Below are the “slides” used in my presentation for the New York Map Society. Culled from the last four years of entries on this website, the selected maps show the range of my cartographic endeavors. What is missing, however, is my explanation of why I chose each slide.

The presentation was was supposed to go for about 45 minutes and have about 15 minutes of Q&A, instead it went for about 75 minutes and had about 15 minutes of Q&A. In all, I felt it was a very successful presentation and I deeply grateful for the New York Map Society for inviting me and the wonderful staff at the New York Public Library for their assistance.

Sensor Spatial Analysis

Park Circle Quilt – Quicktime Virtual Reality

North, South, East, Westminster – Outdoor Installation

View the entire presentation:

Early Interactive Maps

E Street Risk Analysis – My final project for the GWU Geography Department

U Street Safety – Version 1

U Street Safety – Version 2

The Inaugural Map

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The Lenz Project(ion)

The Lenz Projection is based on 4 simple items:
– Aerial or satellite image
– Torus (a donut)
– Transparent glass sphere
– Light source

The Lenz Projection was setup as follows:
– A light source is created to illuminate the scene
– The aerial or satellite image was placed in the direct center of the scene (the square peg)
– The Torus placed at the center of the scene and reduced so that the image fits exactly in the center (the square peg in a round hole)
– The transparent glass sphere was place at the center of the scene enclosing the image and half the diameter of the torus (Lenz)

By adjusting the the Z dimension (depth) of the transparent glass sphere over the square image in the circle, the Lenz causes the imagery to refract and fill the space of the circle.

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The Lenz Project – Version 2

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The Star Series

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The Memory Series

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The First Quilt Projection Map: Ivan Memory (A Square Quilt Projection Map)

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Charleston Quilt #2 – A Diamond Quilt Projection Map

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Indianapolis Quilt – A Hexagon Quilt Projection Map

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San Diego Quilt #2 – A Octagon Quilt Projection Map

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Harvard Quilt NE- A Dodecagon Quilt Projection Map

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The First Derivative Tessellation Map: Jefferson Mandala

Jefferson Mandala was printed over a million times

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New York Public Library Quilt – A Fractal Octagon Quilt Projection Map

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Federal Triangle Quilt #3 – A Fractal Diamond Quilt Projection Map

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The Geospatial Alphabet

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Ball of Destruction

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Salt Lake City Quilt With Clouds

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New OrLincoln

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Taxation Without Representation Google Map

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Pentagon Quilt

Lower Manhattan Quilt

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You Are Here #1

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Israel / Palestine 1993

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Temporal Stereography [watching time bend]

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Generic GIS Map

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Cathedral Quilt with Arabic Signature

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Lost in America’s Last Colony

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American Stereography #3

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Interactive Inequality #3

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The White House Is Off Limits to the Public

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LOLmaps

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Streetview I.E.D.

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Socio Ditata Labore

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A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe : according to the the Ancient discoveries and most general Divisions of Geospatial Art

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America As A Cloverleaf

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NOVA ET ACCVRATISSIMA TOTIVS TERRARVM ORBIS TABVLA [2007 Remix]

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A New & Arabesque Map of the Hirshhorn Museum

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1880 Street Railway Map of the City of Washington

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Within Sight of the White House [Overlay of Hooker’s Division]

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Maps: Finding Our Place in the World

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5, 10, 60, & 101 Quilt

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Terra Fermi

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A new change in Washington, DC’s imagery on Google’s servers

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2008 Urban America Calendar

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