This is my first draft of what I am calling “The Modern Geographer.” The background is a painting titled “The Geographer” by one of my favorite painters of all time, Johannes Vermeer. I scanned a picture I had of the painting and modified it to give it symmetry. I used a poser from one of my programs and mapped her body with the 2002 USGS aerial photography of the area around the White House in Washington, DC. I ended up rendering it at 8000X6000, but I realized that when I scanned the painting, I scanned it too large so that if you look closely you can actually see the RGB colors dots from the printer. I am going to rescan to the painting so I can downsample it slightly and make the colors a bit more richer. I’m still not sure where I should place the poser, or if I should include more posers, possible give her a globe to gaze at, she is a Modern Geographer afterall…
Related White House Entries:
- Photograph of the Vigil for the 40 Year Anniversary of America's War on Drugs
- GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place
- President Andrew Johnson’s Veto Message to Congress Concerning A Bill to Regulate the Elective Franchise in the District of Columbia - January 5, 1867
- Nixon Sends GIs Into Cambodia And An Inverted 1970 Map of Communist Controlled Laos and Cambodia
- A roundup of videos from yesterday's shoe demonstration outside of the White House
- First Amendment Violation in Lafayette Park yesterday; ACLU contacted
- White House Peace
- Within Sight of the White House [Overlay of Hooker's Division]
- The White House is Off-Limits to the Public: An Exploration of Censorship's Perimeter
- Blue Marble Beauty
- Abstract George W. Bush
- White House Mandala
- Adams Morgan - White House Quilt
- Ball of Destruction
- DC Stencil
- White House Warp - geospatial animation
- White House Sunset
- Lady Liberty on a quilt of the Pearl River Delta
- String of DC
- DC Lenz #4
- Bush's Bitch stands up to be heard
- DC Memory
- The Modern Geographer
- Mother Earth #4
- Star of DC
- Abstract DC
- DC Lenz #2
Related Mother Earth Entries:
- The Modern Geographer is featured in Pro-Prosições vol.20 no.3 Campinas Sept./Dec. 2009
- Geography & the Humanities Symposium Program Cover
- Ball of Destruction
- Lady Liberty on a quilt of the Pearl River Delta
- The Modern Geographer
- Mother Earth #4
- Logan's Ovaries
- Mother Earth #3
- Mother Earth #2
- Mother Earth Animation
- Mother Earth #1
