I recorded as many Honey White shows as I could with our trusty Roland VS-890 digital 8-track. We released them in 2006 on the Live Music Archive. I designed the covers to be in the same vein as the many Pearl Jam & Tori Amos live album covers that those acts released when they made their tour recordings available online. We didn’t tour so far and wide, but as a geography guy I thought city map outlines might work well as a design theme. These covers are for live show recordings from (clockwise from top left) Ventura, the UCSB campus, Goleta, Dana Point, Isla Vista, and Santa Barbara.
My fantasy nerd maps don’t have animated whirlygig city models or a boffo classical music soundtrack, but I think the land shapes are much more interesting.
So this is an ostensibly accurate map of North American dialects. I’m sure its highly incomplete, generalized and simplified, but the sheer audacity of this project is overwhelming. I have no idea how one would go about devising a strategy to assemble data to create this in any coherent fashion, let along depict this much information in one image. This begs for flash and web implementation. As is, its a pretty difficult piece of cartography, but an intense and impressive one as well.
Although it misses the subtlety of Western Canada where some people are stereotypes, some people aren’t and everyone drops the “with” when they ask you if you are done with something.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
Stereotyping You by Your Favorite ’90s Band
Well, I’m not a “carbuncular adolescent” and can barely play the guitar (Smashing Pumpkins), but I could see myself wishing to a “Japanese manga character” (Bis).
No Cracker, Morphine, Supergrass, Superdrag, or Eels? Oh well whatever.
Fender modern player jazz bass.
Guts
Stickers
I thought you might find this map interesting.
Submitted by the tumblrless Meghan. Thanks!A map of the US states with flags of countries of comparable population.
Cunning use of flags.
(via mapsandshhtuff)
Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce talks to us about the quizzical sleeve of his new album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, in our latest Take Cover feature.
Huh.
