Archive for map
January 8, 2009 at 10:45 am · Filed under Book & Lit, map, Arts & Crafts, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Stefanie Posavec
Literary Organism, a visualization of Part One of On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Artist Stefanie Posavec took pieces from On the Road by Jack Kerouac and turned them into various maps, dissecting the literary masterpiece and converting it into a visual one:
Stefanie’s maps capture something above and beyond that of the others. Rather than mapping physical geography, her maps capture regularities and patterns within a literary space.
The pieces featured in On the Map focused on Kerouac’s On the Road. The maps visually represent the rhythm and structure of Kerouac’s literary space, creating works that are not only gorgeous from the point of view of graphic design, but also exhibit scientific rigor and precision in their formulation: meticulous scouring the surface of the text, highlighting and noting sentence length, prosody and themes, Posavec’s approach to the text is not unlike that of a surveyor. And similarly, the act is near […]
Original post by Alex
January 6, 2009 at 2:58 am · Filed under Blog & Internet, animation, map, wal-mart, stacy, walmart
This animation just confirms what I already knew: Wal-Mart is sweeping the nation like an unstoppable virus. It’s pretty amazing to see how the company has exploded across the States since 1965. Click on the link to see it go from one dot (one store), to a few dots, to several dots, to a handful to dots, to complete domination.
Link via DarkRoastedBlend
Original post by Stacy
December 31, 2008 at 1:42 am · Filed under crafts, map, Arts & Crafts, stacy, postcard, stitches
…or Europe, or the whole world, actually. But those didn’t rhyme, so I went with “U.S.A.” Next time you go on vacation, take a few of these little beauties along, and with a tiny amount of sewing, you can show your besties back at home exactly what routes you have taken. Yeah, you could do the same thing with a Sharpie, but that’s not nearly as cute.
Link via Mighty Goods
Original post by Stacy
October 14, 2008 at 7:34 pm · Filed under amazing, Tokyo, Miscellaneous, Cool, lost, antique, weird, invention, future, Mobile, vehicles, 1920s, directions, gps, mankind, map, mini, roads, Route Finder, satnav, small, wristwatch
Losing directions is one of my weaknesses. If there are too many roads around, I would find myself extremely clueless with the directions whether I am walking or driving without a map or a few phone calls to friends. Sometimes I wondered whether there is a better way than having a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) or Satellite Navigation System (SatNav) that would possibly cost a bomb to have one installed in your car.
In some countries, GPS or SatNav are so common that in Tokyo, every taxi has one!
Clean seats, courteous driver and very informative taxi.
Then just recently I found this online. A 1920s “SatNav”, also called The Route Finder. It is a tiny machine complete with maps that would tell motorists which way to go. Isn’t that cool or what! Imagine, a wristwatch-style device equipped with mini maps.
1920s Route Finder
But this is no GPS, not even a full […]
Original post by Pamela
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