For more than 30 years, the former town of Potosi resided underwater after it was flooded.
This is in Venezuela. The town was flooded in 1985 to make a dam, parts of the town reemerged in 2010 during a drought.
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Space oddity by David Bowie.
Preformed by Chris Hadfield aboard the ISS.
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Two women with cigarettes sitting in front of mural ca. 1966 by William Gedney (Duke Special Collections Library).
Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, completed in 1933.
Abigail Reynolds - Mount Fear (2010)
One of the coolest concepts in thematic cartography is the statistical surface: the act of representing numerical data as a 3D landscape.
Reynolds’ cardboard sculpture of London obliterates the city’s physical terrain and replaces it with one derived from crime data. The result is a mountainous and desolate landscape, one that offers a potentially more realistic representation of the hostilities of the urban experience.
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