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Google Earth blog has a good compilation of maps and visuals and articles for understanding the events spacially.
California Fires - Satellite photos, Fire Data in Google Earth

Interactive map of the California fires. statistics and info. so widespread! this is crazy.
:(!!!
I'm so sorry for everyone who has lost there homes or worse...gah cannot imagine....:(

The Day After Peace: Designing Palestine NY Times article regarding The Arc- A vision for Palestine. aerial renderings, slide show, all the yummy mapping of possibilities stuff.:)

I'm SO supposed to be cleaning and I'm stealing time here while B naps because I HAVE to mention a bit about memory maps! Ok, so Google bought Keyhole which is major. And now we've got an 'annotated memory map' trend starting up. This may seem like just a neat novelty...but I believe we're witnessing the sweet tender green buds of what is to be a massive collaborative reorganization of humanity's information within navigable immersive webspaces. So exciting. a big step in our evolution really.
As the tools and images become more and more commonplace, we will all be able to integrate a more detailed topsight vision into our daily lives. This grants us a better understanding of our place in the world and the systems/larger organism that we are all a part of..we may be more inclined to participate in shaping and sustaining our communities, especially when given the most intuitive of tools. hmmmm
And that's to say nothing of the gradual creation of an interconnected memory palace/ experiential collective memory.:)

(See, and they thought you'd have blown up the planet by now. I knew ya'll had potential. Well, we'll see. Go Earthians, you can do it!)

More memory maps.

Whew, let's see, quick summary: On Sat went to go see my friends'(for this journal let's call em The Pony,The Bunny and The Birdy) singer-songwriter gig at a local coffeehouse, nice atmosphere this place, had myself a chai and relaxed with B taking in the super sounds. Three young children (about 6 yrs old) are Seriously Intently drawing with crayons at a nearby table, I am so taken with how cute they look that I start to sketch their little serious heads in my journal. Next thing I know, the little girl (daughter of an aquaintance)comes over to me and gifts me with the flower drawing she just drew! I beam and thank her and show her the little sketch I'm doing in my journal of the three of them. She turns beet red and grins HUGELY and rushes back to her seat to begin furiously drawing again. Returns minutes later with a drawing of ME (how ridiculously cute) and then for the next half hour she draws me 12 more drawings!!!!! I have a complete BOOK now it seems!They're awesome. One she did of B and me 'jumping on a couch' is SO perfect I think we're going to frame it. I draw a portrait of her to give her and she kisses it to show how happy she is. Then she decides to become my hairdresser and she plays with my hair, twisting and braiding it and piling it on my head, etc. It was just too much. I know I'm not quite ready to have a child of my own but GAAA this whole thing made me melt. She was so sweet.
Anyhoo, after that we went to check out another friend's art reception, had some wine, met up with more friends and went for a pizza. Then saw 'Chicago' (great dancing but ugh what a depressing 'story'...the worst of human attributes and no love to be spotted anywhere...bitter, bitter story).
Sunday had brunch/lunch with Pony and Bunny and then got to work in the studio at night. I'm using a dremel to carve away at a thick plywood, making a sort of relief map, which will be the base of a new piece (with resin and nails and connections). As inspiration/guidelines for the general look I'm using this picture I took of peeling paint on a big tank in the back of an alley...it feels so map-like to me...