Three more cartographic ballads.-----------Johnnie
 
 
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      Wed, 16 Feb 1994 18:57:50 +0100
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In 1991 the firm Robas published the following title:
 
Satelliet beeldende kunst / [satellitimages: Spot Image]. - Den
Ilp : Robas, 1991. - 108 p. - ISBN 90-72770-25-0.
 
The editors gave some 1,000 remote sensing images to fashion
photographer Paul Huf and asked him to choose 100 images because
of their artistic impression. The title of the book is translated
as "Satellite plastic art". In his foreword the photographer
says: "I like these satellite pictures because they bridge a
period from the artisan start to something that we,
photographers, cannot anymore keep up with".
 
I asked the publisher if he could enlarge a 60 x 60 km image of
the Gibson desert in Australia, where the pastel colours
(probably indicating geologic formations) are overlaid with a
pattern of transparent rolling dunes. The publisher did so for a
hefty price (including frame it came to some $ 450) but now the
100 x 100 cm image decorates one of my walls at home. Because of
the colours and its pattern I call it "Laura Ashley's Desire".
 
Jan Smits
Mapcurator Royal Library, the National Library of The Nehterlands
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         Wed, 16 Feb 94 08:52 PST
         "Virginia Hetrick, in sunny Calif"   <[log in to unmask]>
         RE:   More Cartographic Ballads
 
Two suggestions to add to the list:
 
1.  The two Canadian postage stamps from fall, 1993, one showing the
    longlot system.  These both had holograms incorporated in them as
    well.
 
2.  The US Valentine's postage stamp for (I think) Valentine's Day
    1992 which was a cordiform projection of the globe.  This one is
    so popular that they seem to have brought it back.  At least you
    can buy them again at our Post Office.  It disappeared around
    Valentine's Day 1993 and then reappeared last November or so.
 
virginia                                                                -------
 
 
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      [log in to unmask] (Mark Finnegan)
         Re: Cartographic Ballads
      Wed, 16 Feb 94 14:01:17 CST
 
I have always felt that if a picture could be considered worth a thousand
words, then a well-done map would most certainly be worth at a minimum
a thousands pictures!!
 
Mark Finnegan
Tulsa University