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It's the final day of Map Week here at id-iom and today we'll be tackling Ordnance Survey map 136 a.k.a Newtown, Llanidloes and surrounding area.
Do you enjoy sticking your snoot in other people's business?
Have you a fondness for getting involved where there's no need?
Are you unable to let things lie?
If you answered yes to any of or all of the above questions then 'Just let it be' is just the product for you! It's ideal to give you that extra little nudge you need to justify to yourself whatever decision you're about to make. It's that simple! 'FRANK! Just let it be!' is a common enough refrain heard up and down the country on a Friday night. The Beatles even famously sang a song about it where the mantra of 'Let it be' is repeated many times. Sometimes it's just not that easy though...
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Quilling artist Carolyn Edge is in the Artist Spotlight on the All Things Paper blog. Meet her, see examples of her paper art, and learn how she's finding success in running a small business: bit.ly/3uc9aPo
Map Week day 3 and we've turned our beady little eyes to Ordnance Survey Landranger map 137 AKA Church Stretton and Ludlow.
If you've ever had a dream so real that upon waking you need to take a couple of minutes to work out exactly what's going on then you've probably got some idea of the inspiration behind this piece. A half remembered memory of a trip to Ludlow that never really was…
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It's the final day of Map Week here at id-iom and today we'll be tackling Ordnance Survey map 136 a.k.a Newtown, Llanidloes and surrounding area.
Do you usually start new projects in a whirl of positivity only to be confounded mere moments later by the nagging ache of negativity? Do you enjoy putting off until tomorrow what you should probably get done today? Would you generally prefer to be back in bed? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then we have just the product for you! id-iom's new range of inspirational maps are ideal to both educate and demotivate at the same time! Stay positive Newtown - until negativity overcomes you and you simply must have a lie down.
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Here at id-iom it's day 4 of Map Week and today's prime slice of real estate to receive a make over is Ordnance Survey Landranger map 102 a.k.a Preston, Blackpool and surrounding area.
It's funny what you find when you're researching for a piece. Preston Love was a famous American musician who had a long and illustrious career playing alongside all the jazz and R&B greats. Seriously, an amazing career. I've taken that name and run with it when it came to imagining what I was going to do with a dismembered map of Preston. The result is a remixed claddagh design/heart motif over Preston. Preston Love if you will. Take from it what you will.
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Quality prints, greeting cards, T-shirts and products can be purchased at >> kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/australia-and-sydney-harb...
Saved in PNG format, this image of Australia with a Sydney Harbour Bridge overlay would look great on a T-Shirt or other clothing products offered by Fine Art America, as it will not show any background, therefore you can pick the T-Shirt / clothing color of your choice.
As for all wall art prints, this image currently has a white background. Upon request I can alter the color of the background to suit your decor. Please just email me.
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About a year ago I played through this game yet again, this time together with my girlfriend. We both had so much fun during that time, it actually made us sad we finished the game. That reminded me of why I love this game so much, the hundreds of play throughs I did as a kid and as an adult, so an idea was born..
This is my LEGO render of the official box art of the Super Nintendo game Secret Of Mana.
The game was released in 1993 for the Super Nintendo by Square. In Japan the game was called Seiken Densetsu 2. It is an official game from the Final Fantasy line up, but one of the few that used a real time battle system. What really made this game interesting was the fact that you could play it in "co-op" as it is called today, wich, offcourse, means great fun!
My idea is to make a series of this game, rendering certain scenes from the game in LEGO, and this MOC being the intro to this series.
Thanks for looking!
Sometimes I have no real reason to do something other than it seemed like a good idea at the time. And 'One night in Parys' would be a good illustration of that.
For some unfathomable reason I have decided to mash up two entirely different subjects merely for a play on the word 'Paris/Parys'. One would be the infamous sex tape made by Paris Hilton entitled 'One night in Paris' and one would be a huge copper rich hill on Anglesey called Parys Mountain (although it's not really a mountain) where they've mined copper for hundreds of years. Still with me?
First up I've 'borrowed' the text from the cover of the video and repurposed it to read 'Parys', then I've added a stencil of none other than sultry local lass, Parys Hulton, into the mix. Then, I've added in a handwritten message in lipstick saying 'CU there Px' and, as I'm sure we all know, CU is the chemical symbol for copper. Finally I've put the ancient symbol for copper around Parys mountain itself - which is also the same symbol for Venus and for females in general so it all works together rather nicely. Is it a treasure map or an invitation for a booty call? Who's to say...
She's made using the power of maps, stencils, paint pens and, I think, an earworm. Drop us a line if you need her on your wall. If you've gotten this far though you probably deserve the earworm which I think started this all in the first place 'One night (one night), one night in heaven. When you touch me, you take me up high with the clouds in the sky...'.
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About a year ago I played through this game yet again, this time together with my girlfriend. We both had so much fun during that time, it actually made us sad we finished the game. That reminded me of why I love this game so much, the hundreds of play throughs I did as a kid and as an adult, so an idea was born..
This is my LEGO render of the official box art of the Super Nintendo game Secret Of Mana.
The game was released in 1993 for the Super Nintendo by Square. In Japan the game was called Seiken Densetsu 2. It is an official game from the Final Fantasy line up, but one of the few that used a real time battle system. What really made this game interesting was the fact that you could play it in "co-op" as it is called today, wich, offcourse, means great fun!
My idea is to make a series of this game, rendering certain scenes from the game in LEGO, and this MOC being the intro to this series.
Thanks for looking!
Sometimes I have no real reason to do something other than it seemed like a good idea at the time. And 'One night in Parys' would be a good illustration of that.
For some unfathomable reason I have decided to mash up two entirely different subjects merely for a play on the word 'Paris/Parys'. One would be the infamous sex tape made by Paris Hilton entitled 'One night in Paris' and one would be a huge copper rich hill on Anglesey called Parys Mountain (although it's not really a mountain) where they've mined copper for hundreds of years. Still with me?
First up I've 'borrowed' the text from the cover of the video and repurposed it to read 'Parys', then I've added a stencil of none other than sultry local lass, Parys Hulton, into the mix. Then, I've added in a handwritten message in lipstick saying 'CU there Px' and, as I'm sure we all know, CU is the chemical symbol for copper. Finally I've put the ancient symbol for copper around Parys mountain itself - which is also the same symbol for Venus and for females in general so it all works together rather nicely. Is it a treasure map or an invitation for a booty call? Who's to say...
She's made using the power of maps, stencils, paint pens and, I think, an earworm. Drop us a line if you need her on your wall. If you've gotten this far though you probably deserve the earworm which I think started this all in the first place 'One night (one night), one night in heaven. When you touch me, you take me up high with the clouds in the sky...'.
Cheers
id-iom
We were recently unable to attend a wedding so needed to come up with a suitable gift to commemorate the happy day. After an extended period of head scratching we eventually came up with the idea of creating something on a vintage map of the Isle of Man - which is where they live.
A search of Ebay came up with a lovely looking cloth map from 1942. Perfect. Now we just needed to decide what to put on there. Eventually we settled on having 'Isle of You' emblazoned over the centre, a little JS monogram and a small bit of dymo text reading 'Happily Ever Allen' (which, we were reliably informed, was the name of one of the cocktails at the wedding).
We know it's now landed safely so hopefully the next we'll see of it is when it's framed and hanging. It's pretty big though so that may cost a bit...
Cheers
id-iom
Are you head over heels about procrastination? Do you enjoy putting off until tomorrow what you should probably get done today? Would you generally prefer to be back in bed? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then we have just the product for you! id-iom's new range of inspirational maps are ideal to both educate and demotivate at the same time!
Today is the day Stockport! - although thinking about it perhaps next week would be better...
She's on an OS Landranger map and is made using the magic of spray paint, stencils and imagination. She's already got a home to go to so she can't be yours...
Cheers
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This is a two-colour (two block) lino block print shows Mercator the famed cartographer and his world map, employing his own projection. It is one of a second edition of only 12 prints. I carved two blocks in reverse; one representing his world map of 1595 in green and the second based on contemporary portraits in black, printed on Japanese washi paper 12" by 12" (30.5 cm by 30.5 cm). The edition is variable and each print is unique in its own way.
Gerardus Mercator was a 16th century Flemish cartographer. I would say "The" cartographer, except Flanders seemed to be overrun with first rate cartographers in the 16th century (Gemma Frisius, Abraham Ortelius... stiff competition), perhaps because mapping their territory was extremely challenging, what with the floods and the succeeding armies... I don't even know how they managed to keep track of whether they were (bizarrely) part of Spain, or the Holy Roman Empire or what. Mercator himself had to be on the ball as his tendencies ran to the Protestant end of the spectrum.
What made Mercator a contender for "The" cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn't hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, but his name has gone down in history for the Mercator Projection. The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection which became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments. While the linear scale is constant in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects (which makes the projection conformal), the Mercator projection distorts the size and shape of large objects, as the scale increases from the Equator to the poles, where it becomes infinite.
The Mercator projection will be quite familiar to you. It is generally used as a sort of 'default' projection, even today. If you are Canadian, like me, you might be lead to over-estimate the size of the arctic archipelago and underestimate the immensity of the African continent, due to the ubiquity of this projection. However, his achievement was fundamental to the explosion in exploration that came after his paradigm breaking world maps.
About a year ago I played through this game yet again, this time together with my girlfriend. We both had so much fun during that time, it actually made us sad we finished the game. That reminded me of why I love this game so much, the hundreds of play throughs I did as a kid and as an adult, so an idea was born..
This is my LEGO render of the official box art of the Super Nintendo game Secret Of Mana.
The game was released in 1993 for the Super Nintendo by Square. In Japan the game was called Seiken Densetsu 2. It is an official game from the Final Fantasy line up, but one of the few that used a real time battle system. What really made this game interesting was the fact that you could play it in "co-op" as it is called today, wich, offcourse, means great fun!
My idea is to make a series of this game, rendering certain scenes from the game in LEGO, and this MOC being the intro to this series.
Thanks for looking!
Map Week day 3 and we've turned our beady little eyes to Ordnance Survey Landranger map 137 AKA Church Stretton and Ludlow.
'I always feel like somebody's watching me' sang Rockwell in his 1984 hit (which features Michael Jackson on backing vocals presumably because his dad was Motown CEO Berry Gordy). And he wasn't wrong. In today's always-connected society the feeling that you're being watched is very real indeed. Because you probably are. If the proliferation of CCTV covering the length and breadth of our fair isle isn't enough we have our online movements tracked by just about everyone with most of the information apparently available to the highest bidder. A surveillance nation indeed.
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The symbols of Alberta, its provincial animal, the big horn sheep and its famous flower, the wild rose cover the hand-carved map of Alberta in this linocut. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, green, pinks, yellow and gray-brown, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 23.5 cm by 31.8 cm (9.25" by 12.5"). The print is one of a variable edition of eight.
The symbols of New Brunswick, its provincial bird, the black-capped chickadee and its tree, the balsam fir cover the hand-carved map of New Brunswick in this linocut. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, black, gold and green, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 21.1 cm by 20.3 cm (8.3" by 8"). The print is one of an edition of twelve.
We were recently unable to attend a wedding so needed to come up with a suitable gift to commemorate the happy day. After an extended period of head scratching we eventually came up with the idea of creating something on a vintage map of the Isle of Man - which is where they live.
A search of Ebay came up with a lovely looking cloth map from 1942. Perfect. Now we just needed to decide what to put on there. Eventually we settled on having 'Isle of You' emblazoned over the centre, a little JS monogram and a small bit of dymo text reading 'Happily Ever Allen' (which, we were reliably informed, was the name of one of the cocktails at the wedding).
We know it's now landed safely so hopefully the next we'll see of it is when it's framed and hanging. It's pretty big though so that may cost a bit...
Cheers
id-iom
Layered map art by Joanathan Bessaci. Meet him and learn about his paper art:
www.allthingspaper.net/2020/05/intricate-papercut-micheli...
Here at id-iom it's day 4 of Map Week and today's prime slice of real estate to receive a make over is Ordnance Survey Landranger map 102 a.k.a Preston, Blackpool and surrounding area.
Are you head over heels about procrastination? Do you enjoy putting off until tomorrow what you should probably get done today? Would you generally prefer to be back in bed? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then we have just the product for you! id-iom's new range of inspirational maps are ideal to both educate and demotivate at the same time! It's now or never Blackpool! I'll be honest. Never seems more likely...
Available for the sporting price of £60! Drop us a line if you need her to adorn your wall...
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Made from old text paper then embellished with envelopes scrapbook paper
geli prints graph paper and washi tape. thick but not to many pages which was what I was going for. Only 7.5
The symbols of Saskatchewan, its provincial bird, the sharp-tailed grouse and its flower, the Western red lily cover the hand-carved map of Saskatchewan in this linocut. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, gold, green, brown, orange and magenta, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 23.5 cm by 31.8 cm (9.25" by 12.5"). The print is one of a variable edition of eight.
This effective, minimal quilled on-edge design by Ashley Chiang is included in the latest edition of the All Things Paper newsletter along with lots more finds from the world of paper art and paper craft. See it here: mailchi.mp/7b0ad54381e2/good-things-from-the-world-of-pap...
Vintage Map Art Canvas/ Beatles Lyrics Art: Nothings Gonna Change My World.
Available at www.stoicdesign.etsy.com
-Plat of the Milwaukee & Rock River Canal map, Increase Lapham (1838)
-Lead Mines of the Upper Mississippi River map (1829)
-Aztalan State Park (WI)
The North Avenue Dam was originally built in 1835 to control the flow of the Milwaukee River for the prospective Milwaukee & Rock River Canal (M&RR).[1] The Canal project was shut down in the following decades after a small stretch was completed at what is now Commerce Street. The mining district (copper, lead) around Rock River, and access to the greater Mississippi River was the major reason for the M&RR canal.
As the Engineer and Secretary of the canal project, Increase Lapham was fascinated with the different trade connections made possible from the Mississippi to Milwaukee to Green Bay. Coincidentally, early Wisconsin Natives were trading copper and goods millennium prior, with evidence of trade between Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, and the Mississippi River – to as far as the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts as early as 3000-2000BC.[3] With evidence from the Aztalan cultural center, the waters from Rock River to Lake Michigan were a very strategic geographic location. Lapham even made note of the “old Indian smelting pits” along the canal route for prospectors.[2]
Canary in the Mineshaft is an alternative ecology. Not dubious, but a thin thread between a distinct possibility of action and it’s effect on reality. Connecting above & below and here & there, the M&RR Canal was just another attempt at international and interdimensional exchange:
Canary
Canary yellow
Canary Islands (Europe-America take-off point/connection to the Gulf Stream sailed by Christopher Columbus)
Reed Canary Grass Phalaris arundinacea (Eurasian & North American genotype hybrid)
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Lead Plant Amorpha canescens: An important native prairie subshrub, with semiwoody stems. Compound and leaden gray-green leaves covered with fine hairs. Has 200 to 300 flowers per plant, and hairy indehiscent legume fruit. Believed by natives and settlers to indicate the subsurface presence of lead. Known to grow in a straight line following a fissure and strata of lead, with roots up to 20 feet below surface. The miners of the early 1800’s called it “Masonic Plant” because it disclosed the “secret of the mine”.[5]
1.) “Milwaukee Canal Attempt Failure”, Milwaukee Sentinel. (1922). Wisconsin Historical Society collections
2.) Lapham, I.A. (1840). A Documentary History of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal. Wisconsin Historical Society collections
3.) Cullen, K.M. (2006). Old Copper Culture retrieved from www.mpm.edu/collections/artifacts/anthropology/oldcopper
4.) Copper Culture State Park History. Department of Natural Resources. Revised May 2012. Retrieved from dnr.wi.gov/topic/parks/name/copperculture/history.html
5.) Helmenstine, John F. / Weehaukaja: a history of the village of Barneveld and the town of Brigham
Volume one. p.8. (August 1976)
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It's always nice to get pictures of our artworks in their forever homes - especially when they've been framed nicely and are hanging out in pride of place in a fully equipped home bar/man cave. 'Isle of You' was produced as a wedding gift for a couple of friends on the Isle of Man. I can't imagine a better place for this little beauty to be residing. Best of luck to her...
Cheers
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Plat of the Milwaukee & Rock River Canal map, Increase Lapham (1838)
Lead Mines of the Upper Mississippi River map (1829)
Aztalan State Park
The North Avenue Dam was originally built in 1835 to control the flow of the Milwaukee River for the prospective Milwaukee & Rock River Canal (M&RR).[1] The Canal project was shut down in the following decades after a small stretch was completed at what is now Commerce Street. The mining district (copper, lead) around Rock River, and access to the greater Mississippi River was the major reason for the M&RR canal.
As the Engineer and Secretary of the canal project, Increase Lapham was fascinated with the different trade connections made possible from the Mississippi to Milwaukee to Green Bay. Coincidentally, early Wisconsin Natives were trading copper and goods millennium prior, with evidence of trade between Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, and the Mississippi River – to as far as the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts as early as 3000-2000BC.[3] With evidence from the Aztalan cultural center, the waters from Rock River to Lake Michigan was a very strategic geographic location. Lapham even made note of the “old Indian smelting pits” along the canal route for prospectors.[2]
Canary in the Mineshaft is an alternative ecology. Not dubious, but a thin thread between a distinct possibility of action and it’s effect on reality. Connecting above & below and here & there, the M&RR Canal was just another attempt at international and interdimensional exchange:
Canary
Canary yellow
Canary Islands (Europe-America take-off point/connection to the Gulf Stream sailed by Christopher Columbus)
Reed Canary Grass Phalaris arundinacea (Eurasian & North American genotype hybrid)
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Lead Plant Amorpha canescens: An important native prairie subshrub, with semiwoody stems. Compound and leaden gray-green leaves covered with fine hairs. Has 200 to 300 flowers per plant, and hairy indehiscent legume fruit. Believed by natives and settlers to indicate the subsurface presence of lead. Known to grow in a straight line following a fissure and strata of lead, with roots up to 20 feet below surface. The miners of the early 1800’s called it “Masonic Plant” because it disclosed the “secret of the mine”.[5]
1.) “Milwaukee Canal Attempt Failure”, Milwaukee Sentinel. (1922). Wisconsin Historical Society collections
2.) Lapham, I.A. (1840). A Documentary History of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal. Wisconsin Historical Society collections
3.) Cullen, K.M. (2006). Old Copper Culture retrieved from www.mpm.edu/collections/artifacts/anthropology/oldcopper
4.) Copper Culture State Park History. Department of Natural Resources. Revised May 2012. Retrieved from dnr.wi.gov/topic/parks/name/copperculture/history.html
5.) Helmenstine, John F. / Weehaukaja: a history of the village of Barneveld and the town of Brigham
Volume one. p.8. (August 1976)
Good advice is all over the place. As is bad advice. The key to success lies in knowing the difference between the two. 'A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man so just be yourself' is good advice. 'A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man so just be yourself' - unless you can be id-iom, in which case, be id-iom' is great advice.
Once you've added that most cromulent advice to a map of Dorking and the surrounding area you've got yourself something that is educational, useful and inspirational all at the same time. And it can be yours. All you have to do is drop us a line and we can get our guys to speak to your guys and work something out...
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Here at id-iom we're moving straight into map week without a care in the world! First up to get the id-iom demotivational treatment is 'Aberystwyth and surrounding area'.
Are you head over heels about procrastination? Do you enjoy putting off til tomorrow what you should probably get done today? Would you generally prefer to be back in bed? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then we have just the product for you! id-iom's new range of inspirational maps are ideal to both educate and demotivate at the same time! Never give up Aberystwyth - unless you really have to!
Available for the sporting price of £60! Drop us a line if you need her to adorn your wall...
Cheers
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