Latest activity. W5RAN. The Designers Accord. Edible Geography. One to Many. General Website. Urban Lab Global Cities (ULGC) Atlasofsensation. DigitAG&. Beyond The Beyond - Sophiebosworth. Maps are beautiful.
The fusion of information, art and science creates a visual device for making sense of the world. Maps provide structure and so give confidence in the unknown, and it is this ability to bring order to chaos which many artists have translated metaphorically to narrate the imagination. Maps and data visualisation are two things that I really love, and this beautiful combination forms the subject of Cartograms - a delicious bit of vocabulary which is defined by ‘A presentation of statistical data in geographical distribution on a map’, yum.
Although it’s not very sexy, this website, Worldmapper, which is full of pictorial distortions of the world informed by statistical data such as population, imports/exports, language and disease – it’s facinating. In this post, I’m going to share the work of some of my favourite creative cartographers, exploring their personal interpretation of the mapping process. Grayson Perry Paula Scher Detail from ‘China’ 2006 ‘The World’ ‘Tsunami’ MetaFLUX Recon. Technolitics.com § musings on technology, politics and the digitalization of society (brendyn alexander) Of Declarations and the Immigrant Imaginary. Real quick, here's some bits and pieces on a few exhibitions I have already missed, or that I might still miss, or that are just in places between missed and missing; and, that if I could I would catch up to, or go back and visit.
And it goes without saying, that I am sure I even missed a few others, too. A Declaration of Immigration at the National Museum of Mexico Art in Chicago. Declaration of Immigration Human progress having been comprised by the lack of humanity and respect towards immigrant children, women, & men by anti-immigrant legislature & rhetoric, is reason for the National Museum of Mexico Art to re-affirm the following: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator, certain unalienable Right, that among them are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of Immigration to all whom have marched and petitioned against anti-immigrant legislature & rhetoric.
National Museum of Mexico Art. F o o t s t e p s. Kenyan journey. Hanna. Rengstorfistan. Last night we had a large party at my house in the village to celebrate my sister and host parents.
My host sister got into teaching institute to become an English teacher or translator and my host parents were celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. I am so happy for all of them and we had an amazing time. It was the same as a lot of other toy’s (parties), much vodka was drank, soup eaten, and dances danced.
But this was certainly a special night and I was very happy to be a part of it. Filed under 58 Well its pretty quiet in the desert. It began with a 6-hour taxi ride to the corner of Turkmenistan, near Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The next day we saw the sights of Koyten Dag. Anyway, it was a pretty great weekend. Filed under 57 Following Pamukkale we had the amazing fortune to board a sailboat for a few days and sail the Mediterranean. Sadly the boat trip had to end and we got back in our rental car and drove back up the coast.
Filed under 56 Filed under 55 Food and Drink.