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shone: the cratonic milieu of Aeolia

erik — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:09:33 +0000

maplesprang 30

erik — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:33:14 +0000

Experimenting with StudioArtist 4, Photoshop CS4.

University of Arizona SBS Developments magazine uses Art of Geography painting

erik — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:20:08 +0000

Thank you to Lori Harwood and Christine Scheer for picking some Art of Geography art for the cover of their magazine, and reproducing the color/tonality so well.

December was art month at the Art of Geography

erik — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:10:12 +0000

December was art month at the Art of Geography. A two foot square mounted print of Hydromancy at the antipodes of Elysium sold at a gallery, and another painting was selected by a magazine to use on their cover. I will post the details of the magazine issue as soon as it comes out.

Nikolas Schiller

erik — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:52:53 +0000

Nikolas Schiller: Schiller barely pauses on the way to his computer, which he fires up to reveal hundreds of his map creations. They are places you know — the Mall, Adams Morgan, Georgetown, plus other U.S. cities and war-torn ones abroad. But the streetscapes — photographed from above at a resolution fine enough to just make out cars and people — have been warped and woven into kaleidoscopic mosaics, arabesques, spheres. “

(Via The Map Room.)

The Pearl Gallery Map Updated

erik — Wed, 03 May 2006 02:56:52 +0000

Now the galleries are hyperlinked, so if you view the map from within Acrobat or your browser, you can click on a gallery icon to open that gallery’s webpage, which might be handy if you want to preview what they are showing. Some galleries appear not to have websites, so I left them unlinked. If you find a gallery I missed, or know the website for a gallery that has no link, let me know!

Note: Acrobat 6 is the oldest version which can take advantage of some of the map features such as user-controlled layers.

The Pearl Gallery Map Updated

erik — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:47:42 +0000

I’ve added a number of galleries which had somehow not made it on earlier versions. Also some restaurants and lounges have been added.

There seems to be an eastwards shift in the gallery center of gravity. That is more obvious now that more of the galleries in “old town” are shown.

The PDF file size has been reduced to 300KB.

http://www.artofgeography.com/maps/pearl-gallery-map.html

Announcing the Palo Alto Walking Map

erik — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:00:05 +0000

The Palo Alto Walking map makes it easier and more efficient to do the artwalk on First Friday.

For those not familiar with First Friday, a number of galleries and some businesses in downtown Palo Alto (Bay Area) have one night a month where they stay open late, and often have their openings/receptions for new art then.

The map shows galleries, restaurants, bistros, pubs, coffee & tea houses, dessert & bakeries, the color-coded parking zones, parks, and the streetgrid. It deliberately does not show things which most likely are of little value to the gallery visitor.

This map is free to download (for personal use), and print for your next excursion to Palo Alto.

The map is available from http://www.artofgeography.com/maps/palo-alto-downtown.html

This map is in a different style than the Pearl map, as I am trying some different approaches.

Announcing the Pearl District Gallery Map

erik — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:41:59 +0000

The Pearl Gallery map makes it easier and more efficient to walk the Pearl on First Thursday.

For those not familiar with First Thursday, almost all the galleries in Portland’s Pearl District have one night a month where they stay open late, and many galleries have their openings/receptions for new art then. The Pearl becomes quite the scene, with thousands of people walking the streets and parking spots are scarcer than hen’s teeth. Other art districts have their own nights, such as Last Thursday, First Friday, etc.

The map shows galleries, restaurants, bistros, pubs, coffee & tea houses, dessert & bakeries, parks, mass transit, ATMs and the streetgrid. It deliberately does not show things which most likely are of little value to the gallery visitor.

This map is free to download (for personal use), and print for your next excursion to the Pearl.

The map is available from http://www.artofgeography.com/maps/pearl-gallery-map.html

What became interesting to me after creating this map is the distribution of galleries. Perhaps someone more familiar with economic geography would have a theory why the “plot” of locations seems to fall into a diagonal cluster, orthogonal to the perfect rectangular grid of streets. I would have guessed the cluster to be vertical, parallelling the streetcar route.