Matthew Rangel is an artist from the San Joaquin Valley in California beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His digital and analogical prints … [Read more...]
Apollo Missions 15-17’s Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (1973)
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (a self describing "research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, … [Read more...]
Gianfranco Baruchello’s Infinite Small Systems
Gianfranco Baruchello was born in Livorno in 1924. Throughout his artistic career he explored several media, from painting to drawing, photography, … [Read more...]
Gábor Attalai: Map Works For Klaus Groh (1971)
Attalai Gábor (Budapest, 1934-2011) was a leading representative of Hungarian conceptual art, performance, and graphic design. His works, with a large … [Read more...]
MAP Office: Hong Kong Is Land (2014)
MAP Office, a duo of artists and architects formed in 1996 by Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix (already on Socks with their "Unreal Estates of … [Read more...]
Description of Egypt
Flavius Menu of N-D-L-R just wrote a very interesting post about the "Description de l'Egypte", a series of 23 volumes published after the failed … [Read more...]
Exploring the interiors of London Underground/DLR stations
Andrew Godwin, a British programmer, is working on a set of navigable 3d maps of London's tube stations. This is arguably an early version of … [Read more...]
Comparing Urbanization
Berkeley's Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 … [Read more...]
Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)
This is one the first (if not the very first) practical astronomy books published in Germany. "Astronomisches Handbuch" appeared in 1718, edited and … [Read more...]
How the World was Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases
Depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern … [Read more...]
How Big Really?
BBC has just released "How Big Really?", a site that allows for the overlay of the dimension of an event onto another geographical territory. That … [Read more...]
Tropicomania: “The Social Life of Plants” at Betonsalon, Paris
This exhibition at the Betonsalon Art Center in Paris tries to address the socio-economic, cultural and political implications behind the worldwide … [Read more...]
Mapping the flowing of wind
Wind Map live-traces the flowing of wind across the territory of the United States. This delicately moving "fur" delineates the uncharted land of a … [Read more...]
ScanLAB Projects’ Bartlett Summer Show 2010 (pioneering 3d scanning)
Led by Matthew Shaw and William Trosell, the London-based ScanLAB Projects specializes in large size 3d scanning for objects, buildings and … [Read more...]
Miracle at the Vistula, by Simone de Iacobis
Our friend and school colleague Simone de Iacobis lives and works in Poland as an architect and photographer. Miracle at the Vistula is his recent … [Read more...]
Day One, (a World Without Objects), by Microcities
Day One is our proposal for a new park in Grønmo (Norway). A former waste disposal site, the new Grønmo is not just a park but a new territory … [Read more...]
Cartographic Regression
Here's how the territory of Palestine has shrinked and borders have fragmented from 1917 to present day. A cartographic essay on GOOD. Thanks, Ethel, … [Read more...]
Irene (August 26th, 2011)
Tom Waits: Goodnight Irene Click for original 3072x3072px size on Nasa Goddard flickr. … [Read more...]
Randomly collected images and diagrams about “Life, a User’s Manual”, George Perec
George Perec, La Vie, Mode d'Emploi. Read more on Ivar Hagendoorn's article "Georges Perec: Life a User's … [Read more...]
Criterion package for 1991 Richard Linklater’s Slacker
"...Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of … [Read more...]
