Speaking Of Jen...

Have you seen Ms. Aniston's new ad for Smart Water?












One word - Gorgeous!

- Erin Dustin

Speaking Of Jen...

Have you seen Ms. Aniston's new ad for Smart Water?












One word - Gorgeous!

- Erin Dustin

New Couples Alert!





















Jen and John?
Had some fun in the sun together recently!





















Mariah and Nick?
Reportedly engaged with a recycled ring!
Oh no he didn't...

- Erin Dustin

New Couples Alert!





















Jen and John?
Had some fun in the sun together recently!





















Mariah and Nick?
Reportedly engaged with a recycled ring!
Oh no he didn't...

- Erin Dustin

PEOPLE's Most Beautiful

PEOPLE has just named their 100 Most Beautiful people.

And who is the lovely lady topping the list and gracing the cover?





















"I was a tomboy. I had three brothers. I was the girl with the dress on that always came back in the house filthy with scrapes and bruises. But I was always very girly. I had to be able to twirl so that my underwear showed." - Kate Hudson (Love her!)

A few others that made the mag's coveted cut:





















Borat's leading lady Isla Fisher





















Samantha Who's Christina Applegate





















Country girl Carrie Underwood





















High schooler Vanessa Hudgens





















One of PEOPLE's Most Beautiful couples, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker. Tony says he likes his wife "best in jeans, a T-shirt and Hugs." Eva's translation, "He means Uggs." Ha, how cute!





















The cast of Gossip Girl (duh)

- Erin Dustin

PEOPLE's Most Beautiful

PEOPLE has just named their 100 Most Beautiful people.

And who is the lovely lady topping the list and gracing the cover?





















"I was a tomboy. I had three brothers. I was the girl with the dress on that always came back in the house filthy with scrapes and bruises. But I was always very girly. I had to be able to twirl so that my underwear showed." - Kate Hudson (Love her!)

A few others that made the mag's coveted cut:





















Borat's leading lady Isla Fisher





















Samantha Who's Christina Applegate





















Country girl Carrie Underwood





















High schooler Vanessa Hudgens





















One of PEOPLE's Most Beautiful couples, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker. Tony says he likes his wife "best in jeans, a T-shirt and Hugs." Eva's translation, "He means Uggs." Ha, how cute!





















The cast of Gossip Girl (duh)

- Erin Dustin

drive-by


marionwlent.com

After making a few finishing touches to the design, I just posted Marion Lent's new Web site to marionwlent.com – Marion used to live down the road from us and is a very talented artist. She and her family recently moved to upstate New York. We miss Marion, but she'll do well in her new digs with her fun and fanciful work. Click here to see the site.

Baby Mama In Real Life

Amy Poehler's gonna be a baby mama!

Poehler and hubby Will Arnett announced that they are expecting!

The comedic couple are due in the fall.

Congrats!

- Erin Dustin

Baby Mama In Real Life

Amy Poehler's gonna be a baby mama!

Poehler and hubby Will Arnett announced that they are expecting!

The comedic couple are due in the fall.

Congrats!

- Erin Dustin

Annie's Side Of The Story

“I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted. Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together, and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful.” - Annie Leibovitz

- Erin Dustin

Annie's Side Of The Story

“I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted. Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together, and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful.” - Annie Leibovitz

- Erin Dustin

Miley Apologizes


Due to recent photos that have found its way across the web as well as her sudden embarrassment over her recent semi-topless photo shoot (Billy Ray and mom Tish were in attendance as well as other Miley family members/supporters) for famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, teen queen Miley Cyrus has issued this statement to PEOPLE:

"My goal in my music and my acting is always to make people happy. For Vanity Fair, I was so honored and thrilled to work with Annie [Leibovitz]. I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed."

I don't know, but if she was going to feel this much remorse over the whole situation, maybe she shouldn't have done it in the first place, but that's just me...Becoming a star has its price.

- Erin Dustin

Miley Apologizes


Due to recent photos that have found its way across the web as well as her sudden embarrassment over her recent semi-topless photo shoot (Billy Ray and mom Tish were in attendance as well as other Miley family members/supporters) for famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, teen queen Miley Cyrus has issued this statement to PEOPLE:

"My goal in my music and my acting is always to make people happy. For Vanity Fair, I was so honored and thrilled to work with Annie [Leibovitz]. I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed."

I don't know, but if she was going to feel this much remorse over the whole situation, maybe she shouldn't have done it in the first place, but that's just me...Becoming a star has its price.

- Erin Dustin

Introducing Georgina Sparks

Who's "G?"

I think our whos, whats, wheres, and whys will (hopefully) be answered soon enough!

Gossip Girl tonight!

xoxo

- Erin Dustin

Introducing Georgina Sparks

Who's "G?"

I think our whos, whats, wheres, and whys will (hopefully) be answered soon enough!

Gossip Girl tonight!

xoxo

- Erin Dustin

Bud Rising Projection

Eventually we managed to get our Lightwalker Projections video live.

just 3 words

Other than the photos I took of Brandon pitching, I wasn't that happy with my photos last week. I got to watch him pitch in a Varsity game:





But I think my three words for last week are..... "Sold another print!"

last looks

my final SoFoBoMo image:

Investigating new sources


Maura Pringle, Head of Map collections, Queen's University Belfast offers advice on how to read and be inspired by other forms of communication. Her notes from the day have been included in order to encourage others to consider how maps can act as cultural artifacts and indicators, as well as sources for other research and interpretative responses in art and literature.


RE-COLLECTING THE MAP LIBRARY
The Map Library contains a considerable collection of maps, some of then antique, many of them old, covering all parts of the world, and beyond, at various scales. We also have atlases containing either contemporary maps or reproductions of old ones. Associated material includes air photographs, slides and books that contain both graphic and linguistic descriptions of landscape and inhabitants.

Most of the maps are what are called topographic, that is concerned with the surface features of the landscape, e.g. roads, rivers, hills, woodland, and with their spatial relationship to one another on the ground. They have been produced for many reasons: political or fiscal control, navigation, tourism, or as a base for other information.

There are also thematic maps, sometimes called special subject maps, many using a topographic base and primarily relating to human activity, e.g. population density, crop yields, migration patterns, disease mortality or ethnic difference, to name but a few!

Harley and Woodward (J.B.Harley and David Woodward, first draft of preface to The history of cartography, typescript) define a map as: A means of representing the spatial arrangements of objects, conditions, processes, and events in the terrestrial, celestial or imagined worlds by means of a wide range of techniques on or with a great variety of materials for any number of reasons and structured according to any of several geometries. This makes it difficult for me to know what aspects of the collection I should tell you about, as each of you will have a different idea about how you perceive these ways of representing the world, and how you would like to re-collect it.

Maps show the variety of ways that people have used to describe the world around them. It is perhaps hard for modern sat-nav/google-earth generations to realize how little known was that world until comparatively recently.

Early map-makers attempted to convey, in graphic form, information about the real world or some part of it. They tended to be concerned with the direction and the relative distance of one place or feature from others, relying on those that were prominent or important, e.g. major rivers and their crossing points, places of relative safety or commerce i.e. castles and cities, and areas of danger like treacherous coastlines, wild woods and bogs – represented by the Here be dragons labels on a map. I don’t know if any of you have seen some of the TV programmes on early cartographers with Nicholas Crane. Many early maps may not be very accurate but are nevertheless works of art. They pre-date conventional signs and symbols and give a more pictorial representation of the known world as it was perceived by it’s inhabitants at the time; and they thus provide us with valuable insight to that world.

It was not until the early 19th century that maps began to resemble those we have today. The most valuable part of our map collection must comprise the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. These maps, which are at a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile (1:10,560 if you want the representative fraction) date from the 1830s and cover the whole of Ireland. This was the first, accurate, large-scale survey in the world. The undertaking was, literally, a military operation, subsequent to the events of 1798 and the Act of Union. As Lord Salisbury was quoted (by Andrews, J H: A Paper Landscape, 1975) as saying: “The most disagreeable part of the three kingdoms is Ireland, and therefore Ireland has a splendid map”. The Map Library has bound copies of the entire 1st edition, that may only be photographed, some loose sheets of the 1st and its revision of the 1850’s, partial coverage of the 2nd edition of the 1900s and supplementary sheets dating from the 1920s to 1950s. There should be at least 1 later copy of every sheet for the whole of Ireland. For Northern Ireland coverage continues with modern Irish grid maps at similar (1:10,000) and larger scale. Thus the maps provide a valuable archive with which to monitor change both spatially and chronologically.

Associated with the first Survey was a wealth of written descriptive and statistical material – the Memoirs. Many of those for the north of Ireland have been transcribed and published by the Institute of Irish Studies here at Queen’s. There are many other descriptive volumes, dating from the 18th century to the present day, that use a variety of cartographic, artistic and linguistic ways of interpreting the landscape.

I hope that what I have brought along today gives you a flavour of maps as a source of inspiration for Picture-Text collaborations.

Maura Pringle, April 2008

dandy remains



save your wishes...

Postcards in the Papers




The last week has been pretty cool. We got a mention in the media and marketing section of the Irish Independent on 17th April. Our City Card postcard racks got an endorsement from Maurice Cullen, Head of Brand and Marketing Communication at Vodafone, Irelands second largest ambient spender in 2007.
Here is some of what Cullen had to say, "The strength of ambient is that it is highly targeted and highly impactful. We have postcards at the entrance to pubs, we use them to advertise things like a loan because typically when people run out of credit on a night out they want to ring people, so it works really well"

Our new Lightwalker Projections also got a mention in Sunday's Business Post Media and Marketing section. Stay tuned for some cool video's we recorded during Bud Rising 2008. For further info here is a link to our website.

leaves too


cerveza remains







these feet


these feet make me happy...

where will they take him?

what miles and miles will fall beneath them?

what happiness will they run to...

and what sorrow will they help him withstand?

the brush-off


Spring, sunshine, photos, baseball...
it's all good

OMG

Gossip Girl tonight!

Little J queen bee?
Part 2 of the Nate-Blair-Chuck triangle?
Dan and Serena's perfect love story continued?

Can't wait!

Oh and p.s...due to the perfect Spring NYC weather, I sat on the steps of The Met this past weekend Gossip Girl style, (while sporting a Blair Waldorf-inspired headband mind you) waiting to catch a glimpse of one of my fav. Upper East Siders, and nothing! So disappointed!



- Erin Dustin

OMG

Gossip Girl tonight!

Little J queen bee?
Part 2 of the Nate-Blair-Chuck triangle?
Dan and Serena's perfect love story continued?

Can't wait!

Oh and p.s...due to the perfect Spring NYC weather, I sat on the steps of The Met this past weekend Gossip Girl style, (while sporting a Blair Waldorf-inspired headband mind you) waiting to catch a glimpse of one of my fav. Upper East Siders, and nothing! So disappointed!



- Erin Dustin