The Movie Map is a website created in 2008 as a depository of films locations and other informations related to those locations. It uses Google’s Map API and users and movie fans can contribute. Another website lists films locations: the Movie Locations Guide. It presents maps of 3 towns at this time: New York, Los…
Via the excellent pop-up-urbain.com, here is an amazing map of the places cited in Rap lyrics, offered byRap Genius, the site that helps to decrypt the words of Gangsta Rap. New-York, and overall Manhattan, stand at the top of the locations. The space of Rap lyrics is – unsurprisingly – mainly urban and almost exclusively…
Alberto Antoniazzi, an Italian graphic designer, presents the history of Rock as a subway map where every line corresponds to a sub-genre and every group or musician corresponds to a station that may connect two lines. He uses all the codes of a subway map : colors, symbols, legend. You can see it on the…
Shannon Rankin is an American artist born 1971 in California who lives and works presently in Rangeley, Maine, USA. She created several series of artworks with maps as raw material, maps she cuts, disintegrates, sticks, connects with threads, pins… As she writes on her homepage: « I deconstruct maps to create new geographies, suggesting the potential…
The professional cartographer Jonah M. Adkins met the challenge of geographically depicting the fictitious Island of the TV Series LOST. Here is his story. Le cartographe professionnel Jonah Adkins a tenté de décrire géographiquement l’île fictionnelle de la série télévisée LOST et d’en dresser une carte. Voir cet article en français sur le site Ecrans…
A really great idea ! Luke Lewis locates famous Rock ‘n’ roll album sleeves with Google Street View and begins a musical mapping of London. Une très jolie idée de Luke Lewis : localiser sur Google Street View les albums des groupes des années 60 et proposer ainsi un début de lever cartographique musical de…
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