Tuesday Edition: prettymaps (la)
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California dreaming greetings, friends! It's Sara with our second edition from the prettymaps series, prettymaps (la) by Aaron Straup Cope from Stamen Design. Jen introduced the first in the series last week, prettymaps (sfba), and there's more to come for you East Coasters out there, next week... and this weekend: we'll be at the Affordable Art Fair in NYC! More details below.
For now, let's set our eyes West, on L.A. County. Like prettymaps (sfba), prettymaps (la) is derived from all sorts of information, from all over the internet. Its translucent layers illuminate information we're used to relying on maps for--the green lines are OSM roads and paths, and orange marks urban areas as defined by Natural Earth. They also highlight what's often not seen--the white areas show where people on Flickr have taken pictures. It's an inverse of a kind of memory-making--a record of where people were looking from instead of what they were looking at, as they sought to remember a specific place and time.
I've never been to L.A.--my ideas about the city have been shaped by songs and other people's pictures. That this map is made up of information that might otherwise be unseen is fitting. L.A. exists here as it does for me in my own head, a glowing mass of color that looks like refracted light--it's a comforting representation of something unknown. I'll admit that there's a lot out there that I haven't seen, don't know and don't understand, including a lot of things that prettymaps's creator, Aaron, knows lots about. A lunch shared with him, and JBPers Raul and David was peppered with talk about art, and the internet, of course, as well as programming and APIs, which I won't pretend to understand. But that there are people out there, like Aaron, Raul and David who do know about all of these things and are using these tools for the benefit of rest of us is reassuring. These maps are just one of those things.
Also affirming: looking at art in person. You'll find 20x200 at the Affordable Art Fair, tomorrow through Saturday, October 2nd and Sunday, October 3rd. We'll be manning the project space in Booth E-200. 20x200 friends and family (that's you) can pick up a discounted ($15, regularly $20) ticket here, then stop by and say hello. We'll have lots going on--talks, tips, a pop-up frame shop,* art (of course!) and more--full details can be found on the blog. Hope to see you there!
*Keep in mind that the Pop-Up Frame Shop is by appointment only. We're almost fully booked, so if you've got some 20x200 art to frame, reserve your spot right now.
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