Highs and lows. Iggy Pop should have had a secondary career as a character actor, Jafar Panahi is a powerhouse director, horror movies should take more risks.

#letterboxdfriday

Certainly helps that like good hypsometric tints, there's few hard transitions – you can generally bet on the full transition being visible to some extent which helps with those ups and downs.

Strong kinship with the commercially-minded but shotgun approach these artists are taking. OWL FRAME! Hot date with a pumpkin man! An army of pumpkin children will march towards your daughters in space!

Been mildly surprised how few books there are collecting the best of em'. Found this one awhile ago and it's full of all sorts of incredible 1900 versions of the selfie setup and whimsy. Maybe I'm just googling wrong.

Gaah illustrated turn of the century postcards are so wonderful.

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Merry spooky day 🦇 🌙

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Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…

To any Boston-area map people who might still be with me on this site: head down to our southern neighbor Thursday evening for Maptime! I guarantee this is the closest thing to Maptime Boston you’re going see in the foreseeable future. www.mapcenter.com/maptimeri

Just gotta be extra sensitive to hue, saturation, and tone. Work backwards from saturation/darkness = more. Color Oracle is a blessing here, giving a b/w view that better reveals how close the values actually are.

Feel like I picked this up from Laris Karklis (one of his maps shown here), but I get a sense data viz overcorrected on avoiding rainbow gradients. Particularly for one-offs, you can use a surprising # of colors! Here the extremes pop way better than if it was just light blue -> dark blue.

Spent this morning making a gradient for a map showing Hurricane Melissa's forecast rainfall, pretty chuffed with how it turned out.

Story w/ additional visuals here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

no... that's not right.

Bountiful

Tech giants keep touting a system they built to label AI-generated content. But it only works if everyone uses it.

So I checked. They're not using it.

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You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same wapo.st/43ijIxq

Irish bands taking over the world within 5 years

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New piece: How the treetop canopy of D.C. is changing due to climate change.

Story by @marissajae.bsky.social , tree illos by Tucker Harris, data by @jdharden.bsky.social , and maps by yours truly.

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The lead story on The Washington Post today is about the No Kings rallies, and it’s already drawn 5,000-plus comments.

I was browsing the top replies, which come from all over the country but hit similar notes: the rallies were peaceful, unifying and focused on protecting democracy and rule of law.

A cahoot of cartographers

Louise Haupert presenting a map of the Mississippi River carved into black cherry: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1938...

I love seeing #cartography made tangible.

#NACIS2025

This years #nacis subgenre, woodworking?

Adjacent, but

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🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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