(drove) boston to nyc
(tomorrow bus) nyc to baltimore
baltimore for maryland deathfest
(driving) baltimore to richmond to asheville to austin
austin for chaos in tejas
(flying) austin to nyc
(driving) nyc to boston
little to no internet access. get at me if you’ll be in any of those cities!
goin south
Boston’s Footprint
The dark areas of this map show built-up areas with blank areas for water, parks, streets, etc. Pretty. Here’s what Bostonography has to say about it:
Besides being inconsequential eye candy, though, the map is somewhat useful for interpreting urban geography. Some manmade patterns are much clearer in this map than in an aerial photograph you’d find on Google Maps or elsewhere, which shows all this and more. Assuming some base level of local knowledge (say, where the ocean is), it’s possible to identify various spaces: built-up (gray) versus open (blank) areas, downtown (large, dense footprints) versus residential (smaller, separated footprints) areas, steetcar suburbs (long main drags with density dropping a block or two away) versus more interior urban areas (consistent density and often smaller, straighter blocks), and so on.
Click on the pic for a gi-normous version.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
(via theundergroundmonolith)
Drawing by John Kenn. http://johnkenn.blogspot.com/
totalllllly blanked on this being a john kenn drawing, even though it says it right there.
so rad!
(Source: shelikesher, via violins)
(via dannih)
Sometimes I worry that my standards are too high. Or am I too judgemental?
for me it’s that everyone else has high standards so i never make the grade
FINALLY! something NOT coffee related
(Source: john666connard, via theundergroundmonolith)
Jawbreaker - Million
I am thrilled and bored
I’m unskilled, adored
all of both and none of one
(via thenowtimes)
LOSS // “Silent and Completely Overcome” @ Saint Vitus NYC, 5/19/12
So this is an ostensibly accurate map of North American dialects. I’m sure its highly incomplete, generalized and simplified, but the sheer audacity of this project is overwhelming. I have no idea how one would go about devising a strategy to assemble data to create this in any coherent fashion, let along depict this much information in one image. This begs for flash and web implementation. As is, its a pretty difficult piece of cartography, but an intense and impressive one as well.
Although it misses the subtlety of Western Canada where some people are stereotypes, some people aren’t and everyone drops the “with” when they ask you if you are done with something.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
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