And marvel instead at the the Guardian’s amazing interactive map of Europe’s political direction in the last 38 years.
It’s what online newspapers were invented for.
Notice too how, while all around go from left to right Ireland remains blue.
Map here.
Cut Map: road-maps sliced-up to resemble the faces and figures of the subjects of artist Nikki Rosato, who explains:
The lines on a road map are beautifully similar to the lines that cover the surface of the human body. In my most recent work involving maps, as I remove the landmasses from the silhouetted individuals I am further removing the figure’s identity, and what remains is a delicate skin-like structure. Through this process, specific individuals become ambiguous and hauntingly ghost-like, similar to the memories they represent.
Previously, this.
The nice data-crunching people at Target Map present the world in terms of, eh, upper latitudes and lower longitudes.
Ireland, according to this doubtless leading-edge internet research, averages out at a modest B-cup boob and 12.78cm willy.
But hey, you should see that guy dancing.
Artist, Matthew Cusick makes portraits and illustrations using nothing but map cutouts, repurposing the contour lines, topographical symbols and colours to create stunning collage portraits and landscapes.
Old and boring: traditional envelopes.
New and funky: MapEnvelopes, lined with the GoogleMap image of your choice.
Go on. Get Personal.
