A couple weeks ago my former boss at the Association of American Geographers called me up asking if I would be interested in having some of my maps displayed at their Geography & the Humanities Symposium (which took place last weekend). I exitedly responded by sending him a listing of the framed maps I had available for hanging. They selected RFK Quilt and The Modern Geographer and the following day I was asked if I’d give them permission to use the The Modern Geographer for the cover of the program. Above is the final version of the program cover. Click here to view the entire program [PDF].
|| 9/29/2005 || 9:00 pm ||
Ball of Destruction
: rendered at 12,000 X 8,000 :
Ball of Destruction
This is my first “commissioned” piece. I mentioned it a while back, but it took my benefactor a little while to come through with what he wanted me to make. He is from Hong Kong, which is where the Pearl River Delta is, and I used a NASA satellite image of the Pearl River Delta a backdrop. On the body of the model I used the same modified aerial photography I’ve used in most of my DC based renderings (like DC Lenz #4). The contrast between the past and the present is what I like most about this rendering, and I sincerely hope that he likes print on his wall at his home or office!
Related Miscellaneous Renderings:
|| 3/25/2005 || 11:55 am ||
The Modern Geographer
This is my first draft of what I am calling “The Modern Geographer.” The background is a painting titled “The Geographer” by one of my favorite painters of all time, Johannes Vermeer. I scanned a picture I had of the painting and modified it to give it symmetry. I used a poser from one of my programs and mapped her body with the 2002 USGS aerial photography of the area around the White House in Washington, DC. I ended up rendering it at 8000X6000, but I realized that when I scanned the painting, I scanned it too large so that if you look closely you can actually see the RGB colors dots from the printer. I am going to rescan to the painting so I can downsample it slightly and make the colors a bit more richer. I’m still not sure where I should place the poser, or if I should include more posers, possible give her a globe to gaze at, she is a Modern Geographer afterall…
Related White House Entries:
Related Mother Earth Entries:
|| 1/2/2005 || 10:15 pm ||
Mother Earth #4
I think she turned out nicely. Next up with be the Europe mandala!
|| || 9:57 pm ||
Logan’s Ovaries
The background is a tessellation of the Middle East (Egypt, Israel, Saudia Arabia, UAE, Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, etc) and mapped on to Mother Earth herself is Washington, DC. By spatial chance, Logan’s Circle kinda looks like Mother Earth’s ovaries :)
|| 12/7/2004 || 7:59 am ||
Mother Earth #3
I just inverted the images from “Mother Earth #2,” and I’m looking into the next combination…
|| 12/6/2004 || 2:44 pm ||
Mother Earth #2
I used a high resolution image of downtown Saint Louis with a low spatial resolution Landsat image of the midwest.
view rendering detail of the Arch:
|| 12/4/2004 || 4:26 pm ||
Mother Earth Animation
Image Links to Flash Player:
I think this is a pretty cool animation. There are two flaws I noticed, but I don’t think they detract too much from the animation.
|| 12/1/2004 || 11:29 pm ||
Mother Earth #1
In the full size version you can actually see the houses in the background that were damaged in Florida by Hurricane Ivan in September. You can also see her eyes, and face as well. I choose the background image simply because its a picture of Mother Earth’s vengence. I broke away from my one light source convention to include an extra light source on her crotch to represent rebirth. Was thinking of adding a wooden cross behind her to artistically imply that Mother Earth is dying for your ecological sins. Kinda philosophically heavy or not.
