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Clayton Quilt
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Clayton, Missouri is one of the few satellite cities within Saint Louis County that has dense enough development to have a downtown with high-rise office & residential buildings. When I was younger I remember enjoying downtown Clayton. It was probably the first urban environment I ever explored. In Shaw Park (which is not in the map above), I learned how to ice skate in the mid-1980s and in 1998 I had my first ever DJ gig (what a night!). The source aerial photography was one foot per pixel and taken between April 1st & 10th, 2006. In the map above, I reduced the spatial scale by 25% (which gives about 1.5 feet per pixel) so the Forest Park Expressway would show more. From the meta-data I discovered that Sanborn has an office in Chesterfield (near my hometown) which I’d like to visit sometime in the future.
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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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America as a Cloverleaf
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This historic map mashup is courtesy of Heinrich Bunting (1545-1606) by way of the Yale University Map Library.
Originally the three cloverleaves were of Africa (South/Middle) , Europe (West/Left), and Asia (East/Right) and at the center was Jerusalem. You can read more about this map at the website Strange Maps.
My rendition is San Francisco’s Financial District (West/Left), the Saint Louis Arch (South), and Lower Manhattan (East/Right) and at the center is the rowhouse in Washington, DC where I reside at.
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Polar Coordinates of the Delmar Loop in University City, Missouri [icositetragon]
7 tiled map
8 polar coordinate maps using a zoom of Infinite Delmar Loop.
Read more about the process involved to make these here.
View other maps of the Delmar Loop in University City, Missouri.
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Infinite Delmar Loop #2
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Infinite Delmar Loop
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Jefferson City Quilt #2
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View the Google Map of Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Jefferson City Quilt
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Both #1 & #2 came out nicely. I like number one slightly more…
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Saint Louis Quilt – First Derivative (#3)
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Shadows & Reflections,
630ft of steel beauty,
Union of where East meets West,
this one is one of the best.
It shows one of first fractal quilt projections featuring downtown Saint Louis, Missouri as a octagon quilt projection using imagery from around 2002.
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Saint Louis Quilt #2
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This map shows downtown Saint Louis, Missouri as a octagon quilt projection using imagery from around 2002.
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Saint Louis Quilt
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This map shows downtown Saint Louis, Missouri as a diamond quilt projection using imagery from around 2002. Busch Memorial Stadium and the TWA Dome are still standing.
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Star of Marquette High School
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My Alma Mater… As stated before, I’d like to donate this one someday :)
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Maryland Heights Quilt
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When I gave the my mom & two sisters maps of the apartment we grew up in, I realized I needed to make a map of the house my mom’s fiance & his son live at. Located not far from the intersection of highway 70 & 270 in Northwest Saint Louis County in Maryland Heights, Missouri, I chose to select an area that is strictly suburban with only houses & streets. The result is a rendering that doesn’t have any geographic identifiers aside from that brown blob in the center (its a small grove of trees). It took me quite awhile to find their house, but I was able to, just barely! I will probably make another map using this imagery, but I need to make sure that their house shows up a bit more. Yet while it was rendering I downloaded a bunch more source imagery: Providence, RI, the Mission District in San Fran (my sister lives there), and Rodeo Drive in West Hollywood (something for my LA friends)….so the docket is stacked for the next week or so, but I first need to prepare all of this imagery!
What I like most about this rendering, simply, is the way the houses and streets make the essence of this rendering instead of a specific location.
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Marquette High School Quilt
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In the last two weeks I’ve reconnected with about 10 different folks I knew back in high school. To celebrate this, and to actually follow through with one of my old ideas, I made a rendering for my high school in Clarkson Valley, Missouri- Marquette High School. Located about 22 miles from downtown Saint Louis, in the affluent West County, this public high school cost over 20 million dollars to construct and in less than 10 years it was expanded to hold more students. There were trailers placed in the front of the school for a few years and the year after I graduated in 1999, they finished the expansion and removed the trailers. The aerial photograph used was taken by the USGS in March of 2002, and if you look closely, the sidewalk in front of the school is still visible where the trailers used to be.
I could probably go on & on about aboutt this rendering, filling in every detail of the complex mental map I have, but I won’t. If I do another rendering, I’ll be sure to add another story or two about that place, space, and time.
For Christmas, I’d like to print up a copy of this rendering and donate it to the school….
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Ballwin Quilt
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This is my fourth rendering of my childhood apartment in Ballwin, Missouri. While I really like the way the quilt looks, shortly after I started the rendering I realized I could have just as easily made this image in Photoshop. The modified imagery I used was the first derivative of the Ballwin Lenz #2 and what I’ve realized is that since the imagery was derived from a previous rendering that already has the axis’s of symmetry embedded within it, the current template will not reflect the imagery to create a noticeable result.
Basically I am trying reflect something that has already been reflected and it is not going to bend anymore unless I modify the first derivative imagery to an extant that the future line of symmetry will be on a seam that I have not used yet. The first derivative used in this rendering was originally reflected at 45 degree intervals (0,45,90,135,180,225,270,and 315 degrees) so for it to be further reflected I need to either rotate the source imagery or reflect the imagery at an angle that divides into 360 evenly and doesn’t fall on the same degrees as the original. My only second derivative work, rotated at 12 degree intervals, but the final result is a bit too busy for my taste. I am really fascinated by this imagery discovery that I’m working on :) Science + Art = Beauty
Related Works
Ballwin Lenz
Ballwin Lenz #2
Ballwin Mandala
