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Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
Fri Aug 7, 2009, 10:22 AM
For those of you follow the Strangemaps ([link]) blog, you may be aware that he was working on publishing a book of his strange maps.
It is out now for preorder at places like Amazon ([link]). Yours truly was even involved in making one of his maps. So why not go preorder one? Or three?
These maps of yours are a real find! You've managed to turn something that fourth graders everywhere shudder to learn about into something that historians, literary buffs, and anthropologists alike would become starstruck at for hours. Great job!
I'm curious: do you occasionally have viewers get incensed over your choices of where to redraw or rename the boundaries even though you remind viewers that it's all speculative fiction? ex. I about laughed myself silly whenever I saw you whittle "important" states like Texas or California into tiny slices of land. Considering how uptight folks can get about their own homelands (because we're each born and raised in the greatest state of the greatest nation on Earth, right?), it struck me that some people without any sense of humor or interest in alternate histories would get lippy with you for daring to insult their home state/nation/culture.
I mention this partly because it struck me that your gallery alone would make for a controversial yet non-violent non-racist non-religious non-sexual art museum exhibit. Usually when museums try and draw in the crowds via shocking them, the results end up being offensive instead of thought-provoking. Your maps don't do that. I'm impressed!
First, thanks a lot for the wonderful comment! It's good to see that other people can take an interest in cartography, with all the lies within. I admit it would be neat to be featured in an art museum!
I get what you described occasionally, mostly in the rather innocent form of "Aww, my home state/country is split up!". The only serious deriding I got was actually from a Polish user who disagreed with how I place Poland on a fan map.
Great, great gallery. I really love your maps - very inspiring. I've just added two images, that have been hugely inspired by your work, to my gallery.
I'm curious: do you occasionally have viewers get incensed over your choices of where to redraw or rename the boundaries even though you remind viewers that it's all speculative fiction? ex. I about laughed myself silly whenever I saw you whittle "important" states like Texas or California into tiny slices of land. Considering how uptight folks can get about their own homelands (because we're each born and raised in the greatest state of the greatest nation on Earth, right?), it struck me that some people without any sense of humor or interest in alternate histories would get lippy with you for daring to insult their home state/nation/culture.
I mention this partly because it struck me that your gallery alone would make for a controversial yet non-violent non-racist non-religious non-sexual art museum exhibit. Usually when museums try and draw in the crowds via shocking them, the results end up being offensive instead of thought-provoking. Your maps don't do that. I'm impressed!
I get what you described occasionally, mostly in the rather innocent form of "Aww, my home state/country is split up!". The only serious deriding I got was actually from a Polish user who disagreed with how I place Poland on a fan map.
Once again thanks for the comments!
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Cheers, and keep up the nice work.
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