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This is the first year of Colton’s map publishing business. Ristow says that Colton published his first map in 1833, Burr’s map of New York State; this U.S. map must be as early. The graphic style is similar to Burr’s Universal Atlas maps, engraved the following year. With six detailed and elegant inset maps showing the environs of Albany, Boston, New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Baltimore & Washington; plus a small inset map of South Part of Florida. Outline color, folded into dark teal leather covers 13.5x8 with “Burr’s Map of the United States Published By J.H. Colton & Co. New York” and a decorative border stamped in gilt. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.

About this collection:

The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 25 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children’s, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1700 to 1950s.

Digitization of the collection began in 1996 and there are now over 21,000 items online, with new additions added regularly. The site is free and open to the public. Here viewers have access not only to high resolution images of maps that are extensively cataloged, but also to a variety of tools that allow to users to compare, analyze, and view items in new and experimental ways. (About)

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Check the original post over at Ulrich’s website 3 Ton Gallery. Eric Ulrich is an artist and designer living in San Francisco. (About)

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“Jason Koxvold (born in 1977 in Belgium) is a British artist and director based in New York City in the United States working in photography, interactive media and film. Early in his career he raced motorcycles in Scotland, England and California, finishing fifth in the 2000 SACU 125cc Grand Prix championship.” (wikipedia)

Check the commercials he’s been working on (as a creative director). Follow him on Tumblr.

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“Anyone who’s a fan of space suits should check out this must-have book on the history of the space suit from the early 30’s to the late 60’s.Pictured on the left is an early British full-pressure suit from 1940. On the right is a 1954 Navy version.”

Glenn Mullaly is a “Freelance illustrator, occasional writer, and not-quite-as-often-as-I-used-to-be-but-probably-more-than-I-should-be-time-spender-on-Flickerer.” Check his work over at his official website.

First spotted via Modcult.

Previously on Skandalon: space suits.

Artist’s statement:

“In this series, made with the private archives of a Greek collector in 1998, the artist did not use a camera. He cut directly into the film reels and framed the space between two images, which naturally creates an inversion between the upper and lower part of the frame. No other manipulation is involved. The cutting of the first image corresponds exactly to that of the image that follows, so that there is no loss in the inversion. The series comprises 13 photographs. “.

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Artist statement (here):

“Unabomber: Ted Kaczynski, our home grown philosopher/terrorist, serving life in prison for crimes either committed out of dedication to a cause, or madness or both, had not only been extracted from his rural home but the home itself has been incarcerated. The cabin was shipped across the country to be used as evidence in his trial. My work looks at historical and contemporary artifacts (in this case the cabin and its site), and using the imagery and methods of architecture /archaeology it attempts to bridge the gap between the banal and the extraordinary, the cult of celebrity and the seductiveness of the infamous. This work was exhibited at the Henry Urbach Gallery in New York in January 1999, traveled to the Triannual of Photography in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1999 and was the subject of a one person exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art in August of 2000.”

“HE WAS A TOURIST, a quarter-million miles from home. And like any traveler, he wanted to bring home a special memory.

So Apollo16 astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. came up with a plan. Several months before his scheduled 1972 mission to the moon, Duke receveid permission from NASA to leave behind a family photograph. The picture—of Duke, wife Dorothy, and sons Charles III and Thomas—was taken by a friend in the Dukes’ Houston, Texas, backyard several week before the April 16 liftoff.

Astronaut Duke was given intensive photography training prior to the mission. He was taught about f-stops, exposure, and learned how to operate a custom Hasselblad camera. He took thousands of practice pictures and hundreds on the moon. But he never considered himself much of a photographer. “Just a point-and-shoot man,” he said decades later.

In the final hour of the final day of his three-day visit to the moon, Duke took out the shrink-wrapped family snapshot and gingerly placed it on the lunar surface, near the crater Descartes. It was a gift, his message to whoever might one day stumble upon it. He then took a snapshot of a snapshot. Evidence. A memory.” (Who We Were by Michael Williams, Richard Cahan and Nicholas Osborn, Chicago Cityfiles Press, 2008, p. 238).

Actually, he took at least three snaphotd : AS16-117-18839, AS16-117-18840 and AS16-117-18841, though the last one is clearly the best shot.

Previously on Skandalon: Apollo, Nicholas Osborn.