|| 6/8/2010 || 1:40 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
DFW Quilt #2
Using a portion of DFW Quilt, I created this recursively sampled Octagon Quilt projection map. The muted tones from the airport’s concrete tarmac contrasted with the planes and the built environment make this quite a unique map.
View the Google Map of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
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|| 6/6/2010 || 1:27 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||
DFW Quilt
A long time ago my father suggested I make a map of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. He was definitely right about incorporating the geometric layout of the airport and now I’m curious about making an entire series of just airports. I chose the Diamond Quilt projection because I liked the way the curves create a heart in the map.
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|| 3/13/2010 || 9:46 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
The Gershman Y Quilt #3D
Based off of one sample of the Gershman Y Quilt #2, I developed a series of 8 different tessellations, and I selected the four maps that were the most visually appealing. This map will be printed out for my upcoming exhibition in Philadelphia. This map concludes this series. I’m looking forward to seeing how they all look printed out.
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|| 3/12/2010 || 2:39 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
The Gershman Y Quilt #3C
Based off of one sample of the Gershman Y Quilt #2, I developed a series of 8 different tessellations, and I selected the four maps that were the most visually appealing. This map will be printed out for my upcoming exhibition in Philadelphia.
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|| 3/11/2010 || 3:37 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
The Gershman Y Quilt #3B
Based off of one sample of the Gershman Y Quilt #2, I developed a series of 8 different tessellations, and I selected the four maps that were the most visually appealing. This map will be printed out for my upcoming exhibition in Philadelphia.
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|| 3/10/2010 || 3:34 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
The Gershman Y Quilt #3A
Based off of one sample of the Gershman Y Quilt #2, I developed a series of 8 different tessellations, and I selected the four maps that were the most visually appealing. This map will be printed out for my upcoming exhibition in Philadelphia.
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|| 3/9/2010 || 3:31 pm || 4 Comments Rendered || ||
The Gershman Y Quilt #2
Using a portion of the Gershman Y Quilt, I rendered this derivative map.
The forthcoming series of four maps will be based on one portion of this map.
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|| 3/8/2010 || 3:27 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||
The Gershman Y Quilt
The first map in this series uses the resampled aerial photography that was republished in 2006 laid out in a Hexagon Quilt Projection. Aside from the Gershman Y, this map contains the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and the Suzanne Roberts Theater.
The subsequent maps in this series will all be derived from this map.
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|| 2/19/2010 || 1:45 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
Harborside Quilt #3
This final edition is derived from sampled imagery from the previous two renderings. I chose the layout for this version based on the beautiful geometric design that is created at the center of the map. These two recursive samplings have created an almost crystalline map of the area.
View the Google Map of Oakland Habour.
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|| 2/18/2010 || 1:45 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
Harborside Quilt #2
This version of the map is derived from sampled imagery from the previous map to create this Octagon Quilt Projection map of Oakland. The recursive sampling employed in this map creates a more geometric geography.
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|| 2/17/2010 || 1:45 pm || 4 Comments Rendered || ||
Harborside Quilt
This week I am traveling to the West Coast to do research on the medical cannabis industry. One of the places I hope to tour is Harborside Health Center, which is considered the best dispensary in the United States.
I was curious to find out where the facility was located in Oakland and upon downloading the imagery, I realized that it’s location has all the ingredients for an interesting map: a highway, a harbor, and the aerial photography is crisp and unpixilated.
View the Google Map of Oakland Habour. This map uses the same imagery that Google is currently using.
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|| 10/22/2009 || 5:22 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
Washington Monument Quilt #2
When the 2005 USGS aerial photography was released to the public in the spring of 2007 there were a few places that were censored through pixilation. On this blog I documented how the White House was censored. I documented how the U.S. Capitol was censored. And I even experimented with a QR-Code to show that the Washington Monument was censored. After doing some exploration within the newly obtained 2008 Washington, DC orthophotography, I discovered that the White House and the U.S. Capitol are STILL censored.
However, now that the construction of the new visitors center at the Washington Monument has been completed, which is the reason, I am told, why the Washington Monument was originally censored in the 2005 imagery, the imagery of the monument is now available without pixilation. Moreover, its the exact same imagery that is being used on Google Maps. While I expect to showcase the censorship of the White House & U.S. Capitol in some future entries, I decided to make make my first map of this new dataset of the Washington Monument because I wasn’t able to make it using the last batch of imagery.
To construct this map, I first rendered a full-size Hexagon Quilt Projection map using the original imagery, then sampled a portion of the resulting map, and used the sampled portion to create this derivative map. I chose to sample the portion in the first map because of two underlying aspects of the map. First, I really liked the way the shadows of the Washington Monument combined together. Secondly, I liked the way the apex of the Washington Monument was combined (see detail below) to create a pyramid. Over the years I have enjoyed playing with the notion of aerial & architectural chiaroscuro, as in, using shadows generated by buildings within the original aerial photography to create a new, larger shadow. This map embodies this ongoing design element perfectly.
View the Google Map of the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
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|| 10/16/2009 || 3:11 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt [COMMISSIONED MAP]
After making eight different drafts, the client liked a modified version the best. Using derivative imagery from Draft #4, I was able to create the map above. It features the area around the fountain at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The client is having this map printed at 20″ x 16″ so the final printed version will look slightly different than the version above. As always, contact me if you interested in having a custom map created for you.
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|| 8/22/2009 || 7:12 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
[Commissioned Map] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt – Tessellation #4 / Drafts #7 & #8
A few days ago I started on a new commissioned map of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The client made it somewhat easier for me because they were interested in either a Hexagon Quilt Projection map (above) or an Octagon Quilt Projection map (below). Unlike the previous two drafts, today’s drafts feature a far-away view of the area immediately around the Sculpture Garden.
View the Google Map of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art
|| 8/19/2009 || 6:42 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||
[Commissioned Map] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt – Tessellation #3 / Drafts #5 & #6
The other day I started on a new commissioned map of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The client made it somewhat easier for me because they were interested in either a Hexagon Quilt Projection map (above) or an Octagon Quilt Projection map (below). Like the previous two drafts, today’s drafts feature a close-up view of the area around the Sculpture Garden.
View the Google Map of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art
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