Observing the current DDOS attacks on the US via Norse makes me feel like a submarine commander in a Cold War movie, watching World War III play out.
Here’s some music to go with it
Tag: Map
Norrilund
Were it not a violation of God’s law I’d marry this map…
Map of Norrilund (Big PDF file Warning!)
It’s a genius steampunk remix of London by one “Handsome Rob” and is so rich in detail and language that it feels like somewhere you could actually visit. If I could produce just one conworld artifact as good as this, I’d die a happy man.
Good show sir! Jolly good show!
Crazy Theories
Ancient Maps Dude!
Here’s a crazy idea. I am the only person who thinks that the Te Uenuku looks kind of like a map of New Zealand?
The main shaft is the South Island. The circle is Cook Strait and the comb is the various peninsulas across the top of the North Island.
Just a thought…
Waylaid by Art
Cartographical exploits
Spent far too much time over the weekend doing the first bit of art (for a certain value of ‘art’) I’ve done in ages. A hand drawn map of London.
The idea (you can’t just draw something, you need to have an idea behind it for it to be real ‘art’) was to replicate half pages from the A-Z (the London street directory par exellence) by hand and then paste them all together. As each panel would be drawn without referencing the others the end result would be a fragmented, patchwork view of the city – kind of an exquisite corpse map – with roads, rivers and rail-lines fractured or just coming to dead stops. Close up it’s a mess, but zoomed out it’s still recognisably London.
(I suppose I could come up with some art-wank about it representing the tourist’s view of the city as a collection of disconnected enclaves surrounding tube stations, but that’s just a little too pretentious, even for me :))
The end result can be viewed here. Well, sort of the end result as after I scanned it I added another panel to the lower left. But you get the basic idea.
I was inspired to create the map by Londonist’s hand drawn map exhibition. I’ve submitted it – guess we’ll see if they like it.
