Thursday, 30 May 2013
Texture Maps Chalkle Class
These are the first part of the Wellington Atlas, starting with the Chalkle Class held in Enspiral's boardroom, where these rubbings of various textures were taken by participants in the class. Further classes will explore different aspects of creative map making and I will add more images and information as the project develops.
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Wordle, Word Maps and Barmaids
There are many of examples of word maps to be found and I mentioned Paula Scher after a tip off and Merrill Shatzman to name just two and there are many ways to construct a word map. Wordle is one way to generate a word map or maybe better described as a word cloud, but you can enter text or link to a website to generate your map based on the words and how often they appear, so the more often they appear the big they are. I wanted to make on using a list of Wellington street names, but have not found a good source yet. But I did find a list of registered barmaids in Wellington from 1913, I did not no that barmaids needed to register and secondly how many there were. The image below is just the a - g surnames, I plan to look at how to combine it with a map of Wellington later.
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Mrs L Lahman, barmaid at the Grand Hotel, Wellington. Dominion post (Newspaper) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP/1963/0163-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22696157
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