Answer is beneath map! The original post implies that the green line is a bit of a problem in real life too! (Answer was Boston!) Original source: HarvardMapCollection
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I really struggled to put a caption to this as spotted by Edie Punt in Downtown LA, so thought how about “What is art?” Well the Oxford Dictionary states it as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or […]
Source: Ross McDonald spotted this. The map is part of a sponsorship scheme for children’s yoga in South African townships.
Andrew Zolnai spotted this in a shop window in Cambridge. The artist goes by the name of “The Real Hackney Dave“.
Reinder sent us this, it almost needs no explanation. “Back in 2010, a friend of mine had breakfast in Texas …” Photograph: © Peter & René van der Krogt, Delft, the Netherlands.
Marc-Tobias sent me this pic of an old German globe toy. You can have some fun trying to work out the age of this globe from the names of the countries in Africa. “The globe is in German. What’s surprising here is that it useshistorical borders. You see Namibia is […]
Anthony Rabin spotted this at the National Archive in Kew, England. “There Be Monsters was inspired by the Map and Atlas collection within The National Archives. The aim was to use devices and imaginary creatures inscribed on some of the oldest maps to inspire adults with experience of mental ill […]
Gavin Fleming spotted this beautiful portrait on a map background at Maanskin in Greyton. The artist is Bella Maree
Reinder shared this. “This window is part of the interior of the Amsterdam Bookshop ‘Pied à Terre’, that specializes in travel books, maps and guides about counties, cities, hiking etc. Cf. https://www.scheltema.nl/piedaterre/ Customers can add a Post-it, and mark the spot they visited. What do you think? Best regards from the Netherlands” […]
Anthony Burnett sent this pic of a stunning wall hanging from the Art Gallery of NSW in Australia he said “It’s missing Antarctica at the top, but otherwise pretty amazing.” For the northern hemisphere geographers who are confused, remember that we see the world upside down to our friends in […]
Anthony Burnett sent me this pic. “There’s an information sign at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-33.8059/151.19922 that uses wooden planks to represent the streets. Willoughby Road is the main join. French’s Road is the side road. The street numbers are the labels. Perhaps a darker colour would be better for the labels, but it still makes […]
Marianne Pietersen sent us this pic. “This a photo I took at an exhibition about the Aztecs (in the Australian Museum in Sydney – Darlinghurst).Also in December 2014. This tableau has a painted background and on the right hand top you can see a bit of the map of Teotihuacan.The […]
Until recently I knew very little about Vermeer, we went to a short talk about one of his paintings and the guide pointed out that in most of his portraits there is a picture and that was because as well as an artist he was an art dealer and he […]