leviramsey Posted August 30, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted August 30, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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VillaAsh Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Excellent thread... I love this kinda stuff. Wasted a whole morning for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 My rather spiffy desktop wallpaper. They seem to have missed Bangladesh off the map, which is odd as its one of the biggest countries on the planet (162m population) but I am guessing that missing Palestine/Israel was probably done on purpose.. Im assume Alaska is on the widescreen version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozzavfc Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 ^^^ thats quality, v.impressed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 11, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 11, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11, 2009 I'd rather live on the coasts than in the midwest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 11, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11, 2009 Might be interested to create a similar map of where the seven deadly sins are prevalent in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 This place is so small I dont think they would be very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Dont think this one has been done yet. What does it represent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Dont think this one has been done yet. What does it represent? Cricket playing nations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Dont think this one has been done yet. What does it represent? Cricket playing nations Nope. Japan doesnt play cricket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 12, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2009 Then it's "Cricket-playing nations... plus Japan". Go on then, we give up, what is it? Tea-drinking nations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdabush Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Countries in which you drive on the left hand side of the road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaretMahoney Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Countries once part of British Empire? Colonies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Countries in which you drive on the left hand side of the road?Winner (i think (therefore I drink)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 Countries once part of British Empire? Colonies? wouldn't the USA be Blue if that were the case :-) I know America has it's history clouded by Mel Gibson but not to that extent :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Aye, its countries who drive on the left. Inspired by the fact that those crazy people in Samoa are in the middle of switching from driving on the right to driving on the left. (ITN) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaretMahoney Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Hahaha Rev, touche touche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 14, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 14, 2009 The literary San Francisco A nub of 47 square miles, much of it punctuated by vertigo-inducing hills, most of it surrounded by ocean water - half of it the open, not-so-tranquil Pacific, the other half the calm, protected currents of a gray-blue bay. Just as San Francisco has been shaped by its dramatic earthquake-scarred, coastal setting, the city, despite its relative youth, has also been defined by legions of writers whose words have brought it to life. Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Adams, Amy Tan, Michelle Tea - they have all etched the landscape for us. And so we thought it would be fun to create a map of San Francisco composed of some of the very words - from novels, poems and essays - that animate our city. Ian Huebert's beautiful, whimsical literary map - loosely inspired by one of St. Petersburg, Russia, by Vera Evstafieva and Andrew Biliter - fittingly evokes the colorful, free-form and text-rich rock concert posters from a music scene that put San Francisco on the map in the 1960s. Of course, the map isn't intended as a comprehensive collection of quotes about the city (apologies to Herbert Gold, Bret Harte, Khaled Hosseini, Fae Myenne Ng, Tom Wolfe and on and on). If you'd like to read more quotes, a few books make for excellent resources: "City by the Bay: San Francisco in Art and Literature" (edited by Alexandra Chappell; SFMOMA; 2002), "San Francisco Stories: Great Writers on the City" (edited by John Miller; Chronicle Books; 1990) and "The Literary World of San Francisco and Its Environs" (Don Herron; City Lights Books; 1985). Also, a San Francisco literary map illustrated by Paul Madonna (826 Valencia; 2005) is a useful guide to landmarks, resources and events. Have other quotes about the city that you'd like to share? Feel free to post them at sfgate.com/books. Meantime, by all means, we encourage you to get out some tape or tacks and pretty up that bare wall or window with this map. Follow its curvy lines and let your mind wander and wonder about the City by the Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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