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Met Brian, owner of the Playa Linda craft brewery in Titusville Fl today. One of the greatest parts of my job is talking to folks who love their town. Brian was kind enough to talk to me for a while about Titusville and the changes he’s seen an

Well, my computer died last night so it might take me a while to finish this guy. Here’s the current progress. When it’s finished it will be about 6 feet tall.

“Don’t try to steer the river” -Deepak Chopra

“Even the noise you make when you sleep, can’t swim across a river so deep” -Arcade Fire

I remember the first time I saw the Mississippi River. It was so wide I could barely see the other side. The sheer mass of moving water was almost too much to comprehend. It felt like it might as well be the ocean.

Mississippi Meanders. I love the word meander. It’s one of those words that sounds like what it means.

It’s been way too long since I last posted new work, but I have been working. Took a break from hand drawn maps to start a project I’ve been thinking about for a while. This is a detail from the first in a series based on the Mississippi

Coober Pedy, Southern Australia. Home to one of the biggest opal mines in the world. Located deep in the outback, the locals have found a good way to beat the extreme heat; live underground. More than half of the homes there are dug into the ground,

Kihnu, UNESCO world heritage site and one of the last matriarchies in the world. Kihnu sits off the coast of Estonia in the Bay of Riga. Kihnu’s men spend months away at sea fishing so the affairs of running the island have been handled by the

Sometimes getting your software settings wrong can lead to cool stuff.

My favorite kiwi @vrondonsilverton spreading the good word about Yoshimi in Atlanta

Windsor, Ontario aka South Detroit. Steve Perry from Journey picked South Detroit for “Don’t Stop Believin” because he liked how it sounded. He would find out many years later that there is no South Detroit. Side note; if you’

Another work in progress. It’s a European island where matriarchy rules. Any guesses?

Working on cliffs for maps today

Santa Cruz bel Islote. One of the most densely populated islands in the world. 1247 people on a 12,000 square meter island. That’s a higher population density than Manhattan, yet none of the buildings are more than 3 stories tall.

This fella is turning out to be more complicated than I thought it would, but I really like how it’s looking. I don’t want to give away where this is yet but I’ll give you a clue. It’s in South America and it is one of the hig

“This city is silver in the moon...” I made this map as a tribute to a song I really love, “Like Castanets “ by Bishop Allen. I’ve never really understood why I find this simple song about bumming around Santiago, Chile

More coastline work. The city of Guaymas on the Gulf of California in Mexico. Another really interesting coastline configuration

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