Mapping on the Run, Kafka Tattoo and Database Art

It used to be that updated editions of world atlases mainly tracked the shifting of borders and changes in the names of cities and countries determined by politics, diplomacy or war.

The surface of the planet itself was a relatively constant template in the background. You could render it in more detail with, say, better satellite data, but the basics didn’t change much.

Now, though, the accelerating and intensifying impact of human activities is visibly altering the planet, requiring ever more frequent redrawing not only of political boundaries, but of the shape of Earth’s features themselves...

The Metamorphosis.

Database Art.

In other news, I enjoyed this favorite word thread.

Strange Architecture, Books, Maps, Wyoming, etc.

The image above reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright and his aesthetically pleasing, but problematic buildings (on the utilitarian front).

I love this BibliOdyssey blog, though - and this post in particular reminds me of an intriguing old map/book/art store in Wyoming that disappeared a month later...