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Seattle Quilt #2
|| 2/2/2006 || 8:14 am || Comments Off on Seattle Quilt #2 || ||

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Seattle Quilt no.2 by Nikolas Schiller

This map is the second map of downtown Seattle, Washington.

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Seattle Quilt
|| 2/1/2006 || 8:12 am || Comments Off on Seattle Quilt || ||

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Seattle Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

This is my first map of downtown Seattle, Washington. I would love to make more of the city because the original aerial photography is very detailed and the color is somewhat nuanced.

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Washington Monument Quilt
|| 1/31/2006 || 8:31 am || Comments Off on Washington Monument Quilt || ||

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I think I am going to start a special category dedicated to only monuments. I have multiple renderings now of the Saint Louis Arch, the Lincoln Memorial, and now the Washington Monument…. I also have schools as well to add. hmmmmm.

This map features imagery of the Washington Monument taken in 2003 and plotted on the Hexagon Quilt Projection.

This map was my featured Monthly Map for August 2009

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Los Angeles Quilt
|| 1/30/2006 || 8:29 am || Comments Off on Los Angeles Quilt || ||

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Los Angeles Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

I’ve had this imagery for a long time but never did anything with it because I felt that the USGS made a poor decision in buying this imagery for the contracting company. Essentially, aerial photography taken in the afternoon (my guess is around 4pm) has large of shadows that obstruct the view of the ground and in my opinion, worthless. Nonetheless, I finally made something of downtown L.A. and as I look at it again, I think the shadows add architectural stitches to the quilt. Geographic Chiaroscuro.

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I won a Young Artists Program Award!
|| 1/29/2006 || 1:17 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||

In October I submitted a proposal to the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities for $2470 to print out & frame 8 maps that represent one location in the 8 Wards of DC. Today I received the official word from the DCCAH that my proposal was accepted!!

Here is the link to the grantee listing [pdf]

more info here:
https://dcarts.dc.gov

Read about my way home from the DCCAH office after dropping of the proposal back in October 2005

NewOrLincoln
|| 1/28/2006 || 1:15 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||

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NewOrLincoln by Nikolas Schiller

This is one of my first maps which has it’s source imagery made beyond the scope of a normal tessellation. Back in December I was preparing the source imagery for Lincoln Memorial Quilt, I decided to try something completely new in photoshop. I used the 45 degree rotated imagery of the Lincoln Memorial as a frame around circular cutout of the first derivative of the Superdome Quilt. I liked this tile (I think I am going to use the word tile from now on) so much that I actually saved the tile as something I was going to print out as is, but now I have a derivative tiling that I will definitely print out.

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Saint Louis Quilt – First Derivative (#3)
|| 1/26/2006 || 8:53 pm || Comments Off on Saint Louis Quilt – First Derivative (#3) || ||

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Saint Louis Quilt - First Derivative no. 3 by Nikolas Schiller

Shadows & Reflections,
630ft of steel beauty,
Union of where East meets West,
this one is one of the best.

It shows one of first fractal quilt projections featuring downtown Saint Louis, Missouri as a octagon quilt projection using imagery from around 2002.

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Saint Louis Quilt #2
|| 1/25/2006 || 8:04 am || Comments Off on Saint Louis Quilt #2 || ||

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Saint Louis Quilt 2 by Nikolas Schiller

This map shows downtown Saint Louis, Missouri as a octagon quilt projection using imagery from around 2002.

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Saint Louis Quilt
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Saint Louis Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

This map shows downtown Saint Louis, Missouri as a diamond quilt projection using imagery from around 2002. Busch Memorial Stadium and the TWA Dome are still standing.

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Portland Quilt #3
|| 1/23/2006 || 12:19 pm || Comments Off on Portland Quilt #3 || ||

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Portland Quilt no. 3 by Nikolas Schiller

I decided to make a third version of the map of downtown Portland, Oregon.
I think the city looks absolutely beautiful from above. I hope to visit someday soon!

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by! My name is Nikolas Schiller. I am an American citizen currently living in New York City and working remotely to support structural change in Washington, DC.

This blog is my online repository of what I have created or found online since May of 2004. I've been on hiatus since 2018 but plan on contributing more content in the not so distant future.

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