Geog Thoughts

Part research log, part scrap book

[secret-gate]

ibleedheART

[buzzfeed]

It’s probably not a good idea to try to be cute on the internet because this is what happens.

[art-upon]

[detrituss]

artense

Joseph Ford

[epoxyconfetti]

From Slate.com : "A Hand-Illustrated World Map With No Roads or Towns, Only Adventures"

[geogthoughts-blog]

We live in a new golden age of maps. Once the province of big, professional operations like Rand McNally and National Geographic, cartography is becoming a more democratic realm thanks to publicly available data and software tools. Thanks to online marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms, amateurs and hobbyists can now draw…

[scowlofminerva-blog]

“We must be insistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life, how human geographies become filled with politics and ideology.”

Edward Soja, ‘Postmodern Geographies’  (via aidsnegligee)

[geogthoughts-blog]

http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2013/05/message-to-graduate.html

[bluepillredpill-blog]

S(Infographics) — The Zhangistry

(via bluepillredpill)

[spinhxara]

[blua]

If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.

Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.

So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.

This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done.

[socialjusticewarriorgirl-blog]

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages

Angela Davis (via socialjusticewarriorgirl)

[theeuropeanpost]

Antoine Corbineau’s map of Italy illustrates typical Italian food products into the different regions of the country. 

source

[colchrishadfield]

Berlin at night. Amazingly, I think the light bulbs still show the East/West division from orbit.

[kentuary]

squallicious friday pre-dawn!

[torace]

Rio de Janeiro

[geogthoughts-blog]

Geological map of Singapore, as published in The Straits Times, 16/4/2013

[interruptions-blog]

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

 E.B. White (via interruptions)

[vivasuvida]

[liveeuphorically]

las vegas is on there, but chicago isn’t? 

[mapsontheweb]

Myriahedral maps showing the near contiguity of Earth’s continents and oceans (J. van Wijk)