|| 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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|| 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.
View the Google Map of Philadelphia.
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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.
View the Google Map of Oakland Habour.
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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
|| 8/18/2009 || 2:35 pm || 2 Comments Rendered || ||
[Commissioned Map] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt – Tessellation #2 / Drafts #3 & #4
Yesterday 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 yesterday’s two drafts, today’s drafts feature a close-up view of the area immediately around the Sculpture Garden. Tomorrow I plan on posting two more drafts featuring the close-up imagery…..
View the Google Map of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art
|| 8/17/2009 || 6:00 pm || 4 Comments Rendered || ||
[Commissioned] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt – Tessellation #1 / Drafts #1 & #2
Today I started on a new commissioned map. The client desires a map of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Earlier this afternoon I e-mailed a series of eight draft maps so that they could select which one they liked best. The client made it somewhat easy for me because they were interested in either a Hexagon Quilt Projection map (above) or an Octagon Quilt Projection map (below). However, I made the choice somewhat more difficult by providing a map of the location at different spatial scales. The two drafts shown here reveal more of the area around the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art, while tomorrow’s drafts will show the area close up. Over the week I plan on posting the rest of these draft maps, and like my previous commissioned map, the final map of the series will be the one that gets printed out.
View the Google Map of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art
|| 8/7/2009 || 3:35 pm || 3 Comments Rendered || ||
[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt
Of the draft maps created for this series, it was the scaled down version of Tessellation Number Three that was ultimately chosen. Up next, a photo of the map printed on fabric :-)
Click here to view the Google Map of Sandy Spring Friends School in Montgomery County, Maryland .
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|| 8/3/2009 || 11:44 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation Five
The last two maps I created for this commission feature identical tessellations of the area around the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland, but shown at two different spatial scales.
|| 8/2/2009 || 12:00 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||
[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation Four
These two maps feature identical tessellations of the area around the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland, but shown at two different spatial scales.
|| 7/29/2009 || 10:23 pm || 5 Comments Rendered || ||
[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation Three
These two maps feature identical tessellations of the area around the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland, but shown at two different spatial scales and rotate 22.5 degrees.
|| 7/25/2009 || 9:39 pm || 6 Comments Rendered || ||
[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation Two
This map features a different tessellation of the area around the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland.
|| 7/21/2009 || 8:50 pm || 6 Comments Rendered || ||
[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation One
I was recently commissioned by a person who wishes to have me a make a map of Sandy Spring Friends School as a gift for their friend. The person asked explicitly for a map on fabric that uses the Octagon Quilt Projection. This made the process somewhat easier for me because all I needed to do was create different tessellations of the aerial photography around the school. Often the client does not know the map design they desire most, so I have to spend extra time rendering different designs based off of one or two tessellations. This time around I was able to focus on making numerous tessellations for the client to choose from.
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