Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2018

Antarctica Window Art

While perusing the National Science Foundation homepage, I discovered this post on window art at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The austral days are changing into nights and window covers are necessary to prevent the lights inside the station from interfering with the scientific research taking place outdoors.

From their website: "To make life a bit more interesting, members of the community spending the winter at the Pole, monitoring scientific equipment or maintaining the station itself, decorated some of the window covers and a window-cover-design-contest was organized by the station manager as a morale booster."

Most all the images were labeled anonymous except for Joshua Blatell's Geodesic Figure three images below.


I am researching the cartography of Antarctica, specifically atypical maps of the Southernmost continent, and am drawn to the one above. However, I love the escapism present in the ones below.






It's hard not to feel claustrophobic once one realizes they are inserted or duct taped into all the windows. I, too, would be having visions of the Great Barrier Reef if based on the South Pole in the middle of winter.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Oh Canada


Good-bye Idaho.


Hello Canada (and summer vacation with artwork sprinkled here and there).

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Two Days on Lake Pend Oreille


  

I am still processing the Lake Pend Oreille photographs and will have more to say soon. So many memories are bottled up in a couple locations on one large lake splayed across the Panhandle.


Cape Horn Road, Bayview, Idaho


Navy sonar barge, Bayview, Idaho


Cape Horn / Bayview, Idaho


Cape Horn / Bayview, Idaho


Clear Water Sample for the specimen box, Cape Horn / Bayview, Idaho


My favorite documentation of Camden's Rock at Cape Horn / Bayview, Idaho


Lake Pend Oreille through the binoculars, Cape Horn / Bayview, Idaho


Clear water sample specimen bottle in the water (the bubbles give its location away)



This tugboat has rested here long before I was born and I was shocked to discover it was still there (the accidental trespassing view).


The normal view from every photograph of the past.


Sunnyside looking East.


Driftwood marker, Sunnyside


Sportsman's Access, Sunnyside



Beyond Hope, Idaho


Beyond Hope, Idaho


One final photograph from City Beach, Sandpoint on the final night before leaving for Canada.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Magnets Visited

It occurred to me the other day after writing the Washington, D.C. post that I have visited all the places represented on my refrigerator magnets (travel accomplishment #912 - 9999 more to go).


I am still annoyed that my favorite one featuring Crater Lake was stolen during a party in Houston, Texas. Its ghost is represented above.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Clear Water Sample Addition: Ocracoke Island, Outer Banks, North Carolina


Searching for the end of the road in Muncie.


Finding it and collecting a clear water sample on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.


Thursday, December 12, 2013

"Mapping Manhattan"

I read about Becky Cooper's Mapping Manhattan a few months ago, added it to my library list and it thankfully appeared in my stack yesterday. I love all maps, especially ones that are based on memory rather than functionality. In her essay, "Making Invisible Cities Visible", Cooper states: "Instead of striving for one giant 'complete' map, I should aim for many little portraits. I would ask people to map the essence of who they are and what a location is to them, and out of the mosaic of these personal visions, the place would emerge."

Cooper printed each map on a letterpress and distributed them on Broadway, Houston, and Central Park: "I gave them to as wide a variety of New Yorkers as I could find... Sometimes I chose a person because her heels were awesome. Or because he was carrying a plastic tube, and I was hoping he was an architect. But most of the time, I just chose people who looked open to the world - without headphones, curious."

Here are some of my favorites:

 Anonymous
 Philippe Petit
 Markley Boyer
 Liana Finck
Anonymous
 Caio Fonseca
 Anonymous
Allen M. Hart

Monday, September 16, 2013

Five New (to me) Earthworks & Part II to an Old Favorite

From Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974 (in conjunction with the traveling exhibition at MOCA and Haus der Kunst, Munich 2012-2013)


Robert Kinmont, 8 Natural Handstands, 1969/2009

Each handstand is a sculptural act emulating an upside-down view of Atlas holding up the world. See the rest here.



Avital Geva, Covering of Sidewalks and Roads with Silage, 1971


Milenko Natanovic (Oho Group), Wheat and Rope, 1969


Richard Long, A Line the Same Length as a Straight Walk from the Bottom to the Top of Silbury Hill, 1970/2012

Here is an excellent link showing it's recreation last year.


Cildo Meireles, Physical Art Cords / 30 KM Extended Line, 1969 (image via)



John Baldessari, California Map Project Part II: State Capital, 1969

Baldessari inserted a red star indicating "capital" on a map in front of the physical capitol building in Sacramento.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

"Echo of the Object" Travels to Knoxville, Tennessee


Ken Josephson, Tennessee, 1979

Here are some random pictures of the road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee to install Echo of the Object with David Hannon, Hannah Barnes, and Jennifer Halvorson. The professional (not iPhone) installation images will appear tomorrow.


The exhibition of many, many grids.



David making Hannah's drawings even more crooked.


Wall signage!





In progress installation panoramas.


One more name to add to my growing list (this one was a practical joke but I'm happy it included a "q").


Chairs congregating in the Painting classroom at University of Tennessee


The University of Tennessee Art and Architecture Building reminded me Le Centre Georges Pompidou c. 1981.


We stopped at Cumberland Falls, Kentucky on the way back to Indiana (hello brown water).


Hannah's map of Daniel Boone National Forest and the Red River Gorge at Cumberland Falls.