The other day I noticed a new incoming link from the University of Colorado at Boulder. I thoroughly enjoyed going through their list of links and I hope the students & educators find my Geospatial Art useful in the studies.
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9/11/2008 || 11:13 pm
Interviews with Alex Jones at the DNC in Denver and other videos
My friend just put up the interviews on YouTube that I filmed while in Denver, I figured today was the best day to post these.
My interest in Alex Jones was first piqued in January of 2001 (pre-9/11) when I saw his cameo in Richard Linklater’s innovative film Waking Life:
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9/1/2008 || 2:50 pm
Iraq Veterans Against the War Concert & March at the 2008 DNC
Iraq Veterans Against the War Concert & March in Denver from Nikolas Schiller on Vimeo.
Click here to watch on YouTube
The Iraq Veterans Against the War hosted a free concert at the Denver Coliseum with The Coup, Flobots, and Rage Against the Machine. After the sold out show, about 4,000 people took part in a 4 mile march to downtown Denver to give the presidential candidate Barack Obama Campaign a list of demands regarding the war the in Iraq and the treatment of veterans.
This sequential video starts at the Denver Coliseum with clips of the Flobots and Rage Against The Machine, then follows the demonstrators to downtown Denver, and finishes on the Denver police marching like soldiers & a polar bear at Ralph Nader’s “Open The Debates” rally at the University of Denver Magness Arena.
Click here for photographs from the day’s march.
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8/31/2008 || 11:35 pm
Two Huffington Post Interviews are up - Tim Daly, Rufus Wainwright, and Margaret Cho
Jason Linkins who writes for the Huffington Post has put on-line two videos I that filmed for Liz Glover at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Above is the interview with actor Tim Daly of the Creative Coalition. Below is an interview with Margaret Cho and Rufus Wainwright in their dressing room at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver. Click the images to watch the video on the Huffington Post website.
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8/30/2008 || 10:14 pm
A Polar Bear In Denver
A Polar Bear In Denver from Nikolas Schiller on Vimeo,
On Wednesday, August 27th, 2008, after the Iraq Veterans Against the War concert & march, I attended Ralph Nader’s “Open the Debates” rally at the University of Denver’s Magness Arena. At the end of rally I saw a polar bear inside the arena and decided to film this rare sighting.
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8/29/2008 || 10:41 pm
A Black Bear in Rocky Mountain National Park
When I told my mom about going to Denver she mentioned that she & my step-father had been hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park earlier the week before and had spotted a black bear for the first time. When they were hiking down the trail they came across this black bear chowing down on termites in the trunk of the tree. They waited for awhile before the bear walked off. She send me these two photographs for proof.
Last month I was in Rocky Mountain National Park for 24 Hours and didn’t see any large wildlife.
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8/28/2008 || 11:49 pm
Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day Three
I was able to secure a ticket to see Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invecso Field. Below are the photos I took of the event. I will note that the 5th floor at the stadium did not sell beer, but the lower floors of stadium did. Still unequal…
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8/27/2008 || 11:44 pm
Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day Two
The Iraq Veterans Against the War hosted a free concert at the Denver Coliseum with The Coup, Flobots, and Rage Against the Machine. After the sold out show, about 4,000 people took part in a 4 mile march to downtown Denver to give the presidential candidate Barack Obama Campaign a list of demands regarding the war the in Iraq and the treatment of veterans.
Below are the photos I took today:
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8/26/2008 || 11:15 pm
Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day One
I decided to go to Denver to help a friend shoot video for some different websites.
Below are the photos I took today:
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7/21/2008 || 4:49 pm
24 Hours in Rocky Mountain National Park
From 7/10/08 to 7/17/08 I was in Colorado visiting family & friends. On 7/13/08 I went to Boulder to visit my old summer camp buddy, Jourdan. I had originally planned to spend Monday (7/14) in Boulder, but that morning Jourdan suggested a different plan- a plan that involved driving up to Rocky Mountain National Park and checking the backcountry office to see if there were any available campsites. To our chagrin, there was a spot available at Fern Lake, which is located about 4.7 miles from the Bear Lake trailhead.
This video documents our journey into the park, hiking through the park, and driving out of the park. Along the way I showcase the Bear Lake trailhead, the demise of my hiking boots, hiking through snowfields near treeline, waterfalls at the base of the continental divide, fish swimming in a beaver dam at the foot of Fern Lake, and the grand vistas that can be seen in Rocky Mountain National Park.
This video is minimally edited using Quicktime Pro and is composed of a series of video clips taken with my Canon SD750 digital camera at 640×480 at 30 frames per second with mono audio recording.
Had I surrendered my digital camera late Thursday night when I was assaulted, this video would not have been possible.
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11/19/2007 || 11:43 am
2008 Urban America Calendar
Below are the months of the calendar featuring cities around the United States and links to their respective entries so that you can see the map’s full size. Read more about the other calendars here.
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6/16/2007 || 10:03 am
UC Boulder Quilt #2
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6/15/2007 || 9:55 am
UC Boulder Quilt
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6/9/2007 || 12:23 pm
Pearl Street Quilt #2
See my comments on Pearl Street Quilt #1 for more details.
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6/8/2007 || 12:20 pm
Pearl Street Quilt
A couple weeks ago my old friend from summer camp came and visited me here in DC. In honor of our 13 year friendship I decided to make a couple maps of the area around the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado where he works as a bartender.
While the two maps might look almost the same, they are slightly different. They were created using two different tessellations of the exact same area, which is the same process that was used for the Beverly Hills maps. I also have the imagery of CU Boulder and will probably make that next.
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4/20/2007 || 8:18 am
Columbine Quilt
Today is the 8 year anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. With what happened this week at Virginia Tech I felt that this map would be a way to honor those who passed away.
To this day I still remember sitting in math class watching it all unfold on TV in 1999. I remember seeing a friend of mine, who’s name I cannot recall, being interviewed on television. I had 10 friends from summer camp who were attending Columbine, but thankfully none were hurt.
Also related, but created unintentionally, are my two maps of Oklahoma City, where I inadvertently placed the Oklahoma City Memorial at the center of the maps.
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2/28/2007 || 11:30 pm
Denver Mandala
Unlike my two most recent maps which were created in Photoshop from a previously made Quilt projection, this map was originally made on July 15, 2005. As I stated about a year ago, I didn’t put it on-line originally because I was unhappy with how it looked. Well times change and so does my taste in what I think looks pleasing….
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1/9/2006 || 2:38 pm
Denver Quilt #2
After looking through my archives, it appears that I never put the first Denver Quilt online! I know I have a copy of it in my iPhoto repository (I keep the final versions of my maps there so I can, at few clicks of a mouse, order prints on demand), but I am surprised that I never posted anything about it. I remember that it was a 2 seamed quilt because that was all that I knew how to make at the time! I also believe I made a Denver Mandala as well, so it looks like I have some searching to do in my archives and some processing as well!
I remade the Denver source imagery for this map and oddly I found that I already had two versions saved, but both were not perfect squares (as mentioned before). This version uses my favorite quilt projection and it turned out decently.
I only wish that I would have used slightly less light or post-processed the map (adjusting for contrast) to make it slightly darker. I must say that getting the lighting right is one of the hardest, but most crucial aspects to making these maps. Light is a destructive force because once the imagery has been sufficiently bleached in a scene, the post-processing can only regain so much of what was lost in tone and contrast.
Up next I have a slew of maps from Philly! I have one that finished rendering this morning that I have to process this evening. And there is also another one being rendered right now. I made 4 different tessellations of the source imagery of Philly, so I expect there to be quite a bit of variety in the end. Normally I don’t make multiple tessellations with the source imagery, and instead rely on one tessellation for each specific geographic location. There are some exceptions, but this series is sure to end up rather interesting.
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1/27/2005 || 11:01 pm
Star of Denver
Looks like I made another beautiful creation! Of course the 1200X800 pixels above do no justice for the original 20000X15000 pixels, but the way the aerial photograph was captured gives some beautiful symmetry. The straight grid streets line up nicely, and the shadows of the late day photograph make the buildings look larger than life. I already know who is getting the first print of this one 
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There have been two prints of this map. The first was given to Joseph Kerski, Geographer at the USGS in the spring of 2005 and the second was sold during the fall of 2005 to a relative of former professor.
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