Your child is making sand castles (unreconciled nostalgia for the feudal project). My child is sketching Marx's face in the sand. We are not the same.

The phone theory of urbanism

The SS United States in axonometric projection in the Hermann Bollmann map of New York City, 1963

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

But the speed at which we now demand digital maps, especially in journalism, means that cloud obscuration is back - there's no time to wait for a clear day. Just today, in a map representing the damage from the LA fires, the NY Times has placed a label not unlike the ones at the top of this thread.

Today, clouds have almost disappeared from the stable, seamless 'mosaics' that are the background layers for platforms like Google Maps. This is a function of blending thousands of images together. But there were moments, especially in earlier versions, when clouds appeared out of place.

Lutheran infrastructure, Bodø

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes use of the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which really sets the scene for misplaced spiritual voyages.

Schroeder skewers his colonials, who trick themselves with a kind of hippie truth-seeking until it is too late. But this critique is not really extended to the film itself, which repeatedly dislocates Indigenous people and their language in the service of spectacle.

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes heavy use of Peter Zinovieff's EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which supplies a decaying drone well suited to misplaced spiritual voyages.

Once such gap is the subject of Barbet Schroeder's strange and cynical 1972 film La Vallée, in which a group of bourgeois New Agers journey through the Papua New Guinean bush in search of what they believe to be one of the world's last scraps of the 'unknown'.

Thinking about the fact that as mapmaking developed maps started to show less information, not more.