Strange maps
28 Oct 2009 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: wondering, world
I am fascinated by maps. The always remind me of places i wanted to go. I love maps. There is so much logic in them, and yet its so easy to get lost even with the map in your hands. Reading a map and using one appeared to be a skill not everyone has. Maps are amazing.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
And sometimes i look at maps as a joke. Map of the world? WHOLE world on one piece of paper? All its beauty on PAPER? All its DIVERSITY in the range of green-brown-blue colours? how pathetic to try to transmit something so beautiful, so endless, so breath-taking in the simplified version of the birds’ view that noone except the birds is looking at anyway…
Yet while the birds didn’t tell us that the world looks different from high above, people could see it in a whole different way. We see what we want to see.
Mixing countries around, trying to divide, draw borders with a pencil, colouring them in different colours. I wish people would see the world for what it really is, and not t what they want it to be.
But for now, follow the Strange Maps link, and enjoy the different perspectives on the same squire metres.
And remember:
