foucault map

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

THE WANDERING

THE WANDERING 48 Bill Rankin, 2010

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.radical cartography.

Inverted World

As we’ve all learned in school, 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, only 30% is solid ground. What if everything was reversed? What if every land mass was a body of water, and vice versa? This map explores that question, and it is fantastic in at least three definitions of that word: fanciful, implausible and marvelous. The interior of China is marked by a spouting whale, a sailboat ploughs the waves of the Brazilian Ocean, a school of fish traverse the watery wastes of Siberia, large cities dominate places rarely frequented by people in this universe… The oceans in this inverted world are the Great Asian Ocean (the world’s largest), the African, Brazilian, United and Antarctica Oceans. Read More

the map was made by Vlad Gerasimov

Via coudal

'How to Look at Modern Art in America'

Ad Reinhardt, 'How to Look at Modern Art in America', PM magazine, June 2, 1946

via centre for the aesthetic revolution

THE WANDERING

THE WANDERING 48 Bill Rankin, 2010

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

Drawings from the End of Time

DAN SLAVINSKY A Series of Drawings from the End of Time BARTLETT, LONDON 2010 via ethel-baraona

Map Of The Future

John Maeda

"Map Of The Future" for HUO. What we can always count on is simply more of the same.

Typographic Maps

typographic maps these unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type. Only by manually weaving together thousands upon thousands of carefully placed words does the full picture of the city emerge. Every single piece of type was manually placed, a process that took hundreds of hours to complete for each map. via thingsmagazine

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

fake is the new real

I feel connected to Neil Freeman's way of mapping שמג seeing the world

All the streets, centered Neil Freeman, 2010 Inkjet prints dimensions vary All of the streets in selected cities, horizontally and vertically centered. via sevensixfive

walking papers

walking-papers web site,

encourages people print out maps from OpenStreetMap, annotate them with missing information, and scan them back in. via kottke

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.

via Bibliodyssey

islandic map 600s

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

via vintageprintable

can you hear the music

Jorinde Voigt's large scale drawings, i have seen first in a Berlin visit in 2008 at the fahnemann projects gallery nothing could prepare me for the magnificence of this huge in scale, yet so very delicate gestures so powerful movement capture of her drawing that day, and ever since it is a grand joy to rediscover new works by her (the image below, should have been horizontal, I've flip it in order to be able to see it in a larger view)

"Algorithmus Adlerflug/Elekrizität II" 2009 Bleistift auf Papier 115 x 250 cm

via butdoesitfloat

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

you are the city

"In 'You are the City', a book by Petra Kempf's, 22 diagram drawings are split into four operational categories: Cosmological Ground; Leglisative Agencies; Currents, Flows and Forces; Nodes, Loops and Connections....By combining different sheets, and adding layers, a huge range of different compositions can be created, it invites the user to make new urban connections and realities, as different spatial arrangements and possibilities reveal themselves.

via and kosmograd

Street Art in NYC

this google map allows to explore New York City's street-art scene, from works by Banksy, Keith Haring, Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, Invader, Dash Snow, and others. the project was made by ArtWeLove.

via http://www.artwelove.com/. and via briansholis and 16miles