The well traveled surfer/artist Eric Soderquist and freelance photography Chris Burkard teamed up with Chronicle Books to create this rad book that documented their journey down the west coast.
These two dudes…cajoled their Volkswagen bus along Highway 1 from the Oregon border to the Tijuana Sloughs and discovered everything the Golden State’s legendary coastline has to offer.
Even if you don’t know a single thing about surfing, like me, you’ll probably be into these lush photos filled with epic scenery. More info here and get a peek of some of their adventures after the jump.
Most racial maps lump groups of people in to blobs that make it difficult to see what the real meshing of ethnic groups is like, so inspired by Bill Rankin’s Chicago Map, Eric Fischer created maps of many US cities using a similar methodology. Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian and Orange is Hispanic. Gray is other and each dot represents 25 people.
The above map details Austin’s makeup as of the 2000 census, but after the jump we’ve got a few of the bigger cities around the US for your perusal. It’s important to note something something that Andrew Price of GOOD wrote about these maps:
What do we, as a society, want to see in maps like this? I think it’s safe to say that the clear separation of races in Detroit is a symptom (or cause) of serious social problems. At the same time, it seems unrealistic to expect perfect integration and it’s unclear if we should want that anyway. It’s great that our cities have vibrant ethnic neighborhoods.
Micah posted some of his state illustrations to our Flickr Show & Tell group and his newest one is highlighting that little problem that’s been going on in the gulf. He’s got several others which you can see after the jump, as well as a slew of other cool projects in his Flickr stream.
Doug McCune builds mountains. He builds mountains with 2009 crime data from the city of San Francisco. Their height is related to how often the specific crime took place in an area. The mountains mapped above show the occurrences of Prostitution, which compared to Larceny and Assault looks like an easy hike.
In all fairness, we’re not saying San Francisco has a crime problem. It’s just the city that Doug used for his maps. We love San Francisco!
I have never been to San Francisco, but this video makes a great case for traveling there. Maybe Cody, Will and myself will have to take a trip to visit our friends at Chronicle Books after our current project with them is finished. Especially our Uncle Schapiro.
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