Gosh darnit

...this guy beat me to the punch. Check out Canadian artist Jon Rafman and his bizarre and fascinating Google Street View screen shots.

Sonoma

Just got back from a fabulous wine tasting trip in Sonoma with a great group of folks!!

Jenny ODell

Google art!!!

Read this book!

Ken Jennings won 74 games and $2.52 million on Jeopardy in 2004. A self-professed map junkie (or "cartophile"), he published a book called Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World  of Geography Wonks. It's really good! For someone that can be labeled a nerd on so many levels (Slate magazine dubbed him "the Seabiscuit of geekdom"), this guy is funny.

According to his web site, Maphead "is a love letter to the maps Ken loved as a child. He travels the world in search of his fellow mapheads: antique map collectors, atlas publishers, geocachers, Geography Bee prodigies, systematic travelers, and road geeks. Who are these prodigies, and can they save the world from its own geographic illiteracy before it's too late?"

He has a blog, too.

Stephan Zirwes Photography...

...rocks.

RAW art opening

Please drop by during Trolley Tour night on South Main, March 30th, 6 to 9 pm.

AMUM 29th Annual Juried Exhibition

Here are some shots of my entry entitled Asleep at Levitt Shell, size 11' x 8'.

Nina Katchadourian

I am very excited about this artist's work.

Victorian Space Illustrations

The New York Public Library has digitized E.L. Trouvelot's astronomical illustrations and made them available online. They are pretty gorgeous. Read about the artist here and find his images here.

The New York Public Library also has an online exhibit contrasting Trouvelot's 19th century illustrations with contemporary NASA photographs, Heavens Above: Art & Actuality.

Twins

These twin portraits by Martin Schoeller are compelling.

Mississippi River Meander Maps

My favorite word on this blog entry of From Mouth to Source is "maptastic"!!!! Check out these beautiful meander maps of the Mississippi River.

Updated Web Site

I spiffed up my web site. :)

Update: Wow, the images I uploaded are crazy big and it runs super slow. Working on that asap...

Read This Book

If you like art and maps, you'll like this book: The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon