Drawn

For your Friday viewing pleasure, via Duane King on the lovely Thinking for a Living, Christoph Niemann's Abstract City, a series of illustrations in the style of Google maps




Something about these drawings - the pleasure of the visual mash-up, perhaps - resonates with my growing fondness for Pippin Barr's drawings and cartoon strips on stimulus/response

Empire building

I've never mastered drawing programs - I couldn't Photoshop my way out of a paper bag. Which is why I find things like this DIY topographical map program so fascinating. At lab.parkstudio.ru/terra you can waste hours playing around with land features, cloud opacity and fractal noise (whatever that is) to make your own little 3D topographical maps, which are then brought to life in front of your eyes.

Originally found at, and image from, infosthetics.com