-
Other Posts
- Publication Policy
- Things to Do / See / Eat in Hyde Park, Chicago
- Swipes File #58
- Images of Canadian Expansion
- Sherwin-Williams paint logo
- “Sydneyites As We See ‘Em”
- “Chicagoans As We See ‘Em”
- “Manitobans As We See ‘Em”
- [Placeholder for a discussion of gender & comics]
- “New Zealanders As We See ‘Em”
- “Torontonians As We See ‘Em”
- “Madison Men of Affairs As We See ‘Em”
- “Milwaukeeans As We See ’em”
- (US)American & Canadian Girl Dolls: A Settler Colonial Friendship to the End?
- White Christmas
- Election Season & Maps: A Friendship to the End
- In Memory of Emily McCord
- “Californians As We See ‘Em”
- “British Columbians As We See ‘Em”
- Canada Day?
- [Placeholder for censorship & comics]
- (no title)
- “Where are your women?”
- “The Morning Paper” by Mary Oliver
- How I Won Homeschooling with “Doodleville”
- Women & Children First or Every Man for Himself? What should we do when the chips are down?
- Activities for an Omicron Winter*
- Pan-American Carto-Caricatures
- “Peoples of the Edge:” Carto-Caricatures of Newfoundland
- Swipes File #57
- Chicago Comics @ the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago)
- Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum (Elkhart, Indiana)
- CAA2020: Art and Colonialism in the Pacific Islands (1/4)
- Research Stub: Police Map Logos
- “Come on, feel the Illinoise!”
- Deng Coy Miel’s Carto-Caricatures of the Philippines
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part 5)
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part 3)
- (Invasion of) Australia Day
- [Insert cow pun here]
- Illinois versus Chicago and Ontario versus Toronto
- E-mail forwards apparently used to appear in book form…
- Spiders & Flies: A Halloween Special
- Stuck in the Middle with You (Round 2)
- NEH: Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise
- Swipes File #55: Eating Half the Globe
- “It’s not easy to see things in the middle:” Cartography of “The Midwest”
- Mapping Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota Together, 1856-2020
- Talkin’ ’bout Confederation
- The Land Between Two Rivers
- Swipes File: Lines on the Map
- Chalk-Bubble Soup, or Life Hacks to Entertain Toddlers During a Pandemic Shut Down
- 100+ years of a cartographic trope…
- CAA Panel: Unsettling Visual Culture (5/5)
- CAA Panel: Unsettling Visual Culture (4/5)
- CAA Panel: Unsettling Visual Culture (3/5)
- CAA Panel: Unsettling Visual Culture (2/5)
- CAA Panel: Unsettling Visual Culture (1/5)
- Professor Jarrett Rudy: A Remembrance
- Where is the REAL Crossroads of USAmerica?
- Iowa roads: ya got trouble!*
- The Boondoggle of Borders
- Dissertation Scraps, or The Politics of Adjectives
- Swipes File #56: “Another Blot”
- Babies everywhere (like the Nutrigrain commercial)
- Always cite your sources (correctly), Round II, or: Adventures in Research & Discovery (R&D)
- Spain
- “The white man doesn’t know everything:” Wetalltok’s Map of Belcher Islands
- From “Continental sisterhood” (1901) to “Brotherhood Week!” (1960): Caricature, Cartography, and Pan-American Personification
- “Remark the perfect type!” A Material History of John Baskerville’s Typeface (c. 1750) and the Canada Wordmark (c. 1965)
- Anthropological Assemblage
- Swipes & Spikes
- Always cite your sources (correctly)!
- The Siren’s Call of Graduate School
- Scrabble & Snow
- Swipes #54: Star light, star bright…
- Swipes #53: Fishy Cartouches
- #AHA19: Reflections
- Swipes #52: First Welfare Recipients
- Swipes #51: CAN’t do it without Quebec
- Stars & Stripes 4 Evah
- Cabotia & Fredonia
- Thanksgiving Special
- Mash-Up: New Saskazonaberta, or Twinsies!
- Swipes File #50: O / Owe Canada
- The Donner Party & The Franklin Expedition…
- William Seward & Sarah Palin: A Friendship to the End?
- Good old Russia
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 7
- In the Middle
- Row, row, row your province
- Canada and U.S. Jumble Maps
- Things to do / see / eat in Silicon Valley – with kids!
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 6
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 5
- How Not To Annoy New Parents in Five Easy Steps
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 4
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 3
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 2
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 1
-
Join 879 other subscribers
Tags
- advice
- aislin
- alaska
- america-land
- as we see 'em
- books
- border
- borders
- CAA
- caa2020
- california
- california map society
- canada
- Canada-land
- Canada Institute
- Canadian Studies
- Carleton University
- carto-caricature
- cartography
- cartoon
- cartoon map
- cartoons
- chicago
- College Art Association
- colonialism
- comics
- comprehensive exam
- conference
- core seminar
- DC
- dolls
- envhist
- environmental history
- gender
- gifts
- guest post
- hawaii
- immigration
- imperialism
- irish
- it depends on how you look at it
- john bull
- library
- library of congress
- map
- map cartoon
- maps
- mash-up
- mexico
- midwest
- NEH
- NEHsummer
- newberry library
- newfoundland
- north america
- ontario
- poem
- poetry
- pop culture association
- Quebec
- same shit different day
- swipes
- teaching
- terry mosher
- texas
- the north
- toronto
- travel
- travel tips
- uncle sam
- united states
- usa
- white people
- wikipedia
- women write about comics
Tag Archives: maps
It depends on how you look at it… (Part 3)
Apparently I skipped straight to Part Four in this series way back in 2014 and saved this as a draft. In any case, here are some views from Toronto: Image: “It’s your world, Toronto” shows Toronto at the center/e of … Continue reading
Posted in Category Awesome
Tagged canada, carto-caricature, cartography, it depends on how you look at it, maps, mexico, north america, perspective, usa
1 Comment
In the Middle
Devoted readers may recall that Chicago is at the center of the world / universe: But visitors to St. John’s might know differently: There are plenty of Azimuthal equidistant projection maps centered on other cities, as well. (Some are digitized at … Continue reading
Posted in Category Awesome
Tagged center of the map, chicago, map, maps, newfoundland, st. john's
Leave a comment
Maps: They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
Alternative title: “Lies and the lying liars that map them.” Just thinking about maps… 1) Donald Westlake’s High Adventure (1985), quoted in Denis Wood’s “Pleasure in the Idea / The Atlas as Narrative Form” (page 27): “The map is not the terrain,” the … Continue reading
Posted in Category Awesome
Tagged climate change, denis wood, Google maps, maps, mark twain, music video
Leave a comment
April Fooling in Map Form
Google is a bit (in)famous for their April 1st pranks. Here are some funny Google maps from back before it got the buzz-killy new directions of “Sorry, we could not calculate directions from Chicago, IL to United Kingdom” (I bet their lawyers were like “stop … Continue reading
Draw the Shape of the Bay @ The Exploratorium in SF
In January, we went to the Exploratorium and touched pretty much all of the exhibits, which was a lot of fun. :-) One of my favo(u)rite things to look out for is, of course, maps. I can’t seem to find … Continue reading
It depends on how you look at it… (Part Four of Many)
We’ve looked at absences on maps before. Here are some examples of hyper-presencing (surprisingly, not all featuring global domination of the United States):
Posted in Category Awesome
Tagged carto-caricature, cartography, france, globe, it depends on how you look at it, liechtenstein, maps, Michigan, montana, perspective, scale, scandinavia, tennessee, Washington, zurich
Leave a comment
It depends on how you look at it… (Part Two of Many)
Some people argue that Toronto is the center of the world / universe: Of course, we all know that Chicago is really the center of the world: (Although, ODT Maps sells these maps with other cities at the center, noting: “Such maps … Continue reading
It depends on how you look at it… (Part One of Many)
Sometimes, if you turn a urinal on its side, you get art (now in the Tate Modern in London, England): Here’s an excerpt about turning maps on other sides from “Dreaming Upside-Down” by Tom Peterson (sorry I didn’t include a link to … Continue reading
Posted in Category Awesome
Tagged carto-caricature, cartography, it depends on how you look at it, maps, perspective, ushapia
Leave a comment
“[M]ap-obsessed, to a degree quite uncharacteristic of middle America”
A while back, I read an exchange about a book (and review) that really stuck with me. The article, in the journal Cartographica, was a “Review Article of Denis Wood’s The Power of Maps and the Author’s Reply” by Barbara Belyea, with … Continue reading
Texas / Kansas / Banana For Scale
Researching maps usually involves thinking about perspective and scale. Maybe the best part of “Jurassic Park.” Banana for scale. There’s a popular(ish) meme that involves taking a picture with a banana somewhere in the image to show the relative size of other items in … Continue reading
Posted in Category Awesome
Tagged africa, alaska, australia, kansas, maps, rhode island, scale, texas, ushapia
Leave a comment
Carto-Caricatures: Cartographic Caricatures 