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Adams Morgan Quilt 2005 #2
|| 7/1/2007 || 8:42 am || Comments Off on Adams Morgan Quilt 2005 #2 || ||

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Read my comments concerning this series here..

View the Google Map of the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC.

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Adams Morgan Quilt 2005
|| 6/30/2007 || 11:13 am || Comments Off on Adams Morgan Quilt 2005 || ||

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Its been a couple years since I made a map of the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC [wiki]. The first quilt of Adams Morgan deviated from my normal practice at the time because I modified the colors in the source imagery and the second quilt was a completely experimental map (which I have yet to revisit).

This time around I decided to go all out and make a whole series of Adams Morgan quilts using 8 different tessellations to create 8 unique maps of the area. The result shows that even when the exact same source imagery is used in each map, the nature of the tessellation creates a completely new design for the area.

Similar to the 4 maps I created for U Street in 2005, where the tessellations were labeled Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, and Southeast, the tessellations for the Adams Morgan quilts use these same tiling methods, but also include the 90 degree rotation for each tile, to create a total 8 different tessellations.

Unlike the U Street Series which only featured the Dodecagon Quilt Projection, this series features 2 Hexagons, 2 Squares, 2 Diamonds, and 2 Octagons, making a great example of the types of geometry found in the Quilt Projection.

One of the reasons why I decided to make the series for Adams Morgan (of all places in DC) was that I figured that a lot of people enjoy going to and living in Adams Morgan and thus people would be interested in possibly obtaining one or more of these maps. I also was under the impression that I was going to beat Google to the map, which would make these maps slightly more unique because people would be looking at future (assuming that Google would eventually update their servers with this same imagery).

However as I started to snoop around in Google Maps I found that they had already updated their servers for much of the DC area. Moreover, there was a lot more to their update that had been covered by any bloggers or in the media. I am going to be saving this analysis for an upcoming entry because I think it’s quite interesting and even newsworthy.

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Society is Enriched by Labor :: Socio Ditata Labore
|| 5/12/2007 || 4:22 pm || Comments Off on Society is Enriched by Labor :: Socio Ditata Labore || ||

“Antique Home”

Today I finally got around to looking through the David Ramsey Historical Map Collection. Like Archive.org, there was a lot to discover…

The above image is an assembled detail of a beautiful engraving on the title page of Atlas Nouveau, which was published in 1742 in Amsterdam (original cover after the flap). The detail contains the Latin phrase, “Socio ditata labore” and shows a scene of exploration. There is a slain dragon on the right side and on the left are soldiers bringing a woman to the new land. I couldn’t pass up this engraving! I do need a Latin translation, anyone know it? (A friend of mine was able to get a translation for me – below)

Behind the engraving is a tessellated detail from Home Quilt #5, which features the row house I’ve been living in for the last 3 years. The house was built around 1889, a 147 years after the Atlas was published. The source aerial photograph was taken in March of 2005, published in February of 2007, and revisted on March 29th, 2007, and finally today, a 265 year enrichment.

I also made a pop-art style tile that features the engraving in different colors.

From an e-mail:
Here is the report from my classicist friend in LA:

as for the latin, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense as it stands – ‘socius’ is a friend, companion, (father in law in some contexts) – so it could be some sort of dedication, as in: ‘for my father in law, with enriched labor” – which, as I say, makes no sense. if, however, ‘societas’ has been mistaken for ‘socio,’ then it can read, as you say, ‘society is enriched by labor.’

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Vermont Avenue Sprocket
|| 4/25/2007 || 9:45 am || Comments Off on Vermont Avenue Sprocket || ||

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The process to make this map is a bit complex but so is the result. Very pleased.

View the Google Map of the intersection of Vermont Ave and U Street in Washington, DC.

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Home Quilt #6
|| 3/30/2007 || 3:23 pm || Comments Off on Home Quilt #6 || ||

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This is the 10th map of my neighborhood and I think it’s the 3rd fractal. It turned out perfectly- minus the fact that I acciddentally yanked the power plug to my external hard drive and had to start the rendering all over again… My next map should be of Charleston, South Carolina.

View the Google Map of the Shaw neighborhood in Washington, DC.

Related Maps:
– Home Quilt
– Home Quilt #2
– Home Quilt #3
– Home Quilt #4
– Home Quilt #5
– U Street, NW
– U Street, NE
– U Street, SW
– U Street, SE

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Home Quilt #5
|| 3/29/2007 || 3:22 pm || Comments Off on Home Quilt #5 || ||

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It’s been well over a year since I’ve made any maps of my neighborhood and with this installment I’ll have 9 maps that feature the rowhouse I live in.

This is the first quilt projection using the 2005 imagery of Washington, DC and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. Sadly, the “NO WAR” brickwork on my rooftop is not present, but at .16 meters per pixel it’s rich with detail. Up next will be #6 based off of a derivative tessellation created from this map. Like the White House and the U.S. Capitol, I can now say that I beat google maps to my house :)

View the Google Map of the Shaw neighborhood in Washington, DC.

Related Maps:
â€¢ Home Quilt
â€¢Â Home Quilt #2
â€¢Â Home Quilt #3
â€¢Â Home Quilt #4
â€¢Â U Street, NW
â€¢Â U Street, NE
â€¢Â U Street, SW
â€¢Â U Street, SE

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Meridian Hill Park Mask
|| 12/2/2006 || 11:47 pm || Comments Off on Meridian Hill Park Mask || ||

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This map was commissioned by a friend of mine and went through four drafts before perfection.

View the Google Map of the Meridian Hill Park in Ward 1 of Washington, DC.

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A Degraded Mask of Meridian Hill Park
|| 10/2/2006 || 11:08 pm || Comments Off on A Degraded Mask of Meridian Hill Park || ||

I took a draft of an African mask design for a client and degraded it to make it look slightly older. It’s Cardozo High School to Meridian Hill Park in Northwest Washington, DC and somewhere in that map is the client’s house.

The map was completed on December 2nd, 2006. View the drafts:

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Howard University Quilt #2
|| 7/24/2006 || 8:07 am || Comments Off on Howard University Quilt #2 || ||

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Howard University Quilt
|| 7/23/2006 || 8:02 am || Comments Off on Howard University Quilt || ||

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Nikolas Schiller is a second-class American citizen living in America's last colony, Washington, DC. This blog is my on-line repository of what I have created or found on-line since May of 2004. If you have any questions or comments, please contact: