#stephen walter

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By El Gato Chimney. The pieces at part of the show 'The Wild Wood', at James Freeman Gallery.

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New seabin joins fight to tackle pollution in Whitehaven Marina A new seabin, the first of a fleet of six funded by Sellafield Ltd’s Social Impact Multiplied programme, has been installed in Whitehaven Marina. The pollution fighting scheme was the brainchild of the staff and youngsters from the Whitehaven Harbour Youth Project. Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2020/10/09/new-seabin-joins-fight-to-tackle-pollution-in-whitehaven-marina/

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WATCH: Whitehaven youngster calls for help protect our environment 10-year-old Whitehaven resident Iyla, and her friends at the Whitehaven Harbour Youth Project have been on an environmental mission. In an impassioned speech recorded at the side of Whitehaven’s marina Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2020/08/05/watch-whitehaven-youngster-calls-for-help-protect-our-environment/

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Newmor Wallpaper by Stephen Walter

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Shoreditch and London by Stephen Walter 

Archival digital inkjet print and pearlised screenprinting

Stephen Walter’s major project ‘The Island, London Series’ was published by TAG in 2008 and has enjoyed sustained critical acclaim ever since. In each of these borough prints, Walter combines history, trivia, personal experience, local knowledge and imaginative additions to creatively explore an area in all its contradictory complexity. Veiw more at  http://www.tagfinearts.com/stephen-walter.html

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Map page added!

Hello all, bit of a long time since the last post - sorry about that! Here’s something new, though: a map!

It combines the book-specific marker sets created by Ben Aaronovitch, and an overlay of Stephen Walter’s lovely “Rivers of London” illustration which has been georeferenced to sit on top of Google maps.

You can use the toggle to adjust the transparency on the image and see where the rivers are relative to the road layout. And you can turn the marker layers off and on individually, too.

I should stress that it’s a beta version, as it needs styling and possibly some more stuff to be added. But while I’m tinkering with other functionality/content, you can have a play. Happy to receive any suggestions for what you might like to see, and what works/doesn’t work...

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EDIT 9/2/15: Taken offline for now (for the reasons below). Hope anyone who wanted a look had the chance! And let me know if you want more info on the "how to" side of things.

Okay, so I did a Thing with Stephen Walter's new map of the Rivers of London. I georeferenced it and created a scalable, transparent overlay for Google Maps, so you can zoom about and change transparency (with the volume slider-like thingy, top right) and see how the rivers (particularly the hidden ones!) relate to modern day London.

I've uploaded it so that people can have a look, but I won't leave it up for very long because I'd really want to get permission from the artist. This was mostly to create something I could play about with offline - if it were to go up "properly", I'd create additional layers or pins with points of interest from the books (I think I might have seen something similar on BA's blog).

Ultimately, it could form part of a great splash page for a site with info tagged to the map - you can even geotag wordpress posts and generate pins on the map using the metadata, although it requires a bit of hacking of the php.

But yes, if you're curious, have a look - I'll leave it up over the weekend.

And if you wanted to recreate it yourself, you'll need:

MapTiler (there's a free version if you don't mind a watermark)

the high-res version of the map image

A bit of time to play around

Start MapTiler, and add in your image. You want to create Mercator Tiles (not a Google Earth overlay). Then georeference (add ground control points in areas common to both the picture and the reference map), the more the better (I used 20), the more evenly spread the better. Then save, choose a zoom range (say, 10 to 14), save to folder, and click 'Render'. You'll be asked to create a folder somewhere to save everything to.

Maptiler creates 3 different versions of the page, but the index.html one will give you the transparency tool and bog standard Google Maps hybrid baselayer.

Let me know if you have any questions about the process :)