[OSM-talk] Pretty typographic music video (was: OSM-derived Art Maps)

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 03:13:34 BST 2010


Hi,

On 7 October 2010 11:31, Claudius <claudius.h en gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 07.10.2010 02:42, andrzej zaborowski:
>>
>> On 7 October 2010 01:57, Richard Weait<richard en weait.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not entirely sure what axismaps.com does but it sure seems to
>>> involve a lot of pretty maps.  This caught my attention when pointed
>>> out to me by OSM contributor RichardF.
>>>
>>> <blockquote>These unique maps of Chicago and Boston accurately depict
>>> the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and
>>> physical features of the city using nothing but type. Only by manually
>>> weaving together thousands upon thousands of carefully placed words
>>> does the full picture of the city emerge. Prints are
>>> available.</blockquote>
>>>
>>> So, Boston and Chicago, but I'm told that San Francisco, New York and
>>> Washington are in progress, too.
>>>
>>> See more pretty maps and wonderful photography of maps on their web site.
>>>
>>> http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php
>>>
>>> They have a blog entry describing the process of creating these maps, as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> http://www.axismaps.com/blog/2010/09/typographic-map-posters/
>>
>> They're amazing, I specially like the water basins.
>>
>>  From when I was a teenager I remember a music video playing on MTV (I
>> think) that was made entirely as a "typographic" model of a city in
>> 3D.  I recently tried to find the video or the title / artist but I
>> couldn't.
>
> Alex Gopher - "The Child" maybe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWkdNWFZiI
> Claudius

Yes, that is the video.  Thank for the link.  (recommended!)

Cheers



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