Alex Chacon around the world

Alex Chacon went around the world with a GoPro camera and began and ended his world tour selfie video with a map travel log.


It's a similar concept to the gone-viral Matt Harding dancing-around-the-world videos but with a bit more map:

Tonight at 11

Dan Rosandich gives us this grim... and I think kinda tired... take on tv news.  The blob on the front of the news desk is probably a sloppy attempt at a Goode's Homolosine Equal Area Projection

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Does this qualify as election-season graffiti, or simply generic political graffiti? 

How to get there, mate

Remember Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin? Here's an older bit from Sherman's Lagoon strip by Jim Toomey featuring a visit from the late teladventurist.

How to embarrass your teen with Google Streetview

Is this a case of oversensitivity on the part of the teen or insensitivity on the part of the parents? From Betty (by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen)

By the way, photobombing Google Streetview is a rather popular prank to play around the world. Here's a pair in Norway who have made quite the splash on the internet:

Map hustle

This week's animated map Thursday involves a heist.  It's a scene from a BBC show entitled "The Real Hustle".  This video is a re-enactment of what is purportedly a real con whereby a fingersmith pretending to be a tourist approaches a mark with a large-lensed SLR around his neck and asks for directions, brandishing a map. While they pore over the map together -- and under its cover -- the crook unscrews the lens and spirits it away.



Do be careful out there.

Paper camera

This is an awesome paper camera made out of maps.

It's kinda alike this awesome leather hat:

....which of course reminds me of the map of Italy printed on an actual boot:

Cold weather

Cartoonist Ed Fischer gives us a winter weather map.  This one is more entertaining.

Old growth forest map

Ray Jelliffe gives us this cute little tidbit on hiking through old growth forests, something we still have a number of here in Oregon.