Eileen and her husband Ash, who blog at Just Measuring Up, did a fantastic rainbow ombre wall art project with craft paints and a stencil of the world map:
Ash and Eileen at Just Measuring Up
Doesn’t it look fabulous?
And here is their project hung up:
Ash and Eileen at Just Measuring Up
In addition to giving you the how-to, Eileen also lists 6 other ideas for filling up a blank wall. Visit their site for a look!
Note: I wasn’t paid or perked to mention this; just passing along a good thing.
A very, very cool map of major Roman roads done in subway map style:
Sasha Trubetskoy.
Made by Sasha Trubetskoy, statistics major and designer, artist, and geography and data nerd.
Really fascinating! I know there were also some Roman roadworks running at least partially across the land from east to west along Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, but I don’t know whether there ever was a complete major road there.
Note: I wasn’t paid or perked to mention this; just passing along a good thing.
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) has quite an impressive amount of resources available on their website. I lost myself for quite some time yesterday among their image repositories. They include for example a Lunar Map Catalog, an Apollo Image Atlas, the awe-inspiring Apollo Surface Panoramas plus Mars Map and Venus Map Catalogs – and that’s just some of the image resources! Here are three of my favorite pictures.
Topographic lunar map with gradient tint printing, sheet 2:
Topographic lunar map with gradient tint printing, sheet 2. Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Almost looks like a vintage map, doesn’t it?
Lunar farside chart, LFC-1B, from the 1st edition, August 1967:
Lunar Farside Chart LFC-1B. Lunar and Planetary Institute.
A partial geomorphic/geologic map of the northern hemisphere of Venus:
A geomorphic/geologic map of part of the northern hemisphere of Venus. Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Can you imagine how great they would be as computer wallpaper? I’m actually quite intrigued by my geomorphic Venus map!
They’d also make great wall art or gift wrappers if you blew them up at a copy shop. (The LPI has a few different resolutions available for many images.)
Note: I wasn’t paid or perked to mention this; just passing along a good thing.
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