Here's a series of photos of Earth cakes for Earth Day
This one has a raspberry center and layers that kinda simulate the actual interior of the planet
https://imgur.com/a/7IRnI
THis cake is heroic:
Friday, April 22, 2016
Monday, November 30, 2015
Paris this week
To coincide with this week's international climate change talks in Paris Amanda has submitted this explainer comic by Richard Monastersky & Nick Sousans:
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Walk the world
There's a guy who has built a walk-able map of the world in Verdenskortet, Denmark
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Abridged history?
I'm not sure I get this one:
Labels:
Blue Sky GIS,
history,
Native American,
pilgrim,
USA
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
At the center of it all
Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright recently went to North Korea and took photos of colorful, symmetrical building interiors. One of them included this North Korea-centric wall map.
Labels:
Blue Sky GIS,
North Korea,
Oliver Wainwright,
photograph
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Mapping terror
Here's a video animation of 15 years of terrorist attacks by designer Milan R. Vuckovic. Is it more or less discomfiting than this animation of the history of nuclear tests?
Friday, November 20, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
They will always be there
Owl Turd by Shenanigansen is quite the excellent webcomic. Enjoy it.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Introducing Chaos Life
This is a common experience from Chaos Life by A. Stiffler & K. Copeland
Friday, October 23, 2015
If it quacks like...
Here's an interesting observation:
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Ninja GPS
I could have sworn I've posted an example of Bug Martini before (by Adam Huber)
Labels:
Adam Huber,
Blue Sky GIS,
Bug Martini,
GPS,
ninja
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Introducing Atomic Robo
Atomic Robo is a webcomic about an atomic-powered robot invented by Nicola Tesla. It often has maps. This one is funny because it shows a character using a map like it's a mall directory rather than the map of the black market freighter in the middle of the Pacific as our heroes/fugitives prepare to re-assemble the titular character and (once again) save the world.
Other examples:
Other examples:
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Mercator truth
Many people have become so used to seeing the Mercator projection of the Earth that there's some confusion about actual sizes of different places on the planet. Here's an interactive tool to help clarify things.
...and an article to help explain what's going on
...and an article to help explain what's going on
Labels:
Blue Sky GIS,
interactive,
Mercater,
projection,
world
Monday, October 19, 2015
Geometric geographical humor
Labels:
Arlo and Janis,
coffee,
Jimmy Johnson,
Oregon,
Washington
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Rule 34
This might be a trigger warning for some. And if you don't know about Rule 34, here's the explanation
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
Blue marble
Pretty
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Really high
From Ahammaday.com. This one seems a bit off. Sure, the one astronoaut's looking the wrong way and his buddy is tapping him on the shoulder to turn around, but it just doesn't quite work somehow.
Labels:
astronaut,
Blue Sky GIS,
Earth,
space,
space shuttle
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Relieving
This visual trope is a bit familiar (scroll to bottom of that link). This one is from an article about conservative Canadians screwing up privacy:
And isn't the first time we've had a comic involving urine
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Jefferson Grid
Thomas Jefferson established the square mile as a foundation for land law in the US. This instragram account shows images of things found in 1-square-mile crops from Google Earth. It's pretty:
Monday, October 12, 2015
United States of Westeros
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Water fall
Apparently some people thought this image/video was what the Earth would look like without water.
I't actually just the geoid, which shows the shape of the Earth's surface where gravity is the same (exaggerated for visual effect)
This is what the Earth would look like without water (which we've seen before):
I't actually just the geoid, which shows the shape of the Earth's surface where gravity is the same (exaggerated for visual effect)
This is what the Earth would look like without water (which we've seen before):
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Read it
Halcyon Maps brings you myriad beautiful maps of interesting things, like this map of literary genres
Friday, October 9, 2015
Can't buy me...
Map of London in the style of the iconic tube map showing rents in London and how they're unaffordable.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Geological acne
I swear I've seen this joke before. From Alexander Hoffman's Tales of Absurdity
Labels:
Alexander Hoffman,
Earth,
puberty,
Tales of absurdity,
teenager
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
International comfort zone
Neil Kohney's The Other End
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Brassy
Do you need a brass wrist band with a map on it? Of course you do:
Monday, October 5, 2015
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Introducing OGLAF (Very NSFW)
While this particular example isn't too off-color, virtually every other episode of this webcominc, OGLAF.com, is massively NSFW:
Saturday, October 3, 2015
... and the bees
Introducing Things in Squares
Labels:
bees,
Blue Sky GIS,
folding map,
sex,
Thingsin Squares
Friday, October 2, 2015
Early days
Labels:
Blue Sky GIS,
Close to Home,
Google Earth,
John McPherson,
photograph
Monday, June 15, 2015
All of Zelda
"Friendly tag-based Javascript animators" JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, also known as the best Zelda.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
...simply walk...
This website compares distances in Middle Earth to places in England.... and Europe:
Labels:
Blue Sky GIS,
Lord of the Rings,
Middle Earth,
science fiction
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Cartoon countries
This quick video about climate change negotiations from Cicero may have the highest concentration of anthropomorphized countries on the interwebs:
Labels:
Blue Sky GIS,
climate change,
geopolitics,
map animation
Friday, June 12, 2015
X marks the X
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Wait a second...
This from Dorkly. We've mentioned the Maurader's Map from Harry Potter before. As clever as this comic is, it's hardly the only feature in the Harry Potter universe which could have cut short various plotlines.
Labels:
Blue Sky GIS,
Harry Potter,
magic,
Maurader's Map
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