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I have always admired the artistry of older maps. The edges of these maps often contain engravings depicting local architecture or the real or imagined cosmos. One of the elements of traditional map making is the cartouche. Cartouches typically contain the name of the map along with other pertinent information like the date of the map and the name of the map maker. But some old maps turn the name into a short, visually elegant narrative of the place being mapped. If the maps were meant to be as accurate as possible, the cartouche is the one place where the map maker can show their creative side creating custom fonts and flourishes.
Recently, I have started to explore the narrative side of cartouches... using it to summarize what is interesting about a place. In my map of Sakhalin, I use the cartouche to document the progression of the island's names as it passed from its original inhabitants to subsequent colonizing powers.
The Island of Sakhalin lies North of Hokkaido, the northern-most island of Japan and East of mainland Russia. Overall the island is of limited interest. There is some oil but the climate is not great and there are no major cities. Despite the seaming lack of commercial interest, the island has been the subject of ongoing land disputes. It has a native population but was colonized by China, Japan and eventually Russia. In the 20th century, the island switched hands between Russia and Japan. A post-World War II treaty gave possession to Russia... the legitimacy of which is still disputed by Japan today. In researching the history of the island, I came upon a description in Wikipedia. Wikipedia summaries are particularly interesting in how much they pack into a paragraph or two usually with no one political or commercial agenda. The description also contains the name of the island in Chinese, Russian and Japanese so I decided that I would use these in my cartouche. The map is a "political" map in that the cartouche describes not only the evolving disputes over the island but the evolution of the name of the place in the various languages of its "owners". To highlight the dominance of the cartouche narrative and hint at the lack of interesting landmarks of the island, I left the map itself devoid of detail. The Island is surrounded by several bodies of water, several of which also have have multiple names given over the history of the island's discovery and history.
REGION 7 MAP
1. IVAN HILL STAIRS - Located between Ivanhoe Dr. and Rowena Blvd. Intersects with Ivan Hill Terrace.
2. WAVERLY STAIRS - Connects Waverly Dr. Fletcher Dr. Cuts through the "Home" restaurant parking lot.
3. ROSELIN STAIRS #1 - Connects Lake View Ave with end of Roselin Pl.
4. ROSELIN STAIRS #2 - Connects Roselin Pl. down to Silver Lake Ct. (the old Red Car Easement)
5. HIDALGO STAIRS - Connects north Hildalgo Ave with Electric St.
6. SILVER LAKE STAIRS - Connects Silver Ridge Ave down to Silver Lake Ave. Intersecting Lake View Ave and Silver Lake Ct.
7. CORRALITAS STAIRS - Connects upper Corralitas Dr. with lower Corralitas Dr. (near 2 fwy)
8. EARL STAIRS - Connects west Earl St. to with Earl St.
9. LOMA VISTA STAIRS #1 - Connects Loma Vista Pl. to Allesandro Way
10. LOMA VISTA STAIRS #2 - Quasi public stairs connecting Glendale Blvd to private homes.
11. EDENDALE STAIRS - Connects west Edendale Pl. with east Edendale Pl.
12. COVE WAY STAIRS - Quasi public stairs that connects Fair Oak View Terrace with some private homes.
13. APEX STAIRS - Small set located between Glendale Blvd and Apex Ave.
14. COVE AVE STAIRS - Located just east of Silver Lake Reservoir on Cove.
15. FARGO STAIRS - CLOSED, gated up stairs which should connect Fargo St. with Rockford Rd.
1941 After-Action Damage Assessment of Air Attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, by Comdr. Mitsuo Fuchida
Ink and watercolor on paper, 31.75 x 23.6 in.
Private collection
excerpted from
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography
by Ralph E Ehrenberg
The map showing both a nature path and a forest path. I couldn't find any explanation for the numbers so I'm not entirely sure what they mean as there were numbered markers along the trail but without any text or signage. There are a large number of groomed x-country ski trails, too.
The Maxwellton community is located south of Salmon River Lake and east of Meteghan in Digby County, Nova Scotia. When the Western Counties (later Dominion Atlantic) Railway was put through during 1880's and 1890's this was one of the settlements that sprang up around the station becoming a distribution point for coast settlements.
Link to the postcard with the MAXWELLTON STATION split ring cancel: www.flickr.com/photos/allmycollections/12098350515/
Intricate typographic map showing boroughs of London. The map can be contemplated as an abstract texture, as a location or as a series of words.
Includes Enfield in the North, Sutton in the South, Romford in the East, Southall in the West and Victoria, West End, Paddington, Soho, Marylebone, Kensington, Fulham, Parsons Green, Chelsea, Chiswick, Hampstead Heath, Holborn, Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell, Old Street, Hackney, Hyde Park, Brent Park, Hammersmith, Barnes, Richmond Park, Wimbledon, Tooting, Streatham, Norwood, Catford, Greenwich, Stratford, Clapton and more.
Prints are hand screen-printed on archival printmaking paper. Texture, deckle edge and vibrancy of colours convey an air of heritage while the character comes from slight inconsistencies in the ink levels.
Details:
Limited colour edition of 30
Each signed and numbered by the artist
Format: 100cm x 70cm
Colour: teal / peach
Paper: silk screen print on Fabriano printmaking paper, with deckle edge
available at ursulahitz.com
I made this before I saw that chaos had occured. :(
Here is the URL for the real map: www.flickr.com/photos/minivan1411/8188578819/in/photostream/
...a European map for sale at Ikea. I was happy with how the angle squeezing in the whole continent.
One of the new walking maps that have appeared in Woking town centre.
Woking (Rail) Station - Direct links to London and Portsmouth. What about Southampton?
Woking "Bus Station" - even though it's not a bus station and has never been referred to as a bus station in any bus publicity.
Also has regular bus services to... Woking.
Woking Railair coach link - To Gatwick... via Guildford on the train? Half hourly to Heathrow, even though it was cut to hourly for most of the day in October 2014.
Hopeless.
Gloucester Walk, Woking, Surrey.
Good Time for Settlement in Russia. Russia Tourist Visa !! Russia Residency !! Russia Student Visa !! Russia Business Visa.
Bulgarian Ambassador Vows Visa Simplification for Russian Tourists in 2015
Bulgaria will simplify visa requirements for Russian tourists in 2015, according to Boyko Kotsev, Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Russia.
Russians account for the fourth largest group of tourists in Bulgaria, according to reports of Russian news agency RIA Novosti, as cited by Sega daily.
In 2014, some 650 000 Russian tourists visited Bulgaria, just 1% up from 2013. Over 400 000 Russians own property in Bulgaria.
Kotsev, as cited by RIA Novosti, specifies that visa regime simplification involves the preferential issuance of visas to people who have already visited Bulgaria and have not violated the visa regime.
“We plan to issue multiple-entry one-year visas to people who have already visited Bulgaria and have not caused violations. This is an advantage especially for children who come to Bulgaria with their parents. Analogous measures are planned for owners of real estate – they are to be entitled to multiple-entry visas for a period of up to 3 years,” according to Kotsev.
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This map released by the United States Coast Guard show the latest location and shape of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The well is said to be leaking at five times the previous rate at 5,000 barrels of oil per day
Tell your Senators that “drill, baby, drill” and business as usual have to end and that there’s no place in the current climate bill for industry giveaways and dirty energy.