Category Archives: Art

On the World Zarmina

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Joseph

…Preliminary report on image data from the LongShot-2 mission… The planet Gliese 581g – also known as Zarmina – is a circular world. It is not circular in the literal sense shown on pre-Columbian maps of the Earth, before we … Continue reading →

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Small Web Update

Posted on 7 January 2012 by Joseph

I’ve been doing a fair number of fantasy maps lately, taking pictures of them, and putting them on the Internet. So, I’ve decided to give them their own section on my images page, and their own Picasa album.  There’s even … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Cartography Again

Posted on 30 October 2011 by Joseph

I know I’ve liked to draw fantastical maps for a long time now. So, I should not have been surprised at how much fun I had producing a fancy version of a map for a world I’ve been working with … Continue reading →

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The Map

Posted on 7 August 2011 by Joseph

I have come into the possession of a most extraordinary object, which I procured rather fortuitously before the auction of goods from an insolvent boutique on the East Boulevard. I do not know how long it lay, disused and uncared-for, … Continue reading →

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Art Question: Map Labels

Posted on 25 July 2011 by Joseph

I have been working on a map. It looks something like this: The map consists of India ink laid down on top of a set of watercolor washes. (Well, technically, washes from some Derwent Signature Watercolor pencils – thanks to … Continue reading →

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Water and Lights…

Posted on 1 November 2010 by Joseph

I recently picked up some food coloring for a little sanity-check experiment in my lab. Yesterday, I was feeling a little artistic and a little physicsy, so I decided to play with the coloring, some clear glasses, a couple of … Continue reading →

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Sol LeWitt

Posted on 10 May 2010 by Joseph

I spent last weekend in Williamstown, MA, with my family for my sister’s Williams Dance Company performance and the super-swanky Mother’s Day brunch at the Williams Inn. (I’m allergic to chicken and turkey, so I passed over the roast duck; … Continue reading →

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Who needs an SLR?

Posted on 5 April 2010 by Joseph

This past Saturday, I biked to upper Robert Treman State Park with some friends. Lots of hills between the lower and upper parks! I brought along my little Canon PowerShot SD1000 – a pretty simple point-and-shoot – and GorillaPod. This … Continue reading →

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