Beyond the Map

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Beyond the Map is an alternative mapping project that seeks to expand the classic understanding of geography as simply a point plotted on a map. Instead, we are defining geography as writing the story of a place. Tracing our physical movements through space in the forms of writing, video, photography and illustration. Profile Views:

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Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland (by Chris Spracklen)

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On the "to go" list for sure.

#switzerland #travel #themappers

odditiesoflife

Paris Catacombs

By the light of torches, candles or miners lights, haunting scenes centuries old appear to unfold. Scenes of skulls, bones and death are everywhere. The passages can be as low as three feet overhead or even less. The air heavy with dust, and the ground underfoot flooded with grimy water splashing way over your shoes. In tunnels up to 100 feet below the surface bustle of one of the world’s great cities, another clandestine world exists.

Consulting maps, self-trained guides lead the way, while others look for opportunities to take photographs. Exploring the Paris Catacombs, also known as the Mines of Paris, carries risk. For one, it is strictly illegal, with special police and their dogs patrolling the vast subterranean network. There is also a very real danger of getting lost, as well as the chance of cave-ins in some places.

#themappers #paris #catacombs #whoa

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Ruby, MI by (twotimeslim)

#the mappers #fall #trees

odditiesoflife

Cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Cenotes are natural pits or sinkholes resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. Especially associated with the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, cenotes were used by the ancient Maya for sacrificial offerings. The term derives from a word used by the low-land Yucatec Maya, “Ts’onot” to refer to any location with accessible groundwater. There are an estimated 7,000 cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula.

Cenote water is often very clear, as the water comes from rain water filtering slowly through the ground, and therefore contains very little suspended particulate matter. The groundwater flow rate within a cenote may be very slow. In many cases, cenotes are areas where sections of cave roof have collapsed revealing an underlying cave system, and the water flow rates may be much faster: up to 6 miles (10 km) per day. Cenotes around the world attract cave divers who have documented extensive flooded cave systems through them, some of which have been explored for lengths of 62 miles (100 km) or more.

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#themappers #mexico #yucatan #cave diving #spelunking

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by Kelly Loughlin

Buddhist Monk in Cambodia

#themappers #cambodia

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Malmö, Sweden by xenerr on Flickr.

#themappers #sweden #vintage

thingstoclick

Hiking, Sai Kung by alexogle from One year in Hong Kong in 108 pictures /via coudal

designcloud

Stunning Brutalist Architecture in Eastern Europe

The Buzludzha Monument, Spomenik, the Navy Most Bridge, the Monument to The Battle of Bash-Aparan, Institue of Robotics And Technical Cybernetics are examples of Brutalist Architecture a style of architecture that flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement. Learn more of Brutalist architecture with this great buildings here: http://goo.gl/CGydbp

#themappers #brutalist #architecture

#chinese new year #cooking #paris #themappers

Melony Smith "Flying Free." Photograph on canvas. i had the privilege to chat with Melony for some time at the closing reception of her show at the Denver Art Gallery. She's around 60 and has just recently entered the world of photography and professional art. Proof that it's never too late to start! This is an Arabian mix horse shot in Southern France. All of her pieces in the show were equally as impressive, but this one caught me the most.

#themappers #denver #melony smith #denver art gallery #photography #horses

Squat party in Paris, "Heaven."

#themappers #squats #heaven #paris #party all night

If anyone has more information on this artist please comment. I would love to find out who she/he is. Their stickers are all over Paris, and I absolutely adore al of them.

#graffiti #paris #street art #themappers