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David Shrigley

Jeff Watson — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0000

David Shrigley is a writer and illustrator from Glasgow. Check out samples from his sometimes unsettling (and often hilarious) books at his website, davidshrigley.com.

H/T: Ms. B

"trippy green skull"

Jeff Watson — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:01:00 +0000

Animation by Alessa Kreger.

Visualizing: Tracing an Aesthetic

Jeff Watson — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:55:00 +0000

Jose Luis gave such a great talk about the subject last year that i’ve spent some time translating bits of it in english for you. The video is available online in spanish…JL started by going back one century and a half ago. At the beginning of the end of the most powerful man of the time: Napoleon. The beginning of the end was the Russian campaign… (WMMNA)

James Turner’s Map of Humanity

Jeff Watson — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:26:00 +0000

Click map to view full-size image.

This is the world of our making, carved out of our actions, built upon the collective achievements of the human race.

It is an attempt to map the last six thousand years of human history and thought upon a theoretical geography to discover a sense of what kind of civilization humanity has attained. And like the geography of human nations, it is in constant flux, changing and growing as long as mankind walks the face of the earth.

It took over a year to research, continues to expand as I add new places, took 5 months to build, has thousands of locations based on history and fiction. Mammoth project, at least for me. I’m trying to get the thing published but publishers are not cooperating. The struggle continues! (The Map Room: James Turner Explains What He Does)