Memory Maps (http://www.localprojects.net/mmaps/mmaps.shtml ) : was a system of enormous street maps of New York City which allowed visitors to share their stories of the city by anchoring memories to specific locations.
TIMESCAPES (http://www.localprojects.net/ts/ts_demo.shtml ) : Over thirty-five new digital maps of New York were custom created for the film, demonstrating the delicate interplay between the land, water, transportation and commerce that produced the immense metropolis that is New York today.
Measure Map (http://measuremap.com/ ) : "helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world." Similar to Mint (?) Via http://nuclearmoose.com/archives/2005/11/09/stats-addict/
Here's a fun tongue-in-cheek Graphic Standards Manual to help you design like collage artist/activist Barbara Kruger (juxtaposing text with imagery). As Barbara herself stated, pictures and words have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren't. It is through this combination that we can establish an identity, and by impersonating Barbara's own unique style, you yourself can remain anonymous--in effect being while not being. : http://www.consumedaily.com/img/kruger.html Via http://www.boingboing.net/
DonQuixote Map ----------------------------------->
(definition of map) "... a map is a representation that facilitates spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, beliefs, or events in the human milieu." - Louis De Vorsey, "The Role of Native American Maps In The Discovery and Exploration of North America," to appear in the next issue of The International Map Collector's Society Journal.
Maze Generation Algorithm Information : http://www.wikimirror.com/Maze_generation_algorithm
Map Art : http://tofuart.com/map.html mixed media using maps in collage work. One of the initial works was something called The Map Book Project.
"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea --possessing them --that what has been said has still not been said enough." - Eugene Delacroix
"Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. " - Paul Valery (from http://www.s-2000.com/quoteworld/default-local.html )
"We think in generalities, but we live in details." - Alfred North Whitehead, W.H. Auden and L. Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966
"Discoveries are made by not following instructions (maps?)." - ? (RW) After http://www.linearconcepts.com/etc/quotes_search.asp
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