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Postcard created with:
- Bazzill Basics cardstock
- Rusty Pickle background paper, Princess Bride
- Scenic Route Paper Co. green panel with polka dots
- Map strip
- Postage stamp
- Watercolor tag with floral die cut by Marianne Design
- Postcard measures 5 x 7
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
Another commission! Could I draw a map of Venice, Iris' home town, with special Venetian dishes included? Of course!
It's fun to have a project!
And like everything else I draw, it lives in one of my many journals.
A digital copy went to Berlin, where Iris is now married to my son.
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.
Marshall Springs is where I start. The Hill of Death is located just by the 1 in the circle on the left side of the map. Those little lines indicate a steep section in the trail. They don't lie.
Explaination here: www.isarsteve.de/?p=1791
1981: www.flickr.com/photos/isarsteve/5845221721/in/set-7215762...
When we visited to Cirebon Palace, the guards over there let us enter the palace. Because they thought we were from Japan. But I have explained to them that I was Indonesian, and then they said you were looks like Japanese and same with Japanese ( I have no idea why they didn't think I'm Chinese ). So here we go, they allowed me to enter inside palace and suddenly we also met the Sultan although we didn't spoke to him. From inside Palace we found some treasure which according to the guard or guide this item only shows to the VIP - Government or other state guests.
Above map is one of my favorite collection from this palace stuff which is Indonesian Map from VOC Colonial time. VOC ( Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC, "United East India Company" ) established in 1602. And it's Original Map of Indonesia region from that time or era. The islands and asia continent still not in proper form as we seen on today map. What a treasure and precious heritage from the Cirebon Palace !
Thanks for the views, comments, faves ^__^
Perimeter Map as of August 16 showing Township-Range and historic fires on the Modoc National Forest.
The red shading on the map indicates the overall shape of the fire; however, this does not mean the entire area has been blackened. All fires burn in a natural mosaic pattern and in varying levels of intensity – low, moderate, and high. Thus, within the fire perimeter some areas are still green, some have burned only in the understory, and in other places, entire stands of trees are blackened.
Structures indicated on maps are for locational purposes for fire personnel. Crews are actively protecting structures, and do date only one non-residential outbuilding has been lost.
This seems like a good point to show something. The software for matching the projector is pretty usable now. So.. it's on to the dreaded manual modelling of the final shape o_O
This is the bonaparte gull map the red dots are flickr picture with town and( for most of the case) geotaged
for better result click on all sizes and chose the biggest.
Wonderful bronze three dimensional estate map outside Cuthbert Harrowing House on Golden Lane Estate, City of London.