{"id":595,"date":"2005-10-31T20:06:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T01:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/31\/595\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T18:22:22","slug":"abstract-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/31\/595\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Valentines Day<\/a> I made this<\/a> for good ‘o GW<\/a>, and for Halloween I made him something a bit more abstract<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#UPDATE## 2\/16\/08 — added background<\/i><\/p>\n

This was the last map I made using the 2002 USGS aerial photography<\/a> of the area around the White House<\/a>. By combining a United States Air Force high-resolution publicity photograph of George W. Bush, I created a unique tessellation that I overlaid on to the surface of a complex 3-D object. In the background I used the same tessellation but placed the design into in a kaleidoscopic pattern similar to the More Quilt Projection<\/a> style. The result is both eerie and visually engaging. Made on Halloween, it could be taken as an abstract<\/a> Halloween mask, but when viewed as a human interest map, it becomes slightly more twisted. At the center, below the obligatory American flag lapel pins, is a mirrored image of a visually redacted White House<\/a>. This is the same legacy aerial photography that was used in the wildly popular Inaugural Map<\/a> I published in January of 2005. This was also the first imagery of Washington, DC used by Google Maps when it was released a couple months later. It was soon updated after people complained that the White House (and the Old Executive Office Building & Treasury Department) should not be censored.<\/p>\n

Last year when the USGS released the 2005 Washington, DC aerial photography, the entire area around the White House was completely redacted. Shortly thereafter, I created “The White House Is Off-Limits To The Public<\/a>,” an interactive geovisual environment, to showcase the egregious amount of censorship that was exercised by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Google still has not updated their servers<\/a> with newest public domain imagery of downtown Washington, DC<\/a>…. <\/p>\n

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