. {Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine }

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He went looking for a road

that doesn't lead to death.

He went looking for that road

and found it.

xxxxxxIt was a stone road.

He walked that road

that doesn't lead to death.

He walked on it awhile

before he stopped,

xxxxxhaving turned to stone.

Now he stands there on that road

that doesn't lead to death

not going anywhere.

He can't dance.

xxxxxFrom his eyes stones fall.

The rainbow people pass him

crossing that road, long-legged, light-stepping,

going from the Four Houses

to the dancing in the Five Houses.

xxxxxThey pick up his tears.

This stone is a tear

from his eye, this stone

given me on the mountain

by one who died before my birth,

this stone, this stone.

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Sexual Exposure Map

What you’re looking at is a sexual exposure map. To create it, scientists from Ohio State University tracked the sexual activity of an unnamed public high school in the Midwest. Their findings were published in the July 2004 issue of American Journal of Sociology. 832 of the approximately 1000 students were interviewed, and asked to identify their romantic sexual partners over the past 18 months.

Parisian Metro

Antoine+Manuel RATP (Parisian Metro), Carte Intégrale, 2005 related: Am’dam

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CRETE

Can't help it, getting back to my new LOVE. This map of Crete was made by Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti, at 1485.

island book

Maps by Millo Antonio From an isolario (island book) of the Mediterranea... and many of them are Greek Islands, my new passion

[Lesbos and the adjacent coast of Asia Minor] 1590

Antonio Millo, 1590 manuscript Bound sheet. Ms. 31 x 20.5cm

Antonio Millo island of Andri, 1590

Fetish Map of London

and other works by artist Chris Kenny

Fetish Map of London (detail) 2000, Mixed media box construction 21 x 26.5 x 3.25 inches

Red Road Drawing 2003Construction with maps 30.5 x 30.5 x 4 inches

The Map Realm

Adrian Leskiw hand drawn maps . Via coudal

World's Oldest Map

"Maps are older than writing and are possibly older than language" it is explained by the simple fact that "given the importance of spatial location to survival, it seems reasonable that early humans would find some way to physically embody the maps stored between their ears. "

But This article discusses mainly the candidates for the world’s oldest map and the criteria involved: what makes a map a map and not a painting.

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