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	United Shapes of America

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2-8-2008 10:34 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d9227797-c747-4347-9fd6-1ad1be163e32/EFBF2799-2B96-4570-A8DA-B85E2B221FA9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/60-united-shapes-of-america/" href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/60-united-shapes-of-america/" style="font-size: 11px;">strangemaps.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/60-united-shapes-of-america/"><P><A title="us%2bmaps.jpg" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/us+maps.jpg"></A><A title="usamap.jpg" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/usamap.jpg"></A><A title="usamap.GIF" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/usamap.GIF"></A><A title="usamap.GIF" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/usamap.GIF"></A><A title="datavis_dingle_united_shapes.jpg" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/datavis_dingle_united_shapes.jpg"></A><A title="datavis_dingle_united_shapes.jpg" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/datavis_dingle_united_shapes.jpg"></A><A title="datavis_dingle_united_shapes1.jpg" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/datavis_dingle_united_shapes1.jpg"></A><A title="unitedshapes.JPG" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/unitedshapes.JPG"></A><A title="unitedshapes2.jpg" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/unitedshapes2.jpg"></A><A title="unitedshapes1.JPG" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/unitedshapes1.JPG"></A><A title="unitedshapes3.jpg" href="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/unitedshapes3.jpg"></A>This canvas by artist <STRONG>Kim Dingle</STRONG> doesn’t look like a map, more like a herd of cows. But actually it’s a <EM>collection</EM> of maps. The artist asked teen-aged school kids in Las Vegas to draw their country in the shape they thought it had. It’s one of the strange maps in a book called <STRONG>‘You Are Here’</STRONG>, which… collects unconventional maps. I hadn’t heard of that book before, but needless to say, I immediately ordered it. I found it on <A href="http://andrew.cmu.edu/user/golan/datavis/img/index.html">this page</A>, somewhere on the site of the Carnegie Mellon University.<SPAN id="more-154"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/60-united-shapes-of-america/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A few manage to get the bulging of the US <STRONG>West Coast</STRONG>, but many draw a straight line there; in fact, a lot of these drawings resemble not much more than box-shapes.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/60-united-shapes-of-america/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The indentation in the US’s northern border made by the <STRONG>Great Lakes</STRONG> is missing in almost all drawings.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/60-united-shapes-of-america/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">So are <STRONG>Alaska</STRONG> and <STRONG>Hawaii</STRONG> - but maybe the kids were only asked to draw the 48 contiguous states.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/60-united-shapes-of-america/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/strangemaps.wordpress.com/img/60FAD097-9CD6-4BF8-80C1-CA03CB334278" alt="unitedshapes3.jpg" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EFBF2799-2B96-4570-A8DA-B85E2B221FA9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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